Old Cars

[hyperspace]

Ford Pinto
Dodge Dart
Chevy Vega
Pontiac Sunfire
Plymouth Volari
Ford Maverick
Mustang-2
Chrysler Newport
I drove many of these in the late 80's early nineties!!

"I don't know how the f**k you knew that ring was a fugazy"

[philby]

My first car was a 73 Olds Cutlass 2 door with bucket seats. I loved that car(until this drunk bitch hit me head on 12/24/83.)

Must...build...the...pyramid.

[Gvac]

How about the greatest of all car makers...AMC? The Gremlin, the Pacer, and the Hornet. They also owned Jeep until they sold it off to Chrysler.

Those cars had personality, unlike the cookie-cutter models of today.

<img src=http://www.ltrooster.homestead.com/files/gvacamerica.jpg>

[A.J.]

My Mom had a Hornet years ago. I remember that when you turned the car on you could take the key out of the ignition.

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Made by Aggie.

[ThePointer]

the Original DELTA 88 with a 454 4 barrel Carb what a monster

you have two choices: Castration or a one way ticket to New York

[erole]

Ric Ocasek

<IMG SRC="http://members.hometown.aol.com/iamerole/myhomepage/simonsig.jpg">
~Is there anyone sweeter than Aggie? I mean, really.

[Zipgun]

Ric Ocasek



Benjamin Orr would've been funnier.

Since he's dead and all.

<img src=http://atamichimpo.50megs.com/images/skidmarkdpbelly.jpg>

[OneEyeJack]

my brother has a 1971 barracuda 440 or something. Never takes it out of the garage unless the planets are aligned just right.

[jetdog]

'83 corrola?

[Fez4PrezN2008]

My Mom had a Hornet years ago. I remember that when you turned the car on you could take the key out of the ignition.

http://www.silentspic.com/images/sighost/aggiemmkaysig.jpg
Made by Aggie.
Dude ! I had a 76 Hornet that you could do this on too. Must have been crappy ignition locks, like everything else on the car. Mine was about 1/2 bondo...

[Don Stugots]

for me nothing looks sweeter than an old caddy.

[Sarge]

I have a 66 Chevelle SS 396/360 with a 4 speed. The thing is a rocket.

[OneEyeJack]

buicks in the 50s and early 60s were the same. you could take the key out and open the trunk while it runs

[PapaBear]

I learned to drive in a 1975 Pontiac Le Mans with a 350.

http://www.avonhill.com/thumbnails/coupe_domestic/1975_Pontiac_LeMans.jpeg

Ours was beige.

[OneEyeJack]

for me nothing looks sweeter than an old caddy.

probably with tinted windows and secret compartments

[PapaBear]

Two of the cars my brother managed to total (he cried both times)...

http://cll.hemmings.com/uimage/554451-300-0.jpg?rev=1

and a Chevy Nova II. His was one of the fastest cars in town. He had it for 6 days. His air shocks were too powerful... hit a bump in the road and rolled it about 3 times. To make matters worse, while it sat in our driveway, someone stole all the custom engine parts.

http://www.altonmotorsports.com/images/2006%20Feb/Nova%20II%20003_lg.jpg


BTW... that's not his actual car, but his Buick was the same color as the one in pic at the top.

[Snacks]

Ford Pinto
Dodge Dart
Chevy Vega
Pontiac Sunfire
Plymouth Volari
Ford Maverick
Mustang-2
Chrysler Newport
I drove many of these in the late 80's early nineties!!

"I don't know how the f**k you knew that ring was a fugazy"

A pinto and a dart, wow I forgot about those

I got my license in 1990 (wow thats fucking long ago)
My first car was a 1984 old toronado. I was a guido
my next car was a 1992 hyundai scoupe. I bought it brand new for $8000 lol
next car new 1995 lexus es300
then new 1998 lexus GS300
then new 2001 Jaguar S type
After 4 new cars in a row I bought my first used car since my first car. I bought a 1999 Lincoln Navigator. What a gas guzller
and now I have a 2001 Jaguar XJ8 Another car that eats gas. Its going for sale soon.

