Your First Ride (Pictures Please) [Archive]

Mike Paul

10-23-2003, 06:32 PM

I don't know if you guys have done this before, but here's a picture of my first vehicle. It was (RIP) a 63 chev pu shortbox fleetside with a buzzin half dozen and a 3 on the tree. Fun truck, paid $75 for it from my buddy with the 69 Camaro. Lot's of good mammories in that truck if you know what I mean.LOL AS you can tell by the pic it was spring(1987) and even though the snow was still around it was nice out and time to get the rides out. So lets see em guys and gals. Mike http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

**DONOTDELETE**

10-23-2003, 07:52 PM

I'm not sure that cameras had been invented when I bought my first one. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

McGrath

10-23-2003, 07:57 PM

I wish I had a picture of my first ride. It was a '65 SS Impala, Black w/black Interior. 62,000miles, and in really good original condition when I got it.

Traded a '79 Yamaha DT 250 for it.

hillbillyhellcat

10-23-2003, 08:08 PM

http://photo.starblvd.net/hillbillyhellcat/2-3-3.jpg

1971 Ford Torino 500, 351W, '69 4V heads, MSD, Edelbrock 600, Shift Kit, Gear Drive... Pretty much all show and no go. Then again, I was still in high school. Bought it Oct 97 and sold it a couple of years ago. Lots of fun and headaches with it.

beatnik

10-23-2003, 08:34 PM

Here my first, I think I was 15 and wouldn't be driving for another 5 months but I had already finished all the body work and it was waiting for paint. I had it for 11 years before I finally finished it for the 3rd time and decided to sell it.

MercMan1951

10-23-2003, 09:29 PM

My first car was not traditional to this board, but I love these cars (as any of you that have seen my website can see), I subsequently have owened countless more. They are great cars, and make good daily's (drivers): wish I could take back that one wrong left turn, I'd probably still have it: this is the before pic...

MercMan1951

10-23-2003, 09:31 PM

this is after...heartbroken....

MercMan1951

10-23-2003, 09:34 PM

the frame was bent...beyond my means at the time to repair...had the car less than a year...Jay remembers...

MercMan1951

10-23-2003, 09:35 PM

...

RileyRacing

10-23-2003, 09:37 PM

That's my Aries in the background http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Not my first ride though, Kev is the only one with pics of that one http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Jay

Tony

10-23-2003, 09:47 PM

Here's my first ride...
NO it looked NOTHING like this when i bought it http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif..
I was 14 and cut lawns in the neighborhood to get the $ to buy it.Pop's helped when i couldn't come up with the last couple hundred..
I paid a grand for it, that was 15 years ago.
It took me years to get it to this point..

I still have it!!
This pic was taken last summer.
http://photo.starblvd.net/~Packrat/3-3-3.jpg

Rat...

NealinCA

10-23-2003, 10:08 PM

My first ride...

http://photo.starblvd.net/~NealinCA/1-1-1.jpg

Paid $250 for it almost 23 years ago. I was 13 years old then.

My one brother still has the 57 210 2 dr sedan he bought for $125 when he was 14, and my oldest brother still has his 41 Ford p/u he has had since he was 14. He had to pay big bucks ($10) for his though, because it was an old Ford http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Here is the family line up last year at Paso, along with my dad's 40 coupe.

http://photo.starblvd.net/~NealinCA/4-1-2.jpg

Neal

SleestakJones

10-23-2003, 10:18 PM

I got my first car at age 24 when I moved to florida Growing up in Boston I always took the train.
Here it is 72 sedan deville
The Green Bean aka The Titanic aka The Boston Whaler

http://photo.starblvd.net/~SleestakJones/6-1-5.jpg?i=1069148272

BELLM

10-23-2003, 10:25 PM

First car was a 27 T coupe, channeled over z'ed model A frame, suicide frontend, Olds engine with hydromatic. Friend helped me build in 1963. Was 16 yrs old. No photos. Would kill to still have that car! Sold the body for $25 put a roadster body on frame. Still no photos. Probly hadnt invented cameras then.

CLSSY56

10-23-2003, 10:27 PM

I feel like I am the odd ball here now...this is my old RX-7...
http://www.htc.net/~clssy56/CLSSY56/IMAGE006.JPG

The rotary engine in that car was great. Red line was at 7k and 3rd (4sp) would do 80 mph. Top end was around 150, I had it up to 140 many many many times (happens when your 16). At times you could get a 4th gear scratch http://www.amcforum.net/yabbimages/burnout03.gif It was a '80, which actually was the 3rd year ( a few made it out in '78). It was completely stock except for the fog lights I added and the stereo. I'd love to have another one again...especially if it was my old car!

