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Post by Zippi on Sept 17, 2024 11:38:54 GMT -7
When I turned 16 in late 69 I got my Grandfathers car which was a 1957 Studybaker. A ton of guys at that time were driving 55,56,and 57 Chevys to school. I was embarrassed of my ride so I'd parked two blocks away and walk to school.
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Post by tcoat on Sept 17, 2024 12:13:18 GMT -7
My first drivable and driven car was the earthly remains of a '56 Chevy 210 4 door hardtop that may dad dragged out a field and brought home for me in '73 when I was 14. Engine was seized solid and there was only about 10% of the floor left. I worked on it for a year and then drove it for 2 years (on the plates off my mother's '66 T-Bird) before the frame broke and I left it on the side of the road. I will be modeling it this winter. My first LEGAL car (with real plates, ownership, safety inspection and insurance and everything) was my '64 Impala SS modeled here custom-model-society.boards.net/thread/4117/64-impala-ss-convertible-complete |
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Post by poet on Sept 17, 2024 15:01:36 GMT -7
My first car was my grandfather's blue '66 Biscayne 4-door with a 6 cylinder engine. It was rust free but had a big dent in the right side rear door. That car provided me with many years of trouble-free driving. I don't recall what I finally did with it tho.  |
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Post by Zippi on Sept 17, 2024 15:06:58 GMT -7
My first drivable and driven car was the earthly remains of a '56 Chevy 210 4 door hardtop that may dad dragged out a field and brought home for me in '73 when I was 14. Engine was seized solid and there was only about 10% of the floor left. I worked on it for a year and then drove it for 2 years (on the plates off my mother's '66 T-Bird) before the frame broke and I left it on the side of the road. I will be modeling it this winter. My first LEGAL car (with real plates, ownership, safety inspection and insurance and everything) was my '64 Impala SS modeled here custom-model-society.boards.net/thread/4117/64-impala-ss-convertible-complete I'll keep an eye out for your build thread. I remember my step dad leaving a car down by the lake one time as it was a money pit. Cops were at the house a week later. |
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Post by Zippi on Sept 17, 2024 15:10:08 GMT -7
My first car was my grandfather's blue '66 Biscayne 4-door with a 6 cylinder engine. It was rust free but had a big dent in the right side rear door. That car provided me with many years of trouble-free driving. I don't recall what I finally did with it tho. I remember a man down the street had a 66 Biscayne that was a light blueish green color. It was driven by every family member. |
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Post by tcoat on Sept 17, 2024 18:24:56 GMT -7
My first car was my grandfather's blue '66 Biscayne 4-door with a 6 cylinder engine. It was rust free but had a big dent in the right side rear door. That car provided me with many years of trouble-free driving. I don't recall what I finally did with it tho. I drove a blue '66 Biscayne for a month on my return from Germany while the engine in my "64 was being released. |
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Post by tcoat on Sept 17, 2024 18:27:51 GMT -7
My first drivable and driven car was the earthly remains of a '56 Chevy 210 4 door hardtop that may dad dragged out a field and brought home for me in '73 when I was 14. Engine was seized solid and there was only about 10% of the floor left. I worked on it for a year and then drove it for 2 years (on the plates off my mother's '66 T-Bird) before the frame broke and I left it on the side of the road. I will be modeling it this winter. My first LEGAL car (with real plates, ownership, safety inspection and insurance and everything) was my '64 Impala SS modeled here custom-model-society.boards.net/thread/4117/64-impala-ss-convertible-complete I'll keep an eye out for your build thread. I remember my step dad leaving a car down by the lake one time as it was a money pit. Cops were at the house a week later. No fear of the cops tracing it back to me as it wasn't registered nor was there a bill of sale. Pretty sure my dad literally just hauled it out of some random field. Most likely without the real owners knowledge. |
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Post by 406 Silverado on Sept 18, 2024 2:27:26 GMT -7
Some really good back stories with these cars. I had one car that was so insignificant that I wanted to leave it on the side of the road ........ several times. My first car wasn't a bad ride at all. Dad and I were at a customer's house delivering a car and this fella had a small side hustling business of selling cars. He had this '66 Plymouth Barracuda that he had just acquired. It was a in pretty fair shape and ran decent but needed an exhaust system which he was in the middle of talking to my dad about. I immediately took an interest in it and dad just bought it for $600 in the mid 80's. Before I could do anything to it or drive it, dad made sure that I paid him first......which I did in short order. It took me a few months of working in the shop but I paid him for it. I drove that car for 5-6 years before I went into the military, and it sat in a field at my house for years til we finally sold her off. ![]() ![]()   I built a decent lil' 318 for it that made 'er scoot around pretty good too.  |
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Post by stitchdup on Sept 18, 2024 3:55:42 GMT -7
mine was a late 70s ford escort 1.1 popular 4 door. it was brush painted and might have been shiny once but it had the 2l pinto from a sierra but the brakes and suspension were stock and gave it an unpredictable habit of suddenly changing direction mid way through a corner.and while it looked like it had floors, you couldn't put any weight on them so my friends had to slide across the seats. and to open the back doors you had to untie the rope between the inside handles. i should point out this was on a small island and even the grown ups cars were like this. my dads friend had a 2 door volvo 240 sedan with the passenger door from a 4 door. on the island welding was a form of alchemy so if it would be welded elsewhere, we usedrope and drilled holes, the joys of growing up on a farm lol.