Here is a picture of my first car (not my actual car, mine was burgundy)

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t261/lefty117/oldstoronado.jpg

[Don Stugots]

i got my lic. in 90 also. my first car was a ford fairmount. white with blue interior. i never had a brand new car till i got the FJ Cruiser 2 days before last christmas.

[hedges]

Two cars that I used to own that I wish I still had: a 1964 1/2 Mustang Fastback 289 2-barrel stock with spinner hubcaps and a 1977 Cutlass.

In high school, I remember liking the Grand Nationals.

[Hottub]

http://a194.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00373/39/15/373975193_l.jpg

My '63 Coupe de Ville.
(Sold it last year)

[Death Metal Moe]

All the guys I work with are car guys. WHen they start talking about old cars, engines, drive trains and all this shit I just black out. It's certianly more interesting then sports talk and I'm glad I don't have to here any of them spouting bullshit about their stupid hometeams, but I still don't get it.

[RADIO-SHARK]

my first car was and still is, because I still own it ,is a 1947 ford pickup.It sat in the woods on a farm in PA. for 20yrs till I got my hands on it and started to restore it. I bought the truck when I was 16 with money I saved from my two paper routes. Before that I only worked on minibikes. If you want to see it, rent the movie Sophie,s Choice. I was asked by the production company to turn it into an ice cream truck and did it . THE scene where Sophie hears bells jingling and looks out a window and sees my truck.It also is in the movie POLOCK with Ed Harris. Its the truck that almost hits polock as he rides a bike with a case of beer, which he drops. HAHAHAHA

[dndbuena]

http://a194.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00373/39/15/373975193_l.jpg

My '63 Coupe de Ville.
(Sold it last year)

Those cars were great! You could be doing 75 or 80 & it felt like you weren't moving at all Thanks for the picture.

[furie]

what's a Mustang-2?

[Fez4PrezN2008]

what's a Mustang-2?
It was really a retarted cousin to the real mustang.
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n293/JBphotojunk/m2.jpg
Awful, just awful. Slow as shit, and twice as ugly.

[drusilla]

http://usaclassiccars.com/images/files/71chevelle_166875_012.jpg


dreeeeee-ee-eeeeeeam

dream dream dreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeam

[drusilla]

first car was an 83 el dorado http://www.dealsonwheels.com/database/cars/86472.jpg

such a mess. the ceiling covering thing got really loose was hanging down so my friends would have to hold it up when i needed to look through the rear view mirror. damn staples never held. i got it in 95 & i would say that it was really embarrassing, but i was the only one with a car.

[furie]

It was really a retarted cousin to the real mustang.
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n293/JBphotojunk/m2.jpg
Awful, just awful. Slow as shit, and twice as ugly.

ah, ok.
my first car was a Mustang L. not the LX, just L. basicly it was a ford escort with a mustang body. fucking thing died, engine seized just shy of 70k. i'll never own a ford car again.
I do like the new F-150's, but this is an old car thread, so nevermind....

[patsopinion]

i got my lic. in 90 also. my first car was a ford fairmount. white with blue interior. i never had a brand new car till i got the FJ Cruiser 2 days before last christmas.

how do u like ur fj
I really want one of those
I trust toyota over all others

[jetdog]

how do u like ur fj
I really want one of those
I trust toyota over all others

Easily, toyotas are unstoppable, my '83 corolla had 90,000 on it when I got it as my first car, I beat the shit out of it for another 30,000, never let me down. My family has had 5 totyotas, all great cars. Anyway just to inject some European flair into this thread...
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/01/hottest_vintage/image/aston_martin_db4gt.jpg

[Landblast]

you push, YUGO

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t224/pbr_/yugo3.jpg

[PapaBear]

you push, YUGO

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t224/pbr_/yugo3.jpg
0-60 in just 5 tries

[ralphbxny]

My first car was a 1986 ford escort till I saved some money than I got the Ghetto Dream !!!!


