First car/trucks!

[Twiztid_66c10]

my 1st car 1967 pontiac gto

[leftcoast66]

Mine was my c10... Bought it just before I turned 15 after my dad told me no way in hell could I have his galaxie cuz that was the original plan. He caught wind that it was 1 of 400 made w/ that option setup, and his dad gave it to him as a first car. Had the c10 bagged before we even had a motor for it.
As it sat back then:

[jrsmith_2010]

my first car was a 1989 dodge colt i bought for 100 bucks from a neibor to drive to and from school. it was a good car and in good shape but i didnt like it, i wanted a chevy truck. so before i started driving it to school i traded it plus 450 bucks for my 79.

not mine, but same color


when i got the 79


and a more recent pic

[62 short step]

Here is my first truck. 77 chevy, 350, 350 combo.

[jonzcustomshop]

my first car was a 56 chev 2 dr sedan, we were a little slow putting it together, so the first car I drove,through highschool was a 70 camaro 350 4spd.
poor camaro has been parked since '93, I still have both.

[Revoh]

First car was this '74 Buick Century that I bought for $800 in 1988. I did a lot of "fixin' up" before it was beat to death in a hail storm.

[LILRED66]

Here is my first ride in 1981. It is a '65 Chevy C10 lwb fleet.

[LILRED66]

Here is a Polaroid of my '66 Chevy C10 in 1983.

[littlee_domn8r]

Don't have any pics of my first ones. First car was a rusted out 55 chevy 4 door with a 6 cylinder in it. I remember how the front end would start rolling when I hit 90mph. It blew up a year later & I parked it. Never did do anything with it. First truck was a 75 chevy 1/2 ton with full time 4 wheel drive. I replaced the 55 with an 80 monte carlo & the 75 with a 94 dodge dakota sport.

[1Bad62Pro/Street]

Bump...
For the newbies....;-)

[aerotruk63]

First truck 1962 K10, loved that truck. Had the head rebuilt then I reinstalled it during a snow storm. Ran like a dream. Always started except one day I could only start it with booster cables. Did I check to see if the battery posts were clean? On the outside they look great, but finally my Dad secretly cleaned the inside of the battery posts while I walked to work. After a couple of days I went back to the truck and it started fine on it's own. Dad just smiled! Dummy!

[1Bad62Pro/Street]

Originally Posted by aerotruk63

First truck 1962 K10, loved that truck. Had the head rebuilt then I reinstalled it during a snow storm. Ran like a dream. Always started except one day I could only start it with booster cables. Did I check to see if the battery posts were clean? On the outside they look great, but finally my Dad secretly cleaned the inside of the battery posts while I walked to work. After a couple of days I went back to the truck and it started fine on it's own. Dad just smiled! Dummy!

I like it! She looks tough in that picture!
Nice tires on her!!!
Front bumper made for ramming fords off the road.....teehee

[61_FL_Apache]

Not my actual car, but same color. 1968 VW Bug. I wore that thing out.

[Malibu Monte]

Here is my '78 Malibu I bought when I was 14.

Still have it (and always will) this is it 8 years later

[tenni126]

My first car was a 1963 Mercury Comet 4 door Custom. 260V8, 3 speed auto. It got t-boned by dumb-ass Ron Greene and his '79 monte carlo (alot like MalibuMonte's) while he was trying to show off at an intersection. Still pissed about that all these years later...
I had to sell it 'cause the Unibody was tweaked. Now I have two more 63's: a 2 door hard top and a convertible S-22 with the 4 speed! Both projects, as I've put all the time and money into the C10...much more useable toy

[Surfdaddy]

First car. 1973 Vega GT bought in '76 wrecked it in 6 months (Dumb kid!!!). First truck 1960 Ford 100 stakebed. First suburban 1964 with a blown up 292 that I saw broken down on teh freeway. I put a note on the window saying that if the owner was tired of working on a broken down truck to call me. He did. swapped out for a 327. Frist GMC 1963 1/2 ton.

