What car were you driving at age 16?

Dave · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:26 pm Post subject:

NOT a VW, so I won't post photos, but...
I remember my older brother's first car...a 1956 Chevy 210 2 Door hardtop.
My dad was always wary of what his sons were up to (and with good reason, as I will tell you in a minute) so he insisted on looking at the car before brother bought it... NICE car, original bronze/copper and white paint, zero rust, no collision damage, just a peach of a '56 Chevy.
Well, Pops looks at it, and says "6 cylinder, 3 on the tree, overdrive, can't get in much trouble with that"... so Brother bought it.... little did Dad know that brother had a 365 horse 327/Muncie 4 speed stored at a friend's house... first weekend Mom and Dad went out of town, me and a bunch of his friends helped him yank the old 235 cubic inch 6, and three speed overdrive trans, and in went the 327/4 speed... cobbled up a really slick shifter, where reverse used to be on the column, was now 1st gear...first gear on the column was now 2nd gear, 2nd became 3rd, and 3rd became 4th...what about reverse? well, just make DAMN GOOD AND SURE the regular column mounted shifter was in neutral, then pull on the overdrive knob, let out the clutch, and start backing up... with super big and quiet mufflers I seem to remember they came off a Cadillac Coupe DeVille) Dad never knew, until a year or so later when he saw Doug go though the gears....BUSTED !!! Embarassed

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Randall · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:11 pm Post subject:

I got to drive a '64 Rambler station wagon the seven miles to high school most every day for my junior and senior years. I thank my father for that because the school bus stop was the next street over. Gas was no more than 32¢/gallon then. The wagon had a wind-down tailgate window unlike what most make's station wagons offered in later years. It was a great car for piling in and going to the beach.

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Hooking · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:13 pm Post subject:

1967 Buick LeSabre ( 2 door )

Semper_Dad · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:26 pm Post subject:

1963 Triumph Herald.

Stock Photo , Mine was red

Undo the latches on front fenders and the whole front body would tilt forward (hood, fenders and frontend). Had a lever on the fuel pump that you could manually operate as well as a remote start switch in the engine compartment.
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Opossum · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:06 pm Post subject:

I bought a new 1967 Westfalia camper when I turned 16 in 1967. It was my first car. To buy it I worked summers, starting at age 12, for my dad; he owned a beer distributorship. When I turned 16 I got a job working after school and weekends. In 1973 I sold it and bought a new 1973 Westfalia, my second car, which I still own today. I have and had several other cars but these are my favorites.
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ned · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:28 pm Post subject:

Other peoples cars. Smile

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1969 Dodge Carger SE/RT, custom ordered 426 hemi/4speed manual trans. With the factory air-induct hood. Dark MT Green, lowered front end... w/ a fine AM/FM/8-track stereo player in it. Laughing

The first car I ever owned all by my lil' lonesome.... and I sure wish I had 'er back.

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bvolks · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:20 am Post subject:

1974 Beetle that I still have 23 years later, though in much rougher shape.
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moogie32 · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:38 am Post subject:

I was driving a '66 Chrysler New Yorker and/or a '65 Mercury Colony Park wagon. Both got about 8 mpg on a good day....
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cdennisg · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:12 pm Post subject:

In the winter I drove the family hand-me-down 68 Plymouth Satellite, two door, slant six, affectionately known as "the Green Bomb". In the summer I drove my first VW, a Euro 67 standard beetle. And occasionally the family Vespa moped.
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tkelley · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:20 pm Post subject:

I drove a 1986 Buick T-type... Cool

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doc1369 · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:34 pm Post subject:

1978 Datson 310, hated that car. Tried everything I could think of to kill it so my dad would let me buy a faster car. It took my friend letting out the clutch in first gear at top speed to do it.
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eeebee · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:01 pm Post subject:

1965 Chevy Nova SS

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skoshi surf · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 2:00 pm Post subject:

1967 Rover 2000 SC bought it for $700.00 in 1973. Engine was bulletproof electrics not so much

Tyler 5447 · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:38 pm Post subject:

I had a '71 Panel that I bought when I was 15. I wish I still had it.

J Flare · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:11 pm Post subject:

Schwinn Varsity Rolling Eyes

slamnfreak · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:52 pm Post subject:

A lowered '82 S-10 lwb.
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morymob · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:02 am Post subject:

'48 Crosley sedan, 4cyl OHC, 26 hp in there somewhere but sure was stingy with gas. Best performance= down hill.

crocteau · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:06 am Post subject:

my mom's then-new '66 beetle whenever she'd loan me the key

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ghia4mea · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:12 am Post subject:

1952 Buick Super, straight 8, Dynaflow automatic, non power steering. Hood opened from left or right side, not from the front.
Heavy, slow, a real tank. It was 10 years old when I got to drive it.
I hated it then, and now I wish I had it.

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