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Got my hands on an old classic I'm gonna take a few years to put together. It's not going to be original at all, but a replica of what I had in High school, a 1965 Mustang. Mine was perfect to me, built to the 1980' standards of cool. Bright Rangoon red, engine in it was a donor from an 85 Mustang GT (roller motor), C4 with minor shift kit, Hooker headers, 600 Holley dbl pumper, 3.73 gears. Interior was bright red as well, and for my 16th, I got a Panasonic CD player installed with a small Kenwood 4 ch amp, with Kenwood speaks. She rode on Centerline wheels, with white letter Goodrich TA's, and sounded great with 2.5" duals with chrome tips. It wasn't a drag car by any stretch, but was always spotless, and just a fun cruiser with the windows down. How about you guys? If not your first, what was your fav?
No interior just one seat. Everything was stripped inside. The motor went out on it coming home from work on the freeway. I was in a new state. Couldn't afford to have it towed. I thought I had a day or two while figuring out how to get it home. Two days later someone from work was going to help me pull it home but, it was gone. Getting it out of impound was something I couldn't afford so I lost it. Sad day for me for sure. The one thing that was cool about it was the lawn chair for the passengers. Girlfriend acted like a bitch one day so I punched it. Off to the back of the car she went. Then slam on the brakes. I had a lot of hoopties when I was younger. Not that a 70 Camaro is a hoop. But of the all the cars I've ever had I wish I could've hung on to it somehow.
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Horrible picture, sorry, it’s from a Polaroid. First car was a 1971 Ford Torino 500 with about 10,000 miles on it. Bought it when I was 15 years old in 1984 with money I earned from my job. Feeding calves and milking cows on my uncle’s dairy farm. Bittersweet day, on the way home from getting it (dad picked me up at school in it) he told me that our dog had been killed that morning. Sucked the joy out of the moment.
When i turned 16 i got a killer van though, it was legendary in my hometown, and the cops knew me by name LOL
She is on her last legs in this pic: (1979 Ford Econoline 100)
First car I paid for myself was a 1980 Delta 88 for $1200. Drove it cross country twice in the summer with the AC inop.
“Last of the V8 Interceptors”
Sadly, my first car was a 1985 Chevy Sprint. It was such an underpowered piece of shit, that I had to be tapped out in 5th gear going into Mission Valley in San Diego, just to be going the speed limit (55 at the time) when I got to the top of the other side.
By the time it was passed down to me the folks stopped repairing it, and just bought radiators to replace being there was no front bumper, and the collisions weren't really ever that bad. So every morning before heading off to school I'd give it the once over, like a pilot go over his aircraft, followed by a prayer. School was about 5 miles down the road, not too many lights, but straight into the rising morning sun.
Being the car had been into so many rear-ends the hood brackets were sheared, and nothing more than the pivoting arms resting in the receivers. And the hood latch was a clothes hanger with a couple twist. So every few weeks heading off to school, squinting through the maze of cracks of my wind shield slowing getting up to the terminal velocity of 45 mph, I would catch the fluttering of my hood, which only meant one thing. Systems failure, latch snap, hood slamming into the wind shield, then releasing and separating from the car. Being usually late I'd just leave it, and if it was there on my way back, pick it up then. Which it always was.
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If I had my first two cars still I could trade them in a house....
May not have been the coolest vehicle in school but I gave zero fucks, it’s got history for days. . .
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