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RE: Your First Car - 9/27/2007 8:42:57 PM
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raftgyde
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A '62 Volkswagen with a sunroof. Paid $200 for it when I was 14. Great for huntin' whistle pigs on the gravel back roads. Two of us. One would drive while the other watched the fields. See a ground hog in the field, stop, pop up through the sunroof, blow it away, and go lookin' for another.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/27/2007 8:46:59 PM
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Twisted Humor
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That cricket looks like the Opel Manta. But can't be because you said it was a Plymouth. Back then Opel was owned by GM.
In 1989 my first car was an 1970 Opel GT, the poor man's vette. I was only 1 year older than the car.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/27/2007 8:49:34 PM
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Train Train
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1968 Pontiac Catalina .If you looked real hard you could see it was blue.But mostly rust.$125.00
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RE: Your First Car - 9/27/2007 9:03:35 PM
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Monstermile
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1979 Z28. Just like the one except mine was silver with orange/red trim. No t-tops unfortunately.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/27/2007 9:19:07 PM
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Blade68
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1987 Ford Escort
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RE: Your First Car - 9/27/2007 9:57:14 PM
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I was a dork and sold it so I could buy a pickup....
Yeah I know that feeling...I once had a '67 fastback
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 2:36:25 AM
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ironhorselady
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My very first car was a 1931 Chevy Coupe like the one below. I bought it for $5.00 when I was 14 years old in 1953.
Wow, Blackbird, I think you take the prize here! I wish I had that when my kids were screaming "shotgun". They would have been screaming "rumble" instead and I would have happily packed them all in there!
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 3:16:40 AM
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xxxflhrci
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1966 Plymouth Barracuda
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 4:49:10 AM
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helixhippie
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'65 VW bus. Bought 3 of them for $200 & made 1 good one that I drove across the country a few times. Fianlly totaled it when a kid in a brand new Honda prelude pulled out in front of me while his Dad was teaching him to drive. I was going 60 & lived but crushed my left hand & had a concusion on the back of my head from a VW Rabbit muffler that flew up from the back seat & 1 on the front of my head from knocking the left windshield out.. If there had been anyone in the passenger seat, they'd had died for sure. It shattered the Hondas tranny all over it's engine. Made a ton of $$ off their insurance though.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 4:58:56 AM
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Chopperz
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65 Rambler classic-push button transmission
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 5:06:47 AM
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rh8234
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1965 Rambler Classic 770 - white with red interior and, yes it had the lay-down seats. Swapped that for a 1965 BSA Hornet and a 1958 Desoto with push-button trans. Traded both of those for a 1972 XLCH.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 5:32:29 AM
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UCONN_DWG
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1966 Pontiac Grand Prix, factory 389, bucket seats, console shift, 8 lug mags, 2 barrel, duel exhast. Looked the same as the GTO, how I never killed myself is beyond me.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 5:44:57 AM
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Nick
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My was a 1983 Mini Mayfair like the pics but light metallic blue with big bore center exhaust and wide wheels
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 6:16:03 AM
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Huebie
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I got a 1980 Chevy Mailbu 4-door when I turned 16 from my Grandpa. He paid $2000 for it from another old timer. Great car with only 50K on it in 1991. It lasted 6 months until i got bit by the truck bug.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 6:33:31 AM
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djwaz184
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Mine was a 1980 Toyota Corolla. The state titled it as a Toytota Crumrolla. I wish I would have made a copy of it, I laughed so hard because it appeared of course on my registration that way as well.
I had bought this car from a little old lady who's husband was a mechanic. Seriously! The gas gauge never worked and I did run out of gas a few times at the worse times of course. Bought it for $2200 in 1986 with the money from 3 summers worth of jobs while I was in high school and sold it in 1989 for $1500 - it was a great car, fun to drive through puddles of water, and even more fun driving it sideways in the winter. I was nicknamed "mario" for a while.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 6:37:59 AM
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Red 1967 Mustang w/289 handed down from my parents in high school. Put on a set of mags, air shocks to raise the rear, glass packs .
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 6:38:20 AM
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ckgdrums
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My very first car was a '65 Chevy Bel-Aire... 235 straight 6 cyl., 4 dr., faded blue, powerglide trans.... graduated H.S. and bought a '69 Olds Cutlass, 350 Rocket motor... 2 dr. hardtop.... now THAT was a car.... too much fun in that one.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 8:12:55 AM
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smudge
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1963 Pontiac Catalina, $250, took 2 months to blow the engine. Replaced it with 389, 3 dueces out of a '66 GTO, 360hp, floor shift conversion and coat hangered on glasspacks!
