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Old Jul 6, 2006 | 09:04 PM
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My first car was or is a 1960 Falcon. Still got it after 30 years still runs and still drive it.
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Old Jul 6, 2006 | 09:06 PM
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My first car was a 75 pontiac Lemans GT
 
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Old Jul 6, 2006 | 09:42 PM
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My first car was a 86 Ranger. 1.9L, Auto on the floor, long bed. My little brother totaled it two years after we got it. I painted the grille black and took out the bench seat and replaced it with bucket seats from a Tempo.
 
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Old Jul 6, 2006 | 11:47 PM
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75 Ford Maverick. I got it at the tender age of 14 for a mere $200. It had the 250 straight 6 in it and it ran great after a $26 starter. Drove it for a year after I got my license when one dark and stormy night I swerved to miss a dog and hit a tree at 40mph.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 12:22 AM
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1964 Ford station wagon 3 spd column and 289 it was the typical hand-me-down family car. Managed to drive it thru a corn field to avoid an accident one afternoon. Learned to crimp and solder radiator tubes on that car. Sold it to buy my first new car, a 1972 Plymouth Gold Duster.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 12:23 AM
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'00 Ford Focus. Not my kind of car at all, but it got me around and probably wasn't a bad car to get some experience in.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 12:37 AM
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My first car was a '89 F-150,long bed with the 300 4.9L and a dog of a transmission,a C6.When I first got it,I put it through hell,drove it through water,off roading,Raced it once. Had fun. Now she sits in the back under a tarp waiting for restoration. 198,700 miles and still runs strong. People tell me I need to sell it or get rid of it,I won't though.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 09:44 AM
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A 1985 Ford half ton lariat super-cab with a 400 four barrel under the hood.
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 10:02 AM
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 10:07 AM
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First car was a 1966 Plymouth Valiant w/ a 273 V8. One of my Dad's old mail cars. He would put about 400,000 to 500,000 miles on em and just give them away when he got a new one. Drove the hell out of that thing. Had to drain the radiator and blow it up to get rid of it. Next was a 1969 Dodge Charger w/a 383 and 4-speed. Still miss that one.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 10:17 AM
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67 AMC Ambassador 4dr pretty much loaded with options and a 343 4b and only 50k. got it in 82 for 350.00 when I was 16. drove it the rest of the way through HS and the first year of college. Gave it to my dad in 85 when I got my 69 Cougar. he drove it till 91 and sold it for 300.00 to a guy from WV who was in the AMC club. I wonder sometimes if it is still around
 
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 10:54 AM
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'70 Olds 442 W-30. I still get sick when I think about it. Dad took me out of it a year later for obvious reasons and put me in a Volvo.

wifey: '68 Pontiac Catalina. The indestructable car- got it from grandpa when he couldn't drive anymore, drove it through HS and beyond.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 11:06 AM
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A 1978 MGB. I quickly found out why I was given it. I to this day believe that it was a ploy by my Dad to say I had a car, without the risk of me actually being able to drive anything. The darn thing spent most of it's time broke. If it wasn't a problem with the stupid side-breather carb. It was an electrical gremlin. Fun car when it did run though. I still can't get my dad to tell me what he did with it when I joined the Army.

My wife's first car was a 1987 Suzuki Samurai. It's in my gallery in front of the Ford. It's "evolved" a little. It sat at her parents house for close to a decade before we found-out that they made great rockcrawlers and rebuilt it.
 

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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 11:36 AM
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my first vehicle bought at the age of 16 is my 1982 f100, 184,xxx miles when i bought it 223,xxx on it now five years later. it is 2wd with the 300 and a c4 auto tranny.

i bought it barly running for 350 bucks, i rebuilt the carb, tuned it up and replaced all the vacume lines

for memories that truck has taken out almost every garbage can and about half the mailboxes in waterloo iowa, the truck has been involved in 4 wrecks none of them were my fault, ive drove it trough fields, ditches, jumped it about 100 times over this set of railroad tracks untill i landed it hard and anialated the passenger side leaf spring.

i drove it head on into a mud puddle and found out the hard way it was about 4 feet deep, the truck had to be "rescued" with a tractor.

i remember delievering newspapers in it for about a year untill some old hag complaned and got me fired, i remember in act of drunken revenge me and my buddy tearing that hags yard a new one, driving down the street then jumping the curb and flooring it sideways through her yard throwing mud all over her house at about 1 am.

i get to relive the days of my youth, every morning when i fire the old beast up and head off to work. sure ive got a nice 96 f150 sitting in the gradge but i just love driving the old truck so much better
 
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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 12:28 PM
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My first car was a 68" mustang with a expiermental 302 boss that they eventually
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