Your first car. [Archive] - PackerRats.com

Upnorth

11-22-2011, 11:12 PM

Everyone has a first car that became a part of them. A buddy of mine had a k car and the football thread about k car's got me thinking back to my formative years. Vehicles were very important to growing up.

My first was a 1980 F150 supercab extended box truck. My friends named it the battleship. We would go on "destructo" cruises and they started to bring popcorn "cause it felt like a movie". I puked on an ex girlfriend once in the back seat.
I was rearend by a semi in winter, but since I filled the box with snow it only knocked a light cover loose (the semi was going slowly). We used the same snow as a cooler going to and from parties.

What was yÓurs?

MadtownPacker

11-22-2011, 11:27 PM

1969 Chevy Caprice with the original hubcaps, fender skirts and small whitewalls. Got it from a towing yard for $250. It had vacumm powered hideaway light, all electric and hella chrome. I rolled it in a grape field when a front tire popped and I spun out. Years later i found out it was some kinda special edition and only 350 had been made.

ThunderDan

11-22-2011, 11:30 PM

1986(I think that was the year) Renault Alliance

Freak Out

11-23-2011, 02:51 AM

1969 Ford F150 with a 240 strait six and posi-track.

Little Whiskey

11-23-2011, 06:46 AM

1969 Chevy Caprice with the original hubcaps, fender skirts and small whitewalls. Got it by STEALING IT. It had vacumm powered hideaway light, all electric and hella chrome. I rolled it in a grape field when a front tire popped and I spun out. Years later i found out it was some kinda special edition and only 350 had been made.

*FIXED

Harlan Huckleby

11-23-2011, 06:59 AM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/1962_Corvair_Monza.jpg

my bro & I got a 1962 covair for $350 in high school. The "Unsafe at any Speed" car.

Iron Mike

11-23-2011, 07:33 AM

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B23313.jpg

Upnorth

11-23-2011, 08:03 AM

Try to tell me that half of these cars would not be amazing to fix up these days? My second car was a 72 camaro, bought for 600 sold it two days later for 750.

Patler

11-23-2011, 09:51 AM

Try to tell me that half of these cars would not be amazing to fix up these days? My second car was a 72 camaro, bought for 600 sold it two days later for 750.

Boy, is that the truth! I bought a used '67 Camaro at one time. Traded it in for little of nothing when I bought a newer car. I should have just stuck it in a shed. '67 was the first full model year for the Camaro. Mine was just the base model, but still a nice car. The guy who bought it totaled it just a few months later. Fortunately, he was not hurt, but my beloved Camaro went to the scrap yard.

Patler

11-23-2011, 10:07 AM

By the way, my first car was a two horse Studebaker. I used a matched pair of Belgians.

http://studebakereli.com/images/StudebakerVictoriaCarriage.png

wootah

11-23-2011, 10:31 AM

By the way, my first car was a two horse Studebaker. I used a matched pair of Belgians.

Wow Patler, I didn't know you were already around when slavery was still accepted. You must be a Highlander of some kind.

My first car was a '98 Toyota Yaris :oops: Those old timers sure look nice, but I would never be able to pay for the gas those babies here.

Patler

11-23-2011, 10:45 AM

Those old timers sure look nice, but I would never be able to pay for the gas those babies here.

Yet, back in the day when they were our rides, and gas was less than $.30/gallon, it really wasn't a big deal. As long as you had some money in your pocket, you could buy gas. When I was young, all gas stations had attendants, you didn't pump your own gas. It was not uncommon to go in and ask for a dollar's worth of gas. For that, you would get your oil checked and windows washed!

With a car full of guys, everyone would throw in the change from their pockets, and you could buy enough gas to run around for the evening.

Patler

11-23-2011, 10:55 AM

By the way, my first car was a two horse Studebaker. I used a matched pair of Belgians.

Wow Patler, I didn't know you were already around when slavery was still accepted. You must be a Highlander of some kind.

American Standards? No, probably twistable too! :lol: :lol:
Welsh Cobs? - No, just as bad as Belgians!
Georgians? - Nope, that won't work either!