Rocket88

10-23-2003, 10:30 PM

Here's mine, I was 9 years old. Stuffed it into the wall numerous times, the old man always had it looking good for race day. I wish I could find it now and buy it back.

GR-RRR

10-23-2003, 10:33 PM

My first, didn't look like this when I bought 25 years ago.

10-23-2003, 11:09 PM

50 Ford sedan.
Black, then Titian red.

Looking out from the inside.
Main Street, Ventura, California circa 1956.

plan9

10-23-2003, 11:11 PM

err, its a small corner of my 67 camino... got this when i was 16 or 17. 396, merlin heads, 800 double pumper, points dist. crane cam 9.5:1 etc etc. stock chrome valve covers (needed some pounding to clearance the rockers), no billet, or flashy stuff except the aluminum manifold... i was going for a sleeper.

still have it to this day http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

10-23-2003, 11:13 PM

Third car in 1959.

This pic circa 1958, the 49 belonged to my best friend.
I bought it when he went into the Army.
That's him in the pic and we're still friends to this day.

plan9

10-23-2003, 11:15 PM

awesome rides C9 ...old pictures are always fun to look at http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

10-23-2003, 11:16 PM

This pic circa July 2002.
Same guy as in the pic of the 49.
The sorta yellow roadster is his 28, my 32 to the right.

Still car crazy after all these years....

Anderson

10-23-2003, 11:27 PM

My '64 Elky, Moon disc stage...

Anderson

10-23-2003, 11:28 PM

final flamed stage...

hotrodladycrusr

10-23-2003, 11:43 PM

Me at 16 with my very first car. A 1968 Camaro convert. I purchased it with my own money, which I earned the previous summer when I was 15, by babysitting 40 hours per week all summer long.

http://photo.starblvd.net/~hotrodladycrusr/3-1-4.jpg

I've had one ragtop or another consistantly since I've been 16. Can you tell I love cruzn topless http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Stoner

10-24-2003, 12:40 AM

Here's me:

1960 Dodge Matador.
1986 vintage mullet.

This thing even had an aftermarket turn signal ballast that played "Love Me Tender." Don't laugh-it was a birthday gift from my folks...

Bigcheese327

10-24-2003, 12:46 AM

Denise! We share the same "first"! Awesome car! Cute girl too. ;^)

Tinbender

10-24-2003, 01:10 AM

Not my first car, but my first paint.

DoubleClutch

10-24-2003, 01:22 AM

Wish I still had her!

Revhead

10-24-2003, 02:52 AM

This is actually like my 10th car or so, but you see I've gone full circle. My first looked almost the same but it was an '87 instead of '92, 350 auto instead of 305 5spd and it didn't have t-tops. It was the same red and both formulas.

Humboldt Cat

10-24-2003, 03:51 AM

Great pics and stories, guys! I'll hafta get to Kinko's and pic-scan my firsts, the late Kramer car, a '72 Buick Skylark was my first running car, my first actual was a '69 Camaro I failed to ressurrect to life. It was hopped up and had lived previous days in New York State, which caused massive rusting in the floor boards. Sweet hopped-up SBC in it, too.
C9- was that roadster pic taken anywhere along the Lost Coast? Trinidad (Ca.), maybe?

50Fraud

10-24-2003, 04:37 AM

My first at a high school car show circa 1956. The Merc was a gift from my folks when my mom got a newer car; I don't think I appreciated at the time what a cool present that was.

Cruisin'

10-24-2003, 05:14 AM

After 3 Motorcycles, At age 17 my first ride was a 1955 Morris Minor "Split Window" Van, no pix but primer green and rather rough.
Then came the 1961 Rover 3 Litre (with a few subtle mods)

Cruisin'

10-24-2003, 05:33 AM

Then at 19 I bought this and repainted it the RED you see.327,4BBL, Z28 Cam, 3 spd. etc.

2tall2beahotrodder

10-24-2003, 06:52 AM

not done butt...

Dragrace66

10-24-2003, 08:26 AM

http://www.eurotruck-importers.com/images/Kuebel2-02.jpg

Petejoe

10-24-2003, 08:50 AM

Not this one but one just like it. Oh the girls I had back there. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/image_uploads/178155-pump16JPG.jpg

rat bastad

10-24-2003, 08:53 AM

My 1971 VH 770 Charger (Mopar). Tuff 360, full man 727 and 4.56 9". Has run 11.40 at 121 mph.

