History OK - This will be Fun - What was your very first vehicle ?

My brother came home with a '64 GMC one-ton pick up while in his junior year of HS. No engine, some old 283 in the bed with a lot of rubbish along with it. It looked BAD and my dad had a canary over it. Also was missing the bellhousing and clutch. BUT... he did get it together quickly. We became quite familiar with the local truck junkyard scene.

 

I was just reminded of an "almost buy" of what would have been my first HAMB-friendly car when I was probably 13 or 14. I already had my OT very first car which I didn't mention in my first post (67 RS/SS Camaro convertible) that I got when I was 12 that came home on a trailer and a few truck loads before my dad and I restored it.
But, since I was ate up with cars, I rode my bike a couple miles from the house by a local small used car dealer to notice a pretty decent 64 Chevelle. I went up to the office at the dealership and told the guy that I was interested in the Chevelle. He walked out of the office, unlocked the car, opened the door and then shut it and said "It would make someone a good car." totally dismissing me as a possible buyer. Anyway, I actually had the money to buy the car from mowing yards and painting cars. But, the guy was such a jerk to the kid on the bicycle that already had a more expensive car at home that I didn't end up with that one. I guess I can't blame him for having no idea that I could afford the car, but seems I still remember him being a jerk to this day almost 40 years later...

 

I am HAMB friendly:
1964 Corvair Monza Spyder, topless, yellow & black interior.

Sluggish off the line but starting around 70 mph that turbocharger and 1,000 pounds lighter weight than the average muscle car turned that baby into a tiger. 70 to 115 mph she could hang.

Bought it as a junior in hs. in 1969. Great memories!

 

My parents gave me the family 54 Ford Customline 4 door in 1964. It was a 239 Y block, stick, radio and heater….fully loaded as my dad said. We needed a new family car so my mom got a white 64 Chevelle SS, 283, 3 on the column.
My aunt showed off to make my dad look bad. She bought a 64 Caddy Coupe deVille that I inherited in 2012 , which is sitting in my garage as this is written .

 

i was 17 when i got a job in a bad neighborhood and was riding the buses back and forth. My dad bought a POS 51 ford for me to get to work. I repaid him and the price was $87.50. It would be overheated when i got to work and again at night going home same thing. When i would make a left turn the passenger door would open. Well, to make this a shorter story i got laid off from my job, got a different job closer to home. I found a 47 ford coupe in a junkyard that ran, but transmission was bad and no brakes. My dad never understood why i would drive my 51 into a junkyard and give the yardman $50 bucks to tow the 47 home with a rope.

 

When I turned 16 back in June of 1958 I located a 48 Ford coupe for $150. My mom took me over to buy it and gave me a quick lesson on driving a stick. Made it home and drove it to school every day until late Fall when I rolled it.

 

I want a 62 Cadillac hearse badly along with another limo. Yea, I’m kinda twisted like that.

 

I use to just buy another car to prove that there was still room. Always made mom mad, dad never cared.

 

1956 Plymouth Plaza 2 door sedan. I think the V8 was a 273. Three on the tree. My dad engineered the stock 3 speed onto a early 331 hemi bored to 354. This was back in 1962

 

...Great story!

 

65 Impala 4 door sedan. 327/250, PG. Fed the neighbors livestock for a long weekend, cows, horses, dogs, cats. 4-5 days or something. They offered me 50 bucks or the Impala. I was 11. Drove it 2 miles home on dirt roads with my uncle. This car started the fixation with big Chevy's. Not HAMB friendly I know. HAMB parts car friendly lol.

 

My first vehicle was a shared (with my siblings) 46 Ford pickup purchased from my uncle for $10.00. Battery was so weak we had to push start it for driving on the farm. Much later a slightly used 64 Galaxie.

 

1953 Ford 2-ddor Customline- Bought at 13- first motor I rebuilt (Dad did most of the work)-
Was being used as a chicken coupe so was full of poop-

 

I bought my first car in 1965, a couple weeks after high school graduation, for $200.
It was a Chicago based rust bucket with 120k miles. I drove it four years, then retired it to the garage
as family and career life was more important.
I sold it in 1975 for $1,200 as I wanted a pre-49 rod.

 

$1200 sure sounds cheap compared to what a Nomad goes for today. Right after I read your comment, I saw the featured ad in the classifieds for one for a tad more with no motor.

 

1940 Olds sedan when I was 12 years old - 58 years ago. Gift from my grandma - flathead 6 still runs like a sewing machine!

