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I heard a few days ago that a local car was for sale,not bad looking 1947 Ford 4 door sedan.Ihad seen it in local parades and saw it yesterday on a trailer leaving town.Would have liked to had it. It remined me of my first car(before I had liscense) a 41 ford 2 door sedan. What was your first car??????????????????
 
65 chevy impala, red, black vinyl top, 327 4bbl motor. rt quarter was smashed in, burned oil like crazy. used to run "blue diamond" re-recycled oil. 37 cents a quart.
 
54 ford stick six 4 door and I got another one like it except color about 1980 and still drive it. Neat because everything is the same, noises, vibrations but a whole lot less tickets. Dave
 
A 1960 Chevrolet Biscayne, 2 dr. sedan. A big old boat, but very reliable with a 283 and 3 on the tree. Paid $375 for it in 1970.
 
$15 1923 Model T with three tires, drove it home , bought new tires,tinkered with it, left it behind the chicken house, went off to college, kid brother got stung with bees in the seat cushion. Dad used it to fill an eroding ditch. Leo
 
1938 Plymouth two door sedan, I bought a car just like it last year with 45,000 actual miles. Been lookin several years for such a critter.
 
69 Mach 1, 351, 4 speed ,flat black hood with hemi style shaker hood scoop.4.11 posi.
Whish I had that one back!
BUT,I still have my second car 33 years later.
70 Chevelle SS 454 4 speed.
 
1952 Chevy when I was 16.

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Learned to drive in a 1940 Ford. First personal car was a 1952 Ford 6 cyl., from NY state, serious body rust problem.

KEH
 
First car was my grandpa's 59 Chevy two door six cylinder three on the tree. It was as basic as they came. Didn't even have a radio. Top speed was 97 mph which wasn't bad for a big boat with a 235 six cyl. Of course that wasn't fast enough for me at that age so I put a 283 in it. My future wife learned how to drive a stick shift in that car.

I finally blew up the 283, sold the car, bought a new bare bones (I'm cheap)73 Plym Satellite for $2900 six months before I married and kept it for 15 years and 300,000 miles. Jim
 
Well a truck, 1973 GMC Custom Delux 1500 4x4 350 motor and turbohydramatic 350 tranny, dual exhaust. Loved that truck.
 
I've never owned a car but my first ride was a '66 F100 with a 390 3 on the tree. No PS, no PB no air and no radio. It would get 17 mpg and run like a stripped ape....up to 85.
 
'55 Ford club coupe in real nice shape-272 cu. in. 3 on the tree.Burned off a new set of rear tires in 6000 mi.
 
How about a 1965 Oldsmobile F-85. Multi color, 330 2bbl v-8 4 door. Not the most glamorous car, but good basic transportation.
 
My first vehicle was a brand new 1949 Studebaker one ton dually truck with farm bed for both grain & livestock.
gitrib
 
My 1st one was a '53 Ford, V8, automatic, well used, 1961 was the year, never had an automatic, got stuck in snow drifts like we don't see anymore, blew the trans, went to look for 2nd 1st car.
 
Hi Dave... I have a '56 Ford 6Cyl like Your 54, What is it about these SIXES that have Vibration somewhere about 45-50 in that area, Mines a Straight also,Larry KF4LKU
 
61 plymouth valiant, the "tudmobile". $75 from my uncle. slant 6 pushbutton automatic. one of the ugliest cars ever made. but it was cheap in 1968.
 
Paid $2.00 for this 1951 chevy in 1978. Complete mess-had been sitting on its belly, in a pasture for years. Greg
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learned to drive in a '38 Chevy, got my license in a '51 Chevy. First car was a '56 Olds Holiday 88 for $740 in 1960.
 
My first car was a 1957 Rambler, bought in the summer of 1970 a couple of months before I got my license. It had a 250 V-8, 4-speed Hydra-Matic, two tone, Bermuda Green over Berkshire Green. With a Carter WCFB 4-barrel carb and factory dual exhausts, the car would top out at 120 MPH and do it all night. The seats would fold down to make a bed, but I never had the opportunity to use it that way.
 
