PLAY Found some old pictures in the bottom of a box
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SlipperySlope
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I bought that exact same color/year LTD from my MIL used around 1980. I drove it for 20 more years. I remember it had a Cleveland engine in it and my teenage neighbor bought it from me for the engine.
Old Greek
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Cool - I had a 1962 Buick Special wagon in 1969 - It had the 215 V8 - wish I had it now!
Wyominglarry
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Gas was 30 cents when I bought my first car. I remember and miss the gas wars.
ShadowMan
Designated Grumpy Old Fart
My first car was a 1957 Triumph TR3 "small mouth" roadster. Bought it for $100 bucks. Took a year to completely restore it. Completely rewired it and converted it from positive ground to negative ground. Rebuilt the engine with big bore inserts and an electronic overdrive transmission. LOVED THAT CAR!!! It was a total SCREAMER!! One I should have never let go.
BadMedicine
Would *I* Lie???
Gimme that woody road master in the first pic!! Love those with the sleeper LT1!
West
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Hfcomms
EN66iq
When I was 17 I had a Ford Maverick with a 300 straight six. How I hated that car because it wasn’t a muscle car or one of the kind the cool kids were driving. One day I had a bug up my butt and wanted to blow it up. I put the transmission in neutral and floored the accelerator. I couldn’t get the motor to blow no matter how hard I tried. In retrospect that drivetrain was a good piece of kit. The straight six was pretty bulletproof. Anemic as heck in the power department but dependable as anything.
cat killer
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My first car was a 52 ford hardtop, Alpine blue with a ivory top, flathead V8, 3 speed with overdrive transmission.
Bought it in 57, had to do quite a bit of work on it.
The town police car was a 57 Ford 6 and the old flathead would out run it.
The town police car was chasing a car just like mine when it took a gravel road, seems the city feller couldn't handle gravel at 70 and scattered pieces of it a couple of 100 yards.
I was home asleep when it happened.
Bought it in 57, had to do quite a bit of work on it.
The town police car was a 57 Ford 6 and the old flathead would out run it.
The town police car was chasing a car just like mine when it took a gravel road, seems the city feller couldn't handle gravel at 70 and scattered pieces of it a couple of 100 yards.
I was home asleep when it happened.
IronMan 2
Senior Member
I have been watching Stranger Things. Loving it because it's set in the early 1980's and the main characters are the same age as I was in the early 80's. Nostalgia rules!
One of the characters drives one of those Ford LTD's (it's about 13 years old in the show and it's a bit of a bucket). We didn't have that style of big Ford in the Land Down under; Ford Australia designed & built our own big cars from 1971. But the thought of a kid owning and driving an early 70's huge V8 sedan in the 80's for a first car in Australia was unheard of. You couldn't afford one, nor could you feed it!
One of the characters drives one of those Ford LTD's (it's about 13 years old in the show and it's a bit of a bucket). We didn't have that style of big Ford in the Land Down under; Ford Australia designed & built our own big cars from 1971. But the thought of a kid owning and driving an early 70's huge V8 sedan in the 80's for a first car in Australia was unheard of. You couldn't afford one, nor could you feed it!
Southside
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I long for a 63.5 Galaxie R code.
What a beautiful car.
My first truck was a 1974 International. Long bed of course. I bought it when I was 14. Of course I couldn't get tags in my name yet at that time nor could I drive it on the road. It had 17450 something miles on it and I gave $1400 for it. We were visiting a old friend who was in his last days of life in a wheel chair and I commented about his truck under his carport. “I sure could haul a lot of firewood and hay with that long bed”
“Its for sale young man if you know anyone looking.”
You could pee in the dirt road and get that thing stuck but it done a lot of work over the years.
I still had that old truck when me and wife got married.
“Its for sale young man if you know anyone looking.”
You could pee in the dirt road and get that thing stuck but it done a lot of work over the years.
I still had that old truck when me and wife got married.
Marthanoir
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I'm Gen X, my first car was a BMW 3 series 
Southside
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I would love to have an "M" car.
M stands for Mechanical nightmare.
I prefer to abuse myself with an Audi.
Marthanoir
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If I could afford the insurance on an M3 at 19 yrs old I'd be a happy man
Insurance was nearly £700 punts (Pre-Euro days ) on my 318i as it was.
Mind you at 19 it'd be about €2k + nowadays.
Marthanoir
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I'd love an RS6 Avant or an M3 touring but ground clearance would be an issue around here.
Griz3752
Retired, practising Curmudgeon
Just bought my 3rd Audi (A8L)
DW is infatuated so, I may never get to drive it much.
The M5 felt like it was custom built for me.
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
Ah, the era of the Chevrolet Landbarge. When a car was EXPECTED to be able to stop a tank round, and "gas mileage" was for sissy marys who couldn't handle cigarettes with their steak and donut sandwiches.
Southside
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See? You like abuse too!
I have a 2006 S4 Cabrio W/64K miles.
Painfully expensive to repair.
Southside
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Any Audi RS is a charm! An Avant would be sweet. An earlier one without the elec. assist motors would be better.(albeit, slower)
The M's? Can't get even the bearing oiling figured out.
Not to mention the VVT problems. No, I will never own a performance BMW again.
Griz3752
Retired, practising Curmudgeon
Masochism is a trait I've long struggled against as evidenced by the preponderance of non-American vehicles in my previous lives . . . . .
Southside
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Well, you just need a back-up. And, if it is German also, another back-up.
Marthanoir
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Southside
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I had a 1988 318i.If I could afford the insurance on an M3 at 19 yrs old I'd be a happy man
Insurance was nearly £700 punts (Pre-Euro days ) on my 318i as it was.
Mind you at 19 it'd be about €2k + nowadays.
Quite possibly the slowest car I ever owned.
My first truck was a 1952 International... Metro step van, dual rear tires, straight six I guess.
You want to talk about a tank... that was one!
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Firebird
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My son had five M3's, he loves those things!
Marthanoir
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Mine was a 1996, this was Ireland so everybody else my age had 1.2 / 1.3 litre engine cars
Never gone below 2 litre since then
desertvet2
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My first car. Bought from my deceased grandfather's estate for 500. Not this actual car, mine was blue. Oh how I wish I could have hung onto it until I got established as an adult.
Firebird
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We had a 1965 Sport Fury 383 4-speed