Your first car

1956 Dodge 2 door coupe. Hubs and I bought it new but cannot remember cost.
 

I didn't get my driver's license or first car until '82- and pregnant with our only child. We lived in Niagara Falls and I went to Young Driver's .. it was fun sharing the class with all those teenagers. The instructor was a retired policeman, and one of his sons was my driving instructor.

With a small cashed-in life insurance policy, I bought a brand new red Honda hatchback. It used to stall whenever there was a lot of rain, and one time it stalled in a snowstorm. I was about 5 minutes from home, and a kind woman gave me a lift. Other than that, it was a nice little car.
 

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Gaer said:
Mine was a 40 Ford Coupe. i saved up for it myself, out of babysitting money. $100. stickshift. In the winter, I had to coast or have someone push it to get it started. hahaha! I usually had a car full of girlfriends to push it though!
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And of course it looked like this. (cough, cough) :) Or was it more like this? :D
Mine was almost a dead heat. First came the 55 chevy ($10 with a 6 banger) but following real close, (like a couple of weeks) was the 33 chevy. 283 with a stick shift. It didn't take long for the 55 to rack up some dollars. (glass tilt nose, glass deck lid, glass doors, 327 eng, 57 olds rear) :)40 ford.jpg old.jpeg grey55chevfour.jpg 33 chevy 5.jpg
 
squatting dog said:
And of course it looked like this. (cough, cough) :) Or was it more like this? :D
Mine was almost a dead heat. First came the 55 chevy ($10 with a 6 banger) but following real close, (like a couple of weeks) was the 33 chevy. 283 with a stick shift. It didn't take long for the 55 to rack up some dollars. (glass tilt nose, glass deck lid, glass doors, 327 eng, 57 olds rear) :)View attachment 119629 View attachment 119630 View attachment 119632 View attachment 119633
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These are AWESOME!
 
For my second car, my parents bought my brother, (who did not work) a 58 Ford Fairlane. I wanted a 57 Chevy more than anything in the world! My parents paid 1/2 of the cost of a 50 Chevy for me, instead. But I loved it and ran it to the ground! I fear I was a WILD driver! I did jumps and things unheard of in that ole Chevy! YaHoo!
 
I'll have to look for a picture, but it was a 1956 Chevy Bel Air ("cone" style brake/taillight). It was sitting in a neighboring farmer's corn field and I bought it from him for $75. Engine needed some work and terrible paint. Got engine fixed and painted it, with paint brushes, Royal Maroon. Paint brushes were used because neighbor farm boys had a paint sprayer to use, but it wouldn't work. I bought just before I graduated high school, drove it to school a few times, to my Senior Class Dinner and to our After-Prom Party.

Had it for only a couple of months, before the U.S. Navy called me up to go to Basic Training. Before my first Navy Leave, from Basic Training, came up, my step parents got rid of it.

At the time I bought it, I was working part-time (weekends) at a very upper-scale restaurant in Ft. Wayne. I paid for everything: car, repairs and insurance.

Now I have a nice model of a 1956 Chevy Bel Air, in a display case. Doors and hood opens. Wife has a small model of her old 1978 Pontiac Trans Am, that's also in a display case.
 
Gaer said:
For my second car, my parents bought my brother, (who did not work) a 58 Ford Fairlane. I wanted a 57 Chevy more than anything in the world! My parents paid 1/2 of the cost of a 50 Chevy for me, instead. But I loved it and ran it to the ground! I fear I was a WILD driver! I did jumps and things unheard of in that ole Chevy! YaHoo!
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LOL, and that "Wild Lady" in you continued to do "things unheard" for many decades, and that is just one more reason why we love you and your stories.
 
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My husband was in the Army, stationed in Germany. We both lived there the first year we were married. This was our first car, a '56 VW beetle convertible. It looked exactly like this, with red seats. Standard shift, of course. I learned to drive with that car, on the Autobahn. No seat belts yet, and the Autobahn had no speed limit. Amazing that we survived in one piece!
 
In '82 I bought my first car a used RX-7. As I recall it was a '79 but it might have been a '78. My uncle was really into cars and after looking at the serial number he thought I had the 9th production RX-7.

I loved that car. It was very fast and fun to drive. It was canary yellow with a black racing stripe down the hood and back and stripes on the sides. It was interesting because it had the rotary engine and the earlier version had two sets of points that had to be adjusted independently. I eventually sold it sometime around 1990 or 1991 because it was going to need a new engine soon.

It looked something like this. This isn't my car.

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First car was a '41 Mercury Coupe. Bought it in '51 and had it for 4 years. Nice little car and those flathead V-8's were relatively peppy when most of the cars were still running straight 6's.
 
Red Mini - Traditional type. Reward from someone I lived with when in care on passing my driving test second time. First time tried a 3 point turn and the driving examiner had to apply the brakes 'cos I nearly hit a tree. :oops:Loved the Mini. Only had 4 gears and in later years when I had a car with 5 gears I was a bit lost. o_O
I loved it's shape size and how nippy it was. I could also change the oil, water, put air in the tyres and clean the spark plugs. (Never bought new, a bit of rough sandpaper to clean and they worked. Just had to remember order of plugs). Oh such great memories.........
 
asp3 said:
In '82 I bought my first car a used RX-7. As I recall it was a '79 but it might have been a '78. My uncle was really into cars and after looking at the serial number he thought I had the 9th production RX-7.

I loved that car. It was very fast and fun to drive. It was canary yellow with a black racing stripe down the hood and back and stripes on the sides. It was interesting because it had the rotary engine and the earlier version had two sets of points that had to be adjusted independently. I eventually sold it sometime around 1990 or 1991 because it was going to need a new engine soon.

It looked something like this. This isn't my car.

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Shove a 406 chevy eng and a 9" ford rearend, paint it mopar green and then, you've got yourself a set of wheels. :cool:

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Keesha said:
That’s so cool squatting dog. You two look like you are a lot of fun. Aren’t you on a tour right now?
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Not yet. Motor home is packed and ready, buddy is standing by to house sit, but, I discovered some cracks in the motor home's bathroom skylight so we ordered a new one and as soon as it arrives (thurs. or Fri)....... I'm outta here. :D
 
I have a bill of sale for a 37 Chevy sedan that my father bought brand new for $700. In 1943 because of wartime gas shortage he put it up on blocks for a year. He traded it in in 1950 for another Chevy.

In 1957 my now wife bought a brand new Chevy for $1900.
In 1959 I bought a brand new Austin Healey Sprite for $1900. We went on our honeymoon in that Sprite.
The next and last brand new car was a 2000 Chevy Blazer.
 
Treacle said:
Forgive my ignorance @squatting dog but what is that 'thing' on the bonnet, what is it's purpose ?o_O . Never seen anything like it but interesting.:unsure:
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That was a pro-stock hood scoop. Popular in drag racing in the early to mid 90's and covered a high rise tunnel ram intake.
Here is a pic of a tunnel ram. This is what was hiding under that hood. :D Here's what pro-stocks looked like then.

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First car was a '62 Dodge Dart, probably the second ugliest car ever made behind the Edsel. It cost $500 and my parents loaned me the money. It turned out to be a very dependable vehicle.
 

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