Off Topic But Too Good To Not Forward: Your First Car?

My first "car" was my 1953 Willys CJ3B (which I still have). My dad and I salvaged it from my uncle who bought it new for service station use. When
we moved back to PA from Tucson in 1968, dad got wind of it and we rescued it from a barn as a project.

My first 'daily driver' was a 1960 VW Bus that had been converted into a mobile doughnut wagon. Dad bought it for the 5-CCK Onan generator that was
in it. It only had a driver's seat and some counters in the back. I sanded the lettering off most of it and rattle canned it in bright yellow. It
was absolutely gutless. I wanted to bring it back to Tucson when we moved back in 1973, but my dad said it would take a month to get it across the
country IF it would even make it.

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Carl Stouffer
'75 ex Palm Beach
Tucson, AZ.
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Solar battery charging. GMCSJ and GMCMI member
 
> Only thing uglier than a 600 FIAT is a Japanese copy of it. Kia, maybe,? I
> have never worked on the new Fiat, but, I have worked on plenty of the 1st
> generation of those knuckle busters. If you run into the dedicated owner of
> one, it is like having a 401K in your shop. Permanent income.
> Jim Hupy
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 9:21 PM Tom Lins via Gmclist

>
> > First car was a 1969 Fiat 850 Spyder because it looked better than a

I agree about the Fiat's "Fix It Again Tony" is accurate for them. When I got drafted in 71 my sister was driving it when it caught fire outside her
dorm. So I got saved from supporting the local mechanic. At least with that car.
The second car was a 1969 Datsun 2000, yet another bad choice.
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Tom Lins
St Augustine, FL
77 GM Rear Twin, Dry Bath, 455, FI-Tech EFI
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My first car was a 1969 GT6+. The floor rusted out in three years, lost second gear about the same time., carburatores ate the rubber diaphrams every
6 months and the clutch seemed to be possessed .
But all in all a lot of fun and good memories.

> First car was a '67 Triumph GT6. My mom wouldn't let me have a convertible,
> so a Spitfire was out. Learned a lot about working on cars with that one.
> So cool that the entire front end opened up. Made engine work, etc so much
> more fun.And how to be pushed out of intersections when Lucas struck. Loved
> that car and it helped me meet Bert.
> Amazing how many of had British cars first.
>
> Fay Curtis
> '76 Glenbrook
> Kneeland, CA
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:41 PM Rick Drummond via Gmclist <

>
> > First car was a 1967 Ford Mustang bought in 1977 for $275.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > Rick&Tammy Drummond
> > Prior Lake MN
> > '74 (re)Painted Desert
> >

> >>
> >> Triumph TR3-B (red)
> >> File your fingernails on the road while driving.
> >> There's a reason John Lucas was called "the prince of darkness"
> >> Once tried to restart it with the crank in front of a convent in Omaha,
> > NE where I grew up.
> >> Success was met by a round of applause from a dozen nuns who had
> > gathered to watch a high school boy start a car with a crank.
> >> I'd have one today but the GMC and my bride take all the spare change.
> >> What a great ride though. All of it.
> >>
> >> Douglas & Virginia Smith
> >> dsmithy18 at gmail
> >> Lincoln Nebraska
> >> '73 "Canyonlands" since '95: "Wanabizo", Anishinabe Indian for "He gets
> > lost driving" Yes, really.
> >> Quadrabag/6 wheel disks/3;70 final/Paterson QuadraJet/Thorley's/Sundry
> > other
> >> P&W PT6, no wait, that's the wish list...
> >>

> >>>
> >>> Triumph TR-3A 1963
> >>>
> >>> Chaplain Randy Hecht
> >>> Chaplains are ready to Listen when you're ready to talk.
> >>>

> >>>>
> >>>> Austin - Healy "Bugeye" Sprite. I took my license test in it.
> >>>>
> >>>> --johnny
> >>>> --
> >>>> Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
> >>>> Braselton, Ga.
> >>>> I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to
> > me in hell
> >>>>
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> Replaced the third Sprite with a '63 Falcon Futura convertible. 4 speed, with a British Borg-warner copy and a shifter that would hang.
>
> --johnny

Mine shifted badly as well . Now I know it was the shifter bushings. Trans I had looked like a top loader. PO had special ordered the combo new. I was
about to put a 302 in it before I killed it Wish I still had it. Funy thing is my 68 mustang has the same smell.
--
76 Glenbrook
 
Starting at age 14 and before I could get a license, three doodle bugs, a 1914 model T Ford, still have it and have now owned it for 69 years, three
Corvettes (1954, 1957 FI, 1965 still have), 2 GMC MHs and too many other trucks/cars to count.
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Bill Bryant
PO 1976~PB (owned 34 years)
1914 Ford
1965 Corvette
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1964 VW beetle that seemed to know when my generous G.I. bill check showed up. $100 a month did not go far in the late 60'S. Rate went to $125, as I
recollect, the month I graduated.
Learned a lot on the Bettle.
Tom
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2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
KA4CSG
 
I left the college parking lot with 6 other consecutiveI blue bugs in front
of mine.

On Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 9:36 AM Thomas Phipps via Gmclist <

> 1964 VW beetle that seemed to know when my generous G.I. bill check showed
> up. $100 a month did not go far in the late 60'S. Rate went to $125, as I
> recollect, the month I graduated.
> Learned a lot on the Bettle.
> Tom
> --
> 2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
> KA4CSG
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When family responsibilities forced an end to my dragster driving,
hellraising life style, I purchased a brand new 1964 VW 40 horsepower,
Bahama blue, with a blaupunct Am/FM radio in the back seat. $1751.90 out
the door and down the road. Now I had a wife and family and 2 kids, and for
the first time in my life, no hot rods or race cars or weekends on the road
from one drag racing track to another. Big lifestyle change for me.
Next car was in 1972, traded off the beetle for a used 1968 VW double
cab Kombi with the conestoga covered wagen fabric top over the bed. My wife
cried when that beetle went away. But, we both grew to love that Kombi.
That carried our family in and out of more memory trips than the GMC. Life
goes on.

On Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 8:11 PM John Phillips via Gmclist <

> I left the college parking lot with 6 other consecutiveI blue bugs in front
> of mine.
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 9:36 AM Thomas Phipps via Gmclist <

>
> > 1964 VW beetle that seemed to know when my generous G.I. bill check
> showed
> > up. $100 a month did not go far in the late 60'S. Rate went to $125, as I
> > recollect, the month I graduated.
> > Learned a lot on the Bettle.
> > Tom
> > --
> > 2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
> > KA4CSG
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