Bought it when I was 17 and still have it although it was pretty wasted when I got it.

Thanx....Rat

rat bastad

10-24-2003, 09:06 AM

One more....

Uncle Pancakes

10-24-2003, 09:49 AM

My first ride was a 1979 Vespa 200 that hauled ass up to about 70 MPH and was nicknamed the anti-christ. Wish I had a pic of it! Guess I wanted to be just like Toad in AG. Cool stories and photos folks, keep em' coming...

4t64rd

10-24-2003, 10:05 AM

66 Starfire, the one with the concave back window, like a Pontiac GP.

This isn't a pic of the actual car, but it was just like it from 1980-84. 'Cept mine had the 2 bar spinner wire wheel covers from my Uncles 64 Cutlass Conv't, he saved them when he sold his in 69. Mine was the uncolor beige with a parchment bucket seat interior. The engine did look just like this pic though, M/T valve covers. and all. I replaced the smoky 10.25/1 and put in a 8.5/1 out of a Delmont. Replaced 2bbl and single exhaust with the Starfire the 4bbl. and duals. Drank my first beer with my Dad after it fired up first try.

Paul

10-24-2003, 10:34 AM

I was given my first car when I was 16, a 1935 Dodge 4dr,

that same summer my brother and I went halves on a 1956 New Yorker 4dr

for $25.00 apiece, he was only thirteen and my dad made me buy his half from him.

I still have the Dodge but the Chrysler is long gone.

here's the Dodge, at the old house, unchanged for almost 30 years!

http://photo.starblvd.net/~60s_style/1-2-4.jpg

somewhere I have a picture of the Chrysler, I started to make a "El Camino"

out of it using the back of a cab off an International pickup.

unfortunately it ended up at the junk yard with a good running 354 still in it.

Paul

Antibilly

10-24-2003, 10:43 AM

1950 chevy.......I did this when I lived in SD!!

Smokin Joe

10-24-2003, 11:02 AM

Here's one just like it except the color. Mine was 2 tone green. 1958 Pontiac SuperChief 2 door.

10-24-2003, 11:17 AM

[ QUOTE ]
C9- was that roadster pic taken anywhere along the Lost Coast? Trinidad (Ca.), maybe?

[/ QUOTE ]

Pic of the roadster was taken at Mugu Rock.
Mugu Rock is a little ways south of the Point Mugu Naval Weapons Air Station which is just south of Oxnard.
North of Malibu and in fact we were headed for Neptune's Net, a great seafood place along the coast that's a destination for Harleys, Hot Rods, surfers and yuppies.
Regardless, it all works well for everybody.

The pic below is of Mugu Rock and taken a few miles further south along the coast.

Incidentally, Mugu Rock was one of the first landmarks seen - or at least recognized - by many guys returning from Vietnam.

38Chevy454

10-24-2003, 11:56 AM

Here is my first car, still have it, 23 years now. My father was original owner, and I have had it since I was 16. 68 GTO, all stock and original now. I used to have American Racing wheels on it, looked kinda like the Grand National Buick wheels. I will never sell this car, too much sentimental value. Plus it runs and drives great, just has an appetite for high octane fuel with the stock 10.75 to 1 compression ratio.

Rix2Six

10-24-2003, 12:00 PM

! don't know if I have any pics of it but my 1st car was a blue metalic'67 Mustang Coupe A-Code 2bbl 289. Put slotted dish mags on it, lifted the ass end (HiJacker air shocks!). Rebuilt the motor with a mild cam 4bbl carb and aluminum manifold and Hedman headers. Between my brother and I, we've had at least one Mustang in the family since I bought this first one.

Rainer

10-24-2003, 12:10 PM

my first was a 77 camaro - original for one year and than I packed in a 468ci with dual shot nos http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
http://berg.heim.at/kaprun/431934/77Drag.jpg
http://berg.heim.at/kaprun/431934/468cui1.jpg

36couper

10-24-2003, 12:30 PM

Although this isn't a pic of my first car, its just like it except mine was a lighter blue. '67 Pontiac Beaumont SD 396/375 horse (Cdn version of a Chevelle). Mine had the original hub caps and whitewalls. Paid $500 for it back in 1974! Like many other cars I've had, I wish I kept it. Its rare now.

