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I am curious as to what was your first car and how much did you pay for it? Mine was a '28 model A 4 door that a farmer had in his field and the price was right, free! I got it running and drove around my grandparents farm for a couple of years. It has returned to nature in the woods behind the barn.

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My first car (truck actually) was a 1936 International pickup my folk bought me for my 13th. birthday in 1956. (think they paid $25 for it.) We lived on a farm, and my dad did it in self defence because by then I'd nearly wrecked his 1930 Model A jalopy!!

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1965 Mustang. One owner original paint and upholstery with air for $400. That was in 1976.

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$2,500 for a decent looking 52 Ford tudor with a marginal engine in 1995. I was the only person driving a flathead at my high school.

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I bought my first in the Summer of 1962. It was a 1940 Ford Deluxe Coupe. I had worked that summer before my senior year of highschool tending for 2 plasterers and 2 clay block layers. The first $100 I was able to save paid for the car. The interior was a little rough but no rust whatsoever. I ended up selling it 6 months later so I could buy a car with a heater to keep my girlfriend warm. She dumped me a couple months later so I had neither the car nor the girl. I've never missed her but sure would like to have kept that coupe! LOL

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I got my drivers licence in 1962, then bought a black 1958 Ford
convertible for $550 from the local Ford dealer. Then I got a job
at that same local Ford dealer.
In 1965 I seen the New Ford Mustang 2+2 fastback and had to
have one. I was only making $.75 cents and hour at that time
but I ordered new '65 Burgundy fastback, 289 four speed, and
that was all the options I could afford at that time. I still own
that '65 Mustang 2+2 today. ;):)



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Graduated from High School in 1962 and received $150 in gifts and spent it on this 51 Merc Conv

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My first car was a 1929 4 door model A. It cost me $25 plus my barbell set. I was 16.
Richard

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1932 Ford Model B standard coupe, $50, 1955.

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My first car truck was a 1953 Ford Panel truck with no brakes. Paid $50
Dave/Green Bay

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57 TR3, you could not keep axles in it. Wanted out of it! I took car to a local sports car parking lot gymacona and ran wheels off of it and ended up selling to a attendee---boy was I lucky to get rid of that car!

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In 1956 I found a 1950 Dodge Coupe for $100. that Granny Coupe had for sale. Very nice Business Coupe. Gray in color. I split the exhaust, Skirts, Lowering blocks. Dodge Lancer Hubcaps. Stock Mufflers did sound nice. O yes a Sun Visor. I drove it all through High School. I did get a very nice set of Seat Covers for it. I went to the Junk Yard and got the Dash and Pearl Steering wheel out of a 50 Dodge Deluxe the best one for the year. I was always trying to improve the looks of the little car. In 1959 after High School I went in the Army. So I park it in the garage over my Dad'a car lot. Anyway it ended up in the Crusher by mistake they said. It was a square block laying out back behind the garage. When I came home and they showed to me I never said a word. I just walk off and went home. I never forget that little Dodge. It was good to me. I save my money to get a 1957 Plymoth Fury and paid $750 for it. I dress it up with Skirts and so on. By this time I had forgot the little Dodge. When I got out of the Army I got a Job at the Lorain Ford Assembly Plant in Lorain, Ohio. They kept on me for not driving a Ford. I found a 1930 Model A in good shape for $1200.. I drove it to work and they never said another word about it and thought that was great.That about it.

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I was 15 year old in 1971 when purchased my first car for $50 ($350 in today's money). It was a black 1957 Volkswagen (last year for the oval window) with a seized engine and lots of rust, but it was complete. I had no money to do much with it so it mostly languished and I dreamed. Sold it decades later when I lost storage space but I'll never forget it.

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In 1972 bought a 1964 ford falcon wagon. Owned by the mailman. I was delivering
newspapers and rode by it. sign said 100. I didnt have any money on me, but he sold it too me on a handshake and I picked it up on the weekend.
wish I still had it! 289 with auto trans. was super clean................. I was 12 yrs old.
Dad would sometimes drive me around in it on Sundays, so I could throw 180 newspapers! Those Sunday papers were pretty heavy. not like today.

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30 Model A 4 door Murray body and frame. $50 in 1962--I was 12. Put a 239 flathead in in it. Had it on the road legally in 1966 and drove it to Olympia High School.

