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1976 Olds Cutlass 442... bought it for $750 looked like this, but with a lot more rust and a lot more green spray paint
Then I bought a 1990 Taurus SHO with 225K for $1,000 after the brakes went out on the 442 and it ended up in a ditch. I bought if off of a guy that used it as his daily commuter, he also had a Saleen Mustang 5.0. The SHO had a chip, Dynomax Exhaust, Underdrive Pullies and a 5 speed.. I really wish I had hung onto that thing. I don't have any pictures of the SHO either but the one below is what it looked like, but with a white grill.
Mine was an Atey Foe (84). No make, no model, just an Atey Foe. Tried to trade it one time but they couldn't figure out what it was besides the year. Spent some time inside trying to convince them to gimme $500 for it and i'd buy something from them. When they eventually stopped laughing and ribbing me about it they said no cause I guess it was too upscale or something. Came outside and it was stow (stolen).
Shoulda got a picture of it. I've been trying to find it for 15 years. I've seen it a time or three around Atlanta over the years, but it always manages to slip away. One time on the other side of the interstate and one time it sneaked through traffic and lost me. I swear i saw it on a rap video too.
Later I watched that movie Corvette summer and wondered if one of my buddies had told my story somewhere and it managed to make its way the the right person in Hollywood. Cept that movie is old. Maybe that vehicle caused a rip in the space-time-continuum or something ... probably. It was rather special. The stink of it was, I didn't appreciate it until it was taken from me.
I'm still looking for it ... I'll find it one day,
1980 Toyota Celica. I remember driving back from the shore in the middle of the summer with the heat on because it was overheating. Sold it to a friend and found out the hard way to not sell cars to your friends. Had to hear about ever issue he had until he got rid of it.
A 1984 Jeep Cherokee Chief with 94k on it, and bought it in the Spring of 1994 for $500.
It was gold with tan/Brown interior, 2WD that could be made to go 4WD with the pull of a lever but it was broken. Trans leaked, oil leaked, and due to the fact that the gentleman it was purchased from used it on a farm to pull things, the trans was about shot and the thing struggled to go more than 45mph. Also, you couldn't ride with me then get out and NOT smell of fuel/exhaust! I put a $60 Pioneer tape deck in there and was very content!
5 years, a move from NY to Atlanta and a rebuilt tranny later, it finally decided to die beyond what was feasibly repairable. So, then came the purchase of my second vehicle...and that's when the I was too cool: 1989 Nissan Maxima w/ 137k on the dash for a bit over $5k. Man oh man..the time I had with that thing...
A brown 1979 Pontiac Trans AM (exactly like the pic below) drove to high school and my part time job and that was for gas money! The T-tops leaked, the power window switched worked off whenever, the door seals left gaps.. who am I kidding what door seals. Good ol GM product but I loved it (like a face only a mother could love) because it was my first car lol!
This was actually the first car I ever owned, but it never left my driveway because it had blown head gaskets. I would just sit in it imagining that one day I'd fix the head gaskets...never happened. Sold it for four hundred bucks and bought a drum set.
You all are great. I was reading the replies to my wife and we were both laughing so hard.
Now I hate to brag but my girlfriend at the time had an AMC Gremlin and if you dont know what that is you need to google it to admire "what a wonderful car it was with classy styling and lines." NOT
When we met someplace and parked our cars next to each other it was like....automotive royalty. LOL
Imagine seeing both those cars together..it would want to make you "do the Hustle" while singing "Copacabana."
My first car was 88 Lincoln Mark VII Lsc. I wanted a v8, rear wheel drive and some luxury. 560SEC and XJS was to expensive back then.
Had the car for 4 years. Did a bunch of mods to it including a 5 speed swap, heads etc. got it to run from 16.1 stock to 13.9.
Got a 90 after that and after that moved on to other cars.
That was in 98-99. I missed that car so much, that in 2008 I got me another one, near mint condition. Still have it and will probably never part with it.
I always loved fast luxury cars, which are more suitable for real every day life.
I find threads like these very interesting. I always wonder what sort of people drive these LS460s.
My first car was a 55 chevy, and it was the very base model with a 3 speed and a 6 cylinder eng. 2 tone blue which one month later I crashed it and it became 2 tone blue and 2 tone green thanks to parts from the junk yard.
Used 1962 Opel cadet that my parents gave my older brother and I for Christmas along with the payment book. Lasted for my brother and I and two younger sisters through high school over a 10 year period. Gas was .19 cents at gas wars back then.
1968 Ford Galaxy purchased for me by my mom as a high school graduation present ($200). I added a $600 stereo to bring the car's value up to $800 (+/-, depending on how full the gas tank was ;-)
I guess that's where my love of large, smooth, V-8 powered sedans started (culminating in my 2008 LS600hL)...
Orange 1981 Fiat X19. Neither the gas pedal nor the clutch returned to their starting position when you removed pressure, so you had to pull them back out with your foot each time. Took a lot of coordination, but I got pretty good at it! Ran for about 6 months before I sold it for a free tow.
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