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12/10/2007 6:00 am
1954 Austin Healey 100-4 Roadster (great first car)
I bought the Healey (4 Banger) used in 1960, it was a typically unreliable British machine, but when it ran, it was a totally fun car to drive!
I told my mom I was buying a foreign import economy car and when my dad and I brought it home and she saw it...she yelled and said that's no economy car, that's a racecar!!!
My poor father sure caught heck for letting me buy it!
Fred
12/10/2007 7:12 am
1976 Chevy Monte Carlo, Red with White Swivel
Bucket Seats and a 350 V8.Vinyl Landau top that was white. I was 18 at the time. LOL
12/10/2007 7:27 am
71 Chev Monte Carlo SS454 - loaded w/goodies
12/10/2007 7:40 am
A 1979 Chevy swb window van with the 400-4bbl...
...after salesman lost original order, vehicle arrived four months later in Feb. '79--just in time for the second gas crisis. 10-12 mpg and a faulty gas gauge resulted in it only lasting 6 months before my second new car, a '79 Volare Duster T-top with the 318 (one of my favorites).
12/10/2007 8:02 am
1969 Dodge Superbee 383 magnum with 4 speed
12/10/2007 8:03 am
1987 Ford Mustang GT 5.0 ... I was only 19
12/10/2007 8:07 am
A Dodge Colt station wagon (Mitsubishi)
It was silver with red interior and manual transmission. I don't remember the year - late 1970's somewhere. Nice car. Traded it for a 1980 Fiat 2000 spyder in the same color scheme. That was a fabulous car.
12/10/2007 4:28 pm
First new car - 1964 Buick Skylark 2dr HT, dark blue, V6, Hurst 4spd stick, positrack....
12/10/2007 6:23 pm
69 Chevelle SS 396, 325 HP, 4spd, air conditioning, bench seat, hardtop, burnished brown with black interior, with headlight washers, among other options.
12/10/2007 8:01 pm
1972 Mercury Capri 2000 with a 4-speed. Got it when I graduated high school.
Two years later I bought my second new car. I upgraded to a 1974 Capri 2800 V-6 with a 4-speed and a sun roof.
12/10/2007 8:23 pm
Ron ......You hang around Berea Manners back then? Remember a guy named Chic with a black 63 Ford? How about Jack Hansen with his 63 409?
13/10/2007 12:44 am
!944 Sherman in 1951 I forget what color
13/10/2007 2:17 am
Hummm...brand new....I have owned over 60 cars....ashamed to say my first brand new 1:1 was a 1972 Chevy Vega Hatchback in a light blue...and that pathetic 4 banger married to an automatic. I was a lowly paid DJ in El Dorado, Arkansas in those days and the car was $2000 included PS, PB, AC, AM-FM radio, raised white letter Firestones....had a pin hole leak in the valve cover, and when you started it a thin stream of oil would be squirting....dealer fixed it. Ironically, that was the only problem I ever had with it...kept it one year..next new car was a 1973 Gremlin X....I was really on role with my new car choices!!
13/10/2007 2:24 am
Probably better that way Bob!
13/10/2007 6:37 am
yep...chic burke burt??.....he lived on fry road - he was older than the guys i ran with....black over red...think it was a 406 tri-power....and jack hansen sounds real familiar...maybe he was younger than i...i graduated in 64 from berea...
my email is userwcd1@aol.com ill tell you anything you want to know....lol