what was your first car and how much did you pay

[tom1948]

I am curious as to what was your first car and how much did you pay for it? Mine was a '28 model A 4 door that a farmer had in his field and the price was right, free! I got it running and drove around my grandparents farm for a couple of years. It has returned to nature in the woods behind the barn.

[RKS.PA]

My first car (truck actually) was a 1936 International pickup my folk bought me for my 13th. birthday in 1956. (think they paid $25 for it.) We lived on a farm, and my dad did it in self defence because by then I'd nearly wrecked his 1930 Model A jalopy!!

[Ken/Alabama]

1965 Mustang. One owner original paint and upholstery with air for $400. That was in 1976.

[38 coupe]

$2,500 for a decent looking 52 Ford tudor with a marginal engine in 1995. I was the only person driving a flathead at my high school.

[34fordy]

I bought my first in the Summer of 1962. It was a 1940 Ford Deluxe Coupe. I had worked that summer before my senior year of highschool tending for 2 plasterers and 2 clay block layers. The first $100 I was able to save paid for the car. The interior was a little rough but no rust whatsoever. I ended up selling it 6 months later so I could buy a car with a heater to keep my girlfriend warm. She dumped me a couple months later so I had neither the car nor the girl. I've never missed her but sure would like to have kept that coupe! LOL

[Lanny]

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I got my drivers licence in 1962, then bought a black 1958 Ford
convertible for $550 from the local Ford dealer. Then I got a job
at that same local Ford dealer.
In 1965 I seen the New Ford Mustang 2+2 fastback and had to
have one. I was only making $.75 cents and hour at that time
but I ordered new '65 Burgundy fastback, 289 four speed, and
that was all the options I could afford at that time. I still own
that '65 Mustang 2+2 today.



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[deuce lover]

Graduated from High School in 1962 and received $150 in gifts and spent it on this 51 Merc Conv

[Ricosan]

My first car was a 1929 4 door model A. It cost me $25 plus my barbell set. I was 16.
Richard

[DavidG]

1932 Ford Model B standard coupe, $50, 1955.

[Dave/Green Bay]

My first car truck was a 1953 Ford Panel truck with no brakes. Paid $50
Dave/Green Bay

[alanwoodieman]

57 TR3, you could not keep axles in it. Wanted out of it! I took car to a local sports car parking lot gymacona and ran wheels off of it and ended up selling to a attendee---boy was I lucky to get rid of that car!

[Old Redneck]

In 1956 I found a 1950 Dodge Coupe for $100. that Granny Coupe had for sale. Very nice Business Coupe. Gray in color. I split the exhaust, Skirts, Lowering blocks. Dodge Lancer Hubcaps. Stock Mufflers did sound nice. O yes a Sun Visor. I drove it all through High School. I did get a very nice set of Seat Covers for it. I went to the Junk Yard and got the Dash and Pearl Steering wheel out of a 50 Dodge Deluxe the best one for the year. I was always trying to improve the looks of the little car. In 1959 after High School I went in the Army. So I park it in the garage over my Dad'a car lot. Anyway it ended up in the Crusher by mistake they said. It was a square block laying out back behind the garage. When I came home and they showed to me I never said a word. I just walk off and went home. I never forget that little Dodge. It was good to me. I save my money to get a 1957 Plymoth Fury and paid $750 for it. I dress it up with Skirts and so on. By this time I had forgot the little Dodge. When I got out of the Army I got a Job at the Lorain Ford Assembly Plant in Lorain, Ohio. They kept on me for not driving a Ford. I found a 1930 Model A in good shape for $1200.. I drove it to work and they never said another word about it and thought that was great.That about it.

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by deuce lover

Graduated from High School in 1962 and received $150 in gifts and spent it on this 51 Merc Conv

[Model51]

I was 15 year old in 1971 when purchased my first car for $50 ($350 in today's money). It was a black 1957 Volkswagen (last year for the oval window) with a seized engine and lots of rust, but it was complete. I had no money to do much with it so it mostly languished and I dreamed. Sold it decades later when I lost storage space but I'll never forget it.

