Author Topic: Your First Car (Read 1565 times)

Kanth · « **Reply #30 on:** August 27, 2002, 03:04:17 PM »

Looked just like this. Needed work which I loved doing =)

When I got back from the war and went to buy a car I went to the lot looking for like a small VW golf or something..

but I saw that beauty and when I saw where the gastank access was located i was SOLD!

midnight Target · « **Reply #31 on:** August 27, 2002, 03:05:58 PM »

Got me one of these soon after the Gremlin. Mine was blue with black top. Tough as nails and the positraction was almost like 4 wheel drive.

1968 International Travelall - (The original SUV)

Ripsnort · « **Reply #32 on:** August 27, 2002, 03:13:27 PM »

Aha! You are a (were a) sinful SUV driver Midnight!

Wlfgng · « **Reply #33 on:** August 27, 2002, 03:14:30 PM »

those numbers don't mean a lot where I live...

8500'+ sure makes for an oxygen-starved engine.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #34 on:** August 27, 2002, 03:16:21 PM »

Ozark
He has the 428 in a car or in his yard? lol

midnight Target · « **Reply #35 on:** August 27, 2002, 03:43:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Aha! You are a (were a) sinful SUV driver Midnight!

C'mon man... That beast got almost 15 miles per gallon!!

Wardog · « **Reply #36 on:** August 27, 2002, 03:52:23 PM »

Damn good thread.....

1969 RS/SS Camero. This was a damn fun and fast ride. Held on to her for about 20 years. All my cars have been pre 1970s except for 2. I had a 1971 Monte Carlo and now drive a 1996 Corvette coupe 6 speed black on black.

I bought the 69 Camero for $2,500 CDN. Was looking for another but went for the Vette instead. A 1969 RS/SS goes for about 20 to 25k CDN now a days and im getting to old to put the work into it i used to be able to do.

Dog out.............

Dune · « **Reply #37 on:** August 27, 2002, 04:23:01 PM »

My first ride was also my dad's. It was a 1965 CJ 5 with a 327cu out of a 1967 Corvette, complete with the aluminum heads. My dad put the engine in it in 1967. He and my grandfather had to cut out the firewall and rebuild it so the distributor cap would fit.

When I got it, it had a Turboshift 400 in it. Before that it had a 4 speed. The thing would pull the front tires off the ground in 4wd-low in the sand.

It was ok as long as you remembered to have it pointed straight when you stepped on the gas

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #38 on:** August 27, 2002, 04:31:27 PM »

1969 VW Type III Squareback

milnko · « **Reply #39 on:** August 27, 2002, 05:00:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Wardog
I had a 1971 Monte Carlo

I had a '72.

Bright pimp-orange with a full white vinyl top,
4 barrel carb on a 350cu small block with glass packs.

Rocket rims m60's on the front and m50's on the back plus air shocks.

example;

hblair · « **Reply #40 on:** August 27, 2002, 05:04:59 PM »

First car was a '79 VW Scirroco parents bought me when I was 15. They sold it when I was busted smoking dope less than a year later. Got a '73 superbeetle several months later. Ran a red light while driving drunk and got T-boned. Nobody hurt bad, car totaled. Couple months later bought a chevrolet citation

Sold it and bought a '73 beetle as a junior in high school. I worked on it for 9 months, chopped the top, shaved the mouldings, door handles, etc etc. Had it looking good. Drove it for 2 months the summer before my senior year of high school. Taking my buddy home one night ran off the road and barreel rolled it in a ditch. Nobody hurt, car totaled though. The sick and twisted story gets better from there.

Karnak · « **Reply #41 on:** August 27, 2002, 05:18:59 PM »

'77 Ford Fiesta.

Had it for all of three weeks. What a piece of crap that was.

That was my first Ford. After my second Ford there isn't ever going to be a third.

I now own a Toyota.

Gadfly · « **Reply #42 on:** August 27, 2002, 05:32:13 PM »

66' Chevy Station wagon, metallic green with a perfect exterior and 283 motor. Unfortunately, it sat in storage while my brother in law was in VietNam, and the interior was throughly eaten by rats. He at least gave to me free(in 1972), though, and I put another 100,00 on it from the original 30,000. I don't even remember what happened to it.

Animal · « **Reply #43 on:** August 27, 2002, 05:55:36 PM »

1994 Chevy Lumina

Havent owned a foreign car ever.

As Hang eloquently put it:

"you are supposed to buy american and squeak about it, not buy japanese and gloat"

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #44 on:** August 27, 2002, 06:07:36 PM »

Japanese cars can be just as bad.

I had a 78 Toyota truck and that thing was the worst pile of crap I have ever owned. It never ran right, leaked gas, had a crappy cheap interior, it was just junk. Burned oil, about a quart a week and it only had 70k on it!!

Modern American cars are very close or better in some cases then foreign stuff. Give me a Chevy truck of any kind over a used beercanmobile Toyota any day.