[markeb01]

When I was 14 my parents promised me a car if I got better grades, so I did. My first car was supposed to be a 1947 Chevy coupe, but the owner kept dragging his feet. So my dad found a 1946 Chevy two door sedan for $35. About a month later the coupe came available, so I got that as well for the same price. I worked hard and paid them back for both cars. For a while I was allowed to do whatever I wanted with them, so I repainted the dash in the sedan, and at the same time completely dismantled the coupe in preparation for a V8/4 speed installation. Sadly I have no pictures of either one.

Of course I had no money, no job, and parental support vaporized the further I got into the project. Tearing it all apart probably wasn’t a very good plan. I was told I could keep one or the other, so the coupe went to the wrecking yard, both because it was now just a pile of parts, and I discovered I actually preferred the sedan body style.

About this time a 54 Chevy two door came available with a broken transmission. I don’t remember why, but I was allowed to get the 54 but the 46 had to go. Probably because they thought I couldn’t fix it and there wouldn’t be any risk of me driving it. I never really wanted the 54 but I figured I could fix the transmission and sell it, putting all the profits into the 46. A friend agreed to store the 46 at his house until I got the 54 sold, but while in storage it somehow managed to side swipe a building messing up the entire passenger side and I lost interest in getting it back.

The 54 turned out to be a cherry 2nd owner car and I began liking it (so much that I owned five more over the years). It was originally split pea soup green and I wanted to paint it black. Since it was my dad’s spray gun, he insisted it had to be turquoise, and he was going to do the painting. It turned out terrible and looked like it was done with a vacuum cleaner. Here’s the oldest photo I have of it, in the high school parking lot, taken by a friend in photo class.



A few weeks later with the parents away for the weekend, I ran it right back in the garage and painted it black (my first paint job). Here are a couple of pictures of it in 1966:





There was one run in the front of the hood, but was happy with it. I put in a blended Bel Air windshield, a Dragfast floor shift, a rebuilt shaved head and a chrome carburetor cover my neighbor donated. I wound that six out like a Ferrari and blew the transmission 13 different times, and once blew up the clutch. It was sold right after I left for the Marines. The new owner painted it purple with white fenderwells. This is the last picture taken before it disappeared, while I was away in beautiful exotic Southeast Asia:

[hotrod66]

me with my first truck. it did not look that good when dad gave it to me at age 10. i spent 7 years getting it ready for my senor year of high school and lots of lunch money and mom wondered why i was so skinny. its a 66 big window with a 61 hood and a 60 grill. a 350 with a small cam and a powerglide (that powerglide was my birth day/ Christmas present when i was 14). i still have her she is just a little shorter and all apart now.

[Stepside65]

My first truck was a 92' F#rd Explorer. Pic is not mine but looked just like it before I wrecked it.

[kirtzen]

This isn't the exact model but it's close. 1983 mazda 323.

[narx66gmc]

still got it.. getting it ready for my 30th bday in 15 days. it will have been almost 12 years since i have driven it, i'm excited!


and now how it sits.

[Bugeyev8]

First car was the Bugeye Sprite...still got it, but the 62 came a few days after when my grandpa passed away...still have the 62 as well

I have had over 100 cars since and these two still have a place in my heart

pics is a scan of a poloroid..wish I had used a real camera...well...it was the late 90s

[cb1965]

1987 buick regal. got it about six or so years ago. very reliable and fun. the way it sits now.

[Corts60]

Here is my '73 C-20. I had a lot of fun with that truck!




Thank God my interior skills are better now...

[jocko]

heeeeere's Bessy! I miss her very much... Bought it with paper route money when I was 15 (didn't look like this at that point though, it barely ran actually). 57 bel air with a 68 327 (.030 over, pj gear drive, edelbrock tr1y, holley 600s. Looked great, ran like a skeered rabbit, guzzled gas more than any other vehicle I've ever owned. AWESOME!) I'm a little less "chromey" now, but hot rodder at heart I guess. I'm gonna go cry now.