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My very first car as a 16 year old.. 85 Chrysler Laser...



My first 4 wheel drive when I gradgeeated...

First was a 1500 series 1956 Chevy PU, 283 manual 3 speed. Upgraded to a 1964 Lemans 326HO 2 speed slip and slide. Upgraded it with a turbo 400, still didn't do big enough smoke shows, dropped in a 389 4 bbl and it was a great improvement.

My current main old car is a 1970-440 Cuda that a good friend in Sacramento had as his highschool car, we both graduated in 1977. It still has the 1977 Imron metalflake black, Candy cherry red pearl paint. It looks a lot like Cameleon paint when in the sun.

Allen

My high school wet dream car was a 1970 Dodge Charger 440 6 pack which I owned after 36 easy payments, but I drove a 1968 Chevy C10 with a 4 spd and a 250 inline 6. The Dodge taught me about what you should not do as a young dumb azz kid. Sold The car with about 30 K miles when I got married. My wife used to ask me about a mid life crisis car about 20 years ago , keep telling her I already had mine Russ

No pics of mine, but my first car was a 72 Dodge Polara. I totaled it the beginning of my senior year.





I then got a 69 Chevelle Malibu

'71 Dodge Demon, 340 4 speed. Factory twin hood scoops and rear spoiler.
That is one of two cars I wish I'd never gotten rid of. The other, after high school, was a '71 Plymouth 'Cuda, 383 with a shaker hood.

I had the same car. 1968 Cougar XR7 with 302 and automatic. It was gold with a white top but painted it dark metalic brown with white top. Some good times. I paid $500 bucks

My brother and I had a 1963 Plymouth station wagon that was bought surplus from the US Soil and Water Conservation Dept. It had a slant six, three on the column, no A/C, no power steering, no power brakes, no back seat and no radio, but it ran. A $50.00 paint job and a back seat from the junk yard and we were good to go.

A buddy of mine had a late 60s Cougar and what a beautiful car it was. His old man was the best body man in town. He told us that he was having it painted gray and we thought that was a disaster........ until we saw it. Wow, was it beautiful!

For a short time I had a 1968 XR7. 302 auto. It was red and all stock.

I went to my older sisters house one day when I was a sophomore in high school. One of these with a 396 and 4 spd was sitting in her garage. It was a friends, and it was for sale. Absolutely MINT! Hugger orange with white stripes IIRC. $4000.

First was a 62 country sedan station wagon,man could it haul beer!

Then a 64 Comet and the last in school was a 69 Mustang.
It was a California car with a 302 and a 3 speed,with enough smog equipment for 3 more cars.

I've got an ex wife like that....

whose name happens to be Christine...

Maybe Stephen King knew her before I did, and used her as the inspiration for the movie...

Car? You gotta be kidding! One vehicle in the family and my Dad stayed after work so I could ride home with him after football practice and I have walked home...12 miles! No...not through snow...but on occasion a damn big thunderstorm! Kids in high school didn't have cars! Here was my 'car' every day:

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Wasn't any running around on the bus while enroute either and it was as quiet as a church mouse or....if you chose to holler and try raising hell...you got your azz put off the bus!

My first car was a 62 Pontiac Tempest my mom bought me and had me pay the $300 for it... it belonged to an Airman 2nd Class who worked in her office at the Pentagon and he got orders for Vietnam....so he had to unload it quick...

It was red and the paint was all faded and oxidized... It looked like crap.... she hands me the keys and tell me to take it for a spin.... Adding it was "real peppy for a 6 cylinder"....

So I drove it up the road, and as soon as I was out of sight from home, and hit a stop sign, I decided to see how peppy it was...



I floored it, and it went in any direction but straight... and I burnt a couple thousand miles worth of wear off the snow tires on the rear....I popped the hood on the little buzzard...

No inner fender wells, big asssed radiator.. yet the entire engine bay was FULL....air cleaner was inscribed Pontiac 421 Tri Power....What I wished it was going to look like...



note that 421 emblem on the left front fender...







Guy who owned it was setting it up to drag race it, and got his orders for Vietnam... so felt he'd better not tell my mom what was really under the hood...

Word got back to her a month or so later... and she immediately pulled the keys and sold it to someone else in her office...

but that sure was one hell of a fun 30 days or so...

after that was a couple of VWs....

but I got tossed the keys for about 2 months on a car one of her friends had bought when going thru tough times...because it was a "gas hog"... mom let her use her car, and she took my VW...

Previously government owned 57 Caddy Fleetwood Limo...3 doors down each side... shiney black, had some bullet holes in the back fender some kids had shot in it... Looked like a real Mafia Mobile...

Thing had like a 50 gallon fuel tank, automatic EVERYTHING...

lift the hood the air cleaner was the size of a garbage can lid... housing 2 Four Barrels.. probably the biggest made in 1957.. and I am sure the engine was the biggest thing GM made for Cadillac that year also...

Tires were huge....you could get it up to 120, let off the gas pedal and it would slow down to about 90 and then without touching anything, it would start slowly climbing back up picking up speed...

could load it up with about 20 plus high school kids...

that was a fun 60 days or so also...but as soon as her friend got a job, there went the keys to the Caddy... and I'm back in a darn VW once again....

Minus the white walls this is the same, 3 on the tree 6 cyclinder

'64 Malibu and then a '67 Firebird

If it's rockin'.......

1964 Ford.

My first car I bought from my gradfather the summer before my sophomore year in college. Very similar to this '66, but mine was a 1967 Fairlane in the same Pebble Beige.

Had my sights on a pick up as long as I could remember so I saved up and bough a 70 Ford XLT Ranger (F100.) It only had 15,000 on it but had the dog of a 360 engine under the hood. Didn't want to pull my boat so well.

My mom's Mercury Monteray(land boat!) had a 390 in it so I did what any red-blodded teenager woud do... swapped them out one weekend when she was away. Was a perfect fit.

She seemed suprised when she found out (30 years later.) She had always maintained that "My Mercury seems to be running rather slow for some reason..."