Remember Your "first" car?

[Charles Reese]

Most of us have some deep-seated connection to our vehicles. Same is true for “first car” …
Find your first car or the one you drove to high school; hopefully your car brochure is available. This is a web site featuring the original factory brochures or advertisements for nearly every American car you have ever owned. Pick the manufacturer, the year and the model.

http://www.lov2xlr8.no/broch1.html

[Big John]

sure. in 1956, .. it was a 1940 ford opera coupe with fold down rear seats,, dechromed, nosed and decked and lowered in rear with arched rear spring about 2 "... painted mandaran red..... 49 mercury engine.....gas heater,,, oh also had bubble skirts..... hot!!!

[Russ B]

http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/ford/29_1.html

The above referenced site has the cabriolet ad posted which depicts my car. My first car was the '29 cabriolet, originally purchased by my father, but by 1959 heavily worn and not truly original. It had BLC sealed beam headlights, unk. Horn, wipers, 16" wire wheels, etc. My father insisted I put on hydraulic brakes before doing anything else. Ultimately I got the car running well with the original motor, new paint, chrome, J.C. Whitney seat cover, new white top, and 15" Mercury wheels, and of course the hydraulic brakes.

I am rebuilding that car now, mostly as it was back in the early 1960's.

[steve s]

My first car is in my avatar. It's still my car.

[Marvin/TN]

It wasn't my first car but close. I drove A 1930 Ford Coupe to H/S Class of 1958 and still have it as well as the tires on it are still the same ones I drove to H/S on. Two of the tires have the side walls breaking down now so have a couple of new Coker tires to put on it. By the way I am not driveing it at present so no worry about the old tires but they still have the same air in them and they were used when I put them on right after I got the car.

[roccaas]

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I like the "AD Talk" of option names.

"Super Hydro Turbo TipToe Matic Vision Adjuster" for a headlamp dimmer switch.

[Steve Wastler]

Still have my first and the one I drove in high school.

[TDO]

My first car was a 1950 chevy fast back, paid 50.00 dollars for it. I was 16. Worked on it with my dad in the back yard. painted it with a electrolux sweeper. I sure mis thos days. Any one remember the paint sprayer attachment for the electrolux sweeper

[gweilbaker]

1955 Chevy cameo truck, straight six with 3 on the tree. So rusted the front fenders waved and you could see the road through the floor whilst driving. I know it has nothing to do with a Model A but you asked first car, oh wait, mine was a truck, sorry.

[dennisonk1957]

1964 Chevy Impala

[Steve Plucker]

My first car was my 1929 Standard Coupe...then the family's 1955 Nash Rambler with fold down front seats and a arm rest in the center of the back seat which allowed one to go back and forth to the trunk area to sneak friends and cold beverages into the Drive-In Movies (got ribbed by my friends about the naked woman as the hood orniment)...then it was a 1963 or 1964 Ford Galixie 500...then my 74 Ford Mustang II.

Pluck

[JoeWay]

Originally Posted by steve s

My first car is in my avatar. It's still my car.

Same here.

Joe

[Dan Partain]

My Avatar is my first car also, still have it.
-DAN

[rossofozini]

A Hillman Super Minx

4 speed on the column that was fun as a learner driver at 16.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rossfel...57631347252774

[stallerl]

1931 Ford Coupe. Bought it when I was 13 entering high school. A friend of mine and me split the purchase price of $30.00 That was in 1960. We worked on the car for a while but we found ourselves going our own ways and the car was sent to a junk yard. Ugh! My first driver was a 1960 Austin Healy Sprite which I rebult as I drove it. Fun! I now have a '29 Tudor and am loving it!

[TDO]

Buy the way ,that was 1961

[Chris in WNC]

'59 Impala.

Alice wants a stock '59 El Camino but I'm not certain our pockets are that deep......

[Afan]

1948 Ford

[ken ct]

1941 Chevy coupe in 1961 paid $45 for it at a Rambler dealer. Everything worked in it,clock,radio and heater and a perfect vacume shift. ken ct.

[jrelliott]

'52 Plymouth Cranbrook with sunvisor. Got it in '59 when started college Floor boards reinforced with metal from 5 gallon bucket as rusted out along the edges. Dad had purchased from auto repair place for $300.00 a year earlier when owner lost a rod bearing and started knocking and owner did not want to pay for repair. Definately would not want one now.

