First Car

[budnate]

'78,305,4spd,...man life was grand!!!

[mrtimstik]

Mine was a 63 1/2 Ford Galaxie 500. Picture taken in Oak Park, Illinois at Oak Park Ave. and the Eisenhower looking north circa 1980.

[MrsBillyBobcat]

Like many of you, my first car was a Chevy

Here it is... a '66 Biscayne that I bought when I was 16 (for $400).



I wanted to keep it when I bought my 2nd car, but my dad would not let me have 2 cars. I thought this was very unfair since my brother always had 2 or 3 cars at a time!

[Baldy]

My first car was a 1930 Chev. I was 16 and paid $50.00 for it.It was one of the best car's I ever owned.

[PeteLeathersac]

Cool thread! My first car was a '69 Chevy pickup....small block/3-tree. . The crazy thing is it was factory purple! . I painted it w/ grey spray bombs as the color sure seemed dumb at the time. . I sold it in '79....never thought about looking at trim tags back then? . Anyone know if purple was a factory color choice? ~ Pete

[SS427]

My (very) first car was a '54 Chevy that my brother gave to me while he was serving a tour of duty in Viet Nam. The car was blue with black tuck and roll interior, Corvette 327 w/two 4's, 4 speed, 4:10 rear, roll bar, tear drop scoop, etc,etc. For my 16th Birthday, he mailed me the title. About a week later I grabbed some friends to go to my Aunts house where the car was stored in a barn only to find the storm that went through the night before lowered the barn about 20' right on top of the car. Needless to say I never even got to drive the car one time. Somewhere I have photos of that car as well.
Rick

[hvychev]

My first car was a 1977 Grand Prix that was painted in primer with a white half vinyl top. I was 16 years old when I got it in 1994. I paid $500 for it and dad was so pissed that I bought a car with out his knowledge he told me to park it down the street! I wish that I had pictures of it!

Pops told me to tell you guys that his first car was a 56 Buick Convert Canary yellow with a black rag top that he bought from a guy for $15.00 when he was 15 in 1965! he said that the car had a bad trans which him and his buddy switched out that afternoon with a junk yard trans for about another $15.00! Man those would have been the days!

[Bill Pritchard]

Hugger Orange 70 Nova, 307, floor mounted 3 speed. $2400 + tax + fees, out the door from Egizio Chev-Olds, Naperville IL, in June 1970. Sold it 5 months later (wasn't fast enough) to a friend who promptly rolled it. It was within a few $$$ of being totalled, but it got fixed and painted blue. He drove it for many years and had way over 100K on the clock when he got rid of it. If I had bought the Citrus green 70 1/2 Z28 RS that I really wanted, I might still have it Payments on the Z were gonna be $140/mo. and I was sure I couldn't afford it. Payments on the Nova were $77/mo.....and I made double payments on it every month

[427TJ]

Bought it in 1979 (California) from my next-door neighbor who bought it new. I immediately built a solid-lifter 327 and hooked it to a '70 M-22 and 3:55 12-bolt Posi. Sold it in 1985 with a fresh solid-lifter 4-bolt 350. Last saw it in 1999 in my buddy's backyard rotting away with all the good parts long gone, naturally.

Photo is from 1983. I miss the rocker arm clatter and the M-22 whine.

[BUIZILLA]

1970 340 Duster, brand new, $2755.55 cash out the door, B5 blue, automatic, freakin' screamed that thing did...
VIN # VS29HOB355542, do you have any idea how many newspapers I had to deliver to do that trick? Dad said my first car MUST be new, it MUST be paid cash in full, and I MUST have 1 years insurance paid up front... I had $13 left over the night I drove it home, and $6 of that filled it up at Amoco at 34.9 cents a gallon for premium.. I had $7 left till the next payday... just enough for $1 Burger King dinner and another $6 for a full tank of gas.. priority's ya know, gas b4 food.. all that, and I was only 16 at the time...

Jim
like your first woman experience (LOL) you never forget your first car...