1978 Heavy Chevy Malibu!!!!

[bostonronandfezfan]

my first car was a 1965 ford fairlane straight 6 three on the tree i got it for free it was a sweetheart got my fist lay in that car with the plates from my mothers station wagon glad i never got pulled over

second was a 1976 international scout traveler 345 with a two barrel only had 20 000 when i bought it

then for my 18th birthday i got myself a 2005 dodge ram quad cab hemi dual 40 flows an intake and a programmer i know its not a race car but damn it flies for such a big peice of steel

[bostonronandfezfan]

hey did you hear about the yugo wagon?

the wego

hahaha
(car crash)

[Jinxed]

Great thread...

Let's see... I had a:
Chevy El Camino
Chevy Vega Kamback
67 Mustang
69 Mustang
Volvo 144s
Ford Maverick
Triumph Spitfire
MG Midget
MGA
Jeep CJ5
Countless VW Bugs

I can't remember them all, but that's a start.

Damn I'm old...

[Swamprat]

Mavericks can be a sweet ride if done right ..

http://www.dragtimes.com/images/4973-1970-Ford-Maverick.jpg

[high fly]

Old cars I had would include 3 Chevy Vegas.
When I was married, we decided to sell one and while at work, my wife took care of it. The chap showed up, started the thing and paid her, oh, I think it was about 3 or 400 bucks for the car. Paperwork completed, he got in to drive it off, started it up and it blew up, right there.
She began to bitch at him for parking that piece of shit in front of our house and ordered him to have it removed immediately and when the towtruck hauled it off, she gave him $100 back.

I had a green '72 Dodge Dart that was a great work car. I loved the way you opened the hood and all you saw was engine, and none-a this spaghetti one sees now, plus plenty of room to work.

I had me a '74 and '76 Mustang. The '76 was that silver color that faded immediately after purchase, but its bucket seats were the most comfortable I have had in a car.
With the '76, I had a hot date and went by my parents house for something. They lived at the top of a long hill and I forgot to put the car in gear when I parked. I remembered when I got to the door, turned around to see it begin to roll backwards. I chased it down the hill as cars going each way dodged the thing. It went off the road and hit a tree dead center of the rear license plate. This put a v-shaped dent in the rear, about 2 feet deep. On impact, the locking gas cap popped off like a champagne cork and sailed across the street.

I had an old Toyota Corona, I think made in '72, that I drove the hell out of.

Then there was my '71 Delta Custom with the 455 and 4-barrel. That baby was a lot of fun to drive on the highway and big enough in the back to screw. I got caught once by the cops back there, corpus indelecto...

[landarch]

My first car was a 1974 Volvo 144. I wish I had it now simply because I have not seen more than three others on the road in the 13 years since I owned it. It was a terrible car for electrical problems and its insatiable need for obsolete parts, but what a fun time nonetheless.

I've had two or three brand new cars but the best I ever did for myself was a 1990 Cadillac Brougham. This was the last run of big long Cadillacs with chrome grilles and long taillights. I bought it from a grandfather who had only put 80,000 pampered highway miles on it in nine years. I drove it two years and sold it for a profit. I cried like a baby when it was gone.

[drjoek]

My first car was a 69 Chezy Impala rust bucket and Bondo
http://www.freebieclassifieds.com/photos/classiccars/thumbs/66.jpg

These were my 2 bumper sticker

http://www.stickergiant.com/Merchant2/imgs/zbs131.gif

http://media.musictoday.com/store/bands/171/product_medium/DEAS010.jpg

What a shaggin wagon

[MellySmelly]

My first car was a 73 Maverick with a 302 engine. Vrroooom Vrroooom

[ScottFromGA]

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u176/SCOTTFROMGA/may98_com.jpg


i cant believe no one has said they had a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Super Sport.

I had one, it was a restoration project that halted due to lack of money and my mom bought it for 1800 bucks when the guy needed a lawyer to get him out of jail for marijuana charge. it was Jade Metallic Green with Cragar Centerline wheels on it.

I had it till it was 19...so 4 years......had a .30 over 350 with Eagle Rods, Keith Black lightweight pistons, .461 World Product heads, roller rocker arms with a roller cam and aluminum Edelbrock highrise intake with a 750 double pumper Barry Grant Demon carb on it. Oh, and I forgot a Comp 9000 MSD distributor with all MSD stuff to go with it.


lets just say, it was a replica of my dirt track racecar engine put in my chevelle....and I was 16 years old......

all i had to say was, bring it on...

