What you Would Have Had, What you Wanted or What you Missed Out On!

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What you Would Have Had, What you Wanted or What you Missed Out On!

Reply #15 – July 19, 2006, 04:36:25 PM

My first car was my parents old 1984 Chevy Celebrity sedan, 3.8L V6, white wall tires... Yeah, I was STYLIN'

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Reply #16 – July 19, 2006, 09:19:06 PM

Quote from: thunderjet302

First car: 1987 Plymouth Voyager SE with a 2.6L Mitsubishi I4. So no Red_LX you didn't have the slowest car know to man, I did:tg: .

I would dispute that :p The reliant was a 2.2 (90 hp I think), couple that with a 3 speed auto and 2.78 final drive ratio...blech.

Course if the voyager had the same tranny and gearing, maybe you're right.

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Reply #17 – July 19, 2006, 11:18:58 PM

First car: The '88 XR-7

What I wanted: Restore the '76 Camaro that I had that just sold on ebay. It's being picked up thursday.

What I missed out on: The '75 Camaro with a hopped up 350 and 4:10 posi rear with a busted frame that was going to be a donor for the '76. I had the car in my possession bought and paid for but my dad got rid of it.

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Reply #18 – July 20, 2006, 12:57:28 AM

My first car was a '78 Trans Am with a '70 LT1 in it. It was pretty much what I wanted - fast and cheap (I paid $600, in 1990). My father circled a bunch of ads for Chevettes, Omnis, Escorts, etc. I ignored the circled ads and went for the Monte Carlos, Firebirds, Camaros, etc (83-88 T-Birds and Cougars were too "new" at the time).

Missed opportunity: Early 60's Studebaker Silver Hawk with transplanted Hemi engine (the early 392 Hemi, though, not the 426). The car was beautiful, but the guy wanted $500 more than I had. I scrimped, saved, and even resorted to pulling tires out of the Canadian Tire dumpster and selling them, but by the time I got the money together the car was gone. I've never again seen one anywhere near that condition for anywhere near that price ($2800)

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Reply #19 – July 20, 2006, 05:06:28 AM

First car: 1981 chrysler lebaron.....200 dollar car that i'm lucky didnt kill me. lasted for a year, never registered the thing.

Car I wanted: My brother's 88 mustang GT. Black, beautiful, and a hell of a lot of work done to it performance wise.

Missed oportunity: My brother's mustang again. He got his then girlfriend( now wife ) pregnant and sold it to a dipshiznit who trashed the hell out of it about 4 months before i turned 16. I still hate him for it. ( JK)

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Reply #20 – July 20, 2006, 09:47:55 AM

Wanted: 98 Black Mustang Convertible GT 5-Speed... in 98.

Car I Got: 95 Grand Am GT. Worst car I ever owned! Yes even worse than TCR!

Missed Opp: 97 Black Cobra for $5000 a few years ago. It was clean, it was sweet, and the ex would have never let me be happy with it. So I ended up buying Darkthunder for $900.

Biggest Mistake: Selling my 86 Mustang to the Ex's father so he could put a 460 in it and sell it to someone else to never be seen again.

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Reply #21 – July 20, 2006, 12:19:39 PM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken

My father circled a bunch of ads for Chevettes, Omnis, Escorts, etc.

haha, that sounds almost exactly like what my dad did. I was looking at Mustangs, Thunderbirds, Cutlasses, Monte Carlos, Novas...anything that could be decently "hot rodded" that I thought I could afford. But since he was paying my insurance, he was shooting down all those ideas and suggesting I go look at cars like a Celebrity Euro Sport (because it was such a "sharp car")

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Reply #22 – October 01, 2006, 10:50:35 PM

i didnt let another one get away i got my 88 bird yesterday and im so happy i can say i own two cars!

had to dig this thread out of the dust pile under the dead rat.

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Reply #23 – October 02, 2006, 12:00:24 AM

This is a cool thread. I wonder how I missed it.

I wanted a late 60's muscle car and I had $1200 to spend. I found a primered 69 camaro with a 350 and subframe connectors with a for sale sign in the window that advertised $1200. I went home and called but the car had already sold that day so I called up my 2nd choice and ended up buying a 69 mustang coupe with an unmodded 351W for $1000. It was emerald green with a perfect body (even the bumpers were straight) and not a bit of rust. Hell, the interior was even in great shape (no rips, tears, cracks or anything). You couldn't touch that car for less than $7000 these days. (although that was back in 1984)

Thus began my journey into Fords...

