1956 Mercury Monterey Police Interceptor (Detective's Car, no light bar, radio or gun rack), Yellow/Black, painted Dupont Imron gloss black. 1975-1983 RIP.

67 Plymouth Belvidere. Very used so it doesn't show my age. Could seat 8 comfortably. Big enough to lay across the back seats without touching the doors. Not that I would know for sure. 8 cylinder engine that was so smooth you wouldn't notice when you hit 90 until you looked at the speedometer!

First car was a 66 Ford Galaxy jet black......got it from an old boy friend's brother. He souped it up with a 440 and was it FAST!!! It was the early 70's with the gas crunch and only had it for a couple of months as everytime I went around a corner it sucked up a couple of bucks. I couldn't afford to keep it. We used to "hang" at the local Mickey D's on weekends, and all the guys would beg me to drive it. They wanted to race it, I never let them.
Got a reality check and inherited my brother's chevy vega a '71 two toned brown, was that car ugly. Thats when I learned how to drive a stick. A piece of junk too. Then moved on to a '71 Ford Torino also with a lot of power. I could hardly see over the dash it was a big car. Wow..is this bringing back memories...thanks.
Lynda

74 Vega school bus yellow. So bold & bright, I could probably be seen a mile away in dense fog!!!! ;>)

the pinto-------- was it a 70? did your engine ever blow up?
Lynda

1931 Chevrolet coupe - was my Grandpa's old car, I got it after he had passed on in 1951.

Way cool! keep em coming! This DOES bring back memories.

Lynda, it was a 71 and the engine did blow up. I gave it to my mom for 2 dollars. (avoid gift tax)
some gift! she stills complains how for two bucks, her own son "ripped her off"

Thought I was cool, though. Wearin my OP shorts, remember them? The shorts that were real short for men? HOBIE, and headin to the shore for the weekend.
Those were the days... I miss the ocean here in the desert.

1961 Chevy Impala, fire engine red w/white top. Loaded with chrome, it even had a spotlight in front of each door. Ahhhh, it was a beauty! Wish I had it today, only it was always breaking down on me. Traded it for a brand new robin egg blue Vega. I could drive all day on one gallon of gas with that car!

63 falcon sprint convertible v8 stick.car was 11 yrs old when i got it, but was like new cond.

1951 Ford flat head V-8. The best thing about the car was the clock. Wind it up and it would last for 8 days. Longer than some of the motors we put in it.
Bob

I got you all beat.

1966 Corvair Monza. Anybody remember them??

Maybe unsafe at any speed, but lots of fun to drive.

Mike //////\/\\/\//////

My first car was a 25 year old 1950 Mercury 2 door sedan, purchased for $35 dollars. Paint was black with grey and rusty spots. It was a handyman's special. It went through fuel pumps pretty fast. Lots of vapor locks. I used to have to push it to get it started, no mean feat by one's self. I'm 6foot 3inches and often slept stretched out on the seat. Called it camping.
We replaced exhaust system, using flexible piping. Worked great, except for a high pitched screech that would erupt when accelerating. I was glad to get rid of it after two years, but it did get me back and forth to college classes.
Thanks for the memory boost. Norm

Bob = once-upon-a-time I had one of those flat-head Ford V-8's! It was a '46 Ford "business" coupe (no rear seat) and the engine (flat-head V-8) run as smooth as silk. I had destroyed the old '31 Chevy and the '46 was my second car. At that time Olds had come out with their "Rocket 88" and I began to try and soup-up that flat-head Ford to compete with the Olds 88 ... of course, that never happened ... the "88" would blow the doors off ANY Ford at that time (and everything else for that matter)! Anyway, that was during my hamburger and hot-rod days; later was to sell the car to another one of the hoodlum hot-rod gang and I went off to the military service.

Mike = after I got home from military service, went through two or three more cars with V-8's but then met a sweet young thing and my life style seemed to change. Traded in a real gas guzzler for the new economical (brand new) '60 Ford Falcon station wagon. Had thought long and hard between buying that Falcon or going the Corvair route. Settled on the Falcon in that it was available in a station wagon model and Corvair's wagon was not out yet at the time. But I really liked the Corvair and thought they were a real nifty little car. Although going after the Corvair gave Ralph Nader a lot of notoriety, I never heard of the Corvair having the problems Mr. Nader claimed they did have. You would have thought, especially at that time, there were many other saftey risks much larger. With all the big, fast V-8's, many without even disc brakes, along with inadequate roads, makes me now wonder any of us survived that era ... especially the late 50's!

Dale

67 Pontiac Convertible. 3 speed. What a nice car!!! Its still town around, restored from its death sentence. Every now and then I see it on a sunny spring day cruising through town.

My first one was a 1939 Ford tudor sedan. Bought in 1945! Blew the engine after one month! Had it replaced with a newer 85 h.p. flathead engine. Ran it when i got out of the army, then got a free new Pontiac, given by my Uncle Sam, to all amputee WW II veterans, free of charge! Gave the Ford to Mother.
Bought a Model T Ford, roadster pickup later, while still driving the '39!. Kept it until 3 years ago! Needed too much to restore it. A friend bought it and did the work, then he sold it to a collector! RATS!
by: Rustyj

1973 VW BUG, Bright yellow!

To: Dryndusty/ DaleW:
You young fellers with yer flathead Fords, and the fuel pump problems--didn't you know the trick to keep the fuel pump working? When you bought the car--was there any i/4 inch bolt lock washers in the glove box? If there were, that was how we kept the fuel pump operating-especially if out on the road!
I always had lock washers, a half inch open end wrench, and a 7/16 open wrench, in the glove box!
When the engine would quit, i would open the hood, take off the fuel line fitting at the pump, take out the bolts holding on the pump, and take out the pump. I would then insert one of the lock washers in the part that fit over the push rod in the oil fill housing, then put everything back together, and it was good to go again! (A bit of chewing gum held the washer in place until you got it bolted on!)
By the time ya got 4 washers in there, we figured it was time to buy a new fuel pump! New fuel pumps cost at least $5! WOW!
by: Rustyj

Mine was a 1980 JEEP CJ-7. It was powered by an original AMC 304 V8. A smile still comes across my face when remembering some of the things that I did with that machine. Sold it two years ago, after 10 years of ownership, to pay for the birth of my son. All-in-all, it was a good trade!