Do you still have your first car?

FastMerc said:
Actually no...
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Pontiac upper management, already worried about losing sales of their Grand Prix models (the Can Am and the Grand Prix used the same dashboard and console, so a sale of a Can Am was seen as a loss of a sale of a Grand Prix by some senior Pontiac executives), decided to scrap the project after approximately one half year of production
 
chief455 said:
77 Can Am = one year only. 1377 made. 400 cu.in. Pontiac power only, except California cars got an Olds 403:puke:
White paint / red striped only, most had red interior. Few had tan interior...by my memory.
Based on Lemans body. GTO went back to a Lemans option in 72, dead in 74.
Also was Grand Am - available in 4 door and 2 door coupe. A nicely optioned Grand Am is likely what you saw from 73-76 era.
Only odd things on Can Am was column shift (rare) or floor console shift. Otherwise pretty much all the same.
Yah, same generation 442/Hurst Olds had the true Lightning rod shifter - what a hassle! but cool as hell.
I'd rather have a 77 Can Am than 77 Trans Am to be different.
Sadly, prices are up, up, up.
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Yeah you are probably right on the car I thought was a Can Am in '74-'75 was a Grand Am. I remember the time frame because I was in Jr High and still riding the bus and who ever had that car came by bus stop one morning showing it off to all there. It had to be someone a few years older than me and either a Sr or just out of school because we all knew each other in the neighborhood regardless of age. By '77 I was driving to school also and not getting on the bus.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pont...pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item4d29cd2918&vxp=mtr
 
Doing a frame off resto as we speak,,,
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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
 
FastMerc said:
Some pretty good ideas as to why the CAN AM production stopped but no one got it yet... :)
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Do tell, do tell.....I really thought it was lower than expected sales, found that executive Grand Prix sales excerpt from Wikipedia, sounded reasonable - so what then?
 
OK the reason for the end of CAN AM production was due to a clumsy employee that dropped the mold for the spoiler on the rear of the car. There was only one mold and it was specific to that car. So there you have it.
 
FastMerc said:
OK the reason for the end of CAN AM production was due to a clumsy employee that dropped the mold for the spoiler on the rear of the car. There was only one mold and it was specific to that car. So there you have it.
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It took so long to respond because......well it just took that long to think about.

What was that conversation like with the boss? Can you imagine if they took the projected profits out of his paycheck. WOW!
 
FastMerc said:
OK the reason for the end of CAN AM production was due to a clumsy employee that dropped the mold for the spoiler on the rear of the car. There was only one mold and it was specific to that car. So there you have it.
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hmmmmm
kirk said:
It took so long to respond because......well it just took that long to think about.

What was that conversation like with the boss? Can you imagine if they took the projected profits out of his paycheck. WOW!
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that would be bad
It seems this same story went around the 72 Judge 'duck bill' spoiler. Uber rare, not reproduced, folk lore has that the mold was dropped...
pics or it never happened:D
 
chief455 said:
hmmmmm

that would be bad
It seems this same story went around the 72 Judge 'duck bill' spoiler. Uber rare, not reproduced, folk lore has that the mold was dropped...
pics or it never happened:D
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quick research says correct on both spoilers:
 

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Not exactly,

The first car I owned was a Jeep Comanche. Fresh blue paint and a straight six that sounded like a tractor. My current girlfriend is sleeping in the bed next to me. She's adorable. No photos. That'd be weird. I had the Comanche when I met her; she said it was cute; we drove to New Orleans on our first real date; we fooled around for the first time on its vinyl/tweed bench seat parked under the trees by the horse track.

I'm honest about the Comanche though. Everything except the paint and the engine were messed up. Constant random failures. I remember walking into Autozone for the third time cradling a busted, warrantied radiator in my arms and the manager looking me up and down like a bartender.

I got into a wreck when cash-for-clunkers was ongoing. I drove most of my car to the Jeep dealership and got "9,000 dollars" for it. I remember my salesman, shaking his head when he saw the "car" I was trading in. He test drove it around the parking lot with the drivers side mirror hanging from its wiring, bouncing alongside the Jeep.

I still sorta have the first car I drove though. I'll post it when I have some photos.

- Robert
 
I am on a quest to revive my first car!

I am on a quest to revive my first car! I posted earlier (in the Lounge) about anyone in the Ohio/Indiana area that could check out a revival project that resembled my first car (which got crushed while I was at work:mad2: It was before the internet really took off, so it wold have been tough to save her). It was a 1968 Ford Galaxie XL (sometimes referred to as an XL). It was a big block car with the bucket seats etc. Let me know if anyone can help!

Here is a pic of what the body style was like:
 

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My first car was a 85 cutlass supreme with a sunroof that was jb weld lol... That 307 ran with no oil in it and still sold her and made a little $ off of it... And it was 90 cents a gallon in those days...
 
NO.......and damn glad of it!!:D

1950 Pontiac Chieftain....in line 8 that weighed a TON....got 5 MPG and 25 Miles Per Quart......looked like it was on fire when idling!!!:eek:

I was 14 and in the 8th Grade....had a carpool that paid for gas, OIL and snacks...cut grass for the rest!!:beer:

If I saw it today I'd set it on fire....what a barge....BUT it got me around!!;)
 
My first car, a 53 Ford, didn't come with a heater. Whoever had the car before me had some add on electric heater installed.

Paid $250; sold it for $275. It was the only car that I ever made a profit on.

Bought it in Dec 1959 and sold it in June, 1960. Since I didn't get my driver's license until Feb, 1960, I had to park it on the city street (no such thing as a driveway) for almost two months, start it, sit in it, and listen to the AM radio.

First day I drove it legally, a cop pulled me over...for driving too slow.

That never happened again.
 
sflrainmaker01 said:
I am on a quest to revive my first car! I posted earlier (in the Lounge) about anyone in the Ohio/Indiana area that could check out a revival project that resembled my first car (which got crushed while I was at work:mad2: It was before the internet really took off, so it wold have been tough to save her). It was a 1968 Ford Galaxie XL (sometimes referred to as an XL). It was a big block car with the bucket seats etc. Let me know if anyone can help!

Here is a pic of what the body style was like:
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Holy crap I almost bought one of those in Aqua and white with black and white int 428 4sp car that sob was fast!
 
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