History Remember Your first car? what ever happened to it?

First car: '82 Mercury Zephyr. I hated the body style - looks like a 5 year old designed it, and I really didn't like to drive it when I first got it. The silky smooth engine was gutless and had absolutely No power. Got rear ended, pushed me into the car in front of me and bent the front sheet metal a bit. A friend bought it from the insurance auction, chained the rad cradle to a tree and pulled it straight - they used it for years to go berry picking. Damn thing still drove straight as an arrow.
Here's my car sitting in the farm yard - my 7 year old son playing in it. Proud moment for sure! I'll save something from it before it heads to the squisher. (the car's still ugly)

 

1st car 88 Camaro...But my 1st "OLD" car was when I sold my camaro and bought this 1954 Ford during high school. Sold it when I was maybe 24. Fast forward 11 yrs & by sheer luck I came across it again & bought it back! Definitely in a sadder state but I'm diggin in & building her back up.

 

My first car was a '40 Ford tudor, my 15th birthday present. I still have it 50 years later.

My second car was a '67 Chevelle when I was 16, same age as me. I still have it 49 years later.

 

traded for a '56 olds a buddy had. he took my ford to the drags, broke an axle and left it...

 

16 on the day I got it and last summer. Not Selling!

 

51 Merc that I bought from a teacher named Chuck Darlington in 1963. Word was he moved to the Leavenworth, Cashmere Wa area and taught there for a number of years.


This is how it looked after the guy who bought it from me put a ton of work an money in it.


I'm not a fan of the look but it is his car, his money and the car was kept in a nice comfy garage the last I knew. I took that photo about 20 years ago and don't know if the car is still in the area or not.

Old photo of it hanging in front of Paul Harpers garage in Roslyn Wa in the early 80's with a few of it's friends. It is on the far right with the modified 65 Caddy grill.

 

It's sitting in the back corner of my garage waiting for me to finish up redoing it.

 

MY first car was a slightly used 64 Galaxie fastback with a 352 3 speed. Loved that car, and still have a fondness for that year. The need for an economical daily driver and the 73 gas crunch necessitated a not to be named replacement. Never saw it again.

 

My first car was an OT 1970 Subaru 360 that I traded a guitar and amp for.
I traded the 360 for a 1964 VW and the guy that I traded with worked with my Dad and built dune buggies. Well, he turned the 360 into a small dune buggie for his six year old daughter.

 

When i turned 16, my Dad and I put together this 35 dollar junkyard rescue. 389 Pontiac engine and trans a little paint and I was rolling. In 1968 sold it to a fellow student to buy a 57 T-Bird. Never saw it again.

 

My first car was a '48 Crosley panel truck, after it had been well used and rolled over knocking all the windows out. Got it running and fielded it around a bit, too cold for fresh breeze in October! Decided to make a sports car so took the body off the frame to make a Jabro sports car. Later years I cut the body up and scraped it.

 

First car I held title to was a 1954 Ford Tudor Business Coupe. Was driving around Tallahassee, FL in 1976 when I saw the nose sticking out of some bushes in the back of a house. Knocked on the door and the nice older lady who answered explained the car had belonged to her late husband. He had been working on the 54, but lost his left leg to diabetes and couldn't drive it anymore. When he passed away the car sat. It had a later model 223 6 cylinder in it with a three on the tree and a trio of gauges under the dash. I asked "How much?" She said: "You can have it if you can get it out of here today." An hour later a friend's 56 Chevy towed it to my place. Spent months working on the car and wound up towing it (with my OT 67) to my folks' house in Miami Springs, FL. No room in the garage for it, so it sat in the driveway. Apparently the homeowners' association didn't like that, and a letter was sent to my folks to have it removed or it would be towed. As I had nowhere to move it to, and time was of the essence, I would up trading the 54 to a buddy's brother for a cherry Viking reel to reel tape deck for my stereo setup (remember, it was the 70's!) Guy drove it for a few years, then traded it for a 34 Plymouth roller but kept a few "momentos" from it. Years later the poverty caps from that 54 found their way back to me (another story), and one of them now resides on the spare tire in my avatar. So a piece of my first car rides with me whenever I drive my Ford.

 

First car was this Shore Green '50 Plymouth Deluxe sedan I found in Paducah, KY in 1976, just before my 16th birthday. I bought it for $200 from an older gentleman named Lapoleon Bridgett and stored it in my grandparents' garage, figuring I'd get it back to Chicago somehow. Four years later, Baptist Hospital bought up the whole block and tore down all the houses, my grandmother (widowed now) moved away, and my mom and aunt sold the car for $200 to a vintage car restorer in Kevil, KY. Would be nice to know what happened to it; I still have the license plate and trunk lid handle.

