First Car? Love my Buicks but would love to have my first car back....1963 SS Impala 409 4 speed Convertible. Paid $899. Sold it to a friend. It was stolen and he did not have the money to pay the storage yard after it was recoved. Saw one like it a few year back for $30K (no hydraulics ). I still have recurring dreams that this car is parked in my garage and how glad I am for keeping it. Then I wake up.: ball:
I started driving in 1974 and my first car was a 1970 4 dr Olds Delta 88 with Rocket 455. Dad had the mechanic disconnect 2 barrels on the 4 barrel carb but the car still had plenty of get up and go. I won many inpromptu burn out contests in this car. Favorite cars.... I've been blessed since I currently own my favorites. I also have a soft spot for early F Body Trans-Ams and AMC AMX cars. The one car I'd really like to drive or own one day would be a BBB GS 4 speed car. Next Turbo Regal I own will be a 87 Limited Turbo with bench/ column- very rare sleeper. Owned a 66 Corvette Sting Ray Roadster w/327 4 speed for 12 yrs- car was really too nice to drive which always made me paranoid. Liked the car, really disliked most of the other owners attitudes! Sold the car and doubled my investment- got into Buicks- never looked back and never regretted it!
1973 Ford Pinto Wagon I am the 4th child in a familay of 8 kids with 2 older brothers and the cars I was exposed to were very exciting. 67 chevelle with the 327, manual trans, and steep gears, A 340 duster with a 4 spd, 66 pontiac tempest 2 spd auto, a ford galaxie convertable, 68 ford falcon with a v8, and a pontiac catalina 2dr with a 400 CI. Now these were all at an age where i was to young to drive but close enough to dream. So which one did I get to drive? A 1973 Pinto station wagon with a slipping transmission. followed by a Fiat 128 sedan. My first real car was purchased in 1998 and it was a 1970 skylark 350, 4 bl. my first v8 in 20 years. I have since put in a 455 Music to my ears 455 open headers. now tamed to 2.5 exhausts. but when i get longing for spring just fire up the 455 and enjoy the music. What a primal sound. irt gets my heart just a thumpin. Joe B
mine was a 1979 olds cutlass i got it the day after i got my license only took about a month to kill the tires and blow up the slug 260 v8. After installing 1 72 350 olds, 11 trans, 2 rearends and wreaking it for the 4th time my parents made me sell it. My mom found my skylark, in pieces in a garage here in ohio, and in michigan from a guy she worked with. Thanks mom.:laugh:
This is my first car! It's a 1963 Chrysler, with a 361 big block, pushbutton 727 and 2.76 geared 8 3/4. Honestly! My dad gave it to me for my 16th birthday 3 years ago. Oldest car in school parking lot. I recently put an Edelbrock DP4B with an old Carter AFB in place of the old 2bbl, and boy, did it pick up! Best time with the 2bbl was 18.48 @ 72mph. Hopefully, a bit faster with the Carter. I'm in the situation of possibly selling it now (as my sig notes). It's a tough decision! I know you'll all tell me to keep it!ou:
In order: Lets see...1984 olds cutlass (still own it :TU: ) 1970 Skylark (still have it) 1979 Firebird Esprit (trashed) 1979 Firebird Trans Am Pro-Street (still have it) 1990 Cadillac Sedan Deville (still have it) 1970 Skylark Custom (will aquire in about a few weeks or so) Thats my list, the other thing that I own is a 1979 Honda CM-400 bike (fully restored and ready to go) Needless to say I can't use the excuse "My car broke down and I can't get to work" My boss knows I have 3 other to get my butt there :laugh: Larry
My firsr car was a 68 Wildcat Custom 4 door hardtop. I paid it 700 canadian $ when I was 15 years old and learned how to drive with it... a few months before I got my driver's liscence! It was my daily driver for eight years and a few accidents until I got the fatal one (to my car) in february 2000. I loved that car! It has 3.42 posi rear and had very decent performance for such a big car! I hope I'll get another one like this one day!
'71 Pontiac Grand Safari. Huge monster wagon w/455 4bbl, clamshell tailgate, every button imaginable back then. Would smoke my buddies' 350 Camaro with ease on a straight road. (Curves, of course, were a different story.) Put the back seat down and it had all kinds of room for..............well let's suffice it to say it had all kinds of room.
