what was your first car

[dodge freak]

[quote author=73chgrSE

There was a passenger, and we both walked away with only minor cuts and bruises. Very lucky indeed, considering I was going in excess of 120mph when I lost control racing on an old country road. Very stupid, but I was only 16. Let this be a lesson to all you young guys out there with a lead foot.

Well I can not believe you and your passenger would have walk away if that was a 2006 Charger-don't care what anybody says I still think the old cars were safer in a accident. Now yes, you are less likely to have a accident with a 2006 Charger but if you do have one I would rather be in a rust free 70's car.

[REDNECK]

 

[Old Moparz]

cool!
why didn't ya' keep it?...
you used to be good lookin, what happened?.. 

Sold it for a few reasons. It wasn't the most practical car for meeting women, & I'd have to switch cars with my mother to take this one girl out in college. It also started to have a few very expensive repairs needed. It was a Caddy, so whatever broke was a lot more to fix. I also sold it to buy my first 1969 Charger. Hmm, which was even more expensive to fix.   

As for good looking, I still am, you just have to stand further away & squint real hard when you look.  

[moparguy01]

Wow. im one of the younger guys and my first car was the oldest in this list so far! 

i bought my 1949 International KB-3 pickup when i was 13 or 14, so that puts it around 1995-1996 ish time frame wise.

I wish i wouldnt had sold that truck. I've been trying to buy it back for years with no luck at all. she only had 23k miles on it. its in colorado now, and has been completely restored last I heard.

after that I got a 64 dodge polara. I had issues in high school. 

[ralley72]

Mine was a 69 charger with a 318 4 bbl, console, black interior. Paid $ 175.00 for it. no rust or dents, just had a cheap paint job to purple, orginally gold so every time a washed it the drive way would turn purple. My dad made me wash it in the grass or take it to the car wash. Had alot of fun with the car, had it painted to dark blue, then sold it to buy another 69, lite green with black interior, 318 2bbl. I know  that 318's did not come from the factory with 4bbl, but mine had one.( someone must of added a 340 because that car would run.) This picture is of my second car purchased in 1979 for $ 800.00

[Plumcrazy]

1965 Ford Mustang.    Bought it for $100

[RTPTRON]

1950 Chevy coupe 6 banger 3 speed with an aftermarket floor shifter.  I painted the stock steel rims with silver paint because I could not afford chrome reverse rims.  I paid $150 dollars for it with $50 down and $25 per month.  I washed dishes in a Gatlinburg, Tennessee restaurant during the summer taking home $69.90 Twice per month. That was 1963.  I paid this car off in three months which was just about one month longer than the car lasted before I through a rod through the engine block.  After that car they were all V8 equipped but that was not the last time I through a rod.

Durring my teen age years the most we paid for a car was around $1,100 for a 1958 Corvette.  I kept it for one Summer.  It was such a piece of crap that it was running maybe 5 weeks out of the entire Summer.  At the end of the Summer I sold it for what we (my dad and I) paid for it.

I made up for it in my 20s when I owned a lot of really nice cars including a Baldwin Motion 1969 Camaro.

In my 30s up until my 50th year I drove vans and buicks and Grand Cherokees and family cars like that.

I now drive a 2001 PT Cruiser and my wife drives a 2002 Subaru WRX as daily drivers.  Our toys are a 1968 Dodge Charger RT, 1986 Buick Grand National and a 2007 Fleetwood Motor house.  I received a small raise since the Gatlinburg days washing dishes.

[ChgrSteve67]

1979 Ford Mustang     

Steve (Looking for a rock to hide under)

[red72chrgr]

1958 Chevy Impala exactly like the one in "American Graffitti" 2 dr,348,4spd,and chrome reverse wheels. Damn I miss that ride!

[NYCMille]

1979 Mercury Capri... total POS.

[CaptMarvel]

Mine was in 1982, a 79 Dodge Power Wagon 150 shortbed, cashmire brown/sahara tan? two tone. It came stock with cool slot rims too. I proceeded to rip off almost all of the chrome trim and crap in an affort to make it more like Simon & Simons.  My dad sold it to me when he bought a new one ton 83 PW. I loved that old Wagon, I sold it in 89 (new baby and all) to a fellow sailor on my ship in the Navy. His wife drove it for a couple of weeks while we were out to sea and she crashed it into a new Toyota. Poor ricer didnt stand a chance, the PWs front bumper got slightly tweaked. Id love to see it again. Its probably long gone though....

[HAZZARDJOHN]

Mine was an 1992 Buick Roadmaster! I am 25 So I got it in 1998 at 17. I paid 7K for it off the buick lot and proceeded to rip the motor out (44K original miles) and replace the L05 TBI 350 with an LT1 From a wrecked car (All 1994-96 B-body Gm's had Lt1's with true dual exhaust, but I couldn't afford a car that new). It was a chore. Had to get a buddy's Dad to wire it up to work. I got a Dual Exhaust crossmember from an old squad car/taxi in a junkyard. I put 255-60r15 tires on Chrome wheels(Wheels were ugly AR tailgunners, In bad taste I know but I was young and dumb) and True duals out the back with aluminum Glass packs. It was my Baby. I sold it becasue I inherited my Cadillac and I couldn't afford to store two cars over the winter whil in college. I regret everyday selling this car, and it was totalled a month after I sold it. I bought another Roadmaster a Few weeks ago and plan to fix it up the same way. I know most people think it's uncool, but the way I look at it, I was 17 in the late 90's with a Car that was RWD and had a V8 pushing 300 HP that had cheap insurance and the cop's ignored. What more could you want.




