Remember your favorite vehicle

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish I still had my first vehicle. It was a 76 Ford F150 4x4 with a Thunderbird 390 engine, 4 barrel carb, and a 3" lift kit. I had the exhaust split and turned out on each side right before the rear wheel with glass packs on it and loved the sound.

 

I think it even got me from A to B...

 

My favorite was a '55 Chevy two door Hardtop......wish I owned one now!

 

A close second was a '67 Chevelle Super Sport 396, it was the first car I bought with my own money......but was stolen in high school.

 

Thanks for fixing that for me PD...

I'm just glad it doesn't get any worse in their teenage years......

 

Nope... teenage years are always a breeze... ... ... sorry.

 

Love seeing all the cool cars! I'm a youngster, so my first was an 88 Ford Ranger 4x4. It wasn't the coolest in the high school lot, but a good chunk of the school rode in the back of it at one time or another, either fourwheeling where we shouldn't, get-aways after toilet papering various teachers or the superintendents house, lighting off bottlerockets in classmates yards at 2 in the morning, or lining friends driveways with 200 election signs. It looked exactly like this, but in dark grey with no toolbox and more rust. I think at one time I was driving around with 12 people in the little truck!

 

These are my first 2 cars and yes, I bought them myself. Both are 1968.
I bought the coupe in the summer of '75 with a blown engine for $75.00. A really ugly yellow but it was mine. Went to the junkyard and pull a 289 from a wreck for $50.00. Gave it to a friend at VoTech and he installed it. I was driving it by October. In the spring of '76 my mom borrowed it and dropped me off at school. Three blocks from school she pulled out in front of a truck and totaled it. I still give her a hard time about it.

The fastback I bought right after I graduated in '76. 289/4 speed, dual exhaust, Hush Thrush. Keystone Classic mag wheels. A real screamer and looker. Had that until the shackles came up through the trunk because the uni-body rusted through. Sold it for $200 as is.

I have no pics of mine but the fastback is identical to the one below except for the wheels.

 

My 2nd car 1966 Ford Mustang convertible ,looked just like this one black top and interior

 

My neighbor has a 74 - he's owned it since 75.
It's a fun toy but needs a front disc conversion - that 302 has all kinds of go, but it's a little scary getting it to stop

 

My grandfather only ever bought one brand new car and this was it. He retired and made a trip across Canada in 1964 with my grandmother and another couple. When he died in 1999, Mom advertised it as an antique that needed care and it went to a good home to be restored. Grandfather had taken the back seats out and was using it to haul firewood from the beach to his city home. He didn't like the small rear view mirror in the car so he took a couple of small rectangular mirrors, build a long wooden box and mounted each of them at a slant so he could see from one side of the car to the other through the back windows. His car was a cream colour and when the rust started to show, he fibreglassed the fenders and painted them with porch paint that was almost the same colour.

1960 Studebaker Lark

 

Think it even got you to "L" too.............

 

Here is a pic (not mine) of one of my cars. Same color as this one. Another one of those, "wish it wasn't sold stories"...

 

Here's my first car...Not the speedster or chick magnet that you guys had!!

 

You and I coulda started a "car" club... The wicked spiffy's...

 

Don't feel bad lads, one of my first rides was a Rambler American. Pure sexy, complete with front seats that fully reclined. Trust me, the seats worked as I gave them a try with my then girl friend one sunday afternoon on the grass center island of an expressway in New York city (circa 1968).

 

Ya got that right. That sucker loved to go go go but stopping was a different story

I had a 67. It was far from stock with a 68 falcon 289, headers and dual exhaust, dana 44 up front, 5" lift and 33" bogger/swamper combo. It was a mean little machine that would go anywhere the big boys could go.

 

I can remember back in 1972, after just starting as a rookie LEO my first patrol vehicle was a 4 dr. Galaxie 500 with a 429 c.i. Police Interceptor motor. Then in 1973 they were replaced with same car with a 460 c.i. P/I motor. Old time certified mechanical speedometer could be buried @ 160 mph. Problem was that after three hard digs on the brakes, you needed a boat anchor and chain to get em' stopped. Man could those things could take off though. Amazing when you considered what they weighed.

 

Not nearly as interesting as many of your first car, but I still have fond memories of my first - a blue on blue '82 Accord Sedan 5-speed.

Not the most exiting car ever made, but it does have one claim to fame, being the first Honda to be made in the USA there is one immortalized in the Henry Ford museum.


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