First Car?
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'85 GMC Jimmy hand-me-down from my brother. Had a new engine put in it after his wife killed it.
After I graduated high school, my father bought a used '92 Chevy Beretta for me to take to college. He wanted to make sure that the car I had would get me from Corpus Christi, TX to Tuscaloosa and back safely and wasn't sure if the Jimmy would survive. Well, the Beretta didn't do that well . The ABS brakes were horrible and constantly needed repair and I think I replaced nearly ever coolant hose in that car.
After I graduated high school, my father bought a used '92 Chevy Beretta for me to take to college. He wanted to make sure that the car I had would get me from Corpus Christi, TX to Tuscaloosa and back safely and wasn't sure if the Jimmy would survive. Well, the Beretta didn't do that well . The ABS brakes were horrible and constantly needed repair and I think I replaced nearly ever coolant hose in that car.
Please don't
laugh me outta here, but my first car was a Lafayette, and I think Lafayette made it - lol!!! It had a longgggg gear with a mother-of-pearl knob with a pic of "himself" on it. Don't ask me what year - 1776? Hehehehehe Or maybe 1777 - that's the year he came to America.
laugh me outta here, but my first car was a Lafayette, and I think Lafayette made it - lol!!! It had a longgggg gear with a mother-of-pearl knob with a pic of "himself" on it. Don't ask me what year - 1776? Hehehehehe Or maybe 1777 - that's the year he came to America.
My first car was a rebuilt green VW Beetle Bug.
Under the disguise of a nice floor mat on the passengers side was a huge hole in the floorboard. When it rained & I drove through puddles, water came gushing in!
It looked about like this one ...
The car was given to me & at the time, I was a very ungrateful teenager! :frown:
Instead of being thankful for having my own "wheels", I wanted something a little better looking!
Under the disguise of a nice floor mat on the passengers side was a huge hole in the floorboard. When it rained & I drove through puddles, water came gushing in!
It looked about like this one ...
The car was given to me & at the time, I was a very ungrateful teenager! :frown:
Instead of being thankful for having my own "wheels", I wanted something a little better looking!
CrimsonNan said:Don't ask me what year - 1776? Hehehehehe Or maybe 1777 - that's the year he came to America.
Nan that is too funny!!
My first car was only just a little newer. It was a 1964 Pontiac Catalina. It had seen better days, but I liked it. It was mine. I paid $250 for it. It about broke me. :biggrin2: That was in the spring of 1972.
jdpas29
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Not my first car but
perhaps my favorite - or at least ONE of my favorites was a:
1962 white Chevy Impala that I named "Whitey Ford". I kept adding "perks" until I got it just the way I wanted it. One year for Mother's Day, I asked for frilly wire wheel discs. I had the dashboard padded, put in seatbelts (no they weren't standard then), and an air-conditioner with birthday money I had received (b'day is hot August 23rd. - yuck). I thought my husband was going to murder me when he saw what I'd done. "I MIGHT WANT MY CAR AIR-CONDITIONED TOO", he yelled. I told him to go ahead and do it with HIS b'day money in May.....
How I loved ole "Whitey Ford". :biggrin:
perhaps my favorite - or at least ONE of my favorites was a:
1962 white Chevy Impala that I named "Whitey Ford". I kept adding "perks" until I got it just the way I wanted it. One year for Mother's Day, I asked for frilly wire wheel discs. I had the dashboard padded, put in seatbelts (no they weren't standard then), and an air-conditioner with birthday money I had received (b'day is hot August 23rd. - yuck). I thought my husband was going to murder me when he saw what I'd done. "I MIGHT WANT MY CAR AIR-CONDITIONED TOO", he yelled. I told him to go ahead and do it with HIS b'day money in May.....
How I loved ole "Whitey Ford". :biggrin:
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'69 Camaro (Another Muscle car IH8)
Yellow w/ the two wide stripes over hood and trunk w/ spoiler, solid aluminum rims, and hoss power! It was like '86 when I started driving and old school was cool. :cool2:
Yellow w/ the two wide stripes over hood and trunk w/ spoiler, solid aluminum rims, and hoss power! It was like '86 when I started driving and old school was cool. :cool2:
FAYETTE4BAMA said:
Yup. I started driving in '83 and there had been only a few muscle cars made since the early 70's. Most kids were driving Camaros with the weakened 305 or the Mustangs with the reintroduced 302. The Mustang SVO had just appeared with its turbocharged inline 4. The Corvette took a year off to revamp its look for 1984. The most visible automobiles were smaller cars because of the continuing high gas prices that had lingered since the late 70's.
We ended up changing out to a 307 later, but kept the 400 TurboHydromatic tranny.
A 1971 Ford Pinto, tiny 4 cylinder, 3 on the floor, no air conditioning, 2 door with a slightly wonky front bumper and painted baby-poo green.
It carried a rear bumper sticker stating, "Chthulu Saves" and I christened it the "Neutron Bomb".
When asked why, I said that I knew that one day it would explode, but would only cause damage in a very small area.
It did.
It carried a rear bumper sticker stating, "Chthulu Saves" and I christened it the "Neutron Bomb".
When asked why, I said that I knew that one day it would explode, but would only cause damage in a very small area.
It did.
I assume the question is vehicles not just cars. Anyway mine was a '78 C-10 Chevy with a 350.....
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