Bugman

10-24-2003, 12:37 PM

Not trad, But I've still got it. Blown, 650 Holley, MSD, ported, cammed, high lift rockers, header, etc...
It's fun to pick on Honda's with http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Tim

10-24-2003, 01:02 PM

well our computer melted down so i dont have a pic of the first anymore:<

a 82 f-100 short box all new every thing

then built this nova

http://groups.msn.com/ZekesHAMBerChat/timsrandomart.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=758

then as any long term hamber knows i let my bro take it to prom and.....

any ways along the way was this

http://groups.msn.com/ZekesHAMBerChat/timsrandomart.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=957

wich got hamb auctioned off to Ray

had a 29 rpu in a pile of parts and an ugly 83 crapeice that i hated with a passion

and now to replace my baby that was crushed a 50'

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=193183&page=0& view=collapsed&sb=5&o=14&fpart=2#Post193717

**DONOTDELETE**

10-24-2003, 02:19 PM

C9, I've got a book "California Hot Rodder" with that Pic on the cover. book was writen by Jay Carnine. Says car was owner by a guy named CK. Greeat old stories.

Here's my first ride. I think... http://www.imgmag.org/images/cyoung67/PL35-59-flintstonecar.jpg

Or maybe it was a 53 Merc. Can't remember what model. It was a 2dr sedan. Black and and less then 10 years old. I remember we (bunch of us brought it together) paid $25. for it. It was pristen.

a/fxcomet

10-24-2003, 02:34 PM

[ QUOTE ]
C9, I've got a book "California Hot Rodder" with that Pic on the cover. book was writen by Jay Carnine. Says car was owner by a guy named CK. Greeat old stories.

[/ QUOTE ]

C9 = Carnine

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Mike Paul

10-24-2003, 03:15 PM

Here's a pic of my truck the day I brought it home from my buddies. Check out that hood scoop,and it had shag carpet in the entire interior! NICE!

metalshapes

10-24-2003, 03:28 PM

I could tell you, but my first 30 or so cars do not belong on the HAMB...

Reverendcolin

10-24-2003, 03:35 PM

[ QUOTE ]
C9 = Carnine

[/ QUOTE ]
Some times I'm thick as a brick

hotrodladycrusr

10-24-2003, 03:41 PM

If you liked California Hot Rodder, pick up Jay's (C9) new book Pinky . You'll enjoy it just as much of not more.

YOUNG GUN

10-24-2003, 04:47 PM

here's a bad shot of the front of my stepdad's 54 buick century wagon and also the 61 starliner that he paid $35 for in 72.

Rolf

10-24-2003, 05:56 PM

1951 Opel Olympia:

http://www.classicroad.com/album/olympiaburn.jpg

Found it in a barn, paid 150 Swedish kroner for it ($15.00) Put a Volvo four banger, 4 sp OD in it. Paint was Volvo copper matallic. Ran good !

I was 16 years old when I bought it, it was ready for my 18th birthday (driving age in Sweden) Most of my friends drove rusted out Volvo 122's, I had my Euro-Rod !

tootallrodder

10-24-2003, 06:33 PM

Here is my first Ride(I know it a VW but listen) I started outting it together just before High School Graduation. Brought the pan home on to of my Mom's car. 1964 pan. Body was 1956 which came home on a boat trailer. Save from crusher after a guy started to build a dune buggy. Got glass flaired fenders and a wild engine cover scoop. Now get this. Porsche 1600S Motor. wish I still had it today.
I drove it to college but it died when It was hit broadside. Bummer. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

av8

10-24-2003, 09:10 PM

This really wasn't my first. That was a low-time '40 Ford Deluxe coupe that had been traded in on a new GMC pickup in 1953 at the Buick/GMC dealership owned by a pal of my dad. I was just 15 at the time so needed my dad's help on buying the Ford. I had the car for a couple of months and probably would have owned it for many more months or years if I hadn't gone smart-mouth when the old man told me he didn't want to see this car cut up of modified. Clever kid that I was, I said if I couldn't build it the way I wanted to, we could just as well sell it! Which my dad did two days later! The old man was pretty good on lessons with the more important ones having to do with who's really in charge of the situation. I learned years later that he knew how special the '40 coupe was to me, but he made the tough choice making me accountable for my smart-mouth decision.

With the '40 Ford gone I had some money and again was still in need of a car, which dad turned up from another friend in our little town. No hot-rod makin's this time around. This was a top-of-the-line 1941 Plymouth four-door sedan. At the time it seemed to be as bad as it could get; a Chevy would have kind of okay, but a Plymouth . . . that was about as bad as it got.