[Cleophus James]

First car - White 1980 Caprice Classic 4 door vinyl top, bench seat front and back, push button stereo, power windows, 350 v8. aka The Ghost aka Moby Dick aka The Squad Car.

[Arch Stanton]

Yeah!!!!!

First car was a 1971 Crhysler 300, Had a 69 Dart GT Conv, 68 Charger with a 383 4bbl

Currently own:
1968 Chrysler 300 Convertible 440 4bbl
1968 Dodge Polara 2dr 440 4bbl
1968 Dodge Polara 2dr 318 4bbl
1967 Dodge Coronet 4dr 500 se 318 2bbl (probably selling)
1991 Cadillac Brougham D'Ellagance 5.7 Triple Black Old School Caddy (Selling)
1992 Taurus SHO 5spd (Selling)
1992 Chevy Converion G-20 Van (Selling)
1994 Chevy ext cab Z-71 Pick Up
2006 Chevy HHR ( Wife won from WBLI Radio last Summer!)

[Cleophus James]

1967 Dodge Coronet 4dr 500 se 318 2bbl (probably selling)

Take that to Barret Jackson $$$$$ those 60's cornets fetch a good dollar.

[reeshy]

First car was a 1973 AMC gremlin....brand new off the show room......$2800 bank check.....treated myself when I was in the PD academy....I had that car until 1990!!!!!

[Bellyfullasnot]

[QUOTE=drjoek;1334418]My first car was a 69 Chezy Impala rust bucket and Bondo
[IMG]http://www.freebieclassifieds.com/photos/classiccars/thumbs/66.jpg[/IMG

I had the same car in white. It was completely rotted when I got it but I had it for a year. I lost the rear window hitting a bump at 60 with the windows rolled down. I still remember the window in midair and then exploding when it hit the ground.

[Skellington]

I current own a brand spankin' new PT Cruiser, and a pony. I love my pony:

http://photos.imageevent.com/kriegweasel/lilahnieandsillystuff/mustang64side.jpg

[ScottFromGA]

well if we are posting new vehicles we own... I own a 2006 Chevy HHR that I'm customizing up.....

[high fly]

My first car officially was a green and white 4-door feefty-seex Chebby.
Got it for $200, it needed everything!
My parents were out and I thought my dad was gonna shit when they got home as the towtruck unhooked that rascal in the driveway.
I had big dreams of getting the engine rebuilt getting her painted and upholstered and to get that old mud smell out and it was so cool with the giant steering wheel and about two feet of headroom. I was gonna custom install a hookah inside the backseat...
Oh yeah, I had dreams all right.
I remember that first night owning it, just looking under the hood at I-didn't-know-what and then figuring it probably needed oil and I forgot to check the dipstick. I just figured you filled it up to the top of the cap.
Then I couldn't find where the gas went in.
I looked everywhere, but no gas cap in sight.
I thought my brainstorm of looking behind the license plate would hit paydirt and I was wrong.
So I went in and asked my still-stunned father who was contemplating that heap o'shit outside, sitting next to my mother who was real quiet, but I know she'd been working on him.
I asked him to step outside and a slight wry grin came over his face when I mentioned the gas cap.
He strode up to the rear fender where the vertical tail light assembly was and grabbed a chunk of ornamental chrome and gave it a twist.
OILA!
The whole fuckin assembly leaned back to reveal the gas cap.
"How did you know where it was?" I asked.
"I used to have one of these myself," he replied, and for a minute it was one of those golden moment you wish would never end.
I bullshitted around and moved out and my rent was so high I couldn't do anything with the car - I lived about a five-minute walk from work and I was stoned all the time anyways. A year later I sold the thing and got my $200 back and my parents got their 1-car garage back.
That was decades ago and my father is not so spry any more and I would give anything to have that moment back again.
I'm much older now and it's a whole different world and instead of fighting with my parents we are great friends and we have golden times of a different sort now and I visit every chance I get, unlike back then when I just wanted to get the hell away from them.