[ronn]

In 1972 bought a 1964 ford falcon wagon. Owned by the mailman. I was delivering
newspapers and rode by it. sign said 100. I didnt have any money on me, but he sold it too me on a handshake and I picked it up on the weekend.
wish I still had it! 289 with auto trans. was super clean................. I was 12 yrs old.
Dad would sometimes drive me around in it on Sundays, so I could throw 180 newspapers! Those Sunday papers were pretty heavy. not like today.

[A bones]

In 64 I was handed a '53 Ford 2dr. I had been working for my StepDad for 2 years and he needed me to be available everyday ( 7 days week ).
It had the wrong motor, OHV6, but I was cool daddio.
Next 2 years saw 2 Dodges, a 49 and a $100 56-( D500 Hemi ) come and go. Then my first longterm ride, three yrs, a $100 57 210 2dr. That, with help got converted from a 235 Pglide To an overbored 283, 3 on the floor.
When I got a right deal on a $75 55 Nomad ( gutted and abused hawk-meat ex drag contender )I stripped the 57 to bring it to life. Kept that 'til 71.
Sorry to drone on and on

[deuce_roadster]

30 Model A 4 door Murray body and frame. $50 in 1962--I was 12. Put a 239 flathead in in it. Had it on the road legally in 1966 and drove it to Olympia High School.

[Flathead Fever]

In 1976 I was 15 and my dad bought me an orange 1965 Mustang fastback for $900.00. I turned it into a decent fake GT-350. In 1982 I bought a real '66 GT-350 which I still have. I have owned at least 15 early mustangs and now I have mustang burnout, so I've switched to flathead mode. I do miss building engines with valve covers with twice the horsepower for half the money.

[ford38v8]

I had the cash for my first car from a car lot, $200 for a’49 Ford ragtop. My father drove me there to pick it up, and I was embarrassed to have to borrow $26 from Dad for tax & license. Another $4 got me a spare tire. That was my first lesson in never buy a car from a car lot, and I learned that lesson twice more in my lifetime.

[highbeams]

1960 @ 13 yrs, asked my father '(Bill') who/where can we get an old car.(I had been asking since age 10+-) Hmmm, he said, Emil Schubert bought a '30 Model A sport coupe back in '30; He's gotta have it in a shed or the barn. Always used to see him drive past, but not often.
The visit.= 'Do you still have. . .' Oh, an insurance salesman stopped by just this week. Shed door was open. Sold it to him. (I couldn't believe it. Couldn't. Couldn't couldn't couldn't. This week?????
So sad was I. Back to our farm we went. But . . . on the way, he said. So'nSo on Cedar Creek Road bought a '40 half-ton pickup, new off the lot I recall he said back then, and that it was the last and only one left in late '40 or '41. Come ta think of it, haven't seen it go past our farm in years. Visit: Oh, it's in that concrete-block basement shed. (above-ground) He rolled the door open. There it was!!! Looking very sad I distinctly remember, as if it had a soul.
Fair to say, I was wide-eyed thrilled. We stood there outside the door looking at it, three pairs of eyes/no words. Outta the blue/gray skies my father blurts "Would ya' take twenty-five?" "No . . . gotta have forty." pure quotes. - (back to our farm for the forty dollars/return'g to the half-ton. Transport home by logging chain. "hmmm. No engine action. At all. Driver head off; rusted tight. Eventually= my high school transportation.

Today, still in the family per nephew /another flathead, replaced rear fenders.Thank you . . .

* The truck had been used '40-'58, hauling firewood, as a result the cab back=shattered window, many dents. Many dents. (window repair=My father used the 1915 Model T front window= touring car that his father bought in 1920 from the local Ford dealer.(The family's first car; 4 cyl pulled in the shed (?) times through the early-mid '20s per my father and my two uncles. (100% Irish, I think they were Scot Irish.