It would be interesting to hear about everybody's first car...!
I'll go first. Mine was a 1953 Ford coupe, 3 on the tree, and a little souped up by my step-dad. I got it my junior year. It was called 'the beast.' My mother took it away from me in 1970 and sold it to Sam Mosley for $75. He set it on fire for the insurance money a year later. I wish I had it back...
1960 VW Bug with the rubberized canvas, 'sardine can' sunroof, and a little China flower pot trimmed in gold that fit in the corner of the dash. Thirty-six horsepower and seventy-two miles an hour. No gas gauge; had a little valve in the floor down under the dash that you turned to get one more gallon when it started running out of gas. If you forgot to turn it back up when you filled the tank, you were seriously out of gas the next time. Regular gas was 20 cents a gallon, so two bucks would fill it up.
Mine was a 1959 Chevy 4-door 283 motor 3 on the column no A/C, and the WINGS! They were not only cool looking, they were great for extra seating. Drove it for two years & then moved up to a 1960 Chevy 4-door 283 with automatic AND A/C! They didn't get very good mileage buy $4.00 would fill 'em up!
1953 Chevy of some kind. It was green and had an automatic transmission and leaked about a quart of oil per day. That's about the only things I know about it. I paid 50 bucks for it in 1967 and junked it for 15 sometime around 1970. Second car was a '62 Ford Fairlane.
Who drove the black Chevy Impala with fins like the batmobile?
After dark, we'd all pile into the car, drive on the lawns at Daley Park looking for lovers who thought they were going to have the evenings to themselves. We blasted them with our high pressure water fire extinguisher. Then followed up with water balloons for good measure
Mine (Ed and I got it after we got married) was my grandpa's '54 Ford Falcon. It had an after factory air conditioning unit that could freeze anybody out as long as you were in the front seat. Cost me $1.00 in gas to drive to and from work everyday from Mesa to Good Samaritan Hospital on McDowell in Phx.
Mine was a huge, 1967 Gold, Buick Skylark that I got after HS. My Dad made me get it instead of the cute, little VW I wanted. He said it would be safer for me. I guess he was right in the long run because a semi pulled out in front of me and I was safe in my tank. If I had been in a VW, I might not have been so lucky!
My first car was a 1957 Red Volvo and Black Fenders. I drove out every lunch time both Junior and Senior years out of the Wood Shop side of the Parking Lot. I was tired of having Peas in my hair.
Jim, So you're the 1st and only owner of this classic car...? I am very impressed. I know Steve White had a 68 Camaro for a long time, but I doubt he has it anymore. You've had it longer than you've had your wife, right?
My first car I drove in high school was a black 1954 Chevy pick-up with a silver camper shell. My parents let me drive it after I had my car accident Labot Day weekend 1967. I remember one time driving down Cairo Drive speed shifting when a fan blade came off and stuck into a motor mount! Good thing Eldie Nechville lived on that street. He put in a new motor mount & fan before my parents got home from work. I was lucky that the fan blade didn't go through the hood. I would never have lived to tell this silly story.
Mine was a 1954 Chevy Custom Cab Pickup 3spd, straight 6 with a foot pedal starter. I spent several months restoring it from the work truck my Dad had used it for with 'Home Repair Service' hand stenciled and painted on the doors. I had it repainted by Earl Scheib for $29.95 and replanked the bed with full size hand finished oakplanking that cost me almost as much as the paint job.
We hunted, camped and worked out that truck. I delivered my Republic paper route from it, went to the drive-in with it and of course, hit an occaisional light pole with it. We took it to the river, the desert, and slept off a drunk or two in it. Why do first cars and first loves always leave the best memories??
Mine was a 1959 rambler. Looked like an upside down bathtub, pee green
The front seats leaned back to make a bed, however, my dad had put in
a brace so they would not decline that far, I didn't know that until Ken
Ferrera told me. Wonder what my dad was thinking? 2nd car, 56 chev.
got it from Ken Mason, anyone remember him? Tommy
The first car purchased. 1964 MG Midget. Don't know how I got into it. I could see over the windscreen and touch the ground over the drivers door at the same time. I was in Denver and when it snowed I'd have to help the wipers. Nothing but fun....
Mine was a 1959 rambler. Looked like an upside down bathtub, pee green
The front seats leaned back to make a bed, however, my dad had put in
a brace so they would not decline that far, I didn't know that until Ken
Ferrera told me. Wonder what my dad was thinking? 2nd car, 56 chev.
got it from Ken Mason, anyone remember him? Tommy
In appreciation of the Rambler, Whatleys first car, It did see a lot of action. I remember when all of us loaded into the car, Tommy, donaldson, hudson, and drove off with that water fire extinquisher, sprayed up some guys but on a ten speed, drove up making a siren sound and put out that fire two kids were making in the brush behind some homes. and also the beer all ove the interior. I still remember when you and I were by Holdeman, and 'tried' to pop the clutch on that auto matic, I don't remember if the drive shaft is still there, or we hauled it away with the car. I was heartbreaking, but still was funny as hell when it happened, because we just looked at each other in amazment that we weren't going anywhere. Tom helped me rebuild my 62 for fairlane with the small rear quarter fins, I don't know whatever happened to it.
Gotta laugh at this. I know people are dieing from Drunk Drivers. But that was real fun to cruise drinking and we got to do this sort of thing. I always maintained so no one even knew what I was doing.. The Law stepped in and ended it though.
1967 Chevy PU, 6cyl, three on the tree, pea green with white top. Baby Moon hub caps. Bought Jr. year for $1500. Only one year old. Painted it baby blue after a fender bender. Had the 8 track stolen in the HS parking lot. After HS I fell asleep twice coming home from Glendale (Susies hometown). Side swiped the guard rail on the freeway overpass over Baseline. (kept me from diving off onto Baseline below!). Second time sideswiped a camping trailer parked on the shoulder. Why were they camping on the freeway in the middle of the night??? Sold it when we got married in 74 to get a car for Susie to drive to work. Many great memories of that truck! :)
How do you pop the clutch on an automatic?
I believe he did a power shift, with the emergency brake on, let go with the revup, didn't work so well, and tell Scott, yeah.
Phyliss, Hicks popped his clutch years ago Scott I remember yours, wasn't it a 59 or 60 dodge? Remember going up the A mountain, blew your rear tires on the sharp rocks. What a day, memorable, you were so pissed. Then the 69 ford 150, drunk in the rear bed, me and tommy had fun wih you that night. You bounce well.
A car I remember well was Kim Standage's flat black Chevy (?). We would would load up sour oranges, and a pressured water filled fire extinguisher which squirted about 20 feet. It was like a steath car. It blended into the night. Whoever was making out in Daley Park will remember us well. They usually went home wet and smelling of orange juice.
Well, times they are a changin'. My '68 Javelin is now on display at the world's largest museum featuring AMC vehicles. The transfer has been under negotiation and was finallized last tuesday. I can take my grandkids there to see it anytime for free. And it'll spend its remaining years indoors.
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