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Post by 406 Silverado on Sept 18, 2024 9:45:37 GMT -7
mine was a late 70s ford escort 1.1 popular 4 door. it was brush painted and might have been shiny once but it had the 2l pinto from a sierra but the brakes and suspension were stock and gave it an unpredictable habit of suddenly changing direction mid way through a corner.and while it looked like it had floors, you couldn't put any weight on them so my friends had to slide across the seats. and to open the back doors you had to untie the rope between the inside handles. i should point out this was on a small island and even the grown ups cars were like this. my dads friend had a 2 door volvo 240 sedan with the passenger door from a 4 door. on the island welding was a form of alchemy so if it would be welded elsewhere, we usedrope and drilled holes, the joys of growing up on a farm lol. We had several trucks that we acquired while I was at Camp Slayer in Iraq from Abu Ghraib. They had a "maintenance team" there that didn't do anything to the vehicles that were assigned to them. We got a 2004 Silverado, which was at the time only 3 years old, that looked like it had been in a crash up derby. What you've described here, Les, reminds me of that truck with no seat cushions (bottom or backs), no door panels on either side and ropes holding the doors closed as there were no latches. There's more to it but you get the general idea. I'm sure being out on a small island didn't lend itself to quick acquisition of parts for needed repairs. |
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Post by transammike on Sept 19, 2024 11:54:23 GMT -7
I was one of the lucky ones to be gifted my Dads pristine '57 Chevy Bel Air 2-door hardtop with powerpack 283. The car was 9 years old at the time and perfect.
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Post by lowlife on Sept 19, 2024 13:36:35 GMT -7
Ah its embarrassing being this side of the pond, UK cars were boring compared to all the American V8 stuff ! I mean, tcoat driving my dream car...to high school  Anyway i was on my third car at 17 when i got a license, usual Mk2 Escort which i destroyed 2 years later in a big crash ! Kept a clean license since then so luckily Ive had a few cooler cars since then !  |
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Post by tcoat on Sept 19, 2024 15:27:30 GMT -7
Ah its embarrassing being this side of the pond, UK cars were boring compared to all the American V8 stuff ! I mean, tcoat driving my dream car...to high school Anyway i was on my third car at 17 when i got a license, usual Mk2 Escort which i destroyed 2 years later in a big crash ! Kept a clean license since then so luckily Ive had a few cooler cars since then ! LOL In my high school parking lot in '76 the SS barely even stood out. Not my school but very close to what you would see there every day.  If you ever saw the movie Dazed and Confused they did an outstanding job of picking the right range of cars for the school. Probably pretty universal across North America. Well other than condition since the ones in Texas would be in far better shape than the ones in the rust belt.  This would be a common paint job here  |
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Post by lowlife on Sept 20, 2024 2:41:50 GMT -7
Haha yeah EXACTLY ! ! While i had posters of these cars on my wall, and at 17 was driving was driving a piece of &$%@ 1.3 litre Ford ! !  |
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Post by tcoat on Sept 20, 2024 6:00:56 GMT -7
Haha yeah EXACTLY ! ! While i had posters of these cars on my wall, and at 17 was driving was driving a piece of &$%@ 1.3 litre Ford ! ! I "owned" a RHD Vauxhall for about a week. When I was 13 the next door neighbor (w WW2 RAF vet ) gave me one too fix up. It needed a fuel pump and of course there were none in the auto wreckers so it would have to be new. Think it was going to be something like $12 to import one and since the car wasn't worth that much it went off to scrap a couple of years later. I have a picture with it in the background someplace. |
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Post by stitchdup on Sept 20, 2024 7:41:01 GMT -7
Haha yeah EXACTLY ! ! While i had posters of these cars on my wall, and at 17 was driving was driving a piece of &$%@ 1.3 litre Ford ! ! I "owned" a RHD Vauxhall for about a week. When I was 13 the next door neighbor (w WW2 RAF vet ) gave me one too fix up. It needed a fuel pump and of course there were none in the auto wreckers so it would have to be new. Think it was going to be something like $12 to import one and since the car wasn't worth that much it went off to scrap a couple of years later. I have a picture with it in the background someplace. did your neighbour not like you or something, vauxhalls are granny cars, lol |