My first car that I dove is a 1995 Mustang GT convertible with a 5 speed....needs a few toys to wake it up some more! First car that I ever owned was a 55 Olds 88 that had sat for who knows how long at the bottom of a hill.
 
Let"s see..my first car was a 1963 Plymouth station wagon! Ugly as homemade sin and so, I sold it...regretted it soon thereafter..dead reliable. Paid $50 and sold it for $150..thought I made a killing. Next was a "63 Pontiac a royal POS!

Learned to drive in "56 IH pickup in the cow pasture.

Took my driver"s test in a "62 Chrysler 300...413 with twin Carters.....all stock. A real sled on launch but after that, it was hell on wheels. It was supposed to be my first car...but my Granny forbade my uncle to let me have it.....probably saved my life...hehe!
 
My Dad had one of the 51 Chrysler New Yorkers with that first hemi. He put 6 ply truck tires on it to carry the weight. In 1960 he was frequently driving from St Paul MN to Milwaukee WS on Friday nights after he was done at the Sperry Univac plant. The 94 freeway had not been built yet, so it was mostly old 2 lane US highway 12. One evening as he was just east of St Paul, and "leader of the pack" a MN State Patrol decided to take the whole string of cars down for speeding. The ole man was a bit tight, didn't want to contribute to the local fund and got in a race with the State patrol and beat them to the Wisconsin border at Hudson. At that time our family lived in Milwaukee, and it was my job to check out the car on Sat morning so he would have a good trip back on Sunday night. I opened the hood to check the oil and the underside of the hood and much of the engine was covered in oil. I woke the O.M. up at about 10:00am and said "Dad you must have blown some gasket, we'd better find out which one and get parts before they close at noon." Naw, he said, just fill up what is needed. I pressed him about his too casual attitude about oil loss, and he finally came out with the chase story, figuring he was hitting 120 to 130 mph. Not many cop cars at that time could beat a hemi, and their radios weren't very good then either. Normally the O.M. was 100% law abiding and wanted us boys to be exactly 100% law abiding. Learned something about the old man that morning!

Paul in MN
 
62 Impala SS 327 4 speed tranny.Solid black exterior solid red inside.Shelled out a few rearend chunks and got really quick changing them out.Traded it on a 65 GTO,Regreted it ever since.
 
Learned on a Model T truck on the farm and then got to drive a 41 Buick on the toad during the War( WW2).First car owned was a 42 Olds 4 door 6 with Hydramatic drive. First new car was a 51 Ford Crestliner V8 that I dearly loved. It got totaled on our honeymoon in Austin Texas. Henry
 
Started driving in Dad's '60 Chevy, Apache 10 Long bed, step side, pickup. Drove the truck throughb high school while I restored a '55 Chevy 210 series 2dr wagon that I drove for the first time on graduation day. The truck has since been taken partly apart to begin a restoration that got put on hold and the car was wrecked back in '90 and is still waiting patiently under a tarp to be resurrected again as soon as time and funds allow...
 
1950 Merc 4dr, black and red color. The overdrive tranny went out and I had a Ford tranny on hand but had to use the Ford bell housing to make it fit. The Merc clutch linkage twisted to release the clutch and the Ford one pushed and I could not figure out a way to make the linkage work. I ended up just starting it in gear and driving it without a clutch for over a month. Back then I actually enjoyed driving it that way.
 
I learned to drive with a 1929 Buick. A valve in head 6 much like a tractor engine. A multiple disk clutch. I could start it moving in high gear without much trouble. I could adjust the external contraction service brakes, and have good stopping power for a week or two, and then I needed to anticipate stops!! Heavy sheet metal fenders.
 
'31 ford model A tudor. I learned as I drove thru the corn and my brothers stood on the running boards with one arm looped thru the back window and out thru the door window cradling double-barreled 20 gauges to blast any pheasants I flushed out! It eventually threw a rod so the old man whipped our rears then pulled the pan, cleaned out the shrapnel and used tarpaper and tin to cover the hole in the block. We drove it on 3 cylinders for another year until it spat out another, then we loaded it full of junk and pushed it in a 50 ft. sinkhole to keep grandpa's Port Huron steam engine company...
 
