What was your first car?

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What was your first car?

Reply #60 – December 07, 2009, 02:19:33 PM

my first car is my 66 mustang
but my FIRST BOUGHT car was my 1988 lincoln, and my FIRST LEGAL car was my 1990 lincoln.
I have never bought a car with anything smaller then a 302 v8:) Doing my part to save cars from C4C, and with illegal exhausts to disturb the peace, and burn all the gas them hybrids save! I plan to drive only my v8's till I cant afford them as a DD anymore then buy a 4 banger.

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Reply #61 – December 07, 2009, 03:02:25 PM

My first ride was an 87 Buick electra. Had about 300K on the clock and one day, after I'd owned it a couple of months, it just quit running. The engine just stopped, steamed a little and never lived again, the shop I took it to told me I had cracked the block, but it didn't make any noise and would crank over just fine. Looking back I don't think that motor was blown, but I would have never fallen in love with the 5.0 if it hadn't. A couple of days later I bought an 89 grand marquis then a year or so after that my cougar.

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Reply #62 – December 07, 2009, 03:27:59 PM

Mine was a 78 Buick Regal, I drove it for a month and the cam and valve guides went. It only had 54,000 miles so it was rebuilt and driven a couple more years before I totaled it. It wasn't really totaled but I really screwed up the front end. Then I bought a beat 79 Mustang GHIA, ran it for a while and put another front end on the Regal and drove it until it threw a rod through the oil pan. Had a couple new cars that didn't work out then went back to my Mustang until I traded it off for my Bird'

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Reply #63 – December 08, 2009, 03:09:51 AM

Mine was a $300 '73 LTD that someone transplanted a 410 into. That car was fast as hell, at least first car fast. I ended up beating it half to death then a guy I knew bought it and promptly yanked the engine for his truck.

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Reply #64 – December 10, 2009, 12:21:00 PM

Quote from: Turbojet;301192

My first car was a 1970 Mustang Mach1 with a 351C Ram Air.
Bought it wrecked, roof was down to the seats, all windows were busted out except for one rear quarter window. Paid $525 for the car and only cost me $300 to get it back on the road. My Dad, brother and I did the work.
Check out gas price in the pic, now I'm telling my age.

Wow, Ron! That thing was sweet! You guys did a great job fixing it. It sure would be nice to see gas prices like that again! Not that it'll ever happen but we can dream.

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Reply #65 – December 16, 2009, 07:08:33 PM

My first vehicle was a 79 Chevy Luv 4x4. My dad let me have it when I was 12, shortly after this pic. Pic linked because of pic with me and my first elk's head. Don't click if that sort of stuff offends you:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f6/187sks/Old_School/1992-11-Andy1stElk-0005.jpg

First vehicle I bought with my own money was a 1978 Chevy Blazer 4x4 with a modded '67 Corvette 327 under the hood making 450+hp. I bought it for $1800 in 1997. It had more than $10k worth of engine and transmission work receipts that came with it. Unfortunately I have no pictures of it.

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Reply #66 – December 16, 2009, 08:45:37 PM

I think I have told this story before, but it's appropriate to re-tell it in this thread.

I was given my dad's 84 Cougar XR-7 when I was 15. It ran pretty rough. It ran so bad... (crowd says "how bad was it?") so bad that you had to get running starts at hills. It ran so bad, I timed 0-60 at 18 seconds!

But for some reason I loved it. It was so comfortable. It just fit me. I didn't know anyhting about cars, so I bought a haynes manual and traced my problems to bad fuel injectors and pressure regulator. I got a job and saved up for parts. I tore into it and replaced the injectors and pressure regulator. It ran really well then! I also replaced the turbo since the bearings were going out on mine. It ran awesome then! My dad and I sanded and painted it together. It turned out pretty good.

But all my friends had V8s and I had no idea how rare an 84 XR-7 was (this was way back before Al Gore invented the internet). I saw an 87 XR-7 at a local car lot with the 5.0. It fit me nice too, and had the V8, so I traded my 84 in for a lousy $800.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the 87 too, but I missed the 84 somethin' fierce. I noticed one day that my old car was sitting behind the car lot where I traded it in. I stopped to ask him what was up. He said the motor sucked a valve, and that I could buy the car back for $300 if I wanted it. Well, I still lived at home, and had to ask permission from the 'folks. By the time I went back, it was gone. He said a mechanic up the street bought it. On my way home, I saw it up on a lift in a garage. I thought, "oh well, at least somebody will be driving it again"...

One day later the garage burned down with my car still up on the lift. I saw it when I drove by again. Poor thing...

Here's some pics of it back then. Notice the slayer bumper sticker, hehe, I was a mullet-wearing headbanger

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Reply #67 – December 16, 2009, 09:12:47 PM

^ Its my avatar. Bought in Jan 91 after I got out of school. It took a long time to find an 88 xr7, since they weren't made any more. I had looked since fall of the previous year. What a beaut...

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Reply #68 – December 16, 2009, 10:17:10 PM

Now I think about it. I had a 76 Dodge Aspen as a hand me down for 2-3 months before my Monarch. It rusted out faster then I could patch it. lol

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Reply #69 – December 17, 2009, 09:17:58 AM

my first was my '85 Cougar. was a 3.8L that I convetered to a 255 V8, then a stock 302 out of a crown vic, then I swapped in a stock 302 that I converted to carb from an '88XR-7. went through 7 transmissions, and 3, 7.5" diffs before I finally put an 8.8" in.

Man did I ever do a lot of hideous "mods" to that thing.... looking back at the pics now I shake my head and laugh.... this is the only pic I even like of it...