Post a Picture of your First Car
12-01-2011, 02:17 PM
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Post a Picture of your First Car
WHO STILL OWNS THEIR FIRST CAR 
My first was long bed 55 Chevy Apache straight 6 with 3 on the tree.
I don't have one but would like to see what you thought was cool in the day.
My first was long bed 55 Chevy Apache straight 6 with 3 on the tree.
I don't have one but would like to see what you thought was cool in the day.
12-01-2011, 03:18 PM
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My first car was a 58 Chevy BelAir that my aunt had an accident with and gave it to me. The front fender was crushed and that was it. A quick trip to the junk yard and $5.00 got me a good one but in blue.( car was white and bronze two tone). I was 15 at the time and I fixed it up and sold it and bought a 58 Impala 348 Vert, continental kit and all. Boy I wish cameras were a little more plentiful back then so we could have pics of all those memories..........
12-01-2011, 04:17 PM
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Where were you in '62? And I did drag race it out in the boonies on a 1/4 mile stretch marked "start" and "finish" with white paint. I did not crash it, but the next owner did. He hit and totaled a '58 Corvette (and the '55) in 1963. He replaced the '55 with a '63 409/425. I was jealous then and I still am! Love the 409s.
12-01-2011, 04:30 PM
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15-'16-'17-'18-‘19-'20-'21-'22-'23-'24
Paid $1050 for this in 1967, sold it a year later for the same price to buy a '67 427/400 for $4000. I traced the '59 to the second owner after me but no luck finding that guy to see where it went after that. Does not show up in either the C-1 registry nor the NMVTIS. But I'm still looking - and hoping!
What I sold the '59 for:
What I sold the '59 for:
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12-01-2011, 04:33 PM
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12-01-2011, 05:26 PM
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I do!
I've had it for 40 years now!
In 1971 I bought a brand new 71 El Camino. L-48 350/270 and a Turbo-Hydro. It now has about 99,000 miles on it, and still has the original Burnt Orange Metallic paint, and the original engine. I also have the P-O-P (with both my name and my fathers, since he co-signed), owners manual, rally wheel trim ring card, key knock-outs with their envelope and the delivery inspection sheet. I don't have a window sticker though, because back then, El Camino's were considered trucks, and trucks didn't get window stickers!
My daughter, who's 23, loves my El Camino, so I guess that someday, I will give it to her.
Here's a less than great picture of it, taken in 73, as well as a pic of the P-O-P.
I've had it for 40 years now!In 1971 I bought a brand new 71 El Camino. L-48 350/270 and a Turbo-Hydro. It now has about 99,000 miles on it, and still has the original Burnt Orange Metallic paint, and the original engine. I also have the P-O-P (with both my name and my fathers, since he co-signed), owners manual, rally wheel trim ring card, key knock-outs with their envelope and the delivery inspection sheet. I don't have a window sticker though, because back then, El Camino's were considered trucks, and trucks didn't get window stickers!
My daughter, who's 23, loves my El Camino, so I guess that someday, I will give it to her.
Here's a less than great picture of it, taken in 73, as well as a pic of the P-O-P.
12-01-2011, 05:31 PM
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Just like my first car, a six cyl stick, I was still in grade 10 and working at a Sunoco service station, bought it from my mom in '64 for $300. She bought a new '64 SS Impala, the same color with white interior....back then rear seats were useful ....
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12-01-2011, 05:37 PM
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I'm still driving my first car (literally my daily driver). It is a 51 rusty POS Chevy that I bought from my Granddad in 62 just before I went to Nam.
It is on engine number 6, a healthy 383 with a Muncie, 3.08 posi, 2 heaters and a big ole ugly air cond on COLD R12. Most people would call it a kickass sleeper.
A 51 speedo modified/calibrated into a tach and driven by a Vette tach drive dist.
Number 5(4 bolt 350 with 300+Kmi, built 35yrs ago, was still running) and number 6.
Tom Parsons
It is on engine number 6, a healthy 383 with a Muncie, 3.08 posi, 2 heaters and a big ole ugly air cond on COLD R12. Most people would call it a kickass sleeper.
A 51 speedo modified/calibrated into a tach and driven by a Vette tach drive dist.
Number 5(4 bolt 350 with 300+Kmi, built 35yrs ago, was still running) and number 6.
Tom Parsons
12-01-2011, 05:39 PM
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12-01-2011, 05:43 PM
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12-01-2011, 06:19 PM
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12-01-2011, 06:39 PM
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First cat was 1970 Nova, 3 speed on the floor. My dad gave it to me. 2nd car was a 327/350 1966 corvette. I love that car. Paid $1800 for that car. i was going to court one day and someone hit the car. God do miss that car.The front seat was as good as someone back seat.I now have a 1965 coupe.
12-01-2011, 06:47 PM
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This beaut was my first when I got my license back in '74.
1969 Ford Cortina MKII, $300 from a neighbors wife.
Right front fender was completely rotted out, got an almost brand new one at a junk yard for $25, even the same color!
Paul
1969 Ford Cortina MKII, $300 from a neighbors wife.
Right front fender was completely rotted out, got an almost brand new one at a junk yard for $25, even the same color!
Paul
12-01-2011, 06:51 PM
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First cat was 1970 Nova, 3 speed on the floor. My dad gave it to me. 2nd car was a 327/350 1966 corvette. I love that car. Paid $1800 for that car. i was going to court one day and someone hit the car. God do miss that car.The front seat was as good as someone back seat.I now have a 1965 coupe.
12-01-2011, 07:07 PM
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12-01-2011, 07:11 PM
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This '59 MGA makes our C1s look like elegant, ultra-sophisticated touring machines.
My daily driver in 1967...note the slot in the front bumper so you could hand crank it
if the need arose...
My daily driver in 1967...note the slot in the front bumper so you could hand crank it
if the need arose...
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12-01-2011, 07:24 PM
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Don't have it, but wish I did. A '71 Chevelle 2 door, auto 307 2B. Same color as the El Camino that was posted earlier. I'll see what I can do to scan it. Ended up painting it like the late '70s Rally Sport Camaros. Looked pretty good til the rear quarters rotted out..