what was your first car and how much did you pay

[Lenny Bruce]

1978 Chevy Nova with a 350 4 speed manual. Car would fly!!! Great memories buzzing around with friends! My Dad and I fixed it up together. Always special thinking about that car. Wish I had it today….She unfortunately rotted beyond repair…

[old guy rich]

Great story, that wouldn't happen to be the 271 HP Hi/Po would it. I grew up in a Ford dealership, would ride my bike there after junior high school every day. After high school I went to work there until I went in the military. Loved the Hi/Po's
My brother bought a new 61 Fairlane Hi Po 390/375 HP 3 speed/overdrive.

[old guy rich]

Originally Posted by Lanny

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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Great story, that wouldn't happen to be the 271 HP Hi/Po would it. I grew up in a Ford dealership, would ride my bike there after junior high school every day. After high school I went to work there until I went in the military. Loved the Hi/Po's
My brother bought a new 61 Fairlane Hi Po 390/375 HP 3 speed/overdrive.

[Lanny]

Hello there old guy rich, in '65 I was 19 years old and as I said, I was only making
$ .75 cents an hour cleaning up used cars and doing light body work and painting on them.
I would have loved to get the pony interior and would have killed to be able to get the
271 hp 289, but even at working about 50-60 hours a week, at $ .75 an hour, I couldn't
afford anything more than I was getting. I was happy as hell the day it came in and
we got it down off the transport truck.

Then, in mid '65, their body man quit and the boss liked the body work and painting I
was doing on the used cars, so he asked if I wanted to give working full time in the body
shop a try. I went straight to $3.00 an hour, that was 4 times the money I had been
making, so I was elated.

Within 3 months, I was rolling in dough and went to MPLS and bought a NEW 1966
silver pearl Corvette with 427, 4 speed. The boss 'bout crapped his pants, but he kept
me in the body shop, even gave me a $1.00 an hour raise.

I was the happy'est young guy in town, thought I'd died and went to heaven.


Within a short time, I built my own shop, and I've been lucky to have had lots
of nice cars in the last 50 years.
Knock on wood, Sorry for getting off track here guys.

[GB SISSON]

Lanny, Great story! Compared to some of my rants over the years, that's not off topic at all!

[Lanny]

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Thanks GB, I got carried away remembering the Good Ol' Days.




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[old guy rich]

Lanny, you must have been talented, that was big money back then. Another good story.

[jayvee34]

My first car was a 1932 Dodge Coupe, in 1949. I bought it from my best friend
and paid him $10.00 for it. I drove it for several months until a loud knock
developed, and sold it to another friend for junk. He paid me $5.00.

[meric42]

Mine was a 1946 Ford Popular (English four cylinder car), purchased when I was about 14 YO at a cost of $50 NZ. Learned a lot in the following years, then at 19 I bought my first V8 a '46 Super Deluxe Fordor for $600 NZ and have had many more since then.

[Mike/Franklin]

Had to get the Wayback Machine cranked up for this. Nothing up my sleeve, Presto.


1963 Ford Galaxy 500 XL 2 door with 289 and automatic.Bought in August 1969 for $375.00 and dealer (Cahill Motor Sales) in Chaplin Connecticut, threw in new plugs and points if I bought the materials. On the test drive there was a skip and dad thought for sure it was a burnt valve. Tuned it up and ran like a champ for almost four years. This car for me replaced a 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer Super Red Ram Hemi. This was a $25.00 used car in early summer of 1965 that was first the family transportation for a couple of years and then my college car from fall of 67 till the Ford came along. Now that was a great car.



Thanks ML

[tubman]

I too, had a '55 Dodge hardtop with the 270 ci Suoer Red Ram. It served me well for three years back and forth to college, and then for 5 more years in my T bucket. I got it for $10 from the town drunk, who had left it at the Legion club one snowy night and didn't feel like digging it out. I did, jumped it, and drove it home.

Great car (and engine)!

[Mike/Franklin]

Mine was a three tone, Red-White- and Black 4 door sedan.

[Ronnieroadster]

It was in 1970 I purchased a 1950 Ford F-1 Panel truck for $25.00 my plan was to put the engine in a 1948 Ford Woody that my older brother owned. The Wood on the Wagon was pretty bad so the engine change never took place. However by June of 71 I was graduating from a technical high school my daily driver was now that F-1 Panel truck.

Man I learned a lot about the Ford flathead from that truck and the story's about don't come knocking if you see the van rocking are true. Good times and memory's plus she is my wife of 40 plus years.
The truck is long gone but I still have that 8BA flathead my very first flathead.

Ronnieroadster

[Pete]

!933 Dodge coupe in 1949. Drove it for a year and sold it for $200. It went through several owners before a good friend got it and turned it into this.

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by Pete

!933 Dodge coupe in 1949. Drove it for a year and sold it for $200. It went through several owners before a good friend got it and turned it into this.

[Sid]

Mine was a 57 Ford Fairlane 2 door with a wristpin through the cylinder. Nice body colonial white. Paid $10.00 for it and rebuilt a 58 352 in auto shop for it. Sure would like to have that one back.

[Ol' Ron]

26 Chevy, 12 bucks. ran well, had to shift with a piece of angle iron, interesting shift pattern.
Gramps
PS
The Police took it awayfrom me, got 10 bucks from the junk yard. /

[gwistrup]

My first ride was a 1969 Chevy Nova with 230,000 mies on it. 6 cylinder engine with a 3 speed standard transmission on the floor. Paid $50 for it. Drove it for six months and sold it for $75.

[Alan O'Connell]

A 1937 Chevy panel truck. I was 9 and my father and I had been looking, on the weekends, for a car that I could fool around with. I started building model antique cars from a store in Lowell, MA when I was 6. By the time I was 8 I wanted a real car. We could never find one that fit my father's budget. We would drive around and if I spotted one in a driveway or back yard, I would tell my father to stop. He would send me out to go the the front door. I'd ask if the car was for sale. The owner would usually say yes. I'd ask him how much. He would say $25 for example. I'd run back to my father and he would say, "Offer him $5." Well it never worked out until I saw a Chevy panel truck while I was on the bus to school. To make a long story a little shorter my father got it for free.

[Pech33]

My very first car was a 49 Chevy 2 Door Business Coupe (wish I still had it), Stove bolt six and a three on the tree. I bought it with my best friend when we were both 14. We paid $75 for it in 1962. His parents took the two new tires off it and paid $50 of the $75, so $25 total. We learned to drive it in the field next to my house, we turned it into a "circle track". Bald tires and mud, what fun to power-slide that car! We blew a rod by overrevving it, it just let loose, honest Dad!

My first MY car was in 1964. It was a 56 Ford 2 door Mainliner with a 272 three speed. I should have passed on that one. It had an overhead oiler with copper/brass lines that squirted oil up and under the valve covers. It was hard to adjust the flow and it left a lot of mosquito spray out the tail pipe. But the girlfriend like it!!! She could sit right next to me. Kids in these rice burners with bucket seats don't know what they are missing.