~HJ

[dodge freak]

I think its ok-just its kind of heavy but lots of room , hope you have a bench seat, thats the best part of those cars. It was too bad GM stop making them-but still made big SUV's. I take that car over a SUV anyday.

[skyhawk61]

    While I was in college in June of 1967, I was paying $550 in 10 easy monthly payments for my first car. It was a white over black 1959 Plymouth Fury 2 door hardtop with a red and gray interior.  It had a 318 polysphere engine, making 230 horsepower with a 2 bbl carb.  All this got promptly changed to a 2-4 bbl "Fury" performance package, with a dual point distributor and a hotter camshaft.  I added dual exhausts and a set of Magnum 500 wheels, then changed the 2 speed Powerflite to a 3 speed cast iron Torqueflite. By the time I graduated in 1969, I had it pretty much the way I wanted it. It had 82,000 miles on the clock, and I drove it until I bought my first new car in 1972--a Duster 340.  I still have the old Plymouth today, sitting in a garage, waiting for me to restore it.
   Perhaps... maybe this year.

[HAZZARDJOHN]

I think its ok-just its kind of heavy but lots of room , hope you have a bench seat, thats the best part of those cars. It was too bad GM stop making them-but still made big SUV's. I take that car over a SUV anyday.

It's actually not too heayy 4000#'s. So it is what? about 300-400 #'s heavier than charger. They go fast in a straight line but the curves hurt. I was going to put Impala SS springs and Bilstein sever duty Shocks in it next before I sold it, to correct that. Basically I am going to turn my new one into an Impala SS version of the Roadmaster. It did have a bench seat( 60/40 anyays) That made the drive in's a lot of fun!  

[dodge freak]

Well the Charger is a little heavy to begin with and 400 lbs more means it takes more power to move it and stopping is not as good. I am not knocking it, just wish it was more like the Nova GM used to make but you might not remember those cars. They had 396 motors-some of them-it was a super fast car done right.

[HAZZARDJOHN]

Well the Charger is a little heavy to begin with and 400 lbs more means it takes more power to move it and stopping is not as good. I am not knocking it, just wish it was more like the Nova GM used to make but you might not remember those cars. They had 396 motors-some of them-it was a super fast car done right.

I know, I knew you weren't Knocking me, I was just comparing it. Everyone thought that car wieghed 5000#'s plus. My Dad had a 70ish Nova w/ a 396 when I was little. You're right that car hauled. Now he only buys Crown Vic's and Pickup trucks. 


~HJ

[Khyron]

heheh 76 Dodge Aspen SE


it was a POS

[my69]

I'll give it another try
I hope it works this time

[DodgeByDave]

1968 Charger R/T 440 4spd, Turquios, black vinyl top, black interior, black R/T stripe.

Owned it for a grand total of 5 hours. My mom took one look at it and said "That thing has to go!

I was 14 at the time so I had little choice in the matter.

Old Farmer that some of us yunguns had been helping gave us chioces of old cars he had setting around for payment. And being the youngest I got last chioce!

My dad traded it for a 1971 Pontiac Ventura II. My God, What a Turd. 250 6 and a glide. Had to beat it with a whip to get it to go down hill. Got rid of it by hitting a St. Bernhard on Whiteland Rd. in 1980 (I hit the dog, a telephone pole, and a bridge abutment)

Took my insurance money and purchased a 1969 Charger R/T S/E 383 auto on the column. It was what my friends at the time called Brittish Racing Green. I hated the paint, but with the help of the Late Great Smokey Clayton out in Monrovia, In. it ended up with a hemi/ clutch flight combo that helped put me through college. That car was fast. It also gave me the dreaded disease called "GOFASTITUS" that resulted in a couple of incarcerations and a chioce between jail or the military.

"Dang mopars are allways cauzzin trouble, and my squad cars can't kech 'em." Actually said by the local police chief at one of my hearings. The judge laughed so hard his teeth fell out! Then Myself, My Lawyer, and the judge went to the back room and I was told that I would be found not guilty IF i agreed to go into a branch of the military within 90 days.

When I got off active duty 4 yrs latter, I still had the car and first night out I did a smokey burnout right in front of the police station at 3am that the CHI-TOWN HUSTLER would have been proud of.

A fireman buddy of mine told me that "good old Kojac Martin almost had a heart attack" I haven't been to Mooresville Since!

DBD

[Brock Samson]

"My dad traded it for a 1971 Pontiac Ventura II. My God, What a Turd. 250 6 and a glide. Had to beat it with a whip to get it to go down hill. Got rid of it by hitting a St. Bernhard on Whiteland Rd. in 1980 (I hit the dog, a telephone pole, and a bridge abutment)"

this one?!...



low profile's your dad?..   

[DodgeByDave]

 

No, lowprofile isn't my dad. I'm not shure but since I'm 44 we may be close to the same age!

That's the car though except mine was a Blue '71. GOD HOW I HATED THAT THING!

If you spit in front of it, it wouldn't run. Backseat was smaller than a volkswagon!

Not a good Drive-In car if you know what I mean.

DBD

[Sweet T]

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[Lost Sheep]

My first vehicle was a 1963 Chevy 1/2 ton 2wd pickup with a 350and 4 speed.(still own)14 years old(my dad gave it to me to get running)
My second car I bought for 600 bux it's a 1977 Chevy Nova 4 Door 250 straight 6,auto on the column and 45,000 original miles(still own)18yrs old
My third Car is a 1968 Dodge Charger 383 2bbl,auto on the column,green with black top,black interior, cost me 2500 bux(still own and wont sell) 18 yrs old
my fourth vehicle is a 1970 Chevy C-10 1/2 ton 2wd 350 automatic bought it for 100 bux(still own) 19 yrs old

[73dodge]

Loved this car regret getting rid of it