1948 Ford 3/4ton truck with a hand operated dumpbox.Spent the whole week before my sixteenth b-day cleaning up around the farm only to get to the dump and proudly show off my d-truck with the bright red paint brush paint job.Raised the box as everybody at the dump watched got in dumped the clutch and the box and hydraulics fell right off the back of the truck.How embarassing became a tow truck after that.
 
A distant cousin gave me my first car when I was 16(1959). She was 80+ years old. It was a 1939 Chevrolet 4 door with 17,000 miles. It had set in her garage for several years but some fresh gas and new points got it running. It was perfect inside (had to roll the window down to shut the door),had the original tires and the tool kit in the trunk was still sealed. All four fenders were dented because I think she hit a few things before she quit driving. I sold it after I graduated from high school. I wish I had kept it.

old bc
 
69 Chevelle. One of my friends totaled it after I sold it to him.
It's in the local junkyard, closed for years, I drove by and looked at it in the distance last week.
 
1931 Model A Ford, my older sister gave me when she got married in 1956. Stay in the family untill 1970 when my father sold it Or more like gave it away for some whiskey..

Keith & Shawn(SO Gold winner)
 
69 Nova SS bought it in 74 no motor or trans. Built a wicked 350 and 4 speed got it running and towed it to a muffler shop. Drove it home from there and it scared me half to death, until then the fastest thing I had driven was a 6 cylinder falcon. It was Lemans blue still the purtyest car I ever saw. I was going to Church one morning and my dad rode with me. We stopped at a red light and a Firebird pulls up beside us. I see the guy looking over my car so I cut the light close just in case then I hear the guy punch that bird so I nailed it. I am power shifting through the gears just waiting for my Dad to holler, but He's watching the firebird fade back behind us. I get it into 4th gear and let off and I'm still waiting to get fussed at but instead he turns to me and says. Wonder what that guy thought he was going to do?I loved it.
Ron
 
'66 Bel Air. Rusted out fenders but rode like a caddy. I rebuilt the engine and never used lock-tite. 210 miles later it threw a rod, and a lifter blew up in the bore to boot.

Still have the transmission and engine block, but I sold the car last year for $200. Glad it's gone but I do miss driving it.

My 2nd vehicle was Dad's 88 F150. I'm actually driving it now because my other car blew a head gasket and is pushing compression into the coolant system. Gonna sell that one for whatever I can get and buy a Jetta.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
1917 Model T. Bought it in 68, fixed it up and drove all summer. I now have another 17 T which will stay in the family forever. My 3 year old grandaughter will be the only person in her school with a grandpa with a Model T.
Richard
 
15 yr.s old in 61, dad bought a 49 studebaker, all window coupe, fill the oil, check the gas. the front drivers seat was completely wore down to the springs and so when you sit down your butt went down to the floor pans, it was black but was faded and scratched. so i hopped on my bicycle and pedal down to the dollar store and buy some black spray paint to spot spray the scratches. i figured flat black to better match the faded parts, hours later, possibly the first camouflaged civilian vehicle in town. driving down the street once i spotted a pretty little girl from school and there i was, vehicle at speed, blue smoke puffing from the tailpipe, window down, arm resting on the door (butt so low in the seat that your elbow was up near your ear) with mom and dad in the front seat beside you. one thing for sure, didn't have to worry about your hair blowing, dad made sure you had it buzzed every two weeks. who says we don't know how to live in alabama?
 
Not my first car but I have a 1921 Model T that my 6 year old grand daughter loves. A couple years ago she would ask to ride the big golf cart. I had to convince her it was a car not a golf cart. I guess it will be hers if she wants it.
Bill
 
A 1955 Chevrolet hardtop, then traded it in on a 1960 Chevrolet convertible, light blue paint. I have replaced with another 1955 Chevrolet Hardtop, its keeping Classic Chevy in business, and a 1960 Chevrolet convertible,ugly pea green.
Bill
 
My first was a 1952 Chev P.U. 216 engine, enclosed drive shaft, split windshield, vacuum wipers, and a six volt starter, three on the tree. Leaked oil like a sieve. EPA would probably declare it a major hazard today. Had to be sort of a contortionist to hit the starter button on the floor with your toe and hit the gas with your foot when it fired. On cold mornings the starter would give a low grunt, but it always started. Loved that old truck. Wish I still had it.
 
