digging through pictures and founs a few of mine i miss the old car... lots of memories and fun.
1970 ford torino sportsroof> cobra clone
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.40 over 351w lunati cam,double pumper etc was later swapped for a 429/c-6
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when i first bought it at 13 yrs old with no motor trans etc...
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i rebuilt everything on this car by myself it is how i learned to do mechanic work i really owe everything i know to it and my dad for lending a helping hand.
It makes me tear up to think of the car and what it looks like now it is very sad. Someday i will resuce it when i get in the situation i can buy it back.
post up your first cars...
You're looking at it :D
Actually my first car was going to be the '76 Camaro I have but that project didn't get off the ground in time.
I needed something to drive and found the Cougar.
My dad's first car was a '71 Comet GT that he bought brand new. He then modified it by just doing some basic stuff, carb, headers, exhaust and some tires and wheels. It was a pretty cool little car.
He got rid of it though when he married my mom in 1973 and bought a new larger '73 Charger.
I'll have to find the pictures of the Comet.
First driveable car was an 87 hyundai stellar, traded my dirtbike for it when I was 16 or so, this is the only pic I have of it a few years after I sold it at the local import wrecker. I was just back there and the car's stuck in the back against a fence stripped right down 4 years after I first seen it there! theyre getting their money out of it, atleast I get to see how my bodywork has held up :p
Even though it was a lowly 4dr import it still has a special place in my heart *tear*
My first car when I was about 16 and it was the 86' T-bird that I am going to junk, becasue after trying to fix a hole in the oil pan, I realized that the front shock tower had a ring rusted around it. Ardound that time, I found a 87 cougar in nearly perfect condition. That is what I was driving around until about a month ago, when I put it in a ditch, and bent the frame. My mom doesn't really want me to fix it, but I am really thinking about it. I'm 18 right now.
I guess I need to scan some pictures of the 'ol '73 F-100 to show you guys.
i got my truck about a month befor i turned 17, i am now 19. when i got it i thought it would need an engine right from the start but it turned out that it just had some bad vaccum leaks. i have now ran it nearly 40,000 miles and am starting on building a new engine for it. im building a fuel injected 300ci inline six twin turbo. this truck will be with me until either it gets totaled (which won't happen because i baby this truc) or i die.
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My first was a '78 Trans Am, originally a 400 car with WS6 suspension and rear dic brakes but somebody had transplanted a '70 LT1 into it. The car was ugly - typical of 2nd gen F-bodies, the whole rear rusted off. It was rattle can black (I painted right over the gold Chicken decals). The interior was extremely basic (vinyl seats, manual windows) and had no carpet, just the bare metal floor. Still, the combination of the LT1 and the lightweight (mostly missing) body made for one hell of a fast car. I called it Bertha and loved that car to death. My second car was an '80 Forumla that had a great body and interior but the sucked out 301 engine. I always wished I had that car's body with Bertha's heart. Someday I'll have another black 76-78 T/A in perfect shape...
*edit* 84 T-Bird - I just noticed your sig. If you're going to claim that anything you say is based on some form of intelligence you might wanna spell the word right :p
Here are the pics of my dad's Comet. These were taken the day he traded it in. Man I wish he still had this thing.
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I believe he added a holley carb, headman hedders and dual exhaust from a '69 or '70 Mustang. He also cut the hood so the scoop would be functional.
my 88 LS
Purchase date: July 19, 1994
1987 LS
65K miles
$5695
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Washiznit by drunk driver at 200K miles. I parted it out and what was left was towed away this past May:
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I've lost the only pic I have of it, but my first car was a 1966 Nova. Man that thing was a beast. 4 door with a 6 cylinder and a power glide. I've been trying to buy it back for some time now but It keeps changing hands and I'm always a day late and a dollar short.
