[455Grandville]

'64 Jeep Gladiator pickup - still have it. Slow but, it goes anywhere.

[Jeff Walker]

1959 Edsel Ranger two door hardtop. My dad gave to me for Christmas in 1980. Was 17 at the time and still got it.

[Thomasmoto]

My first car was a 1969 Camaro, 307 3 speed, I rebuilt the 307 and added an old Edlebrock TM1 alum intake, 600 Holley, headers,Mallory dist-etc, etc...
Ended-up switching the 3 speed manual for a M22 RockCrusher 4 speed. Worked great until I exploded the main shaft in the M22. It was green with white hockey stick stripes and a white vinyl top.
David T.

[Kruzn]

1960 Chevy Biscayne, 6-cyl 3-speed...paid $50, a year later traded for a $150 '60 Impala hardtop, 283 3-speed. This was 1969-70.

[trophy421]

1961 Ford Galaxie Sunliner convertible. 352 2bbl automatic. Black with white top and red and white interior. Paid $75 in 1974. It had 100K miles at that time, and I put another 40K on it with pretty much routine maintenance.

[Fly GTO]

72 LeMans Sport 400 (2bbl) auto in '78. Revere Silver with a black vinyl top and interior. The A/C didn't work and it definitely used up quite a few of my teenage paychecks. But it was cool, and at 17, that's all that mattered...well and of course girls.

[aitstra]

68 LeMans, Verdero green, black vinyl top, parchment interior, 4 speed, 265 horse 2bbl, 75K highway miles. Kinda rusty in the usual places, I got it in 1977 for $700 and it was running great. Lost my DL for 1 year in 78 doing 73 in a 25, (loved that 4th gear chirp I kind of messed it up over the next 12 years, doing a crap fix job on the rear wheel wells, and installing a sun roof, jacked it up, big tires and rims. Sold it cause the clutch was slipping and the radiator leaking - for $200 in 1981 - baby was on the way. dooh!

I just got my 68 GTO project car on the road after 7 years of work, 30 years since my first taste in a Pontiac. It is good to be back.

[steve]

mine was a 1975 baby blue esprit firebird. it was 1985 and i did not know the difference between a camaro and a bird. my father and i yanked the six and dropped a 327 vette motor in it. i totalled the car in 1988 with 3 of my friends in the car . we were all okay, and it was almost 10yrs later that i got back into the hobby........

[marauder]

'77 LeMans Sport Coupe - It was a nice ride for a 16 year old kid. I find myself looking at Can Am's and may purchase one some day.

[Bullydawg]

I bought my first car about 3 weeks befor school started at a salvage yard. I found it on ebay and my dad didn't like the looks of it because it was cheap and didn't have any info on it other than it has a non running V8, needed a hood, needed to have some dents fixed and other stuff. My dad said that I would have to pay him back and he said that he wouldn't do it because it could have been stolen. My dad comes home from work and asks if I was the proud new owner of a Lemans and I said yes. So I sold My gas powered R/C cars and we picked it up that week and I have been busy with high school soccer since. The season ends on tuesday or thursday depending on play Offs...Can't wait to get a job and start restoring it.




After I get some money and time( soccer season ends this week, So I will have time and a job), I plan on getting some nice Rally II's or Cragars, Getting a 400, 428, or a 455 purchased rebuilt and installed, getting it all primer, buying the body stuff I need, and getting my license in 2.5 months and drive it around.

[Bullydawg]

It has no rust, I need to replace the passenger door and fender and put the front end on. I also need to buy: Front and rear Valance, hood hinges, bucket seats ( i want to convert it to a floor shift), and an engine. I bought it for 550, and have spent about 450 on it...hood, registration, front nose peice, and little stuff.

