Your First Car

We had to cut away part of the frame to get the headers on, Holley 600 cfm carb & 3.56 gears, that was a fun car.

jimlam56 said:
Ha! Looks like my 74, except mine had a 4cyl 5spd that was slower than my VW....
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SamF said:
My first car was a graduation gift before graduation...a hand me down 72 (I think) Volvo 244, 4 door. Dark Tan/Yellow and in very nice shape for its age, this was in '83. Of course I really liked the car but foolish kid that I was I totaled it while taking an unauthorized day off from school :shake: Dad was NOT happy!

I was on my own after that fiasco so I bought a 72 Galaxie 500, 2 door, 351 auto, drove it into the ground and moved on to many other Galaxies from there...I wish I still had the 68 XL Ragtop........
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They really were great cars. Sad part was the rust on the frame rail where it went over the rear axel. It completely rusted thru. You couls stick your fingers in there. Glad there are other Galaxie 500 former owners out there!:D
 
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sweetair said:
They really were great cars. Sad part was the rust on the frame rail where it went over the rear axel. It completely rusted thru. You couls stick your fingers in there. Glad there are other Galaxie 500 former owners out there!:D
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I had a 71 LTD Country Squire with a 429 that was so rusted in the back end that my friends were afraid it would snap apart while driving. It was just as you describe, the swing arms had holes clean through. I sold the car to a local stoner supposedly for the motor, and he continued to drive it for months knocking down phone poles and just causing total mayhem!! Those swing arms never let go though.
 
Eric91Z said:
That is one nice Thunderbird. How did you like it? At least one more car I have considered picking up as a daily driver.
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Loved every minute of the time I had it. She was a great sleeper platform, because they were not known for their speed and power, but she held the road great even at triple digit speeds.
 
sweetair said:
They really were great cars. Sad part was the rust on the frame rail where it went over the rear axel. It completely rusted thru. You couls stick your fingers in there. Glad there are other Galaxie 500 former owners out there!:D
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The rust is a problem. Even now you need to be careful when looking for one of these cars. In fact I had a 66 500 Hardtop Cp that apparently had rails so rusted they finally gave up the ghost one night. I had sold the car some time before this occurred but the guy told me the whole rear end came out and was sitting in the road behind him, this was around 1989 I think....bad stuff.

I had to buy this Merc or I was going on the road to financial ruin restoring a 66 or 67 Galaxie Convertible :eek:
 
1984 Ford Fairmont. It was christend 'The Ether Mobile' every time you let off the gas the cabin would fill with this lovely aroma! Real babe magnet! Just fill it with chicks and nail it and let off a few times and everyone was so high off of the fumes it was unreal!!

Its second life was a little less embarassing.

In 96 I ended up pulling it out of the weeds and raced it to a track championship in the 4&6 cylinder class at the local dirt track.:banana2:
 
My 64 Galaxie's frame is rusted out (side rails). Noticed it back in the late 80's after I did a cosmetic restoration and a conversion from a Galaxie 500 to a 500XL.

Fortunately, being a convertible, the X member is still in good shape.

I almost sold the car (for 2K, bad frame and all), but I just decided to keep it until I can no longer open/close the doors.
 
Mine was a 1985 LTD LX with the 5.0 HO option. Great engine, terrible breaks. I was cracking the pads in very short order. It took the dealer 3 weeks to figure out that the rear proportioning valve was bad.
Loved to race that car.
 
When I was in Junior High my dad found a '52 ford 2-dr sedan with that old flathead V-8. He drove the snot out of it until he decided one day to park it. It sat long enough that he decided to drain the fluids out...of course we went on vacation and my older sister took it out and promptly liberated that flathead of any compression...
I got it when I was late in the sophomore year, maybe it was summer?
I got some support from dad and set a (keep the jabs to a minimum here...) Chevy 350 bored .60 over and slapped a race prepped TH350. The rear was a stump-pulling set at 5.11/1 Dad got me a cam for it that was so aggressive it would not idle when outside temps were below 70F and when the thing left (many times while I had it) the intersection on green, it wouldn't stop spinning them until I got back off the gas.
OH MAN this thing was SUHWEEET!!! White naugahide (sp?) tuck and roll with black piping, dual exhaust and best of all...stoner gray primer (until I got that redish/rusty colored primer and sprayed it on out front in the gravel.

It was too much of a beast to drive girls around in all the time so I picked up a 77 cutlass supreme brogham (sp?) Snow white and red cloth interior...AWESOME back seat!!!

Yep...a fire breathing giant that I built and a slick ride...so when I joined the Navy and headed off to boot camp...which one did i take?
Dad sold those two and I got my sisters 82-ish Ford EXP...what a POS!!

oh well, I have my marauders now!!!
 
1970 MERCURY CYCLONE SPOILER 429 CJ ... My family moved from Troy Mi in 1977 to Birmingham Al and the guy up the street had a MINT spoiler for sale. I was seventeen and hated B'ham so I ran away back up to Detroit and street reced Woodward Ave all summer....Oh the memories... My parents talked me into going back to Ala to finish H.S. I did and when I got back they grabbed the keys and had me locked up in juvinile detention. The Cyclone sat for a very long time before I drove it again...True Story!!!
 
1984 Pontiac parisienne Brougham Sedan. 290k miles on the clock, given to me by my Aunt who had bought it from my Father who was the original owner, ran it up over 360k before an accident.

Firs car i bought, 1989 Pontiac Firebird Formula, wish I still had both those cars.
 
'53 chevy 2-door sedan w/3 on the tree. I had to be careful where I put small items. Sometimes things would fall through the rusted out areas in the floorboard. Other than that, it was a reasonably decent car for $225 back in 1962.
 
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