First car I had was given to me by my parents:87 Plymouth Voyager with a 2.6L Mitsubishi I4. Had 59,000 miles on it. I killed it at 78,000 miles in the fall of '04 on a trip to visit my buddy at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Apparently the 2.6L didn't like going 85mph for 2 hours straight and it jumped a tooth on the timing chain.
The first car I bought with my own money was my Tbird. I bought it in 02 when I was 17. It's basically just a fun car now. It could be a daily driver but it's too nice to screw up in the winter/salt season.
My current daily driver is a 93 Buick Century 3.3L V6. Boring ass car:yuck:
My first was an '85 5.0 Cougar.
(http://www.dnet.net/user/jkirchman/carpics/85GS/85Cougar.jpg)
It was totaled on April 8, 2000.
(http://www.dnet.net/user/jkirchman/carpics/85GS/85wreck.jpg)
Ahhh my first car. That would be the only other car I've owned besides my TC, and my beater Tempo- my old 1990 Mustang LX 2.3L. I drove that car from my senior year of high school (got it Sept. '98) til about 2004. It was totaled once and fixed, and mashed up a couple other times. The top picture shows it at about the best it ever was, when I had it out in St. Louis at the World Ford Challenge in 2002. 3 days after driving 560 miles home without incident, I hit a deer less than 2 miles from my house, as shown in the second picture, and busted out my cobra grille insert that had been painted for a whole 2 months:disappoin After that the car pretty much went downhill...it was relegated to "beater" and slowly rusted itself to death, I found my TC that winter, and I actually just sold the mustang this last October to some guys for parts for $100.
I wasted way too much money on that car, but ah well. It was actually a good car, I liked it, and I definitely want another Fox mustang sometime down the road, even if it is another 2.3L.
jkirchman, what the hell did you hit?
My 1st Mode of Transportion was total opposites of Sporty or Economical.
1987 Ford Clubwagon 8 passenger van with famous 5.0 SO
I got a couple of Pics from when i crashed and repaired it. I'll try and find them.
I sold it in 2001 with 268,000 kms. As of 2005 the new owner (a carpet business ) still had it on the road.
My first daily driver was an 86 Grand Marquis! :D I've probably had almost 100 other cars though!
My first was a '65 Galaxie 500 LTD hardtop. Man that car would turn heads. No speed demon with a 352, but was an awesome first car.
(http://blizzard.he.net/~foxbody/pics/ourcars/65fordgalaxieSMSWEET.jpg)
my first car was a 71 dodge dart, no pics. here is a pic of my 2nd car, a 73 mustang grande. was stock when i bought it. me and a buddy backhalved it in my garage. was a 460/c-6
! That Stang is bad-ass! Any more pics? Of it completed?
that's the only one i have left. all the others were destroyed when my house burnt down
I don't have any pics of my first car, but I can find one the same. It was a 1991 Subaru Justy 4X4. 73 raging horses from three multiport fuel injected cylinders displacing 1.2L, pushing through an ECVT.:giggle: I only put gas in it about four times in two years. :tg:
(http://www.guybouchard.ca/image/justy.gif)
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My first car I had was my very first T-Bird I had. It was a 87 Base w/ a full console w/ a v6. My father gave it to me for my 16th b-day. I had to put a new master cylinder, front clip on it. That thing was so rusted out.
My parents used to have an '89 Econoline Clubwagon XLT with a 351. It was one of the extended ones that had two bench seats yet still almost 5 feet between the rear seat and rear doors! That thing was a brick, we had it back when gas was 99 cents a gallon. Good thing too cuz I think it got like 12 mpg.
Dont have any pics but my first car was a 1986 Dodge charger and i swear everytime i looked at it, it had a new dent. You could blow on it and it would crinkle.
Don't have any pictures of my first car,a '37 Dodge, but I found one with a google search. Mine had a piece broken out of the grill.
