frank10 Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 I learned to drive in a mid 60's F350 6 wheel dump. Mostly backwards. My family owned a logging / tree service company and I used to drive it with the chipper attached backing up to the brush piles all day. My car was a Ford Maverick with a 302 V8 stuffed under the hood where an inline 6 should have been. Doors were one color, the hood another, the rear quaters were rebuilt using Centery21 signs (from an agent who went out of business). It was short on looks but it embarrassed many a Camaro and a few Mustangs. I had a "real" job by the time I had all the body work done and the whole thing one color (primer gray but one color just the same). I gave it to my sister and her new husband as a wedding gift. They ran it for a few years and sold it to a friend who ran it on the dirt track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGrayOwl Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 A 1962 Corvair Station Wagon. That sucker got 28 mpg!!! It had a horizontally opposed 6 in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagledad Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 I've never seen one. My high school buddy's dad colected corvairs which include a couple of converibles, but I've never seen a station wagon. Ill bet that is worth a lot now. Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGrayOwl Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Yes, it probably would be, but the floor rusted out of it years ago and I got rid of it in the early 70's. My brother was looking at purchasing a 1961 Corvair van. That was a neat van, but the guy sold it before my brother could get back to buy it. Oh, well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailingpj Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Well, I just bought my first car last Friday. A '92 Toyota Celica GTS. This car is older than me, but so far it is running pretty nicely. No excessively strange noises, and it has turned on everytime I've asked it to. A little work and it should be a pretty nice car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pchadbo Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Welcome to the first car club PJ. I hope you have as many good times with yours as we seem to have had with ours. Oh and on a side note thanks for pointing out that a car manufactured the year I graduated from high shool is older than you are. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packsaddle Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Let's see...that means when you were born, pchadbo, I was bumping along in my second car through the mountains of Mexico, south of Oaxaca, with a couple of extremely uninhibited women who befriended me because I could intimidate the local men who kept 'approaching' them (they referred to those men as 'boob- and crotch-grabbers'). But we never had any problems while we were all together....wistfully thinking...man...that was a great trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGreyEagle Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 TMI Alert TMI Alert TMI Alert TMI Alert TMI Alert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr56 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 1966 Plymouth Satellite 9 miles per gallon in the city Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldisnewagain1 Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 1969 (?) VW Bug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvidSM Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Blue 1965 Mustang fastback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailingpj Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 If there are any mechanics out there that would be willing to offer a little advice please pm me. I'm not passing smog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hops_scout Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 My first car was a 1989 Pontiac Bonneville. That thing was a tank! When we traded it in my junior year of high school, I think we got $1500 for it. Tires were old, one passenger door didn't even open, and the gas gauge did not work. And the CD player that my sister had put it in was taken out the day before it got traded in. Then I drove a 2001 or 2002 Chevy Malibu. Great car that was previously a rental vehicle. It lasted a few years before dying during my sophomore year of college. My brother was driving it in town the night after I got back from college for winter break. The radiator was cracked or something like. Now I'm driving a 1998 Chevy S10 extended cab. My dad has had the truck since 2001 and now I've had it since 2009. It's a great truck, but starting to show its age. Third door is broken and the AC doesn't work. Rust is also starting to show up.. My first purchased vehicle may come in the next year or so. I'm hoping to save up working and living at home so I can purchase a new vehicle with cash.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheffy Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 65 chevy Caprice w/283 big car small engine. it was 10 yrs old when I got it. One of those"if you can get it running it's yours" replacing the motor mounts was the hardest part. 65 Olds Toranado. Classic until it rusted out in Michigan winters 68 Nova w/ 350 73 mercury Capri (loved that car) some others in between 83 Volvo 240 then a bunch of mini vans now F150 super crew. Troop loves that truck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeattlePioneer Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Hmmph! You all call yourself Scouters but NO ONE has reported that their first car bwas a Pinewood Derby car! I'm planning to make up Pinewood Derby Driver's Licenses/Certificates today for our pack PWD on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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