I made the best of the situation and actively worked on making the Plymouth acceptable, with homemade wide whites and a cool exhaust system which I did in just a manner of weeks. In the end, it was a sweet and great-looking ride that was super reliable. Having a '28 AV8 roadster project underway at the time made it okay to be driving a Plymouth, LOL

desoto

10-24-2003, 11:18 PM

http://community.webshots.com/s/image1/3/50/96/38435096ppIocx_fs.jpg

If that doesn't work, go to http://community.webshots.com/user/ynst and look in the "Sixties Stuff" folder for 1939 Dodge.

This was the Dodge pickup, circa 1962, that I swapped my '55 DeSoto hemi into. Check out Tony Bogden's old Divco in the background.

Just before I got rid of that truck, I bought (July 1964) the '34 that I still own.

Prior to the truck was a '55 DeSoto 4 door and a '41 Didge 4 door. Neither were registered, although I drove the DeSoto home on a dealer plate some 20 + miles. We lived in teh country and I put on a couple of hundred miles driving it on the old backwoods (non-public) roads.

The pick-up was the first one I actually got a set of plates for (atfer I dropped the hemi into it)

desoto

10-24-2003, 11:20 PM

FWIW, the majority of my pics are 1 meg+ so I can't post 'em here.

tommy

10-25-2003, 12:05 AM

http://fototime.com/{3C037993-9238-44FA-9E87-BF71635F1F58}/picture.JPG
This is identical to my first ride. When the 318 got tired, I put in a 383. in 40 years this is the only one I've ever seen like it.

zonkola

10-25-2003, 12:46 AM

In 1984 I was 17 and the only kid in my high school weird enough to be learning auto mechanics on a flathead Ford V8. I had a dual-carb Tattersfield intake manifold with two 97's on a flathead rebuilt by Furtado Auto Machine. I did all the other work myself, including rewiring the entire car and converting it to 12-volts, removing a few leaves from the front spring, performing countless repairs, and eventually swapping a 327 Chevy into it when a thermostat on the flathead went south and cracked the block.

As for the gold wheels, raised white letters, and 'custom' tape flames...Hey, I was young! (I did have enough sense to seek out a pair of finned Cal Custom valve covers for the Chevy, though...)

Fat Hack

10-25-2003, 09:33 AM

My first...

<img src=http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/pda837e53c34844f1af73d81f40079644/fabd62f8.jpg>

1969 Chevelle Malibu 350, Z28 intake, Holley 780, headers, TH375 tranny, Pro Matic shifter, Appliance and Keystone mags, 77 Corvette dark blue paint.

Brootal

10-26-2003, 01:07 AM

My first car was actually a TC Cortina with a 2L in it... but unfortunately I don't have any pictures of it. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

After bending the Cortina, my Grandfather let me use his Rambler as he was 83 at the time and he couldn't drive any longer.

Here is what she looked like at he start. By this stage I had put ventilated disc brakes on the front and found some second hand chrome 14x7 wheels which I fitted with 235 Yokohama 352s.

http://www.the-rumbler.com/rumbler/earlyrumbler.jpg

After a few years I got sick of the fat tyres scraping, so my Mum said if I put "skinny" tyres on it, then she would pay for them. Sounded like a deal to me. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

http://www.the-rumbler.com/rumbler/rumblerbefore.jpg

Still got her (as most of you know), had her since 1986. Fixed her up a little with a V8 etc. Undergoing a (second) rebuild at the moment.

http://www.the-rumbler.com/rumbler/smokin.jpg

SamIyam

10-26-2003, 01:28 AM

Here's my '55 that I bought when I was 14... it was the summer of '84 and I had saved up $550 from mowing lawns and working on a family friend's ranch... I had learned a lot about restoring cars from my dad... and this was my first attemt at doing it myself... dad helped with the heavy stuff (lifting)... but I have to say... he believed that if you wanted something bad enough, you'd figure it out on your own and DO IT YOURSELF!! So, I did... and learned a lot in the process. Also, other than an occasional X-mas gift or B-day gift... I financed the whole bill for this car myself... and pops taught me yet another valuable lesson... "Car Building Economics 101"... which in addition to the 25 hours or so I worked down at the local burger barn... I bought, fixed up and then sold for a profit my share of used cars... and parts... anyway, it took me three years... but during my Junior year in High School... I was cruising this to school...
Sam.