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Desdamona wrote:Oh, quit trying to sound old, man!

I don't think he's trying to sound old, but, rather, a few wet noodles are making him seem old.
and anyone younger than me is not old by ANY means!

My first car was a 1959 Chevorlet Bel Air, metallic blue, V8 engine, that I paid $500.00 for. (In 1968 when I got my drivers license). It ran like a train, and it cost me all of $5.00 to fill the gas tank from empty.
My parents sold it for $300.00 in 1971 after I'd left for the Navy. (And they sent me the money).

The same as this truck, except mine had a solid topper, hood scowl, fancier wheels w/ low-pro tires, w/ limo tinted windows Much better looking than this one...and chicks dug it

J.LeP wrote:THANKS, Des! Thats the right year, to make the tourer, convertable, the top was cut off and the canvas frame attached.
John

That's a pretty cool looking buggy. The coolest car I ever got to drive
on a regular basis was my brother's white Cougar just like this one:

I even got to shift gears in it! and it had those cool flippy headlights.

1970 Datsun 510 wagon, bought if for $50 from my sister. To this day i have never purchased a pair of shoes that cost more than my first automobile.

Story (imagine that) Took it to Daytona in '79 or '80 with four friends. At the time I was graduated and managing a place called Joe's Bar "N Grill in Normal, Illinois. I was on the beach making a mid-afternoon gin and tonic and one of my customers, also down there for spring break saw me and yelled, "Look, its Joe's mobile unit." That name or the shortened versions of "mobile unit" or just "unit" stuck till the day the car died

My first car was a 1978 Chevy Malibu. My grandparents had it for 8 or 9 years, then my oldest sister drove it, then I got it when I turned 16. 2 weeks before I got my license the brake lines rusted through, and dad decided it was time to sell the ol' girl. Then I inherited my other sister's 1982 Plymoth Reliant station wagon (no radio, and a stick shift), which was mom's before sis got her license (we handed cars down a lot in our family). It became known as the "Wonder Wagon" because by the time I got it, it looked like hell thanks to sis running into a chain-link fence with it. I beat the crap outta that car (drove it 20-plus miles with NO antifreeze in it once after a hose broke and I didn't notice), but it never broke down on me. Sold it to my girlfriend's dad after I bought a '79 Mustang (THAT was a POS car), and it sat in their backyard for a couple of years. Last time I saw the Wonder Wagon was on the back of a flatbed getting hauled off to the junkyard, I just happened to be on the freeway behind the tow truck.

'64 M38A1! Drove it to college where my roommate and 2 other friends helped put in a rebuilt Chev 350 and conversion kit for the 4wd. Add 3 rollbars, Gates Commando tires, stir vigorously and I got a gas hog that could pull the dorm off it's foundations . . . my Mom wouldn't ride to the corner store with me!

Desdamona wrote:

J.LeP wrote:THANKS, Des! Thats the right year, to make the tourer, convertable, the top was cut off and the canvas frame attached.
John

That's a pretty cool looking buggy. The coolest car I ever got to drive
on a regular basis was my brother's white Cougar just like this one:

I even got to shift gears in it! and it had those cool flippy headlights.

One of my H.S. friends was a double leg amputee from a childhood auto acident. His father bought him a similar Cougar, automatic trans of course, and had it outfitted with hand controls so that he could drive himself to school. We had a standing deal that whenever one of us had the s%!^s of school he would say "I just broke a strap, John has to drive me so I can get it fixed." Worked every time!
John

Nothing but the best for me!!!!!!!!!!! That's right a 1965 STUDEBAKER!!!!!!! Just like this one only with a black roof. Dad thought it would be a great car, had a good engine, something about a V-8, or a slant 6 whatever..... same as what they put into the Corvettes back then The price was right $150, now there's one for sale in Wisconsin for just about $7,000 It did drive like a charm, however a charm drives

a 12 year old 1961 Ford Galaxie 500.
White with a red vinyl interior
I needed a car for work that summer, and a friend of my dad sold it to us for $200.
It had a 390 cubic inch engine with twin Holley 4 barrel carburators - that old car ran like a bat out of hell!
Fortunately, gas was about 29 cents a gallon, 'cause that thing could drink some gas!

Canary Yellow 1980 Pontiac Sunbird Hatchbach
repainted it kinda like Richard Petty's racecar
Blue on top, Black stripe on the side, day-glow red/PINK on the botton half

'63 VW Bug.. it was a 6v electrical system with basically NO heat as it got it's only heat from the engine and NO air. It also had a problem of "vapor lock" where the engine (which was air cooled only) would get hot enough to evaporate the gas before it could fire. This happened after it ran a while and if you turned it off you were stuck where you stopped. Also, this car had no gas needle but only a reserve switch that you used when it started to sputter you had 1/2 gallon left.

Desdamona wrote:

J.LeP wrote:THANKS, Des! Thats the right year, to make the tourer, convertable, the top was cut off and the canvas frame attached.
John

That's a pretty cool looking buggy. The coolest car I ever got to drive
on a regular basis was my brother's white Cougar just like this one:

I even got to shift gears in it! and it had those cool flippy headlights.

Des that was one of my favorite cars in the '70s.

My second car was a 1966 4 door Plymouth Valiant with a slant 6 / 225 engine. Baby blue.

1973 Dodge Dart..Belonged to my folks & when I had to drive to Daytona to school they sold it to me.. Sure liked that car! Brown with a white vinyl top. No A/C (we brought it from Ohio with us when we moved to FL in 1974) or power anything but it did have an AM/FM radio!

Sidew13 wrote:Canary Yellow 1980 Pontiac Sunbird Hatchbach
repainted it kinda like Richard Petty's racecar
Blue on top, Black stripe on the side, day-glow red/PINK on the botton half

found a pic

White, '64 VW bug, 40 hp, manual shift with the entire right side caved in from a previous accident. I grew up in the mojave desert (read...Freakin' HOT!!!!!!). No Radio, and the only A/C was 2/50 A/C (2 windows down at 50 mph)...in 120 degree heat it is pretty useless. I got the car on my 16th, the previous owner (my Dad) had , had a run in with a cadilac that had T-boned him in a drive way......Caddy went away unscathed, the bug was crushed....no window on the right side and the door would open only after some creative leaverage was applied....Dad took the totalled out price of the car and bought Mom a new VW 1600 station wagon.... After all that it was an invcreadibly reliable car....not fast (Heck you couldn't even call it slow....), and nothing to look at but it would get you there...... At one point I had stuffed 9 guys from the football team in ti to get home after a practice.....it was often lifted up and placed in the quad at school.....

alas...it is gone.....

1981 Oldsmobile Omega.....threw a rod in it about 4 mos. after I got it. Oops....

A 1964 Dodge Dart - slant 6 and "3-on-the-tree".
Bought it from one of my mother's co-workers for $225.
It didn't even have a radio (it did have a heater, though!)

a red 81 Mercury Lynx (basically a Ford Escort)

1982 Mercury Cougar 4-door




Try finding one with 4 doors. Try. Very few were ever made....

1979 Sunbird I had it for all of 4 years and it was done in
bought it new and had over 200,000 on it when I traded it in.