 

My 37 Chevy p/u is techincally my first vehicle and still have it but the first car I drove was my uncles old 65 Galaxie,someone pulled in front of me so it ended up at a local junkyard after that persons insurance payed me for it. Should have fixed it as I knew of a 4 door with a good front clip for 50 dollars but it was the middle of winter with about a foot of snow on the ground.

 

52 Ford 2Dr, sold it to my Dad when I went in the service in 1960. He drove it for a while then sold it.

 

My first car is a OT 73 Mustang Mach 1. Bought it from my uncle with light body damage on 3 corners. I got a job at a small town dealership doing jobs like Mowing grass, washing cars, and dusting the show room. When those chores were done, I would find my way to the body shop and do what ever task they would let me do. I brought my car in and had them fix the worst of the damage on one quarter, and they let me work on my car after hours. If I accomplished something on my car, they would let me do the same on customers cars. That car and I saw many first. I did my first paint job, first brake job, first engine and tranny rebuild. I found a tag wire tied the the core support that said "training unit for 351 4V". It was my training unit for a lot of task. I still have it.

 

I'm not really sure what my first car was....I still have the 59 Chevy truck that my dad bought when I was 15, I overhauled the six, then a couple years later put a 396 in it.

But before that, when I was 9, my dad bought a 61 Chevy ragtop for about $30, and told us kids that when it quit working, we could take it apart, to see how cars work. My folks drove it for a few years, then left it in Tucson with a friend who rented our house, when we moved to Mexico for a year or so. When we got back it was kind of rough, pack rats had put a lot of Cholla cactus into it while it sat at our place not being used. By then my older brother and I were old enough to play with cars, so we cleaned it up, did a few minor things like carb overhaul, etc. Brother drove it a bit. Eventually something happened and it quit running, and I figured it was a good time to take it apart. When I was 14, I pulled the engine, and overhauled it--new rings, bearings and gaskets from JC Whitney, and the heads went to a local shop for a valve job. I got it put back together and running. We put a new top on it, and I did some bodywork on it, but then got distracted by the truck. A few years later, I decided to start restoring the car, I took it all apart, cleaned up the frame, rebuilt the suspension, then put the body back on. But I never got very far with bodywork or paint, because I didn't have a place to work on it. When I finally graduated college and moved away, I took the car with me, then sold it a few years later for $500 (1985).

Several years ago I found a registration slip for the car, and googled the VIN 11867L132571...what do you know, it had been offered for sale! for a surprising amount of money. The funny part was that this 2bbl 283 Powerglide car had turned into an original low mileage tri power 348 4 speed car. I guess you just can't believe everything you read.

 

Not much of a story but here it is. My first car was a black '57 Chevy Bel Air 2 door hard top for which I paid $800. I bought it when I was just short of 17 in late 1964. I put Mickey Thompson mags on it and had the interior redone. Nice car.

I got drafted in late '66 and sold the car .............for $800. I never saw it again but there were other firsts for me in that car that were important, too.

 

My first car (1975) was o/t, it had a bad motor so for 125$ the seller sold it and towed it to my house. Dad and I rebuild the motor and it ran good until I blew it up, so my first eng swap after that. Sold the car a year later, then found it later with a dead motor got it back for a 100$. Never got around to fixing again so the last time I saw it was when I towed it to the junkyard for lunch money.

 

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I still have it.

 

My first car is a 69 Chevrolet Caprice with the factory 427 with many options like hide-away-headlights. It rolled off the assembly line a week or 2 after I was born. Met my wife while driving it. I installed hydraulics on it when I was 17. It now has 160 thousand miles on the odometer, and we have a 3-year-old granddaughter now. They are never done as I have installed 70 Buick Riviera side trim on it last year.

 

My first car was a '55 Chevrolet 2 door 210 that I got in 1970 at age 17. Still got it.

 

55 Chevy, rolled it and totaled it in the spring of '62. I was young, cocky, racing anything that moved. Took on this piss yellow deuce coupe, I was pulling ahead when I lost it and rolled it down the embankment. Whiny, skinny, seat cover hollering the entire time....Hold it, that was American Graffiti. I gotta cut back on the hard stuff.

 

Fact check on aisle three!

 

It's in my pole shed, waiting for the snow to melt.

 

In 1990 I bought my first car, a 1958 Renault Frégate Domaine, drove it maybe 30 ft to park it in my parents home basement for restoration, it's been there ever since...

 

Drug this ol junker home, as my father called it back in 1972 when I was 15.



Got it on the road and drove it through the mid 80’s. Then the kids started coming along, and it got stuck in the back of the garage.



When my son turned 15 he learned how to drive a stick on it.



I gave it to him a few years ago and he’s stated what will probably be a frame off.

 

That looks more like an Arizona wrecking yard than New York! Doubt it would look that good on most of the east coast.

 

First car: '48 Crosley wagon (serial#: CC47-447) for $35 in PA in late '63. towed it to NM for college, finally to Denver in '68, & scrapped it there in '69.