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Reply #24 – October 02, 2006, 12:08:36 AM

There were a hundred cars I would have loved to have had for my first. Amongst them at the time were the the late 50's Jaguar XK150 and the MGA 1.9.

I got the MGA. Bought it from a neighbor a couple blocks away. $500 worth of paper route/ lawn mowing/snow shoveling/ house painting money bought her. $2000 more of the same and two years of every spare minute with my dad working on her and she was complete three months after my 16th birthday. Just like your first lay, I will always have fond memories of that girl. I still regret selling her, even though I more than tripled my money on her.

Spent the profits on a '73 Dodge Charger SE Brogham. Bright red with a black Landau roof, Opera windows, 340, 4bbl and a pistol grip 4-speed, Keystone Classics and goodyear G-60-15s all around.

If you can figure that one out, let me know.

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Reply #25 – October 02, 2006, 12:34:55 AM

My first vehicle was a 1974 Jeep J-10...ugly as sin, weighed as much as a small country, and probably burnt more gas in 3 days than a truckload of hemis....yet it was unstoppable.

I wanted a 10 year old (or so) Ford 4x4...this was 1993-1994.

My first car was the Escort GT...i picked it cause it was a stick shift, somewhat "sporty" and a helluva lot better than the Aspire my dad wanted me to buy.

next car was a ed dodge station wagon, K car..2.2...and i dont think they had 90 hp, i think at most 9..maybe 10 with good gas.
Went from that to my Mustang, then to my maroon Tbird....and on and on...

Best vehicle i've ever owned is my 92 F-150, i've beat the f*ckin piss out of it, and it has 250 thousand miles now, but will still light em up thru three gears on pavement....(big surprise, meh, truck)
aside from a waterpump, clutch, and O2 sensor, FPR, and plugs/wires again this spring, i've had zero probs with it
looks like shiznit now cause so many deer have bounced off of it...
worst i've driven is my grandpa's 88 chevy 1500 4x4...had a new dist at 31,000, plenty of x-case work..
.i dont care about brand loyalty...but by God late 80's chevy trucks just wern't built like fords of the same years...

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Reply #26 – October 02, 2006, 11:24:52 AM

Wanted: 5.0 5-speed Fox Mustang GT. Wouldn't even look at the 4 cylinders. Dad actually was with me on it too, except i had to pay for it while my brother got his car free.

Got: My brothers Bird

. My dad got him exactly what i wanted:nkhk:. 93 Black GT. He had more money then I did. Drives it like a granny too. Hit a guardrail and still says he's the better driver.

I'll get one sooner or later, but the bird will stay as long as it can still roll.

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Reply #27 – October 02, 2006, 11:59:05 AM

The 1st car that was supposed to be mine was a MINT 78 AMC Spirit AMX, 304/4-Speed, Black on Black. Paid the man and went with dad and the car trailer the next morning to get it and the old fart had sold it for twice as much and gave me my $$$ back!

So we then went and bought my actual first car, 1973 AMC Javelin SST 360/auto. The biggest POS on earth. This is the car that didn't make it into Joe Dirt for being TOO py! It was at least 7 different colors, rusted sooo bad the A-pillars didn't exist, and to top it off the owner dumped a gallon of house paint down the back! (It was mostly dark blue and rust, so we called it the skunk). Driving it home the shifter busted and my dad had to reach through the floor to manually shift the side linkage on the 727 Torque-Flight. Sold it to a boneyard same day.

Then I got a Subaru and sold that for a Nissan pickup. My kids will get Nissan pickups as their first cars. Slow, economical, stone-cold reliable, and even fun too boot!

I definately missed more then my share. 1972 Dodge Challenger Rallye Red with a 340, 1967 AMC Rebel drop-top SST 360, 1991 Eagle Talon TSi AWD Turbo Black, 1986 Mazda RX7 Blue, etc. My old man's 1970 AMC Mark Donahue Javelin 390/4-Speed hurts the worst. I WILL buy that car someday, I know where it lives!

Ones I NEVER should have sold: 1983 TC Silver/Raven 5-Speed, 1988 Cougar LS 5.0 Med Red/Red moonroof 3.73's, my first truck a 1986.5 Nissan Hardbody KC in tan with rust.