(http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/da/37dd4drsedan_Bay.jpg)
I had a '66 Galaxie 500 LTD four-door hardtop. Mine had the 390/4bbl with a three-speed auto and air conditioning. This was during the first gulf war, and when gas spiked to $0.69/liter I had to sell it - couldn't afford to run it and go to high school at the same time. I sold it to some middle eastern porn store owner and after he painted over the original maroon/white top with a cheap black coat he wrapped it around a pole right in front of his own house.
I wish I had that car back now that I could afford to feed it...
I drove my fathers Horizon all over the place, but the first car of my own \/ Right there. (i dont have a real pic of it right now im in the process of raring everything up for a windows reload)
They are sweet rides. If you ever get another one, make sure to post some pics.
Well my first car is my Cougar, but i dont have any pics accessable at the present time. I'll get some, even though its sitting in the garage abandoned from the heater core. I have pics of my dads first car. 1953 Chevy Sedan. He stripped all of the chrome off of it in the pics and the chrome is in the back seat, Im restoring it now, just dunno if I'm keeping the 86 Cougar or not to fund it.
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You were lucky! I only had two cylinders, and the carb was the size of a thimble!
1971 Honda 600. Killed by a Ford Torino while I was showing off by sliding sideways in the snow. That's me in the yellow tee, 2nd pic.
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cool deal guys keep er going!
my first car is. a 1966 Chevy Chevelle SS Malibu.. its not in one peice as of right now..... because its been a life-long resto... so i should go snap some pics of it today.....
other than that...the good old thunderblunder V is my first driveable car
ill go take a couple pics and get em up on here soon as i clean it out a little....
First car ever was a 1973 Super Beetle that I bought for $400 from my cousin's boyfriend when I was only 12 years old. Most of the engine was missing but the heads, block, and generator were in the trunk. I never got it running but I definitely learned a lot. I held onto the parts for years for sentimental reasons (the cousin died about a month after I bought it) but last year I finally dragged it to the sper.
First running car was a '81 (or so) Toyota Corolla wagon. RWD, 5 speed, and 3TC engine (I think) and 230K+ that my dad bought for $750 when I was 14. I didn’t learn anything productive except how to drive a stick pretty well and how to off-road in Alabama red mud. I started getting trouble in middle school and my dad sold it REAL quick - so I learned that lesson fast!
Neither of the pictures are of the actual cars - but the Bug is my 2nd 73 Super beetle that I still have now (both were originally Sumatra green) and the Corrolla is the closest thing I could find on ebay.
coool guy keep this thread alive :)
Life Long resto? So all of like 2 weeks for you?
I would post a pic but I have two problems.
1: The only pic I have of the car it is under three feet of snow.
2: I tried to find a good pic of one on the inter net put they were all converts that I found
It was an 89 Chrysler LeBaron hard top in two tone brown
Claude, your sarcasm sucks :nono: have a nice day! :flip:
yeah we've had this car 1 year more than ive lived, so what? this is how i got this car...... my mom bought it..... my dad stripped it all down, got pissed off and got put in jail.divorced.... and shiznit like that now its mine.... yea its a pile this i know..... do i care no!
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the RR QP is wrinkled.... but hey thats what they make bondo for right :yuck: (i didnt do that!)
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yeah thats it...... but ive got time... seeing how im 15 and all
sweet ride, wait and do it right. thats a great year for chevelles
hell yeah man, im planning on getting the chassis to roll this summer... and maybe have the body on it by winter... if all goes acording to plan.....
here are some pics
Atleast you can buy full quarters for a 66 chevelle! I can't for the 73 nova. Can for 72 but nooooo not 73.
I'll get some pics of my 85 T-bird when I get home. My parents made me sell it for a more reliable 93 Mustang LX 2.3 AOD. Back then I couldn't figure out why the 5.0 CFI would stall at stoplights. Now I know it was just . :D
dur yeah ya can ;-)
http://www.oldcarnetwork.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=Nova_Body
look at twards the bottom of the page bro....