'50 Dodge pickup with the "semi-automatic" 3 speed, sold it to a friend who had me cut the body down to make a dune buggy. First car was a '59 Buick convertable that I traded in on my 1st new car a '65 MGB.
 
'36 Chev pickup, paid $125 for it. Drove it stock for a couple years in high school, but it would float the valves at 38 mph, and that makes for some slow trips. Put a Chev 283 V8, Powerglide, '57 Olds rear end in it in summer of '67.

I don't count the '49 Chev my dad got for me for 35 bucks. I only had it one day- it had a vacuum leak (fractured spacer under carb, I suspect)- wouldn't idle. While I was at school the next day, my idiot cousin decided to "cure" it by running it flat out for awhile. About all it cured was getting that nasty babbit out of the bearings, and liberating a rod. Wonder what ever happened to that idiot cousin- haven't heard from him in 35 years. Hoping it will be another 35.
 
1950 Chevrolet Fleetline Deluxe 2 door.

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It came with full chrome wheel covers, wide whitewall tires, and a metal sun visor above the windsheild.

Lots of chrome and steel on those old beauties!
 
'55 Plymouth 2 door sedan with the flathead 6 and 3 on tree, bought in '64. It was the last year with 6 volt system, I needed to take the 6 v battery into the house every winter night to get it to start in the morning. While passing a truck at about 70 mph, it crunched the top rings of 2 cylinders against the ring ridges and spit them out the exhaust pipe, drove that way another 130 miles to get home. Went to Montgomery Wards and bought 2 pistons with rings and a new head and pan gasket. Put 'er together and it ran for a long time after that. A good college car.

Paul in MN
 
First & only vehicle i have owned is my 94 Sierra. Its totally what i didn't want, I wouldn't setle for anything but a v8 short bed 4 x4. But saw this and it is in almot perfect condition. Just a few minor leaks. I got good tires on it and it does ok in the snow.

I ditched it on my way home from school friday. The road i was on has about a 6 " drop off the asphalt, no berm and it sucked me right in after I got over to far. . Almost cried, but no damage, that I can tell. Was only doing about 15- 20 mph. But will sure make you mad. just hope i didn't twist anythning.

I am kinda looking for a clunker to drive on our roads in the winter.
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52 Pontiac Chieftan, 2 door sedan, two tone dark gray over white, straight eight engine with a 4 speed hydromatic trans. Learned to drive in that car at eleven years old in 1959. Always made trips into the village by the back way. Never got stopped. Austell, Ga. at that time I believe only had 3 officers and one squad car. Almost all the roads were dirt here and after a few hours weeks under the wheel I found out I could hang out the a** of that beast around all the fast corners. Man that was a great time as a kid. Still like to hang out the old pick-up every now and then just to know I can still do it. Good luck, jackie
 
My first car was a $25 1928 Pontiac up on blocks. In 1939 bought it one day and two days later left York, NE and headed for Chokio, MN to work in uncle's harvest. Put radiator cleaner in and decided to leave it all the way. Managed to get 2 5 gal cans to carry water to get from gas station to gas station. Brake bands turned to glass and rear ended a new Buick in Omaha. Reasonable guy up front. Found it would burn kerosene which was cheaper. Water pump was shot too but parts store said had to have cash... Traded that for a '34 Ford (sure wish I had that today) and it was great!! All part of my education.
 
Hey Larry, I'll drag you for title. HAHA Think the vibration in mine is bottom of rods. Lot of these I remember would shoot the bottom of rod right through the block. Then I could buy them for $20-50 bucks. I got 77K miles never touched inside. Everything else is rebuilt and replaced 2 or 3 times. We should post pix. I don't know how or have camera. I was good with 35mm, but thats a long time ago. Have a good one.
 
49 Chevy 3/4 ton truck,Bought in 77 for $275. what a hauler! Got real good gas mileage too after I found a set of the right 17 inch wheels it came with. Most of the 3/4 tons had optional 15" wheels since tires were cheaper for those. It is sitting out in my barn right now.
 
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