Your first auto

texan

Well-Known Member
Perhaps it has already been discussed here. Still some punches on my new guy card left....

What was your first auto?


Mine was 1956 Ford friend-100 Pickup. It had a Borg-Warner T-98 4-speed with a granny 1st gear, so you always started in 2nd.


It had a 272 C.I. Y-Block and 3.73 rear end gears.

It always started, even in the dead of winter. You just pulled out the choke a little, and va voom it was lit.
Solid as a rock those old Ford pick-ups. Drove it for many years with no problems.
I had it in high school. Yes I obtained it as a used auto and my high school years were later than the 50s or 60s.
How about you? Like your first love, one never forgets that special first one.
 

texan

Well-Known Member
Truthfully I did not know AMC was still around in 1982. Shame that they went away. I loved those AMXs and other models sir from the 70s.
 

moreluck

golden ticket member
I never owned a car...pre-marriage. I always had a car available to me. Our family had 2 cars and I always drove my mom's '61 Galaxie. That thing was a tank on wheels!! Ours was brown.

1961 Ford Galaxie
 

old levi's

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49 Packard, straight 8, that's right, built like a tank, back seat was a sofa with tons of leg room; just what a high school kid needs in a car, the Luv-mobile

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Not the actual car, just wanted you young people to see a real automobile!
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Dizzee

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69 Chevy Biscayne

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Mine was tan with rust accents on the rear quarters. Only thing in the dashboard that worked, was the cigarette lighter. Bought it for $50. When I sold it a couple of years later, it had no reverse (had to carefully plan your parking), no passenger window, and the lighter quit working. Got $50 for it.

(Lucky to have not killed myself, or someone else, considering all of the alcohol that was consumed in that car) :sad-very:
 

DS

Fenderbender
Mine was a 1964 rambler American 200,when I was around 18.
My parents bought it new,and they sold it to me for what the dealer offered them on a trade in,$300.
Three on the tree standard tranny.
It had vacuum assisted wipers that slowed down as you accelerated.
Died when t-boned by a caddilac going through a red light,synchro in first would've prevented it.

thanks for the memories, good thread idea
 
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old levi's

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Mine was a 1964 rambler American 200,when I was around 18.
My parents bought it new,and they sold it to me for what the dealer offered them on a trade in,$300.
Three on the tree standard tranny.
It had vacuum assisted wipers that slowed down as you accelerated.
Died when t-boned by a caddilac going through a red light,synchro in first would've prevented it.
But those wipers would speed up real nice when you topped the hill. LOL
 
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