How about Clydesdales? :lol:

mraynrand

11-23-2011, 10:58 AM

'74 Ford LTD - silver with black top. Heiser Ford special.

http://www.collectorcarads.com/Picture1/2_68.jpg

Scott Campbell

11-23-2011, 11:12 AM

Woody's first car:

http://hooniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/13.jpg

wootah

11-23-2011, 01:16 PM

American Standards? No, probably twistable too! :lol: :lol:
Welsh Cobs? - No, just as bad as Belgians!
Georgians? - Nope, that won't work either!

How about Clydesdales? :lol:

Icelandics are known as hard workers, you know. Or you could try to impress the ladies and fix youself a couple of arabs.

MadScientist

11-23-2011, 01:22 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/1962_Corvair_Monza.jpg

my bro & I got a 1962 covair for $350 in high school. The "Unsafe at any Speed" car.

In the 90's I saw one in California that had a license plate of 'UNSAFE'.

My first car was an 87 Hyundai Excel POS. Despite Upnorth's statement, this car did not become a part of me.

Cheesehead Craig

11-23-2011, 03:39 PM

1970 Chevy Impala. Was my great grandmothers but she drove it like 50 miles/yr and when she couldn't drive anymore she sold it to me for $1. Thing burned oil like a MF'er. Kept a case of oil in the trunk as when I'd drive the 40 miles to Milwaukee, it would have gone through a quart of oil.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/krieg1981/1970ChevroletImpala4dr.jpg

Brando19

11-23-2011, 03:54 PM

My first car was a 2000 Mustang V6 Automatic, Hunter Green. I miss that car.
A few years later I fixed up a 1969 Chevelle. I put a 454 big block in it. I repainted it. It was red with black racing stripes and had black interior. I sold it last year when we had our first child.

MJZiggy

11-23-2011, 05:05 PM

In the 90's I saw one in California that had a license plate of 'UNSAFE'.

My first car was an 87 Hyundai Excel POS. Despite Upnorth's statement, this car did not become a part of me.

That just means you didn't crash it right. I learned to drive on a 1987 Camaro Berlinetta55 that exploded, but my first car was a 1964 Beetle. I got it and then the front half of the engine blew, and then the back half blew and left me stranded on the freeway, and then I sold it and the U joint went a week later.

Freak Out

11-23-2011, 05:25 PM

Where is the other thread we had like this?

digitaldean

11-25-2011, 01:49 PM

HowardRoark

11-25-2011, 02:37 PM

http://members.fortunecity.com/mang01/Nissan/images/Mvc-031f.jpg
First car was a white Datsun B-210 (similar to this one) that I got after I graduated from high school. Unfortunately, the struts/front suspension didn't last and it wasn't safe to drive. ABSOLUTE BLAST to drive for a small car.

Audi Fox.....had the same problem with front struts. Almost killed off half the Roark brothers and cousins one night driving home from Judges/RCs. Next day struts went and rammed into curb because couldn't control steering. Night before flying up I-43 at 2 am with a car full of people.

http://www.tylaska.net/pics/fox.jpg

George Cumby

11-30-2011, 08:38 AM

1983 Toyota 4x4 Pick-Up.

Griffith Custom Conversion (pre-Forerunner days).

Rolled and totalled in a blizzard outside of Laramie, Wyoming when rushing home from a rock-climbing road-trip to see my GF.

*sigh*

MJZiggy

11-30-2011, 07:15 PM

gbgary

12-03-2011, 09:24 PM

1st...'65 impala ss ('73, 19 yrs old)
2nd...'72 baracuda ('75)
3rd...'65 f100 shortbed p/u ('78)
4th...'80 150 flairside p/u (new)
5th...'83 mustang gt (new)
6th...'85 cutlass 442 (new, stolen)
7th...'86 maxima (new)
8th...'89 bronco 2 (new)
9th...'96 grand cherokee limited (new)
10th...'00 grand cherokee limited (new)
11th...'03 ranger p/u (new)
12th...'04 lightning p/u ('05)
13th...'07 corvette (new, 53 yrs old)