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In 1976 I was 15 and my dad bought me an orange 1965 Mustang fastback for $900.00. I turned it into a decent fake GT-350. In 1982 I bought a real '66 GT-350 which I still have. I have owned at least 15 early mustangs and now I have mustang burnout, so I've switched to flathead mode. I do miss building engines with valve covers with twice the horsepower for half the money.

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I had the cash for my first car from a car lot, $200 for a’49 Ford ragtop. My father drove me there to pick it up, and I was embarrassed to have to borrow $26 from Dad for tax & license. Another $4 got me a spare tire. That was my first lesson in never buy a car from a car lot, and I learned that lesson twice more in my lifetime.

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1960 @ 13 yrs, asked my father '(Bill') who/where can we get an old car.(I had been asking since age 10+-) Hmmm, he said, Emil Schubert bought a '30 Model A sport coupe back in '30; He's gotta have it in a shed or the barn. Always used to see him drive past, but not often.
The visit.= 'Do you still have. . .' Oh, an insurance salesman stopped by just this week. Shed door was open. Sold it to him. (I couldn't believe it. Couldn't. Couldn't couldn't couldn't. This week?????
So sad was I. Back to our farm we went. But . . . on the way, he said. So'nSo on Cedar Creek Road bought a '40 half-ton pickup, new off the lot I recall he said back then, and that it was the last and only one left in late '40 or '41. Come ta think of it, haven't seen it go past our farm in years. Visit: Oh, it's in that concrete-block basement shed. (above-ground) He rolled the door open. There it was!!! Looking very sad I distinctly remember, as if it had a soul.
Fair to say, I was wide-eyed thrilled. We stood there outside the door looking at it, three pairs of eyes/no words. Outta the blue/gray skies my father blurts "Would ya' take twenty-five?" "No . . . gotta have forty." pure quotes. - (back to our farm for the forty dollars/return'g to the half-ton. Transport home by logging chain. "hmmm. No engine action. At all. Driver head off; rusted tight. Eventually= my high school transportation.

Today, still in the family per nephew /another flathead, replaced rear fenders.Thank you . . .

* The truck had been used '40-'58, hauling firewood, as a result the cab back=shattered window, many dents. Many dents. (window repair=My father used the 1915 Model T front window= touring car that his father bought in 1920 from the local Ford dealer.(The family's first car; 4 cyl pulled in the shed (?) times through the early-mid '20s per my father and my two uncles. (100% Irish, I think they were Scot Irish.

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31 fordor 1955, do not remember the purchase price but came off the back row of a car lot.

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1st car I purchased...1969 Mustang Mach 1 for $250 (I was 15), which I still have, fully restored.
2nd was a 1958 2dr Ranch Wagon (again, for $250)...which I just sold today.

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It was 1963, I bought a 1955 Ford Victoria, 272 2V three speed with overdrive, new brakes, clutch, rust was free. $300.

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1966. I was 15. 1931 Ford Model A coupe Paid $95.00. Front axle assembly was in pieces and it didn't run. Pulled the body, cleaned the frame with wire brush wheels in an electric drill. Painted it Rustoleum black with a brush. Sold it for $300.00 to by a motor cycle.

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In 1961 I bought a 1952 ford business coupe for $25.00 it was pretty nice had it for 2 years! Dave

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My first old car was a 40 Ford Standard coupe. We bought it in the fall of 1973; we were married in May of the same year. We borrowed $650; took 18 months to pay it back. We have been married 50 years and I still have the coupe. It came with all the hub caps, bumpers, and still had the original radio. It was in good enough condition that I put a battery in it and drove it home.

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I was 16 in '72. Bought a '61 F100 unibody with 223/3 spd for $315. The six was tired and I couldn't afford a rebuilt Y block so I bought a rusty '57 New Yorker with 392 Hemi/ Torqueflite. You can guess the rest.:D:cool:




Bad news is, a year later gas went from 30c to 60c and I couldn't afford to drive it.:( Sold it and bought a '61 Falcon.


Wish I had 'em both now.


Terry

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1970 Mustang Mach I. $200 in about 1981ish. owner had lost the title for it SO that gave me a strong dealing hand.

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$525 for my dad's 32 Roadster 50's hot rod. That was around 1980. He said he just wanted what he paid for it - that was in 1955.

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The first car I had, I inherited from my mother and older brother. My dad decided we needed a second car and purchased a 1951 Ford Custom Fordor from a used car lot on Lake Street in Miinneapolis for the princely sum of $395. (They wanted $495, but my dad considered hiself the ultimate negotiator; anyone from the twin cities area will immediately recognize the significance of "Lake Street".) It lasted until about 1965, and gave surpiringly good service.

