Do you still own your first car?

[CamaroMike]

Fun thread, would like to see how many folks are as attached as I am to their first ride.


1. Do you still own your first car? Make and model?

2. Backstory and what are your plans?

3. Picture then and now

[HEEP]

Yes, See my build thread in my sig.

[sleepertime]

Proudly I still do.

My first car, age 14, 1982...

1969 Camaro...

See my build thread...

[FANTM58]

It's a 70 chevy 1/2 ton PU
It was my Dads, it's gone through a few
Transformations , it's now a 4x4
Tilt front end ,blown 350 ,.
And haven't run it 20 years ,
Here is a picture of it with my new truck .

[FANTM58]

One more shot of them ,!

[Shmoov69]

Yup..... The one you see in my avatar!

Technically, I did have a car "before" the 69, but I don't count it (mainly cause I don't have it now, ha!) because I wasn't even 15 when I got it and sold it when I was 15 to get the 69. Which was in '89.

[dale68z]

I still have my 68 z28. I bought it in 84. I rode motorcycles prior, so never owned a car.

I bought it for my wife (newly married) I ended up using it as my daily driver till 89. It has been in enclosed storage since 1991.

I have the protecto plate, and sales receipt from Dana. It still has it's original drivetrain. Just missing an original fan clutch. No accidents, no rust.

It currently is in pieces slowly being restored. Hopefully I will finish it this winter.

[CamaroMike]

1. Do you still own your first car? Make and model? Yes, 1978 z28

2. Backstory and what are your plans? When I was 16 my father and I drove 5 hours to the rod run in Pigeon Forge Tennessee and found a 78 z28 my buddy spotted the previous day. Im thinking about building a sema car out of it.

[214Chevy]

Nope, and don't even want it. My first car was a 1987 Pontiac Sunfire. Got it so cheap because it needed a new motor and it was bought from the next door neighbor. Bought it for $150 and put a junkyard motor in it. Even after the motor swap, it still ran like $150 car. Mainly because the junkyard motor wasn't all that. But, hey...it got me around town and I was the man being in the 9th grade and one of the few fellas who had a car and could get to and from football practice and all the weekend party's. To the young ladies though, you would have sworn it was a Rolls Royce.

[EBMC]

Yep still have it! 74 Vega I purchased at 14 (1982) with money saved from part time jobs, when everybody had or wanted a v8 Vega. I bought a wrecked v8 Vega shortly after for a parts car and with help from my Dad, transfered all the parts over and got it running at about 16. The next few years slowly transfered into a race car and ran a 10.04 best before parking it in my mid twenties to save for a house, family ect. Its been through a couple moves and still sits in my garage with over15 years of dust on it. Not sure what I'll ever do with it as I now have a 7 second Nova that fills my drag racing "itch". But I cant ever sell it at this point. Maybe dust it off and bring it back to life when I retire someday in the far distant future. I cant see myself golfing or fishing!