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first car of my own was a 70 1/2 RS camaro with the split bumpers rubber nose. That was my second car. Paid $700.00 for that. I ran it into the back of a Dodge Dart and totaled both cars. It had a 307 2 barrel. It was brown with a tan vinyl roof. Put a set of Cregars on it with L60's on the back. Had it all jacked up with air shocks.
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1946 Ford flatbed dump truck, with a leaky brake system. Was working part time at a campground when I was about 14. Used the truck for trash, firewood, gravel. Probably not one of the owner's better decisions having me drive, but no injuries resulted. Hellava vehicle to learn on.
First new car I owned was a 1978 Pontiac Sunbird hatchback. Anyone remember those? 90 hp 4 cylinder, and 36 mpg with an 18 gal tank. You could drive all day on a tank of gas, just don't try to pass anyone or be in a hurry on hills . Still had that car when I reported to FT Sam Houston in 1982 for Officer Basic. Think about lots of glass, vinyl bucket seats, and no air conditioning in San Antonio in Jul and Aug.
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1966 Dodge Polara stationwagon. I was underage and could not wait for a legal license so I would find my parents keys and drive it when they were away. In the past 50 years or so I've driven very few cars that were as much fun or as fast as that 383 Polara.
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1940 ford with the flathead v8. The roof was cut off from the windshield back. Dad kinda made it into a pickup and it had a water tank and booms to spray the fields. With no weight that thing would throw gravel for a long ways. First car I owned was a 1960 Chevy impala. Edk
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My first vehicle as a '60 Chevy shortbed Fleetside pickup, with a 235 six banger and three-on-the-tree. It was slow, sturdy, and a POS by any standards. It was Seafoam green, and the oak bed in rotting out, though pretty slowly. I drove it for a year, then sold it and bought a '73 Plymouth Duster, which had a slant-six and would run pretty good, though everything else was falling apart. It was a POS, too. Then I got a Datsun pickup, which was slow, sturdy, and a lot of fun to drive. It rode pretty rough, though.
I guess I never got over that Datsun, I'm on my fifth one, now.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
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Well we're Green and we're Gold, and we play better when it's cold. All us Cheese heads have our favorite superstar. We love Brett Favre.
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Oddly enough a Korea era USAF ambulance. First standard transmission.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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My first car was a 1955 Chevy. It was in June of 1959, I was 16 years old. Loved that car. A lot of good times associated with the Chevy, some of those good times took place behind the steering wheel and others in the backseat.
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First drove a ‘65 gmc truck
1st owned 71 Dodge Charger
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Late 50s chev pu. Dad put in in lowest gear, jumped out of the pu, and I guided it parallel to cattle feed bunks while he shoveled feed into the bunks
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Would eight hour days on a 48 Ford 8N tractor at the age of five count?
No, how about all day behind the wheel of an eighteen foot flatbed GMC, guiding hay bales Into the throat of a clear field elevator at the age of six.
Still no? Damn, okay then I drove a 62 Chevy short narrow bed all over the farm carrying siphon tubes in the summer and corn silage to the feed bunks all winter at age twelve. little six banger w/ four speed truck tranny and stump puller 4.10s in the rear end.
The first car I owned was a 71 Toyota Celica. 1.8 L w/ 4 speed.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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A 1954 Chevy Bel Air 2-door. Drove my Uncle Willie’s ‘47 Ford pickup about the same time.
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Stoner......... purty kool
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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1952 Kaiser after several years on tractors
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I MISS SARAH
“In Trump We Trust.” Right????
SOMEBODY please tell TRH that Netanyahu NEVER said "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
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Drove was a '67 Olds wagon in the junkyard. We had the torches in the back and drove it to whatever we were working on. I was 11 or 12 years old. First on the road was a '71 Galaxy, our family car. A few years later that mild mannered Galaxy became known as "Henry the Ford". Celebrated for his hubcap tossing donuts! My first car was a '72 Monte Carlo with a 402 bigblock and a 12 bolt posi. It was wrecked, and I worked on that car for a year repairing and restoring it. Since I had so much work in it, it was my "Baby". I raced it occasionally and did donuts to show off, but I never beat on it like I did Henry. I don't like to brag, but it was the nicest car of my school class, and a lot of us had nice cars. The Old Man was worried about a 17 year old with that big motor. There was a wrecked '75 Caprice with a 305. "If I find out you're racing that thing, I'll pull that motor and stick that 305 in There!" When I got outta the Army, I got into racing on a dirt track and sold the Monte Carlo to a guy who promised to take care of it. Instead it sit for 4 years and ended up getting stripped. I still regret selling it. 7mm
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This got me back and forth across the trailer park. Until I got a Big Wheel.
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When I got sick of hitchhiking, I bought my third car. It was a 1968 Ford station wagon "Country Squire". It didn't have any hub caps and I paid 75 bucks for it. It was known as "The Party Wagon". I had an 8 track player in it with big ass stereo speakers in the back.
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Drove? Don't remember. Owned was a 1952 Chev custom delux 4Dr. six banger. Other first times I remember a lot better. GW
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. MACHIAVELLI
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When I got sick of hitchhiking, I bought my third car. It was a 1968 Ford station wagon "Country Squire". It didn't have any hub caps and I paid 75 bucks for it. It was known as "The Party Wagon". I had an 8 track player in it with big ass stereo speakers in the back. I paid 100 for mine, it was a Brittany Spaniel carrier Loved it Getting back to the thread , My first car was a POS toyota corolla.
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