Your first car

Guess I'm a young fart here... hehe..


I bought a 1979 Mustang in 1991 for $1,200.. 4 cylinder car, no air, red with red vinyl interior.

Wound up building a 302 for it along with a C4. Still the car had no air, and I think I drove it for 3 years with a blown head gasket as it would never hold the coolant. I also effectively killed the rare 6.75" rear end that came in the early 79 cars.

I got rid of it and bought an 88GT T-5, kept it about 10 years then got stupid and bought a Honda accord....

....several cars later I bought an 86 GT last year and just got it going again with a fresh 306.

Mine was a 54 chevy belair 2dr ht when I was 16 . it had perfect body and interiea but the motor and trans were toast and I never got it running ,wish I had enough sence to fix it back then .My first running car was a 54 ford 2 dr sedan , It was a very good car and served me well. JD

It was 1997 and I traded an older fella out of his 1969 Ford Fairlane 500.
It's a 4 door with bench seats front and back.
I still have it, though it needs a lot of attention.

Original 351 Windsor
Auto trans

1950 Pontiac "Chieftain" with an inline 8 cylinder slug!!

The car was a tank but gas was only 19.9 cents a gallon with an occasional 16.9 cents......life was good AND believe it or not current gas prices are still in line adjusted for inflation!!

Cobrajack

Originally Posted by Cobrajack

1950 Pontiac "Chieftain" with an inline 8 cylinder slug!!
The car was a tank but gas was only 19.9 cents a gallon with an occasional 16.9 cents......life was good AND believe it or not current gas prices are still in line adjusted for inflation!!
Cobrajack

That's a dubious statement, today's wages have not kept pace with inflation. So it doesn't matter if a given product is still "in line" adjusted for inflation. It's a dirty trick pulled by the Upper class. If you make a higher income then products are inflation adjusted "affordable", but if you make a working class income your buying power has actually been reduced over the last 25 years - because your wages have not kept up with inflation.

They are in effect creating two Americas.

S

1980

Got a piss yellow with a baby Sh*t green interior 68 Stang with a 289 2V and c4. It acted like it wanted to change lanes all on its own on the way home....Got it home and found out all the lug nuts were loose. Learned body and engine work on that car. She ended up black on black and carried me through High School and my first year in the Military.

As far as the so called adjusted for inflation gas prices Cobra Jack....sorry... I dont mean to insult and please dont take it that way but you have bought into the oil industry's line of fertilizer. Gas prices have almost quadrupled in the last 4 years, and the oil industry is making record breaking profits...PERIOD. if the gas prices had kept up with inflation since gas was a quarter a gallon that would be one thing...... to have it go from less than a dollar to almost $4 in 4 years is nothing but rape of the American public, and it is taking a healthy role in the destruction of our current economy......just as OPEC planned.

Keith/Bumble

Well said Bumblebee.... C'mon now, $142 billion in profit for the top 4 oil companies over the last year.... Seriously?

Originally Posted by Bumblebee

1980

Got a piss yellow with a baby Sh*t green interior 68 Stang with a 289 2V and c4. It acted like it wanted to change lanes all on its own on the way home....Got it home and found out all the lug nuts were loose. Learned body and engine work on that car. She ended up black on black and carried me through High School and my first year in the Military.

As far as the so called adjusted for inflation gas prices Cobra Jack....sorry... I dont mean to insult and please dont take it that way but you have bought into the oil industry's line of fertilizer. Gas prices have almost quadrupled in the last 4 years, and the oil industry is making record breaking profits...PERIOD. if the gas prices had kept up with inflation since gas was a quarter a gallon that would be one thing...... to have it go from less than a dollar to almost $4 in 4 years is nothing but rape of the American public, and it is taking a healthy role in the destruction of our current economy......just as OPEC planned.

Keith/Bumble

Hey Keith,

I don't like gas prices any more than you do but having been in the chemical "bidness" my entire life gasoline at $4.00 a gallon (about $.60 a pound) is still one of the cheapest "chemicals" on earth!! Granted the recent "quadrupling" of prices is irritating and causing everyone to re-think their finances, but with over 50 years of inflation $4.00 a gallon ain't far off......the BIG question is......where will the price stabilize and fall back some??

BTW, I used to drive 60K miles a year and burn 4000-5000 gallons of gas per year.....NO MORE!! Today that would represent almost double my mortgage payment monthly!!

At least we can get gas today.....back in the 70's I had to make appointments along my sales route to put 5 gallons in my Delta 88 with a 455 ci motor......11 MPG.....NOT FUN!!!

What really worries me is not crude oil supply but refinery capacity and age.....If one goes down we REALLY HAVE PROBLEMS!!!

Sorry to derail this thread about first cars guys!!

Carry on.....

Cobrajack

mine was a 1968 ford mustang coupe. learned all kinds of work on that car with my brother. my dad got it for me in the 8th grade (around 2004 when i was just turning 14)and i still have it. im in the 12th grade now ready to graduate on the 6th of june. plan on keeping it the rest of my life.

289 4bbl w/work done, c4, 8" equal lock rear, 2.5" flowmaster dual exhaust. love that car and so do my friends.

-everyone knows me by my cars (have 6 mopars and 2 fords btw-share them with my brother)

im proud of our cars cause we do all the mechanical, body, and cosmetic work ourselves(brother, father and me)

I bought my first car in 1972. My first car was a 68 Camaro 3 speed on the floor 230 6cly paid $400 for it at a chevrolet dealership it didn't run towed it home and went through the head new valves and a new head gasket had it purrin like a kitten Two years later 402 high performance heads cam headers with B&M trans with ratchet shifter and 378 gears. I was the bad boy in the neighborhood lookin to race anyone especially Mustangs.