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Post by tcoat on Sept 20, 2024 7:44:13 GMT -7
I "owned" a RHD Vauxhall for about a week. When I was 13 the next door neighbor (w WW2 RAF vet ) gave me one too fix up. It needed a fuel pump and of course there were none in the auto wreckers so it would have to be new. Think it was going to be something like $12 to import one and since the car wasn't worth that much it went off to scrap a couple of years later. I have a picture with it in the background someplace. did your neighbour not like you or something, vauxhalls are granny cars, lol Was pretty cool in 1972 Canada where there were probably 6 of them. I did drive it around the back roads with a gravity fed tank strapped to the roof. That 0 to 60 in 45 minutes was exhilarating. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2024 8:06:10 GMT -7
My first car was a 64 Nova 4dr with a 327 and ported camel hump heads. She was quick, for the day, and only well warmed big blocks could run with her. I got a case of the stupids one night with a buddy in the rain and sheared off a telephone pole with the drivers door. She look like a banana after that. I quickly found a 64 Nova 2dr sedan and transferred all my parts and was back roaming the street 10 days later. That's the one car more than all the others I wish I still had.  |
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Post by 406 Silverado on Sept 21, 2024 5:50:09 GMT -7
My first car was a 64 Nova 4dr with a 327 and ported camel hump heads. She was quick, for the day, and only well warmed big blocks could run with her. I got a case of the stupids one night with a buddy in the rain and sheared off a telephone pole with the drivers door. She look like a banana after that. I quickly found a 64 Nova 2dr sedan and transferred all my parts and was back roaming the street 10 days later. That's the one car more than all the others I wish I still had. Ouch!! Man that hurts don't it?? Back then we had nothing but time and no obligations so we could get things back on the road pretty quickly after an event like that. I hear you on missing past cars. Man do I ever hear ya there. |
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Post by mrmike on Sept 21, 2024 7:29:03 GMT -7
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Post by hardtohandle454 on Oct 7, 2024 11:09:40 GMT -7
My first was a 95 Geo Tracker. The real car that's unsafe at any speed.
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Post by Zippi on Oct 8, 2024 5:04:48 GMT -7
My first was a 95 Geo Tracker. The real car that's unsafe at any speed. I hear ya man. |
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Post by 406 Silverado on Oct 30, 2024 9:57:03 GMT -7
I bought a 1970 Plymouth Duster 340 in the winter of 1973 and kept it from the end of 1973 to May of 1976 when I bought a 1976 Dodge D100 pickup. It was my third car and well used and a money pit. I even made a copy of that Duster 340. I Mi  I totally missed this when you posted it up Mike. That's a great looking build and I'm sure it was a fun car to drive in the 1:1 world. I've owned several sports cars and they all share one thing in common.....they were ALL money pits. LOL !! |
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Post by kpnuts on Oct 30, 2024 12:48:47 GMT -7
My first was an Austin A40 Farina, which I didn't even get the chance to drive. My brother came in acouple of days after I bought it and had great pleasure in telling me "hey Ken someone's crashed into your car" I said "ha ha very funny" but they actually had I went out to look and the drivers door was touching the passenger door, the bloke who did it was a genuinely nice guy he found out who owned it and came round to see me.
He was an HGV driver and it was snowing my car was parked at the bottom of the hill and he lost traction, he said it was lucky my car was there as other wise he would have gone into the house my car was in front of.
To cut a long story short he said he had a Vauxhall Victor 101 he wasn't using and I could have that if I wanted, so I got a free upgrade.
I immediately added thrush side pipes to it(in my defence I was probably only 17 then) first time I filled it with fuel on my way into the petrol station the little ramp into the station proved to be too steep and tore them off(had them mounted under the sills) didn't make much difference to the sound she made though.
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