[1931 flamingo]

First was a 29 sport coupe, driver $100, sold 6 mo later (about 1959, I was 15), then a 29 roadster hauled out of a field in NY state near Bear Mtn bridge, drove it home after swapping dist and tires from the 29, $75, sold to a street rodder about 1960. Then 2 32 5 window coupes of which I made one good one and sold the other to street rodders, kept the coupe til 72 when I sold it and the 40 coupe, both olds powered, stock appearing except for big rake. Nothing til about 3 yrs ago when I bought my avitar. Wife still not happy.
Paul in CT

[George Miller]

My first car was a 1941 chev station wagon. The wood was all rotten. A Farmer had it. He also had 1941 Pontiac body hanging in a tree that went with it. I worked all summer for that farmer for that car. Pulled the car home behind my Dads little John Deere L Then borrowed a hay wagon from the framer to haul the body home behind the John Deere.

That was the first time putting a car together. That was in 1952, was 15 years old. still hauling cars home.

[700rpm]

Originally Posted by Steve Wastler

Still have my first and the one I drove in high school.

Me too. 52 years now.

Actually, if you can count the "first car ridden in" it would still be a Model A, because that's what my parents owned when I was born in 1945, and continued till they sold their last A in 1955.

[Charles Reese]

intention of my post was to share a link that has most of the original sales brochures of US made cars. hopefully, you were able to find your car and go back to a more innocent time This is a web site featuring the original factory brochures or advertisements for nearly every American car produced. Pick the manufacturer, the year and the model.

however, am really enjoying the 'first' stories ... My first was a A-tudor, $50 for my choice of it or what i now know as a 'center door T' (original upholstery, i recall a woven strap to adjust the side window, etc) ... what i thought was complex T pedals scared me away so i went with the A. brushed black paint and white sidewall paint from JCWhitney and i was crusin .... of course gas was 22 cents and i burned (a lot) of 'reprocessed' (read: used) motor oil. shoulda hired out as a mosquito fogger during the summer.

[raceron1120]

Originally Posted by TDO

My first car was a 1950 chevy fast back, paid 50.00 dollars for it. I was 16. Worked on it with my dad in the back yard. painted it with a electrolux sweeper. I sure miss those days. Any one remember the paint sprayer attachment for the electrolux sweeper

My avatar is actually my second car, the first one went to meet Henry many years ago... But I've had my '56 for 45 years now.

re: vacuum spray painters? Yeah I sure remember them, my brother had a pea-green '51 Chevy and he masked & painted it in red in the back yard, using Mom's vacuum cleaner. Was probably about 1960-61.

[fordcoupe]

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First car was a 1949 ford coupe payed $25.00 for it block was cracked my dad loved it i spent more time working on it than driveing it everytime i took it out something broke thats when i found ford meant fix or repair daily

[usered]

1963 Ford Fairlane Sprots Coupe, 289 HiPo 4 speed (see below). Sold it in 1966 when I was drafted, bought it back in 1987. In '63 it was fast for its class until '64 when the GTO came out.

[Allanw]

Mine was a 1972 Daihatsu Max 360. Got it when I was 14.

360cc = 22 cubic inches, yes, 22! 2 cylinder 2 stroke. Was 33 hp too Weighed 400 kgs = 880 pounds.

[Barry B./ Ma.]

My first car was a 1935 Plymouth 4 door sedan that I bought from my dad at 15 for $55. I spent the next year fixing it up as 3 out of the 4 fenders and the grille were banged up. A friend lived next to a junkyard and we had permission to take what we needed to fix it up. When it was ready for the road it looked pretty good in shiney black, it was a well built car and very dependable.

[partridgekelley]

The first I bought was a 28 ccpu , for $20 in july of 59. I also still have my frist and drive it nearly every day. Gary

[SeaSlugs]

hmm shows my age here but my first car was/is my 95 chevy s10...then bought a 80 chevette (still have both) id love to keep my truck but with 180K miles on it and 18 years of IL salty winters its taken its toll... not like their hard to find either haha

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by 1931 flamingo

First was a 29 sport coupe, driver $100, sold 6 mo later (about 1959, I was 15), then a 29 roadster hauled out of a field in NY state near Bear Mtn bridge, drove it home after swapping dist and tires from the 29, $75, sold to a street rodder about 1960. Then 2 32 5 window coupes of which I made one good one and sold the other to street rodders, kept the coupe til 72 when I sold it and the 40 coupe, both olds powered, stock appearing except for big rake. Nothing til about 3 yrs ago when I bought my avitar. Wife still not happy.
Paul in CT

Paul, 3 years & wife's still unhappy? Tsk! Tsk! Life is short, you better get her HAPPY TOMORROW!!
I'll be waiting for your thread, titled, "WIFE'S HAPPY"! Wish Pat were still here to motivate me to get "Vermin" finished. Bill W.