 

Yeah, {Shift Wizard} my first vehicle was a 1956 pedal car. On page 2 of this thread I posted pictures of my first real vehicle a 1931 Chevrolet. I was 14 , and I gave $30. for it. But I never got it on the road. At 16 when I got my drivers my mom, and dad let me drive their O.T. 67 Pontiac Bonneville convertible. Then I got my first real cars in 1970. A 1938 Chevy coupe, and an O.T. 68 Vette. I still have 67 Pontiac, and the Vette. I can't post pic.s of them. But here's some of me with the pedal car, and the 38 Chevy coupe.

 

It's funny to see how much some of you gave for vehicles back then, $10, $15, $50. In 1976, my 67 Ford pony car, I6 automatic, cost me $700. Now a 9 year old car would probably be $10-15,000. I got all my first HAMB era vehicles either free or traded for them some other non-runner. All were above my then skillset to bring back to life, but I had dreams! I traded even a car I had built up from a hull for the Lincoln, I probably had $8000 in it, and that was in 2010 I think it was. And the Lincoln wasn't even drivable, it had an engine and transmission, but was a hacked-up mess that took 2 years before I could even get it out on the road. At the time, my wife thought I was crazy, she might have been right! But it all worked out and she now loves the car!

 

Cob, not exactly HAMB friendly but both vehicles fall into the year range.

1968
First car, 1959 English Reilly sedan. Paid 30 bucks for it, drove it home with me and Grandpa hanging our head out the window. It had so much blowby you literally could not see. Lots of Oak Burl inside, a factory tach, 4 speed and 2 carburetors. First car I overhauled on my own.

same year, same price.

1957 Norton International. 500 cc single. The man I bought it from started it for me. I rode it home. Grandpa got a good laugh out of it, tossed me over the bars 3 times before he showed me the compression release and how to use it.

Mom was pissed about the bike. Grandpa said, "He's a young man, he works and pays his own way in this world. Young men ride motorcycles. He probably won't grow out of it."

I did not get Mommy and Daddy's cast offs. No one ever bought me a car or a bike. I am neither proud nor ashamed of that, it is just life.

My next car was a Buick Roadmaster, a '58, a 75 dollar car. It was a real boat but we had a lot of fun in that car.

No one ever bought me a car or a bike.

 

My Pal's dad had this '57 in his driveway and I bugged him about it for a long time. He sold it to me for a dollar. It's the one I have today.
QUOTE="lumpy 63, post: 15070040, member: 120455"]Got my 1st car at 12 in 1976. It was a 1965 Ford Cortina GT , learned how to R&R a cylinder head. Then in 1977 my uncle sold me his 57 Chevy for $1.00 I still have it View attachment 5912409 [/QUOTE]

 

I heard about my car being available from my brother. He told me it was a black Plymouth coupe. I hoped it wasn't one of those ugly '49 to '52 three windows and thankfully it was it was a car that I remembered seeing cruising down the street before. It had 5 spoke mags in front and chrome reverse in back. It was for sale because the slant six that had been swapped into it had a cracked block. It showed up towed to the front of the house on a rope. I didn't have a clue as to how I was going to get it into the small one car garage in the back. Paid $100 for it. In the half a century that I've owned it, it has suffered through another rebuilt slant six, SBC, a chopped top, two front suspension grafts, and other stupidity. I love seeing the world from behind the steering wheel in this car, sitting low down in the seat with the wheel tilted way down with the dash lights and sex lights glowing. I need to get back onto this car. It has been way too long.

 

Grover Dill?

 

I am disappointed that I cannot participate in this great thread Cobbie, as mine was not HAMB friendly.

That either means that I ain't as old as a lot of you old coots or I grew up loving muscle cars

Either way, I love this thread & enjoy seeing everyone's first car!

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/

 

First car was a beater '64 Malibu I bought from my uncle for $200 in 1977 when I was 15. It was a two door with a 283 and a PG, drove that car like I stole it for the 2 years I owned it. I've had many, many cars since then but it would be over 40 years before I bought another HAMB friendly vehicle.

 

Nope, the name was easily read on the original post!

 

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One of these days we will have to line em up and have a real drag race

 

Every time I look at the second picture, without a bumper, I think of Bubba from Forrest Gump. I really like the stance on your car in the last picture, Do you still have it?

 

The 50 Pontiac in my avatar came from Boomershine!

 

I, uh, took the 33 pickup from my grandpa just only months after being born. I just let him drive it until I could drive, lol. My first actual car was not hamb friendly, just a couple years too new. I still own it though.