The first car/truck you ever owned?

And 8 year old car from mom and dad was probably just as good as driving a new one off the lot. Good times good parents!!

If he lived 50 to 100 feet from school maybe. Brah I bet if we changed this thread to 'How the fuck did my car ever make it?" we would get the likes of this story don't ya think? lol!!

Yup and they are still around getting ready to celebrate their 61st wedding anniversary!

84 Jeep Cherokee

That's awesome, congrats to them

The older the Jeep the better imo. Love the Cherokee line what a manly vehicle.

'61 Dodge 1/2 ton, with the slant six. Next was a new 1972 Charger! I loved that car, but people just couldn't seem to drive around it. It got hit all the time! I never parked in lots at school, but when I drove it, people aimed for it.

Thank you :) I am so very blessed to have them

lol!! Battleships went out of style after WW2 dodge did not get that message lol!!

Ended up trading it for a 71 Buick Skylark, and then traded that for a 70 Dodge Challenger 440 Mag RT/SE

Except that I was a senior in high school when I had it.

The gift that kept on giving!! Congrats major time for your parents 61st then 62nd and 63 and 64 my good brah!!

Bought a 1942 ex-USAF Willys MB from a scrap yard for £25 in 1964. Fitted a new battery and clutch, and I ran it for a year without problems before selling it for £75 when I was posted overseas to Borneo. Bought a Rolls Royce engined Austin "Champ" when I came home, which was a much superior vehicle, but never forgot the old Willys Jeep that I cut my motoring teeth on. Still into 4x4s even now, fifty years later.

lol!! o dam!! my dad use to drop me and my sisters to high school in something similar, my sister who was the popular chick kicked yelled and screamed to be let out 25 miles from school lol! she was so embarrassed to be droped in it. my dad dropped us right at the front office he got a laugh doing it!! the loving bastard!! I did not care I just wanted to be on time for breakfast!!

Maybe ,the motor was weak high mile and pre abused .I have had some serious high hp cars in my time .
1986 gt mustang trailer car 427 al moody yates headed motor
2 stages one fogger one plate .It ran 5.50s on one kit 1/8 mile

03 cobra got rid of the supercharger and added a twin 67mm
turbo kit on 22 psi made 877 rwhp but just had no traction in first through 3rd .Sold and bought a 2008 z06 which is what I have now with no mods but intake and exhaust.Car still destroys most anything on the road .

Yea, it went on for a long time with the hot rods; next was a 57 Chevy 2 door HT Canary Yellow with a 400 small block, rock crusher 4 speed trans 4 bolt main. I terrorized Woodward Ave in Detroit for years.

Meh. It doesn't matter what you think. It happened deal with it.

!965 ford mustang.........damn I miss that car

Chevy got that motor crazy right!!

A 1989 Renault 11 Gti

Remember how cheap the later 60's muscle cars were in the 70s and even early 80's? The ones i did buy got totaled quickly. I remember a few that even today i am glad i didnt buy. I wouldnt be here and I know it.

Again anything with GTI or SS OR SE-R wont get me to gas against it in a straight run.

2000 Accord Coupe 4 cyl. Got it in 2003 with 23k on it, now it is approaching 89k. The only problem I've had with it was the O2 sensor going out, which was kind of a bitch. Otherwise, still great, except I'm starting to get rattling noises from the interior plastic paneling sometimes. =P The smog check guy told me it runs cleaner than new cars, and that I must get regular oil changes. I do, & use STP fuel injection cleaner every few k (which I'm not sure really does anything, but still use anyway, just in case). I'll keep it 'til it dies.

What's a 3/4 Race Cam?

In the early 1950's the most popular original camshaft designers were the legendary Ed Winfield, the father of hotrodding, and Cliff Collins of Harman-Collins. If you look a Huntington's 1951 book you will find the specs for their cams listed. We've also listed some of their cams on our Flathead Performance Cams page. There were lots of cam grinders that copied Winfield and Harman-Collins cams, but these two were the designers and innovators in the early days. It was popular to refer to cams as a 1/2 Race or Semi grind and a Full Race grind. Later, there was a call for an intermediate grind between these two. To fill this demand, Ed Winfield took the intake lobe from his full race cam and the exhaust lobe from his semi cam and called it a 3/4 Race cam (see Flathead Performance Cams). It was literally half way between a full race and 1/2 race cam. Since that time, 3/4 Race has become a generic term for a high performance street cam, i.e. something less than a race cam.

1972 Mustang Mach 1 Convertible

Red with white top

In 1980 I was 16 and begging for a car, found an ad in the local paper, a sweet, little old lady was selling it.

Original owner, about 2000 miles and I got it for $1500.00, she drove to store and church, it was a gorgeous car.

Couple years later it was stolen from in front of my house and used for a murder in Detroit....wish I still had it....

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Loved the Willy's!! Wish I could have one of the old MASH TV show ones to work on.

The start of your story was great, the second part about detoilet causes my eyes to tear up.

For sure ,been a Ford guy my entire life until I drove the car .Gonna sell it soon getting some miles on it .Next will be Caddy cts v maybe a 2011 model .