1982 Pontiac 6000 in turkey turd tan...with wire wheel covers! Sweet!

I graduated in 1969. I bought a 1961 Mini Cooper from a friend and his dad for $300. I put $600 into it, having the engine balanced and blueprinted. Put a Sun Super Tach on it.

I continue to entertain thoughts of buying another...

1966 Ford Fairlane with a lean, mean 200 cubic inch straight six. When I had to work in the car I could literally stand with my feet on the ground in the engine compartment.

I graduated in "84" and when I was a Jr. I worked my whole summer so I could buy 1972 Buick Skylark that had a smashed in drivers door.

But I didn't care because I had a car...

1968 Chevelle. Gold with puck green interior.

Took me most of the summer to save up from my first job, but picked up a '79 Pontiac Sunbird with a 231c.i. v6. That was the summer of 1985.

A 1968 Ford Custom 500 like this one was (early/mid-1970s) the family car, the one I learned to drive and got my license in. Yes, it is a two-door post sedan. It had a 302, power steering that was four turns lock to lock, and manual drum brakes.



For one to call my own, a hand-me-down (from an uncle) 1966 Chrysler Newport similar to this one, but a post sedan, not the hardtop shown here. It was a POS, but it did teach me mechanical skills, starting with having to do a valve job and get it running from where it had sat for several years. I actually got this just before graduation, so I didn't drive it to high school.

My first car was a 1961 Chevy Impala 4 door, 283 with a Powerglide trans. No AC, no power steering or brakes, AM radio, it was purchased by my Mother for $150.00 and given to me. I drove the snot out of it.

My senior year of High School I purchased on my own, with money I earned working after school and weekends, a blue 1974 Chevy Vega. 3 speed manual on the floor, no AC or PS or PB, but did have an AM radio. I put in a CB radio, it was the heights of the CB craze. Moving out of my childhood home I drove it 150 miles to my college. It really was a great car right up until I totaled it out a few months later in first semester.

bought for me so my Dad could golf more - I'd drive Mom around and do her errands...
A 1967 Chevy Bel-Air in blue.

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1976 Mercedes 300 diesel.

Mine was an ‘83 Camaro.
I learned how to repair cars while I owned this ride thru college.
Then I bought a Jeep.....

My first car in high school was my Brother's hand-me-down 1974 Cadillac Sedan DeVille that my Dad bought for $500. It had a GM501 engine - you could literally watch the gas gauge go down when you really stepped on it.

'57 Chevy.


Four door.

A 1979 Cadillac Coupe de'ville with almost 300K miles on it. It was purchased by my Dad from one of the Jack Roach dealerships in Kansas City and had a dealer plaque on it that said "Roach". Of course it was black and my friends called my car "The Roach."

1969 Buick skylark 4 door. It had been parked in a field for 10 yeas. Paid $50 and dug up a farmers septic tank lids for it. Had to tow it home.

72 vw bus. How am i still alive?

Mine was a 1963 Dodge Dart - 4-door with three-on-the-tree.

As I grew older with it found out it was considered the taxi package and, the reason Dodge moved from a push-button automatic was because the company's executives had wives who kept breaking their fingernails on the buttons (after all, a VP's wife sure as he'll wasn't going to be driving a Ford).

Sold it when I joined the navy. Always knew it would be a regrettable moment - and it was.

In 1974 as a high school Junior I bought a 1963 VW Variant “Notchback”, which cost $350 hard earned dollars. Drove it until I was a senior in college. Sold it for $350. When I sold it, it was so worn out it wouldn’t start with the starter. I had to park on a hill and roll it downhill to start it.

I still occasionally have a dream about not being able to find my Variant in the parking garage where I parked it.

1959 Austin Healy 100-6. Black with red interior.

1968 Plymouth GTX convertible