First Car Stories!

[Belair62]

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While all my friends blew their cash on minibikes, motorcycles, drugs, beer, women (not necessarily in that order) I ended up saving $2700 by my 14th birthday.

[/ QUOTE ]Well...after I pissed away all my money on a JC Penney Golden Pinto mini-bike,some pot and Ripple wine with my very first girl friend (priorities)I bought a 1965 Impala SS...327/300 powerglide for 325 bucks...drove it until my lady friend distracted me and I drove over a parking block in the local forest preserve completely tearing out the lower right control arm of the car. I went to a boneyard and got a used A arm and installed it...did some "bodywork" on the car and had it painted at APCOA...I sold it a month later after going thru at least a tire a week....guess I didn't fix it too well...it sounded like it had the brakes locked while driving down the road...the alignment and the frame were just a BIT tweaked !!...........Hey Ed....glad to see you made it out of that one....usually a tarp over the car means there was a fatality !