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Post by Neal on Jun 9, 2019 19:35:27 GMT -5
I got my first car in September 1966. My first car had a Hemi and a 4 speed. I used most of the money I made at my first summer job away from home, just before starting my senior year in high school.
For a long time that's as much as I ever said about my first car. So, today I'm posting pictures I found of a similar car.
THE CAR - 1961 Peugeot 403
THE FOUR SPEED - 4 in the tree. (Doesn't flow as well as "3 in the tree" does it.)
Although it isn't what motor heads imagined when I said "Hemi, 4 speed." I wasn't lying when I said it. That it was a 4 cylinder hemi with a column mounted shift lever never occurred to them. That I wasn't what I appeared to be didn't occur to them either.
I HOPE SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENS TO YOU TODAY
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Post by Dabeagle on Jun 9, 2019 21:35:52 GMT -5
My first car was a 1976 Datsun B-210 with a four speed manual. Putting a radio in that thing was a real bitch, but I liked the car.
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Post by paul on Jun 9, 2019 22:31:55 GMT -5
![]() My fist car, 1972 Datsun 1200. Also, me. Attachments:
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Post by Dabeagle on Jun 9, 2019 22:54:17 GMT -5
I'm reminded of an old, bad joke. Executives were discussing the company and one said, "We must come up with name for company!" Another asks, "When we need name by?" The other replies, "By tomorrow!" The other exclaims, "Oh, Datsun?!?"
Have to use a stereotypical Fu Manchu voice for it to make any sense.
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Post by paul on Jun 10, 2019 1:50:30 GMT -5
That 1972 Datsun was not only my first car, but 1972 was the first year I drove anything; didn't learn until I was 26. Beat that.
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Post by Neal on Jun 10, 2019 4:06:06 GMT -5
That 1972 Datsun was not only my first car, but 1972 was the first year I drove anything; didn't learn until I was 26. Beat that. I was 14 when I first drove a real car on real roads and streets. My mother was in the passenger seat. She would bribe me to go to the Laundromat in the next town every Saturday morning while they saved up to get a new washing machine. It was a 1961 Ford Country Squire 9 passenger wagon, 11 miles one way. It took 8 weeks for them to get the money. I was so sad when that got installed. |
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Post by paul on Jun 10, 2019 10:43:06 GMT -5
To be totally accurate, the very, very first car I drove was in Disneyland's Autopia around 1960. I'd been itching for it since seeing it on TV when I was 9.
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Post by PaulR5 on Jun 12, 2019 2:35:52 GMT -5
That 1972 Datsun was not only my first car, but 1972 was the first year I drove anything; didn't learn until I was 26. Beat that. My mother taught my aunt to drive when my aunt was 62, after my uncle died. So 62 beats 26 on lateness of learning to drive. My aunt gave up driving at age 89. My mother stopped driving at 93, saying her reaction time was no longer fast enough. |
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Post by TeddyBower on Jun 12, 2019 16:35:06 GMT -5
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Post by glh on Dec 30, 2019 19:14:02 GMT -5
My first experience driving was in my Dad's new '72 Chevy Cheyenne pickup while picking up hay in a field during the summer of '72. My first car was a former power company fleet car and had 241,000 miles on it, a '66 Ford Falcon "Fordor" sedan. My parents bought it in the summer of 1975 out of a neighbor's yard when I was 14. The transmission was smoked and you could see daylight through the floor pans. My parents decided I needed something to keep me occupied and out of trouble, so I spent the next several months replacing the transmission, then did a valve job on it, stuck some sheet metal in the floor and drove the whey out of it.
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Post by Lugnutz on Jan 3, 2020 12:31:56 GMT -5
My first car was a 1971 Kingswood wagon. It ended up being a derby car in the end. I learned what not to do because it had an engine fire which was all me. My attempted carb swap was a fail.
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Post by bobby on Jan 3, 2020 16:11:26 GMT -5
Mine was a 1969 Pontiac Firebird like this one. Green with vinyl top. Totally stock. (Sorry about the size. I need to figure out how to shrink images and upload them to this site.) ![]()   |
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Post by bobby on Jan 3, 2020 16:14:03 GMT -5
Mine was a 1969 Pontiac Firebird like this one. Green with vinyl top. Totally stock. (Sorry about the size. I need to figure out how to shrink images and upload them to this site.) ![]() I had a 69 Firebird. Yellow with the 400 Hurst 4 speed combo. Had the tach on the hood like the GTO Judge. |
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Post by Lugnutz on Mar 4, 2020 1:53:33 GMT -5
 Boner-riffic! Had a friend with a 67 Firebird eons ago. I got a 1973 Ventura not long ago for something to play with. |
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Post by glh on Mar 4, 2020 12:08:45 GMT -5
I had a friend in high school that had a '73 Ventura with a Pontiac 350 c.i./5.8L (~180 h.p.) and four speed. He swapped a Pontiac 455 c.i./7.5L out of a '70 Bonneville (360 h.p./500 lb.ft. torque) into the car. He fancied himself a mechanic and in a fit of misguided idiocy swapped the heads from the 350 onto the 455. I was attending an auto/diesel school out of town at the time and unavailable for technical assistance. Turned out they weren't interchangeable and he wound up smokin' the 455 to a crackly crunch. It was one badass ride for about ten minutes, though.
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