Me and my first car, what was yours Options

[JoeSharp]

No pics but it was a 64 Ghia with a 356 super 90. It had Koni's and sway bars. Fun car for 1970.

[sixnotfour]

1st car turbo corvair (pic the day I sold it, dropped seat)
2nd 914-6

[mtn flyr]

No pics, 74 Mazda rx 4, pretty fun car really

[Dr Evil]

1st was a beat down 1970 914 1.7, 2nd was an 82 Ford escort 5 speed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

I had to have the 2nd to drive while I worked on the first (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Cant find the pics.

[azbill]

Number one was a '50 ford two door, No. 2 a '55 Chev 210 2 door hard top, No. 3 '58 Chev Impala Covert in '58, etc, etc, etc. to many to remember the list is very long in those days. Now drive them until they drop. It took a long time to figure it out cars are a loosing preposition. But it was fun and exciting.

[pete-stevers]

66 notch, all bondoed up...

[iamchappy]

59 Morris Mini Cooper

[swl]

Talk about wanting a 'do over'. First car I owned (73) was a 62 356B Hardtop. Absolutely ravished by northern winters and after a year I traded it on the teener. No offence to the teener but God I'd like to have the 356 again. Not because of the current value - it just was just a lot of fun and fit me like a glove. You always remember your first.

[jfort]

Sold my first car, a 73 yellow vette, in 76 to buy a 914-6. Infant/car seat forced me into 911's until I saw the light again.

[hot_shoe914]

ugly green '68 Dodge Coronet 440, lot of memories.

[Lou W]

In 1973 I had a 1958 Corvette, sold it in 1975 and bought a very nice 1971 SS454 Chevelle....I wish I had never sold either of them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[Pat Garvey]

You've probably heard this before, and I have no pics since the flood earlier this year ruined all the negatives.

First, real, I-owned was a 75 Dodge Dart, 273 balanced, blueprinted, magnafluxed. Crane cam, dual 4 barells, positvie linkage (all 8 barrels open all the time) 304 HP. Ran on drag slicks at 8 mpg (you could that in 1968 in Ohio). Used it for daily transport & weekend drags. Spent WAY mor that it was worth, though it was reallly fast.
Went from tha to a 65 Beetle & got married.

[Beach914]

First was a 1960 Bug-Eye Sprite with a 64 MGB 3 main bearing motor and tranny. Real front end heavy. Broke a lot of axle shafts and had to scavenge them from all of the Nash Metros in the junkyards. Bought it for $50. Surprised a lot of 70's muscle cars at stop lights with the 4.22 rear end.
Also had a 1963 Plymouth Valiant Station Wagon with the slany six and the "Slush Box" Had a hippy flower sticker on the tailgate.

[Valy]

My first car Alfa Romeo Sprint

[pcar916]

1970 Opel GT That particular yellow made every yellow jacket on the earth think it was "mommy". This one isn't my car but looks mighty similar from this angle.



I had it for 15 years and took it through big cams, Weber DCOE carbs, two blown 4-spd transmissions (same one a Vega had, turns out). Lowered and fast it was with low profile tires on wide wheels.

My best road-warrior friend drove a 1970 914 and we had great fun running mountain roads and other twisties until his burned to a crisp after some years.

I traded it for a Kaypro computer when I started LSU and needed that more than I needed a car. My daily driver after that was a Norton Commando for the next 3 years. Mine was black and then red/orange after a 1-yr restoration, but this ones very nearly the same.



Whole lotta fun in and on both machines! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

[Tom_T]

After driving the folks' cars from 67-69 - 62 Olds 88 Wagon & 67 Chevy 3/4 ton Pick-up (327 cid 4-bbl) with a full cab-over camper - in Fall of `69 I bought a used Red 68 Opel Kadette 1.0L Notchback 2-dr sedan (baseline) for $800, which I drove "the living S out of" for the next year & a half (Spring 71), until I blew the engine screaming down from LA to San Diego, as I did almost every weekend during my first year in college.

I don't have any pix around, but it looked similar to this, but Red/Black interior & plain steel wheels painted silver with rubber mats on the floors, no carpet (this looks like an upscale model & European) .......



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After that I took over payments on #2 - my Dad's 4 door Pontiac Ventura (400 cid 2-bbl) in Metallic Olive Green with Gold interior for the rest of college & up to early 76 (when they moved back to Indy on a job transfer). Also no pix, but it looked similar to this ........



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Then I sold my Pontiac "Beast" after I got #3 - my 73 914-2.0 in Dec. 75, which I still own & am in the process of restoring/repair after being stored since May 85, when it was hit by a ditzy gal in the UCLA parking structure while I was in MBA classes - after spending $6500 ($20k+ today) on a rolling resto/overhaul of everything. No pix of it in gold metallic when I bought it, but this is it's current state ........



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At that time I got #4 my 85 BMW 325e in May 85 (178k now), and then later #5 the 88 Westfalia (208k now) - both were new & we still use them as out DDs. Here they are as recently refurbished ........



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My wife also inherited an 88 Honda Civic Hatchback DX from her brother when he passed-away (he and onother brother had owned it since new), which my son & I repaired, refurb'ed for he & his sister to drive. It was a practice car for the 914's resto for my son & I, but I'm losing my helper to the Army Infantry on Jan. 4th. This is after .......



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That's right - only 5 cars owned in my 44+ years of driving & I still have nos. 3, 4 & 5, and the latter 2 are still driven daily! Shows what regular maintenance, repairs & taking care of your cars can do, in addition to keeping the mileage down.
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[MoveQik]

'76 Nova. It had the 305, factory rally wheels...I was so cool. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) My mom bought it new and then left it for dead. Luckily grandpa(who raised me) was a mechanic at the local Chevy dealer and we got it back into shape. Fun time and great memories working on the car with him.

[914itis]

1983 Mitsubishi Tredia.. nothing but trouble........

[StratPlayer]

Got out of the army in may 66, in June I bought one of these......

[r_towle]

68 gto conv. 400 with tri power.
Sold that and got a 65 mustang GT fastback.
Never should have sold either one.

Rich