what was your first car and how much did you pay

[Bored&Stroked]

Originally Posted by V8COOPMAN

Well I'll be darned! So THAT was you, huh Dale? I've seen these pictures many times. Never had a clue it was someone we know so well.

Coop

Yep . . . the obsession started early! LOL

[Seth Swoboda]

My first car was a 1931 Model A Victoria, my avatar photo. It was not restored. The year was 1998 and I was 17 at the time. This was the first car I bought with my own money, $4500.

[37 truck]

My first car was a 1937 Chevrolet pickup, purchased new by my grandfather. I turned 16 in early 1967 and pulled it out of its slumber in the garage and drove the heck out of it for the next five years. Life got in the way, and I let my brother have it, still owns the truck today.

[ronn]

Ya know Jack that we gotta be old farts to know what yer tawkin about. LOL I remember sittin up on a little perch waitin to pull the chain to drop the rack and pick up pins. I hadn't thought about that for ages. Thanx for the memory!

thought I was reading "old timey" rap......... had to read Jacks reply 3x!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tom1948]

I forgot to mention; the year was 1961 and I was 13 years old.

[flatford8]

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These stories where you guys still have the same vehicle that you bought as a kid ......are just “over the top” awesome!!!!........Mark

[Als48]

My first car was a '55 Chevy 4 dr. with a 6 and three on the tree. I bought it for $100 in '67. My brother and I along with his best friend loaded it up and left for California the next week. We put my '66 Suzuki 80 in the trunk for backup transportation. We got a few maintenance lessons on that trip, including changing out a rear axle with a junkyard part in a gravel driveway. Also Re-ringing a stovebolt 6, while lying on the ground in the back yard of a friend's gramma. The engine was smoking pretty bad by the time we drove it about 2000 miles from Kentucky to LA. and the "Smog Patrol" pulled us over and ticketed us. The 'ole girl made it there and back tho.

[topfuel724]

1st car was a 1956 Chevy 210 2dr sedan. Paid $35.00 for it in summer of 1965. Had to pull the engine and give it back to the owner. That was OK as I had a .060 over "283" on the engine stand with the L79 350HP cam in it with a 4 barrel rochester carb.

[Karl]

1967 Austin Mini I was 16 cost $750 (Dad Paid) in 1979

First car I brought with my own money was my 1967 Sunbeam Alpine in 1983 (which I still have) . I was Med student $2000 down (what the mini sold for) and financed the remaining plus the repayments until until I was finished Med school in 1986 and had an income -$6000 loan at 22.5% per annum via the bank.!

[waterboychuck]

My first car was a 1948 Buick that my dad got from free from a coworker at his work. I sold that car for $40 and bought a 29 Ford two door. I traded it for a 32 3 window coupe.

[Mike Mayer]

1937 dodge coupe paid $30.16 years old never got it running . For $75. I got a 1953 ford 2dr flat head V8 . I was snake bit At this time 61 years later I am driving a 53 ford 2dr with a flathead v8

[1942deluxe]

When I was a little kid I had a Grit newspaper route. I squandered my profits on model cars. When I was 14 in 1973 I was mowing grass in the cemetery and at the end of the summer I bought a J C Whitney toolbox and a 1946 Ford Tudor for $25.00. I'm beginning to see a pattern here. Same thing appears to be still going on only more zeros in the amount of money being spent but nicer toys.

[Jack E/NJ]

34fordy>>Ya know Jack that we gotta be old farts to know what yer tawkin about. LOL I remember sittin up on a little perch waitin to pull the chain to drop the rack and pick up pins. I hadn't thought about that for ages. Thanx for the memory!>>>




Yeah. Earned $3 setting doubles when Brunswick semi-autos hit the scene. Plus quarters & half-dollar tips rolled down the lanes. Though still sat singles on spikes for Sunday afternoon leagues at smaller halls for a $1. That was serious money for a kid back then. Paid for other things besides my 38 that's still running. 8^)

[J Franklin]

My first car was my model A in my avitar with me at around 14 in 1964. $150. I still drive it. picture facing to right was taken today 5/25

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by J Franklin

My first car was my model A in my avitar with me at around 14 in 1964. $150. I still drive it.

[swoopNZ]

1932 SJ Duesenburg.
Just kidding.
1936 Austin Seven 25 pounds ( $20 USD ) in 1962.
Absolute junk.

[FortyNiner]

The Beast a 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 2dr with a 352 V8 auto and console gear shift purchased for $400 in 1973 using paper route and lawn mowing earnings.

[48-710]

It was on my birthday in 1963 that my dad said that we were going to pick up a Henry for my 11th birthday. What year is it dad ? '35 was the answer. Hope it's a coupe I kept saying to myself on the drive to a farm 80 miles south of us. After the 30 Australian pounds (approx $20 USD )changed hands the shed door was opened I first saw my '35 Roadster. I did paper rounds, picked fruit on school holidays, washed cars,pulled petrol at a family friends garage,worked at machine shop after school,started work at the same place in '69,anything to make a $. Drove it until 1983. Life and starting a business got in the way. Which happens . I'm in the process of a body off restoration, which is taking way to long,but it will be right when finished.

[oldspert]

A 1929 Ford Model A coupe. Paid $75 and had it trailered home. It already had juice brakes that were not hooked up. Finished it mechanically and painted it with my mom's Kirby vacuum paint gun. Done a white vinyl interior and drove it through my sophomore year. It burned to the ground summer of 61.

['36 5W]

'36 Ford 5w coupe, less engine and trans. $50. in 1960. Sold it
to my bro in '68 when I went over-seas and bought it back in '76
when OPEC had us by the short-hairs and the hobby had "tanked".