the mazda mx-6 i had when i was 16 was ok... wrecked it... the isuzu amigo i replaced it with is udder crap... so i'd say my first car (well first real car) would be this gs i got off of my grandma
My first car was a '67 Barracuda but my first NEW car was a 1973 Buick Century 350-4 with a 3.42 axle. Black with Burgundy interior. It was a nice sleeper. At 48,000 miles I redid the 350 with factory 10.25 pistons and shaved the heads .030 and added a .484 lift 284 duration cam. The car was almost too much fun. Al my friends had Chevelles or Novas instead of a Buick but when they got dusted by the Buick it made it all worth while. My first fun encounter with a Buick and probably what has made me a closet Buick freak for years was my mom's 64 Wildcat. It was a 4 door hardtop but she ordered the car and bought it with the 2-4 425 engine. Thank God I was too young to drive that one or I would have done something stupid back then. )
first car my first car was a 77 cutlas salon electric everything with the floor shifter it had a 50 rocket motor i was young didn't know what i had got locked up and sold it for 250 to get out i hate i did that to this day because she is still running strong (see car all the time)
my first car my first car was an 82 honda accord...before anybody thought they were race cars...but the first car i remember my mom driving when i was a kid was a 78 lesabre... :grin: my favorite car, my 68 buick special (of course), 55-57 corvette, and dodge stealth (never drove one, i just like the body style)... scott
My first car was a 1969 VW Beetle complete with no floors, no heat, no brakes and a major oil leak. My dad and I fixed it up and that's what I learned to drive in. Cold ride in the Michigan winter but we sure had fun. Next car was a 1970 Chevelle 350 4bbl. Ended up with 3 tickets in four weeks: Brow: so it was replaced with another VW. Since then I've own 5 more Chevelles (68'-75') and a 1967 Pontiac LaMans. I love the A cars. Now I just need to talk the wife into letting me get my Buick.:grin:
My first car was a '72 Skylark Custom in Slivermist with a black interior. It had 111,000 miles on it and Dad lent me $750 to buy it in April of 1982. It was rusty in the quarters. I spent a ton of money over the next few years on paint and body work, I rebuilt a 455 and dropped it in in 1984. A GS hood and a 3:08 posi were added later. Two years later came the Crower cam and Kenne Bell chrome headers. I had one of the fastest cars in town. Everyone knew who I was. The car defined me. The cancer wouldn't stay out of the quarters...driving in snow and salt on the streets of Bellevue and Omaha were too much. I had to make a decision...keep the car and be consumed or get through college. Right after I graduated from college, I saw an ad for a GS 455 in the paper. I wenht to look at the car and it was my old Skylark. Some kid 6 years younger than me thought he had a GS 455. He rebuilt the engine but had done little else to it. I felt bad breaking the news to him. He was truly shocked. Along the line, someone had passed the car off as a GS. There was no GS badging on it anywhere! I added 455 empblems to the fenders at some point and I guess that's where it started. I often wish I had made him a stupid offer and been able to buy it back...but that was a dozen or so years ago. I happy with the memories of racing on Abbott drive north of the airport. I raced a 442 with a 455/4speed setup. The car was built!, but the guy clearly didn't know how to drive it or launch it. I beat him three times. When we parked and looked under each other's hoods, his expression and the disbelief in his voice was priceless. It looked like a daily driver under the hood, becasue that's what it was. I had a qjet, stock intake, a cam and headers. I even had a stock GS aircleaner on it. His was beautifully dressed up, but it didn't nmake his car fast enough!
First Car :TU: My first car was a 1957 Triumph TR 3 . 2 seats 4 cyls 4 speed 2 sidedraft one barrels! It was rated at 100 HP and ran 15's in the quarter, hooked up quick and with solid lifters would wind up forever. Biggest problem I had with the car was killing generators from too many R'S! My favorite car was my second car a 1960 Corvette with a 292 C.I. dual quads fuelie cam and solids fuelie heads Hedman headers Mallory Rev Pol 4 speed with 4:11 0r 4:88 gears depending on the competition in town for the weekend. Car ran low 13's high 12's with slicks and open headers. I would love to have that car back! I will have to admit out of all the muscle cars I have owned big and small blocks my current 455 Stage 1 has more torque than all the rest of them put together! JAKE 1972 Skylark
My very first daily driver was a 1966 Chevy Bel-Air with 126,000 miles on it sunk about $2,000 into it then sold it for $800. i had nothing but pronlems with it. The guy i sold it to drove it Coney Island and as he was parking it the engine siezed the same day he bought it from me. When i sold it it had 173,000 miles on it. Lucky me i guess!:Brow:
My first car was a 79 Malibu 4 door with the 200CI V-6. I guarantee this car was slower than anyone elses first car. A street sweeper or zamboni woulda blew it away. Of course thats probably why I'm still alive to write this. Dan
my first car first car was a 1953 studabaker in 1965 from my mom. all rusted out but fun to tare apart. then a 58 vw bug with almost 5oo,ooo miles. couldn't kill it:beer :beer :grin: my first stock car race was in a 49 olds staight 8 with a rope for a seat belt. guy brougt it to the track and needed a driver. great car till it hit a tree.ou:
