what was your first vehicle????

[chuckiedog04]

what was your first vehicle, post pictures if you have them!

[bkm]

No pics. 1965 Dodge Dart More Door. 225 slant six and yes I managed to blow it up.

[HuffieVA]

77 Monte Carlo followed by a 73 Dart (pictures would require some serious digging)

[MonroeMike]

1963 Plymouth Valiant 225 slant six, trans shifted by push buttons on the dash.

Ended up throwing a rod out the side of the block.

[coolpool]

1967 Ford Falcon Sports Coupe. Blew the rear end out of it the first day out. Pics would have to be scanned...if I can find them.

[tommerp]

1984 Ford T-Bird... 302 CFI It wasn't the fastest, but certainly wasn't a dog either...

[Chazz of Blades]

My first car, that I could use as a DD(I'd bought and sold a few before I was able to drive em legally), was, and still is, a 91 SHO. It has a steady diet of Rice. Not blew it, but the tranny is one rough skank.

[Mr_RPM]

1993 buick century. 3300 v6 front wheeldrive
electric everything, only 96k miles on it.
but the the unibody cracked and the rear end got all messed up. it was one of the easiest cars to drive in the world.
sold it for trike parts a few years ago lol

[fabiodriven]

1970 F-100. 390FE, three speed stick (originally 3 on the tree), 2wd. Thing was really fast. I surprised many people in that truck. Threw a rod through the block.

[dcreel]

1966 Corvair..

[Mr. Clean]

1957 Chevrolet Bel Air. Needed some work and is how I learned alot of what I can apply to building trikes. Still own it.

[Vealmonkey]

My first road legal vehicle was a 57 chevy pickup with the small back window. My dad paid $25 for it. It was a farm "do it all" kind of truck and it came complete with the little orange triangle on the tailgate. It wasn't tagged, but it had a title. In Virginia at the time, you could run an untagged vehicle for so many miles around a farm with that little orange triangle. It was 6 cylinder and 3 on the tree. It needed a ton of work. No power steering, no power brake and front and rear 6 bolt brake drums. My dad bought it for my 15th birthday. I got a job on the car lot where he worked and I did everything from wash windows, to scrub toilets and fill the literature racks to washing cars and emptying the trash cans back in the shops. Every tuesday and thursday night after work, the owner would let the guys use the garage area to work on personal vehicles, so you could use the lifts and welders and shop tools and alignment rigs and the whole deal. The mechanics knew me and like me and helped me pull my engine and trans and rebuild the 6 and new seals and clutch in the trans and new bearings and seals in the rear and just get the truck in road worthy shape in general. My buddy in school, got a 396 chevelle for his birthday, he was several months older than me, and promptly ran it into some trees. His dad was going to scrap the car, but the drive train was good, and I got him to sell me the car for the drive train, so big block and 4 speed went into the truck as well as the rear. So I had 6 bolt front drums and 5 bolt rear drums on the truck for awhile until I bought a later model power brake system from a junkyard truck and put all that in place as well as the power steering box and got that all hooked up and working. But for a longer time, I had to sort of bend down to use the shifter from the chevelle, so that was kind of screwy until I got the old trusty Mister Gasket universal shifter! LOL We call it the surfer truck as the doors and fenders were full of waves! LOL My buddies and me painted the truck gloss black lacquer in the back yard. Thinned it out to about 300% and started shooting, even while the neighbor was mowing his lawn! LOL I can't remember how many coats of lacquer and all the hand sanding, but we didn't have any long sanding blocks, so that is where the waves came in. That was the such a fun truck, gun rack and all! LOL And I was the big deal as my truck had a sparkomatic casette tape player in it as well!!! And the best part was, I hauled my poor little stock atc90 everywhere in that truck with a couple wood planks to get the trike in and out of the bed. I didn't fix my 90 up until after the truck was sold and I was in the navy.

[Iprefer3]

1992 notchback

[jays375]

I had a 64 Ford F-100 Custom Cab short bed step side.It had a 292 V-8 3 speed in it.Of course it used to be on the column.Converted to the floor with a crappy Hurst Indy shifter.Took me a long time to get the shifter to work nice with a short throw.Only problem was it would jam up.Wasn't fun when you were out on date all dressed up and had to crawl under to un-jam it.It was in really good shape when I bought it with on 36000 miles on it.Plus the price was great at $900.It already had aluminum slots on it with fat rubber on the back painted black.Plus bucket seats were already installed.I had to cut a hole in the dash to mount up the Pioneer Super Tuner tape deck.It never let me down once.One thing that sucked was the distributor was stuck fast in the motor and cheap points didn't las long.Had to carry a nail file in the glove compartment for emergencies.Plus a spare set of points if things got really bad.I could change them out in the dark,even though the distributor was in the back.You had to lay on top of the motor and turn the fan with hand to gap them.Burnt my wrist on the exhaust that crossed over the front of the motor a few times.In the winter just put on some new snow tires and add a little weight in the back.It went like a tank with the posi-rear.Highway travel stunk since in high gear at 60 mph it tached out at 3 1/2 rpms.I abused that thing for many years and really miss it these now.Only thing I have left is a original Ford Cobra Jet hoodscoop that was on it.

[fabiodriven]

.Only thing I have left is a original Ford Cobra Jet hoodscoop that was on it.

I had one of those on my F-100 too. The one with the blinker indicators on the back side, right?

On a side note, the night I threw the rod through the block of my FE I also lost my virginity. True story.