Thread: What Were Your First 10 Car???

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Ok everyone I'm a youngster and really enjoy hearing about peoples first cars. So I'm kind of a late bloomer i didnt get my license until i was 21 now I'm 24. Just found my first (real car) 1961 Starliner (yep im the one)haha. Ok ill start it off. My 1st car was a 1993 Chevy Lumina. it was a beater. It died everytime i stoped at a stop light/sign.Paid $350 for it and Sold it for $250. Haven't been a fan of chevys since. Maybe its because my 2nd car was a 1996 2 door Chevy Cavalier. My wife hit a car that turned out in front of her. totaled.Paid $1600for it and Had to pay $86 to get rid of it.My 3rd car was a 1979 Ford Granada 4-door with a 300 straight 6. Paid $250 for it and sold it for $500. It was a great car. I really do miss it. The guy who bought it only lives a few blocks from me. His son drives it to school every day. I should buy it back from him. haha!!!!. My 4th car was a 1998 Chevy Cavalier 4-door. The motor locked up while my mother in-law drove it down the highway in 2nd gear.Paid $2200 for it and Just sold it for $150. My 5th car was a 1966 Ford F-100 shortbox 2wheel drive with a 240 straight 6 in it.Paid $300 Still have it plan to redo her in a few years(kids come first). My 6th car was a 1993 Ford taurus with a 3.8l v6 great car had alot of rust. Paid $450 for it and sold it for $650. It still runs today see it around town all the time. My 7th car was a 1995 Ford Taurus SHO it has the 3.2L v6. 220hp. its a fast car and probably my favorite car ever. ppl always try to race me when i drive down the mains haha but i dont want to rod her too much. they only made a little over 9,500 of these cars. it will be a collector car when my sons old enough to drive. i bought it from a friend when he had to go to jail paid $600 for it. My 8th car is a 1999 Ford f-150 4x4 supercab nice truck love it. I try to keep the miles down weekend driver. My 9th car is a 1961 Ford Galaxie Starliner. Cant wait to save her and bring her home. OK so i dont really have a 10th car unless you call a 1994 Chevy Suburban 4x4 k1500 i borrowed from my mother in-laws best friends husband to go pick up my 1966 f-100 2 hours from home when on the way back the motor locked up and i had to buy it from him for $800 and then sold it to a friend for $500. God i hate Chevys!!! or at least all the one i have owned haha. ok so i guess thats my first 10 cars let hear ppl.

Congrats on the Starliner! Cool lookin piece! My first car was a 61 Impala convertible, cherry car for a 1st one. My second was a 56 ford beater, but it sure ran with a 312 and automatic, a real tire smoker. 3rd was a 63 Falcon with a 289 and a factory 4 speed, one of my favorites. Used to smoke my buddy's 396 Chevelle, fooled a lot of people with that car! 4th thru 7th was a series of 65 GTOs, loved those cars.8th was a 68 GTO, yeah I was stuck on goats. Family came along and had to settle down a bit,9th was a ford van, for work. A series of mom and pop cars for a number of years, but that old hotrod bug was still in me. That led to my current cars, a 37 chevy pro street sedan and a 77 Corvette. Just sold a 68 GTX, I'm startin to miss that one. Who knows what will be next, but I'm not stopping here!.......CR

This looks like fun. :-) I won't count the unfinished projects, or cars bought to sell for a profit.

'53 Chevy 2-door sedan. Upgraded from a 216 to the 235 six, and a floor shift.

'57 Chevy Bel Air coupe, 283 4BBL w/ solid Mellings cam, Muncie 4-speed and chrome wheels.

Red '62 Biscayne 2-door, dual quad 409, Z11 cam, Muncie 4 speed 4:11 posi, Cragars, redlines & slicks

'57 Corvette, 327-365 horse, Muncie 4-speed, Cragars

'63 Nova coupe, 327-365, Stahl headers, BW T-10, 4:11 posi, slapper bars

got married...........................................................Things slowed some.

'65 Nova 2-door sedan, 6 banger, bucket seats, radiused fenders, Cragars

'61 Corvette, 327-300 horse, Muncie 4 speed, Cragars, slapper bars, 4:56 posi, Cragars

'69 Camaro SS ragtop, 350-275 horse, Muncie, 12 bolt posi, rallys

Had the kids.........................................................Things slowed bad!

'65 Plymouth 4-door 318

'71 Demon slant six

'72 Chevelle wagon

Couldn't stand it.....................................................

Built a '62 Vette, 301, M22 Muncie, 4:11 posi and "custom paint"!!! :-)~

Later another 409-425 horse in a '63 SS hardtop.

That was more than 10, but at least I didn't make you listen to the 75 total cars I've owned. :-)

1983 MB 240D. had plans to hotrod it but scrapped it soon after I got my '67 Falcon. My '51 Chevy came a little under a year b4 the Falcon. took the Falcon off the road for a engine rebuild/ turbo and recently sold it uncompleted. next car was a '94 Tempo- it was a POS that didn't look bad ( well, it wasn't in bad shape, but Tempo's don't look 'good' )
ended up needing CV joints, and I junked it.. next was a '65 Rambler American. I fixed the brakes and got it running ok and drove it for a couple months. trunions started to collapse and I sold it, too much of a project for me. then I got a '92 Ranger 4x4 5spd. pretty fun truck, sold it after buying my '98 Ranger 5spd 2WD, and recently started scratch building a Ratrod..

So my current vehicles are my '98 Ranger, '51 Chevy ( mostly restored ) and my Ratrod project which is just a perimiter frame now, and the Ranger is for sale

Depends if you mean running/driving cars or projects. Before I was 16 and legal to drive I had these cars:

1) 32 Ford 5 window coupe
2) 50 Willys Jeepster
3) 30 Model A Fordor sedan
4) 34 Ford coupe turned into a roadster
5) 4 or 5 50 Fords, one was a mint convertible that I paid $ 25 for.
6) 37 Dodge four door sedan
7) 38 Ford Fordor sedan

When I got my license at 16 I then had these:

1) 57 VW, that was my first car and man, did I abuse that little 36 HP mill.
2) 59 Austin Healey bugeye Sprite
3) 2 53 Studebaker coupes, one with a 283 Chevy in it.
4) 51 or 53 Chrysler with a Hemi in it. Blew up the transmission 1 day.
5) 64 Chevy Impala Convertible
6) 66 GTO tripower coupe/ 4 speed
7) 67 GTO convertible 4 barrel 4 speed
8) 63 Bonneville Convertible 389 tripower, 3 speed stick.
9) 59 (I think) Fiat either 500 or 600 that couldn't go up steep hills.
10) 51 or 52 Rambler wagon with a 371 Olds, two fours, 4 speed hydrostick
11) 56 Ford Fairlane hardtop with a 312 3 speed stick
12) 47 Ford Fordor that only had 50,000 miles on it.......miss that one.
13) 32 Ford roadster pickup with a 406 Olds and Cad-Lasalle 3 speed
14) 40 Chevy Master Coupe that I swapped the 406 Olds into.


There were so many others in there like a 61 Impala convertible, 5 Corvairs, more VW bugs, a 68 Mustang that ended up a bracket racer, a 32 Austin Bantam B/Altered drag car, and probably 20 or 30 more, that I forget most of them.

Wish I had been smart enough to keep them all stored away somewhere.

Don

55 chevy in 1966
63 impala
65 chevelle SS
60 chevy SW
prototype 70 440+6 cuda
64 impala
63 plymouth 2d
60 new yorker
71 Demon
another 63 Impala
64 rambler
65 olds delta88-
65 chevy bel air 2 dr post -in 1975

