That car was also a magnet for wrecks. It had been wrecked and restored before we bought it. Then it got hit sitting in a parking lot. Then my sister dragged a drive-in tray down the side. Then my dad backed into it with his dually flatbed and put a HUGE dent in the left rear fender, took off a bunch of paint and bondo I didn't even know was there. (On a side note my dad is also a magnet for wrecks. He's been hit by a drunk driver, slid off the road into a ditch, hit my car, and a month ago he got in ANOTHER wreck in our driveway. He was coming home and my mom was leaving, neither was paying attention, and crash, his truck has a new tie rod and my mom's Impala has a new rear clip.)Then I hit that kid, which dented my front right fender and snapped of my antenne. Then I ran into the back of a talon going .5mph, only to have the other driver jump out screaming that I dented her car. Pretty hard to dent plastic. Then a civic ran into the back of me and knocked a chunk of plastic off the bumber. Finally one of my freinds(the one I later hit with my truck) backed into the front of it and left a black streak on the bumper. ANd one of my friends pushed it with his '78 Dodge. That probalby wsn't good for the tranny. In the end that car had a top speed of about 40 and it couldn't go uphill. I had to get a good running start at the hill on the way to school.

 

wait 94 caprices came with 283's?

 

1964 olds F-85 three on the tree would hang up if you shifted too fast, would go out to the out-law flat track for motor cycles and drive the hell out of this car. Payed $50 bucks from a guy that was froced to go to detox for 90 days and sold it back to him later for $50 bucks.
Bought a 71 chevy vega had 40K miles (WHAT A GREAT CAR THAT WAS)

 

I just graduated in May amd I have a 79 f-150 4wd. The cab corner on the driver's side is gone and the bed on the driver's side has a huge rust hole in it.
But its mine its also the first truck I've ever bought. It got a good motor though and thats all that matters

 

my mom knew a guy in the 70's who had 2 people dump a dodge dart on him and he stupidly accepted it. The 2 guys owed him money, so like a fool, he said yes. I bs you not, he had the motor chained down to the frame! Everytime he took a turn, the motor lifted up, and crashed right back down! The motor would rev real funny when he did this!!!

This was the guy that out of everyone to run into, he managed to hit his insurance agent! Imagine the fun when the insurance guy canceled the whole families policy! Man, they were mad!



Dane

 

Wow that's funny.

My buddy has a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Just one bad thing after another. Sometimes the radio works but only when you have the A/C on at startup. The 318 just sometimes stalls out of the blue. Gauges only illuminate when they feel like it. The engine caught fire once for no apparant reason. And once while sitting in a supermarket parking lot, the battery exploded. I love Mopar's quality control.

 

At our school everyone had the big old 4 door sedans like the Grand Marquis, Lincolns, and the new yorkers with the big motors (440's and 460's). Made for some good ol' drag racing after school. And man could those big pieces of metal fly.

 

the good old days i still remember my first car 1964 malibu i just finished it off las year in the demo derby. im gona miss that car

 

My first was a 78 yamaha 400-one of the reasons I hate Yamahas so much today. Rode it to school and work even in the winter. My dad got me a 68 chevy truck to drive but I refused to drive a chevy and it became a woodsplitter.Then got older sisters 70's LTD-still have a soft spot for those old boats-simple,tough,and go anywhere with proper driving technique. Finally got a 73 bronco my senior year top and doors removed the first spring and never put back on. still have that bronco- is currently being built (again) into my next trail beast. I still drive beaters today-cheap to buy,plentiful parts, no collision ins, no payments.

 

I still drive my first car every now and then, a 1978 Chevy Impala. I think i had the only rear wheel drive car in the whole high school lot. Its no sports car, but with the big steel bumpers, no one ever messed with me. Had a girl get her bumper caught on mine once. she ended up loosing a large chunk of plastic, i think i might have gotten a tiny scratch. The best thing was the cops never suspected that old sedan was the one doin burnouts in the parking lot.

 

i had a 1983 ford fairmont futura 4 door as my 1st car.....i picked her up for $225 in the paper and slept in it the 1st night i had it i was so excited about it.....i was 15 so i couldnt drive yet (for like another 2 weeks) so i worked on it....now this tank had a 2.3L I-4 in it....i mean there was enough room to put a big block in there and theres a tiny lil 4 cyl mustang motor in it??!! well needless to say it ran just fine a/c blew cold and the tranny worked great.....started driving it and it SUCKED!! no power at all....i would have guys in power wheelchairs beat me off the line.....anyways i wanted to drop in a V-8 but dad wasnt havin it....so i let out the oil and drove it till it blew up that took forever by the way those are strong engines....well over spring break in went the V-8 after coaxing my dad to let me have it after showing him that the engines cost wasnt bad.....now that thing would freakin run!!! i put in a 89' GT H.O. engine from my friends dads salvage yard we couldnt figure out the F.I. so i slapped on an intake and carbbed it had to cut a hole in the floor for the shifter but it was bad a$$....ran the duals and the old school Eagle 5 star wheels 15x9's ...yea...good times

 

1st beater car was my parents wrecked 67 VW bug. If I could get it going it was mine.
Made a baha bug out of it, painted it metalic blue with recovered the seats in leather, crome front bumper, crome baha head lights, engine roll cage, custom exhaust, and very oversized tires in back. Lots of fun in the car-- took it off road. Sold it when the engine went south for $500.

 

the first car i drove was my moms 74 chevy malibu(which she bought brand new). it didnt have much power but it sure got looks. dark brown coupe with chrome americans and big bfg's on it. my dad put a sway bar on the back so it handled pretty decent. i ended up driving that car until my second year of college when the gas prices hit 1.65\gallon and couldnt afford to spend 35$ on a tank of gas every 3 days. that car was great. i entertained more than a few girls in that car, the seats were huge and had plenty of room. i also have a 72 cutlass that i inherited from my papap passed a little over 10 years ago. he bought the car when it was only a few years old and had only managed to put 63000 miles on it. i've owned it since then and i've only got it up to 67,000. it runs really good, it was the last year for the higher horsepower motors. the car is absolutely pristine and i love it. now i'm driving a 2000 sonoma that i use to hate, but now it's kina growing on me. the motor sucks, but i've beat the crap out of it over the past four years. i even totalled some womans bonneville when i rearended her in front of walmart. when that happened, i took the insurance money and lowered it, put a 3inch goodmark cowl hood on it, and had the dents fixed from the wreck. i hafta say it looks pretty good and im gonna hafta do something about the 4cylinder eventually. lastly, i have my 75 highboy that i have in pieces around the yard. it's got a dana 60 under the front, i have a 460 waitin to go in it, and i've replaced the majority of the body. it's gonna be a load of fun when i get it done.