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First car was a 1959 Ford 2 door, baby blue, 6 cylinder, with Moon hubcaps. Oh yeah, it had a radio. Almost forgot the glass pack!

First new car was a bomb- 1962 Chevy Bellaire coup, 409 4 speed, 411 rear end. No, it wasn’t an SS, they were too heavy. It had a radio, bench seats and a real motor! I can still hear The Beach Boys! But you had to shut the motor down B4 you could listen to the radio!

My first car was a 1970 Chevy Nova.

Pete92FS wrote:My first car was a 1970 Chevy Nova.

My second was my 74 Nova. If only it wasn't in pieces right now....

Mine was a 1954 Mercury Monterey 2 door hardtop. It had 312 cu. in. motor out of a Thunderbird with dual 4 barrles. I got it a year before I got my license. I took the motor out to rebuild it. I traded the motor to a guy in the autoshop class for a Chrysler 'Hemi', it was a 331 cu. in.(1954). It took 2 years to rebuild the 'Hemi' and put it in the Merc. "Life's hard and it's harder when your stupid" The Duke was right!! The 'Hemi' was huge! I actually got to drive it for a few months. I bought a brand new 1967 BSA Spitfire Mark III with the money I got for graduation( it was supposed to be for college ). My first new vehicle was a 1969 Jeepster V6, yellow with a black softtop. I have a picture of the Jeepster but I can't figure out how to post it.

Regards, OE, Those were the days!!

First car I owned was 1970 Plymouth Satellite with 318, my intent was to buy the 1969 Mustang with 351 and 4 soeed with 4bbl sitting next to it with until our insurance agent informed me if the difference in rates. But when you are 17 and your buddy's dad owns a repair shop so you can order parts cheap and use the tools on the week-end the end result is very quickly a Roadrunner without the markings and a 4 door Torino sleeper that kicked what ever got in the way.

Replaced it with a 69 Chevelle SS convert in college. That's the one I wish I had back. Sold it for motor & trans to a friends dad after gravel hauler shortened it for what I originally paid for it. The friend in Austin has it now with a 350 2 bbl. His dad swapped engine work with a guy that had a body shop and restore it gave it to grand daughter for her 16th birthday when she got a new car in college my buddy took it back for his Sunday drive.

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UpTheIrons wrote:Once graduation got close, my folks sprung for a 1984 Plymouth K car. I can't say enough about that car, because what I'd say would violate enough rules to get me banned before this post would show up on the page. What a total piece of junk!

My daughter's first car, bought for her by her husband after she got her driver's license (which she did not get until after she got married, she didn't keep her end of the deal when she lived at home) was a K car, and it was a total piece of junk.

How Chrysler didn't go bankrupt based on the crappy craptacularness of that one car model alone still amazes me. Iacocca must have made some deal with the devil to keep the company in business. Like your daughter's car, mine was "in the hospital" more than it was on the road.

1990 Mustang LX 5.0 Notchback Midnight Blue w/ metal flake.

RIP Nadine 10/16/2002 ( my '90, put her into the wall of the DNTW doin' 120)