'69 Buick Skylark in 1980. Bought it with 110,000 miles.....got rid of it 6 years later with over 330,000. ALOT of 500+ mile trips from Buffalo NY (where i wnet to clollege) to Long Island NY, plus road trips all over the map
How about a 1959 Austin Healey 3000 that I bought senior year in high school and did a 18 month frame off restoration that lasted through my first year of college. I look back now and think what was I doing! I was only 17 and doing a frame off! In the background is my third car. I sold the Healey to my brother so that I could buy a 1971 Skylark Custom which I kept for a year and then sold to buy the Vette. Keith
First car was a '80 Range Rover with the Alu buick based v8 4 speed Permanent 4wd Alubody 4 wheel disc as standard Drove the sh** out of it and it never let me down Looked a little stupid doing burnouts, 1 front and 1 rear wheel :Brow: Great car but I didn't have the money to rebuild it, so I sold it for 300$ and bought a BMW, wrecked that, another BMW, wrecked that too. :moonu: So I learned my lesson and went back to V8 :laugh:
my first car was and still is a 71 skylark custom 350. but im only 16.. my winter car is an 84 ney yorker
63 Impala - 409/340 hp, 3 speed column shift & posi. Palomar Red (maroon) with fawn (tan) interior. I only drove it one summer, 1974, before it was bought by a friend and parted out to save a convert. The engine was bought by a guy that was going to put it into a 38 Chev. Mark
'85 Riviera, traded it for a 455 that I never got. First car I ever drove was my moms '88 Cutlass Ciera.
78 chevy nova 4 door. Looked like a taxi. Had the silver paint that oxidized to a nice flat grey. Beat the living snot out of that car, no kidding. My brother and I put an RV cam in it. My first experience in an engine. I then spray painted graffitti all over it, skull and crossbones on the hood. My friends and I would skate over and off of it. We'd go shopping cart bashing in it on occassion, had several little "kills" painted on the side like a WWII plane. Go rally in the dirt wherever possible. Lots of anti-authority bumper stickers like "Don't steal, the govt hates competition" and "Bad cop, no donut", etc. I could never figure out why I got pulled over a lot.o No: :laugh: There was not a single piece of body that wasn't dented or have an axe hole in it or some other wound. The mufflers had fallen off, the blinkers didn't work, the reverse lights didn't work, only one headlight(lost the other to a shopping cart). I got pulled over once(of many) and it took 4 tickets to write down everything wrong with the car. No kiddin'. The cops were taking bets on who could find the most wrong. It finally threw a rod while I was on my way to the junkyard to get another windshield(I forget how I broke the first one). I was waiting at a light when KABLAM!!! Nothing but smoke from everywhere. I couldn't see out of the car even. Finally enough cleared I could see and the guy next to me at the light was laughing so hard he missed his green. The engine was still running, however so I managed to make it to the wreckers banging and smoking the whole way where I traded it for a case of beer and walked home happily intoxicated. Boy am I glad I finally grew up... My cars last a lot longer now and I don't have to keep checking the rearview.
1966 Skylark GS 4-speed hardtop. Still have it;undergoing long deserved restification. It's still all stock, and has only been beaten by two cars- a 72 440 Challenger with nitrous, and a '70 455HO GTO. If you've got to lose, it might as well be to the big boys.....Dan
My first car is the 71 GS Stage 1 that is on my website. Still have it of course. I have had more fun in and with that car over the years.... later Tim
My first car Hmmmm let me think oh yeah a 1968 Impala 396, I purchased the car out of Ft Worth with the help of my Dad in 1978. You talk about a boat anchor:eek2: I wish now that my first car had been a Buick so I wouldn't have been so lost for almost five years, you see I bought my first Buick in 1982 a 71GS 350 brown with white interior, I had to have it when I saw it, it matched my girlfriends sisters car (now my wife for 18 years) a 70GS 350, the look on her face when I drove up in her driveway with that :af: uzzled: :eek2: :jd: priceless. So now whenever she gets mad about the cars, I tell her it's all her fault!:grin: And you know what's ironic about that Impala I thought it was so fast until one night I got my head handed to me by what I thought was a chevelle turns out it was a GS! Hey I guess we all have to start somewhere:spank: Take care
65 Chevy Impala SS396 4 speed...Motor had been replaced with a 385 hp 427 w/headers and pinch pipes welded to the reducers...sounded like a race car! Boy did I get my share of grief about noise from the local authorities!
First car was a 67 Camaro that we bought from the insurance salvage pool. 327 4 speed. Started to fix it and never finished. Sold it to a girl who later married a friend in college. They still have it. It's a 383/6 speed now. My first car that I actually drove was a 70 GS 350 HT 3 speed floor shift. Still have it along with all the other Buick's I ever bought. Sell is a bad four letter word in our house.
66 Mustang with an inline 6. Man that was such a nic ecar! I bought it from an old man with 56k miles on it... the car, not the man. p Drove that car all through Highschool, and its how I met all my "bad influence" freinds as my mther liked to call them. Its amazing how a car can put you in a social category. I went from Suspenders and short hair to an oil soaked jean jacket and long hair to the middle of my back. Now I am a Business Professional with Redneck hobbies. "Wanna beer, I just made it..." "Huh??? they say":beer -Jon
My first car was a '67 Cougar 289 4 barrel,dark green with a mint/silver green interior.(It's amazing the weird colors they had back then).When I got it as a graduation present,the car was running on 5 cylinders and was cropdusting transmission fluid. Plus to make matters worse,there were load leveler shocks(yes,the kind with the springs around the shocks)on all 4 corners, and the car had 15 inch tires-with this combo made it ride like a truck.I had to completely rebuild it to get it road worthy and decent looking again.No,I don't own it anymore- sold it many years agne of the reasons why I drive and own Buicks.
i had the 87 pontiac boneville....drove it until some lady it me...got 2400 bucks for the thing and paid for my current 72 buick skylark...i drove it 3 more months after the wreck until the oil stopped pumping in it...what a ride home! daniel
1955 Chevy conv. with a 283 out of a 60 vette,3 speed. For the outragous price of $50.00! Of course this was in 1968!ou:
