what was your first car and how much did you pay

[jimTN]

31 fordor 1955, do not remember the purchase price but came off the back row of a car lot.

[cjshaker]

1st car I purchased...1969 Mustang Mach 1 for $250 (I was 15), which I still have, fully restored.
2nd was a 1958 2dr Ranch Wagon (again, for $250)...which I just sold today.

[miniceptor86]

It was 1963, I bought a 1955 Ford Victoria, 272 2V three speed with overdrive, new brakes, clutch, rust was free. $300.

[51504bat]

1966. I was 15. 1931 Ford Model A coupe Paid $95.00. Front axle assembly was in pieces and it didn't run. Pulled the body, cleaned the frame with wire brush wheels in an electric drill. Painted it Rustoleum black with a brush. Sold it for $300.00 to by a motor cycle.

[APDAVE]

In 1961 I bought a 1952 ford business coupe for $25.00 it was pretty nice had it for 2 years! Dave

[L-head]

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My first old car was a 40 Ford Standard coupe. We bought it in the fall of 1973; we were married in May of the same year. We borrowed $650; took 18 months to pay it back. We have been married 50 years and I still have the coupe. It came with all the hub caps, bumpers, and still had the original radio. It was in good enough condition that I put a battery in it and drove it home.

[cadillac512]

I was 16 in '72. Bought a '61 F100 unibody with 223/3 spd for $315. The six was tired and I couldn't afford a rebuilt Y block so I bought a rusty '57 New Yorker with 392 Hemi/ Torqueflite. You can guess the rest.




Bad news is, a year later gas went from 30c to 60c and I couldn't afford to drive it. Sold it and bought a '61 Falcon.


Wish I had 'em both now.


Terry

[rockfla]

1970 Mustang Mach I. $200 in about 1981ish. owner had lost the title for it SO that gave me a strong dealing hand.

[dad's deuce roadster]

$525 for my dad's 32 Roadster 50's hot rod. That was around 1980. He said he just wanted what he paid for it - that was in 1955.

[tubman]

The first car I had, I inherited from my mother and older brother. My dad decided we needed a second car and purchased a 1951 Ford Custom Fordor from a used car lot on Lake Street in Miinneapolis for the princely sum of $395. (They wanted $495, but my dad considered hiself the ultimate negotiator; anyone from the twin cities area will immediately recognize the significance of "Lake Street".) It lasted until about 1965, and gave surpiringly good service.

The first car I actually bought was a 1936 Ford flatback Deluxe Tudor when I was a senior in high school in 1959. I paid $100 for the car, which had 39,000 actual miles and was in excellent shape. It even had a working radio, of all things. I am embarrassed about what happened to that car, and will not proceed further.

[corvette8n]

In 1964 my dad bought a ‘50 Ford 2 door sedan flathead V8 from a co-worker for $5 bucks, It smoked pretty badly as I drove it home. I decided to change the oil and that’s when I found broken rings in the drain pan. We did a driveway rebuild, Dad borrowed a drill driven hone, bought two new pistons, rings, rod bearings, gaskets. Being a teen driver I beat that car for the next two years, when the floors became to rotted to keep, I sold it for $50, I wasn’t smart enough to keep it.

[Jack E/NJ]

My early 38 21-studder. Paid with setting doubles ~25 times at my favorite Domm's alleys 3 & 4.

[paul2748]

First car I bought from money picking tobacco and as a grocery clerk was a 49 Ford Tudor, pea soup green, about 1957. A back lot car, it served me well for about 4 years until the B pillar separated from the floor.

[Newc]

'40 Buick from an estate for $65, drove it two yrs, sold it to buy a boat. 1964 Newc

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by rockfla

1970 Mustang Mach I. $200 in about 1981ish. owner had lost the title for it SO that gave me a strong dealing hand.

[rjlester]

My story is not as cool as the rest of you, but my first car was a 69 Beetle. It had a custom interior, and I paid a bit too much (1200). Had lots of problems with it, it was a lemon. Second car was a (don't laugh lol) mildly used 1981 Escort. Well, it ended up being my second car for many years and I sold/gave it to a buddy when it had about 450000kms on it. He drove the crap out of it for two years, it had WAY over 500k on it when he drove it to the junkyard. That car I can thank for most of my basic and advanced automotive knowledge as I did lots of mods/add-ons (factory options, better exhaust/intake/larger engine. It was VERY quick when I was done with it. Best sleeper ever haha.

The best car I bought years ago I picked up 25 years ago for super cheap. Still have it: 1968 Mercury Cyclone GT. Great car that I really should repaint. Its about a 40 footer right now lol.

I'm on this forum because I now own 2 - 54 Meteors, a four door I'm the second owner of, and a 54 Skyliner I bought a short time ago.

[TagMan]

My first car was a '56 Chevy 4-door, bought in 1962 when I was 16 for $15.00. Needed brakes & brake lines. I bought a set of tires from a junk yard for $20.00. It was painted flat black & had a 235 6 cylinder engine, 3-speed with a floor shifter that the previous owner installed.....backwards (the shift pattern was backwards). Drove the car though the rest of high school and only got rid of it to buy a better car, to impress a new girl friend, who I married ( and am still married to), 56 years ago.

[V8COOPMAN]

Originally Posted by tubman

The first car I actually bought was a 1936 Ford flatback Deluxe Tudor when I was a senior in high school in 1959. I paid $100 for the car, which had 39,000 actual miles and was in excellent shape. It even had a working radio, of all things. I am embarrassed about what happened to that car, and will not proceed further.

Oh ..... C'mon, man!

Coop

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[Daves55Sedan]

In 1972, I was 15 yrs old and bought my first car for $525.00. I tried to negotiate the price down a bit but they wouldn't budge. I coughed up the cash by breaking all my childhood piggy banks. Didn't have a driver license yet and didn't have enough money for insurance so it sat thru the winter till next spring. By that time I had enough saved for insurance, license plates and a tank of gas and had my driver license before the school year ended. The car was a '55 Ford 4-dr sedan (see avatar). Still driving it daily, although it has since been rebuilt a few times and has gone through rocker panels 3 times and rear quarters twice. Major body off frame restoration was done between '92 thru '96 and that is when I replaced all floor panels and made major repairs/replacements to inner rockers and some floor support gussets. Drove the car to work (60 mile round trip) 5 days a week for over four decades.

[nelsb01]

The year was 1969.... I was 19 and a college student who got the hand-me-down car. A 1966 Ford Custom Fordor. Purchased new by Dad in 1966 as his business car. In 1968 it moved to Mom's grocery getter when Dad purchased a new 1968 Ford Galaxie and then, for $700 dollars it became mine. Of course, it was the installment plan and when I could I paid the parents for the car. I didn't know it at the time, but they took my payments and opened a savings account for me. In the winter of 1971, while exiting a liquor store parking lot, I stopped but the car approaching from the left slid on the icy street and crashed into the drivers front fender. It was damaged, and as soon as the snow melted, I bought a used 1969 Mustang Mach 1 with 21,000 miles and finished college with a cool car. The Mustang was only $2100 and with the 1966 traded in for $400, it was a good deal.
Of course the Mach 1 is the one that I should never have sold.............