1. ‘56 Chevy 210 2 dr. sedan 265, 3 sp.
2. ‘40 Chevy Master Deluxe coupe, mostly stock
3. ‘57 Bel Air 4 dr. hdtp. 283, 3 sp.
4. ‘57 Bel Air 2 dr. hdtp. 283, 3 sp.
5. ‘68 Javelin 343, 4 sp.
6. ‘70 Gremlin, various combos, eventually a 401, torqueflite
7. ‘62 Nova 292, 4 sp.
8. ‘66 SS396 4 sp.
9. ‘64 Corvette 402, 4 sp.
10. ‘70 Chevelle 350, 4 sp.
These are the first 10 as close as I remember. Some of these kind of overlapped, and there were various Vws, motorcycles, and other projects that were started, traded, and forgotten in there somewhere…

51 Merc tudor
56 Pontiac Star Chief
51 Ford coupe
56 VW bug with an Okrasa kit
58 Chev Del Rey tudor sedan, 348 tri power
55 Chev 210 tudor sedan
39 Chev coupe, 302 GMC with beefed hydro, ran H/G
66 Olds Cutlass coupe
36 Ford sedan
70 Datsun pickup (first new car)
60 AH Bugeye sprite
53 Ford pickup

Okay, more than 10, but I've kind of lost track of the sequence of the last three.

Here's my first ten:
37 Chev in 62 when I graduated from High School
34 Ford in 62
51 Ford in 62
56 Chev in 63
50 Ford in 63
57 Pontiac in 64
62 Pontiac in 65
36 Ford in 66
57 Chev in 67
67 Oldsmobile in 68
and then things got interesting..............
29 Model A pickup
four more 56 Chevs - made one of them into a pickup
got the 34 back and the traded it for two Model Ts and some cash
54 Ford pickup
55 Ford pickup
56 Ford sedan delivery
last count around 35 plus at least that many motorcycles

1. 1950 Studebaker Champion my dad bought it 1969 for $50 I drove it to high school 1972-74 and I still have it.
2. 1968 Mustang Fastback I bought this after I graduated from high school in 1974 and I still have it.
3. 1970 AMC AMX I bought this 1975 and I still have it.
4. 1982 Chevy S10 bought new.
5. 1966 Pontiac Tempest-dirt track stock car
6. 1970 AMC Javelin
7. 1973 Pontiac Lemans-dirt track stock car
8. 1986 Ford Thunderbird bought new.
9. 1973 Chevy Chevelle
10. 1976 Chevy Nova-dirt track stock car
+15 others

I'm loving this, I hope more join in. If only all of you kept all of those cars. wow almost makes me tear up. Great pics Tom F. yeah i have had a few motorcycles and a 4-wheeler there just not as fun and a car?truck. Keep them coming.

I know this dont have anything to do with this but if i knew where there was about 200 to 300 60's Impala's were sitting. Couldn't i just haul a few to Cali and sell them for twice what i paid to those lo-rider clubs at least I would know they would take care of them haha WHO'S WITH ME???? HAHA!!!

Hello Folks, I had my first car when I was 12,had to leave in an alley,the next street over, didn't want my Dad to know about it ,(it was a '48 Packard hearse). I had my first 6 cars before I was 16,started early.
48 Packard
61 Pontiac
64 Dodge Polara,(I stuck in a 392 Hemi,with a McCulloch Supercharger,never had it running though)
64 Valiant
66 Nova
65 Studebaker
66 Studebaker Daytona,(last year man., w/283 sbc)
66 Malibu SS 396
67 Beaumont SD 396,(Canadian Malibu,with very different trim/grill etc)
67 Camaro RS
ahhhhh..........the good old days!
Brian

1. '59 Impala 2 dr HT
2. '64 Chevelle wagon
3. '31 Ford coupe
4. '74 Vega GT
5. '73 Olds Cutlass
6. '71 VW Beetle
7. '29 Ford Roadster
8. '85 Chevy Astro
9. '93 GMC Safari
10. '32 Ford 3-window Coupe

1 59 MG 4 door
2 57 Chevy 2 door post
3 64 Ford Galaxie convert 352/390
4 53 Ford Victoria
5 64 Ford Wagon 352

6 64 Ford XL 390
7 66 Ford Galaxie 428 4 speed
8 69 Mach 1 351w
9 70 Cuda 440-6 shaker car(my first of many Mopars)
10 30 Model A coupe 392 Hemi (scary car)