[joethebartender]

my first car was the handed down family truckster:

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:gToR-y3UPbmDrM:http://img.gielda24h.pl/2725_0.jpg

1982 olds custom cruiser wagooon. Detroit built mine on a monday when the workers were good and hung over!! After the fire, I swore off american cars for the rest of my life.

[MobCounty]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f87/MobCounty/DeSoto_01.jpg

53' DeSoto bomber..

[Fat_Sunny]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f87/MobCounty/DeSoto_01.jpg

Sweeeeeeet!!!!

[Don Stugots]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f87/MobCounty/DeSoto_01.jpg

53' DeSoto bomber..

i love it

[xample]

Here's actually the first car I bought.. almost 10 years ago.. its a 1963 Mercury Comet, all original.. needs some minor mechanical work now, but hopefully I can get it back out of storage this summer

http://a461.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/57/l_24440e4ae6fc7d0659ddf50a6328c0dc.jpg

[Don Stugots]

Here's actually the first car I bought.. almost 10 years ago.. its a 1963 Mercury Comet, all original.. needs some minor mechanical work now, but hopefully I can get it back out of storage this summer

http://a461.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/57/l_24440e4ae6fc7d0659ddf50a6328c0dc.jpg

my friend Flounder had one too as his first car. It would stall alot and the only way it would start was to bypass the started with a wire hanger. the seats were very roomy too. perfect for double dating. what a great summer that was.

[xample]

my friend Flounder had one too as his first car. It would stall alot and the only way it would start was to bypass the started with a wire hanger. the seats were very roomy too. perfect for double dating. what a great summer that was.

yeah, my mom had the same first car too.. almost identical except for the light blue paint job and white interior hers had

[Don Stugots]

yeah, my mom had the same first car too.. almost identical except for the light blue paint job and white interior hers had

flounders was lite blue inside and out.

[xample]

flounders was lite blue inside and out.

it's not a clean pic.. but heres the interior shot of mine

http://www.tradebit.com/usr/xample420/pub/4001/cometint.JPG

[Don Stugots]

nice.

[thepaulo]

all my cars have been old and that ain't a good thing

[Fat_Opie]

I've gotta laugh reading some of these posts. A '67 Coronet 4-door with a 318 won't even get through the door at Barrett-Jackson (I'm sure Arch knows that. He seems to know his Mopars. Good!) and no Mustang was ever the same as an Escort. Escorts were designed in Germany and had front-wheel-drive. All Mustangs, even the Pinto-derived Mustang II, were rear-wheel-drive and U.S.-designed. That means you can swap a V8 into any decent Mustang (not so with an Escort) and build something out of it so none of them should ever be counted out!

I still have my first car, a 1977 Pontiac Firebird Esprit. It has been disassembled for more years than I'd like to acknowledge and is currently causing me to flush money down the toilet on a monthly basis because, despite my total lack of garage space, I refuse to part with it.

I had a rust-free body shell shipped up from Texas several years ago and acquired a 400/TH 400 combo a few years back. My storage unit resembles a model kit box like you'd find at a garage sale where someone started putting some of the pieces together, lost some other pieces and threw some extra pieces in from other kits. Someday, if the town will let us, we'll build a nice 2.5-car detached garage and I'll get to work putting it together.

I also had a rusty, faded 1977 Buick Lesabre 4-door known as "the Beast" that had an Olds 350 4bbl (original engine) and a stolen stop sign replacing the driver's floorboard, a fairly clean 1978 Olds Delta 88 4-door that I bought non-running for about $50 and put a used $200 Olds 350 4bbl/TH350 into (my first engine replacement) and a 1992 Chevy Cavalier. I firmly believe that all Cavaliers should be destroyed to save the world from the Cavalier plight. I wish I'd kept the Olds.

One of these days maybe I'll finally my dream car, a 1968 Charger R/T with a Hemi. It doesn't have to be a real R/T with a numbers-matching Hemi but a nice, clean Charger I can drop a crate Hemi into and make into an R/T clone would be cool. Despite the string of GMs, I'm really a Mopar guy. Go figure.