[goatmanmitch]

Bullydawg, my first was a 70 LeMans also. Paid $179 at a car lot in 87. Someday I will have another. Good luck, looks like a nice solid car with a whole lot of potential. Mitch

[4spdTA]

My 1st car was a 66 2+2 (YH 421, column shifted turbo 400). Bought it in 1984 when I was 15 for $250. My folks talked me into selling it about 8 months later before I got my license. Needless to say my 2nd car sucked! It was a 76 Chevette. My 5th car I got when I was 17... a 4speed 67 GTO for $600! Didn't have any money or resources to fix it so I sold it for $750... young and DUMB what can I say. I sold a cherry 53,000 mile 67 Bonneville 2dr (my 4th car) to buy the GTO

[racegto65]

My first car was a 1960 Ventura,389,tripower,4speed,4:11 posi. Bought it in 1969 for $250.00 when I was 15. Got rid of it because of my first wife(obvious mistake). Still have my second car the 65 GTO in my avatar.

[hslager69]

Mine was a 69 firebird,paid $1000 for it. sold it when i got married.just recently bought a 69 firebird again to replace it..

[ddog]

1971 Pontiac Ventura II, 2DR, 250 6 cyl, three on the tree, power nothing, 1 belt,column bushings wore out and got converted to a Hurst indy floor shift. Paid $700.00 for it in 1981( when I was 16), sold in 1986 for $500.00, but not before replacing it with the much more upscale 1972 Ventura II (in sig), 307 v8,Power brakes, steering and A/C, bought it from a local dealer in Pensacola for 1000.00 (negotiated them down from 1200.00). Sold it late 1991 after buying a new 1992 Honda Civic. Wondering where my 72 is now....Drove a Pontiac Ventura II for the first 10 years of my driving life....

[Paul Westcott]

1st car, year 1976: 1965 Bonneville, 389 auto, rusty crusty battleship gray paint, w/fenders flapping in the breeze from terminal Midwest rust. Got it from a buddy who owned it all through high school, so I was already very familiar with it. $100. Drove it for 1 1/2 years. Pulled the engine and trans. Junked the car. Began search for mid-size to put 389 in. 2nd car, year 1977: Found a dead '67 Tempest in the weeds behind a bar. Paid some drunk dude $50 and hauled it home (OHC6, 3 spd). Transplanted the 389 and TH400 after a JC Whitney and junk yard parts engine rebuild, added a Holley spreadbore carb, a shift kit for the trans, and some el cheapo headers. Ran 14.30's and took home half a dozen trophies! It was also my daily driver. Times changed, priorities changed, many cars came and went, and the Tempest sat in a barn for 12 long years until I finally resurrected it in 1998. Had it racing again within a few months and after some mods, it ran a best time of 13.82 ...out of the same basic JC Whitney junk yard 389 that was originlly the "heart" of my '65 Bonne! I still have the '67 Tempest. ...See my avatar. 389 is now retired, although it ran like a champ right up to the day I pulled it out. Big honkin' EFI 467 is in it now. ...How's that for a long term relationship?!

[petew]

67 chev caprice estate station wago w/327- wrecked it.

[Thomasmoto]

Originally Posted by Paul Westcott

1st car, year 1976: 1965 Bonneville, 389 auto, rusty crusty battleship gray paint, w/fenders flapping in the breeze from terminal Midwest rust. Got it from a buddy who owned it all through high school, so I was already very familiar with it. $100. Drove it for 1 1/2 years. Pulled the engine and trans. Junked the car. Began search for mid-size to put 389 in. 2nd car, year 1977: Found a dead '67 Tempest in the weeds behind a bar. Paid some drunk dude $50 and hauled it home (OHC6, 3 spd). Transplanted the 389 and TH400 after a JC Whitney and junk yard parts engine rebuild, added a Holley spreadbore carb, a shift kit for the trans, and some el cheapo headers. Ran 14.30's and took home half a dozen trophies! It was also my daily driver. Times changed, priorities changed, many cars came and went, and the Tempest sat in a barn for 12 long years until I finally resurrected it in 1998. Had it racing again within a few months and after some mods, it ran a best time of 13.82 ...out of the same basic JC Whitney junk yard 389 that was originlly the "heart" of my '65 Bonne! I still have the '67 Tempest. ...See my avatar. 389 is now retired, although it ran like a champ right up to the day I pulled it out. Big honkin' EFI 467 is in it now. ...How's that for a long term relationship?!

So what does it run now?

[Ron Genovese]

1971 Buick Opel, but drove it into the woods racing someone on a windy road on the same day that I got my drivers licence. The car was totaled!