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 8:21:45 AM
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ChicagoJ
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1978 Buick Regal wound up putting a 350 Buick in it and she flew. That car was gorgeous. Two tone metallic blue, Cadillac colors, with customer pinstriping, black out windows, and had the rear quarter windows sandblasted with designs. Wish I had a picture on the computer
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 8:28:07 AM
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mjh
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I drove my dad's '61 Falcon Futura, with bucket seats in high school. Bought my first car, 1969 Austin America, 4cyl, crosswise engine with front wheel drive for $1999, new.
Wish I still had that little bugger.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 8:28:57 AM
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UltraPassenger
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Mine was a red 67 Mustang. Wish I had it back.....and don't you guys with those 60 Chevy muscle cars wish you had them back. 
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 8:43:32 AM
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Blackbird
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ORIGINAL: Blackbird
My very first car was a 1931 Chevy Coupe like the one below. I bought it for $5.00 when I was 14 years old in 1953.
Wow, Blackbird, I think you take the prize here! I wish I had that when my kids were screaming "shotgun". They would have been screaming "rumble" instead and I would have happily packed them all in there!
"Rumble Seats" were great fun. I also liked the wire wheels and stick shift of that era. When I bought it, I was working part time at my uncle's gas station on Kinderkamack Road in Hillsdale, NJ. I replaced the clutch, gave it a valve job, rebuilt the carb, upgraded the ignition and removed all four fenders. I bolted the headlights to the radiator. It was my first "Hot-Rod".
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 9:40:03 AM
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69z28
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54 Pontiac convertable with a bad motor.traded it for the first of many 55 Chevys.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 2:04:04 PM
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supermom111681
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Hey HDSanta, my Mom's first car was a 1971 Pontiac LeMans Sport, believe it or not my parents still have it to this day, my Dad tells me that it will be willed to me in the future. Not stock anymore. 455 big block in it with dual exhaust. Awesome car, got all the guys heads turning when I was in HS cause I got to drive it to school before I got my own car. No power brakes. Laid on them with both feet to stop.
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ORIGINAL: HDSanta
 Mine was a '68 Pontiac LeMans and like alot of you boy do I wish that I'd have held on to it! After reading about some of your GTO's, Chevelles, Mustangs & such, if we had only known! Huh?
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 2:10:54 PM
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LuvtheMud
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1968 Ford Falcon Futura Station Wagon $50.00 in 1974 guy was getting shipped overseas and was trying to get rid of it. Kept it till I got out of High school in 76. Sold it for $295.00
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 3:55:11 PM
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CTP
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Damn - first one wuz a '56 Rambler....
One of those Rambler Ambassador's ran over me and my first bike when I was 20.... still hurts
My first car was a 1974 Pontiac Ventura, boy I was cool
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 3:59:35 PM
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05Dynachic
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A sixty something Rambler wagon that I paid $35.00 for. The car was CLEAN , no reverse!!
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 4:19:05 PM
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ord sgt
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I had a 1959 Chevy Impala, white over grey. Another one of those "wish I still had it". Sold it before going into Air Force in 1966.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 4:24:07 PM
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mmb617
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Fresh out of high school in 1969 my dad bought me my first car. '59 Rambler Ambassador wagon that he paid $50 for. This must have been a very nice car at one time, but was far from it when I got it. One of it's many problems was that the transmission wouldn't hold the car when you put it in park. The emergency brake didn't work either so we had to figure out how to keep it from coasting away when parked. I started taking a brick with me. I'd park facing down hill, open the door and drop the brick, then coast up till the brick was holding the rear wheel. When ready to leave, back up till I could open the door and pick up my brick. You do what you gotta do.
We were "financially challenged" in those days, and I drove my share of total junkers. Never left home without some soup cans and wire coat hangers. Repaired a broken tie rod end with a coat hanger once. Ah, those were the days.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 4:27:55 PM
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jedsporty883
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1959 Mercedes 220S. My Dad ran an independant Mercedes repair shop. He bought the car for $50.00, put $100.00 in the engine and I bought it for what he had in it. This was in 1969.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 5:27:20 PM
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tankerwyf
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My first car was a 1981 Toyota Corolla. My mom bought it new, and I started driving it in 1989. I LOVED that car.
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RE: Your First Car - 9/28/2007 6:11:27 PM
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Shooter92
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My first car I bought in 1969 in high school was a '62 chevy impala SS 327 4 speed . Boy i wish I had it now.In 1972 bought a '70 Chevelle SS had a L78 about 500 ponies, raced two telephone poles one night ,guess who won!. Oh the good old days.
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