First car memories

[WILLD420]

This was my first car. My grandfather gave it to me when I turned 12. I kept that truck off and on till I was 36. Entirely too many memories.

It did everything from 1/4 mile racing to hauling loads that 1 ton trucks should have been used for and never let me down. It just got to the point I didn't need it anymore and I would rather let someone else get use out of it, than let it sit and rot.

 

[locrwln1]

My first, barring using my dad's 1972 Cheyenne Super Chevy truck, was a 1981 Chevrolet, swb, 2wd, with a bored/stroked 350 to 383 c.i. V8 baby. Now that was fun. Probably part of the problem with me and my need for speed. I was weened on V8's. Too bad I don't have any digital pictures of them. Great trucks.

Jack

 

[chicago]

1979 Buick regal.
Maroon, v8.... Would watch the gas gauge drop everytime I stomped the gas. Loved that car.

 

[DiscoveredLC]

My first car was my Land Rover, and you guys know what that looked like.

 

[WILLD420]

Somewhere I still have polaroid pics of me drag racing that thing. Fastest time on street tires was 15.20 at the track in Agua Prieta Mexico, which is at least a full second slower than any U.S. track. With some cruddy slicks I cracked the 15.00 barrier a couple times.

Sounds slow compared to present day stuff, but back then I was slaughtering 5.0 Mustangs at will in 1/4 mile and on the street. To top it all off, the stupid thing had an NP435 trans in it.... Talk about a gear split for racing 1/4 mile...

Pretty sure that long throw and those gear ratio splits cost me at least 1/2 second at a minimum, but it allowed me to pull horse trailers all week long, feed cows and pull start tractors, so it was a necessity for the work I was doing at the time.

 

[DesertLake]

If I don't count my parents FJ55 that I now own, or their 80 Olds Diesel, the first car I really owned was a 70 Cougar. 351C that I foolishly built for torque. If I so much as thought about my itchy right foot I'd find myself pointed the wrong way. Good times with cheap gas.

 

[rusty_tlc]

My first car was a 1970 FJ40.































I resist change.

 

[rusty_tlc]

1979 Buick regal.
Maroon, v8.... Would watch the gas gauge drop everytime I stomped the gas. Loved that car.

Is this you?

 

[WILLD420]

My first New? car was a 1970 FJ40.

I resist change.

So your saying you didn't own a car until you were 30?

 

[chicago]

Is this you?

HEEEEEELLLL YEAAAAAAH!
Those are the Blotchers in the back!

 

[rusty_tlc]

So your saying you didn't own a car until you were 30?

45

 

[WILLD420]

You sir, are remarkably well preserved for a man of your advanced age....