The first car I actually bought was a 1936 Ford flatback Deluxe Tudor when I was a senior in high school in 1959. I paid $100 for the car, which had 39,000 actual miles and was in excellent shape. It even had a working radio, of all things. I am embarrassed about what happened to that car, and will not proceed further.

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In 1964 my dad bought a ‘50 Ford 2 door sedan flathead V8 from a co-worker for $5 bucks, It smoked pretty badly as I drove it home. I decided to change the oil and that’s when I found broken rings in the drain pan. We did a driveway rebuild, Dad borrowed a drill driven hone, bought two new pistons, rings, rod bearings, gaskets. Being a teen driver I beat that car for the next two years, when the floors became to rotted to keep, I sold it for $50, I wasn’t smart enough to keep it.

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My early 38 21-studder. Paid with setting doubles ~25 times at my favorite Domm's alleys 3 & 4.

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First car I bought from money picking tobacco and as a grocery clerk was a 49 Ford Tudor, pea soup green, about 1957. A back lot car, it served me well for about 4 years until the B pillar separated from the floor.

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'40 Buick from an estate for $65, drove it two yrs, sold it to buy a boat. 1964 Newc

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My story is not as cool as the rest of you, but my first car was a 69 Beetle. It had a custom interior, and I paid a bit too much (1200). Had lots of problems with it, it was a lemon. Second car was a (don't laugh lol) mildly used 1981 Escort. Well, it ended up being my second car for many years and I sold/gave it to a buddy when it had about 450000kms on it. He drove the crap out of it for two years, it had WAY over 500k on it when he drove it to the junkyard. That car I can thank for most of my basic and advanced automotive knowledge as I did lots of mods/add-ons (factory options, better exhaust/intake/larger engine. It was VERY quick when I was done with it. Best sleeper ever haha.

The best car I bought years ago I picked up 25 years ago for super cheap. Still have it: 1968 Mercury Cyclone GT. Great car that I really should repaint. Its about a 40 footer right now lol.

I'm on this forum because I now own 2 - 54 Meteors, a four door I'm the second owner of, and a 54 Skyliner I bought a short time ago.

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My first car was a '56 Chevy 4-door, bought in 1962 when I was 16 for $15.00. Needed brakes & brake lines. I bought a set of tires from a junk yard for $20.00. It was painted flat black & had a 235 6 cylinder engine, 3-speed with a floor shifter that the previous owner installed.....backwards (the shift pattern was backwards). Drove the car though the rest of high school and only got rid of it to buy a better car, to impress a new girl friend, who I married ( and am still married to), 56 years ago.

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Oh ..... C'mon, man!

Coop

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In 1972, I was 15 yrs old and bought my first car for $525.00. I tried to negotiate the price down a bit but they wouldn't budge. I coughed up the cash by breaking all my childhood piggy banks. Didn't have a driver license yet and didn't have enough money for insurance so it sat thru the winter till next spring. By that time I had enough saved for insurance, license plates and a tank of gas and had my driver license before the school year ended. The car was a '55 Ford 4-dr sedan (see avatar). Still driving it daily, although it has since been rebuilt a few times and has gone through rocker panels 3 times and rear quarters twice. Major body off frame restoration was done between '92 thru '96 and that is when I replaced all floor panels and made major repairs/replacements to inner rockers and some floor support gussets. Drove the car to work (60 mile round trip) 5 days a week for over four decades.

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The year was 1969.... I was 19 and a college student who got the hand-me-down car. A 1966 Ford Custom Fordor. Purchased new by Dad in 1966 as his business car. In 1968 it moved to Mom's grocery getter when Dad purchased a new 1968 Ford Galaxie and then, for $700 dollars it became mine. Of course, it was the installment plan and when I could I paid the parents for the car. I didn't know it at the time, but they took my payments and opened a savings account for me. In the winter of 1971, while exiting a liquor store parking lot, I stopped but the car approaching from the left slid on the icy street and crashed into the drivers front fender. It was damaged, and as soon as the snow melted, I bought a used 1969 Mustang Mach 1 with 21,000 miles and finished college with a cool car. The Mustang was only $2100 and with the 1966 traded in for $400, it was a good deal.
Of course the Mach 1 is the one that I should never have sold.............