what was your first car and how much did you pay

[ford38v8]

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.

[highbeams]

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.

[L-head]

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.

[cadillac512]

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.




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

[rockfla]

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

[corvette8n]

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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.

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by rockfla

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

[restoman]

1927 Model T coupe, $32.00 in 1951. Worked on Dad's milk route for the summer, made $35.00. My parents allowed me to buy the T at 9 years old.

[A bones]

Originally Posted by restoman

1927 Model T coupe, $32.00 in 1951. Worked on Dad's milk route for the summer, made $35.00. My parents allowed me to buy the T at 9 years old.

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[Mike Mayer]

1937 dodge coupe paid $30.16 years old never got it running . For $75. I got a 1953 ford 2dr flat head V8 . I was snake bit At this time 61 years later I am driving a 53 ford 2dr with a flathead v8

[landshark]

1940 ford pickup bought it from my dad so it could stay in family i was 17, drove it to high school my senior year then blew a head gasket that summer. put in the barn in 1979, life went on got married,built house had three kids but kept buying parts for the 40. 43 years later im so glad i never got rid of it.

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by landshark

1940 ford pickup bought it from my dad so it could stay in family i was 17, drove it to high school my senior year then blew a head gasket that summer. put in the barn in 1979, life went on got married,built house had three kids but kept buying parts for the 40. 43 years later im so glad i never got rid of it.

[jimTN]

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

[cjshaker]

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.

[miniceptor86]

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

[51504bat]

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.

[APDAVE]

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

[dad's deuce roadster]

$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.

[tubman]

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.

[V8COOPMAN]

Originally Posted by tubman

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.

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

Coop

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