What did you pay for first car
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Joined: 04-22-2006
Posts: 55
From: Oklahoma City
i paid 700 for a 1975 silver trans am with a 455V8 and a 4 speed manual. the car only had 55 thousand miles on it, it ran great. it just needed a paint job, it was getting pretty faded. but i loved that car and only getting 10 mpg that was great also, haha.. this was back in 1999
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Joined: 05-01-2006
Posts: 2,507
From: New London, CT USA
I was forced into bondage by older friends and had to set up and run a disco 
Nikko Alpha amps, JBL L-300 speakers , lights, turntables, and we Boogie, Oggie Oggied 'til we just couldn't boogie no more.....
Once we rented the Battleship Massachusetts and put the speakers on the gun turrets! Booggie Oggie Oggie!
For my summer of perfoming this travesty to mankind I was rewarded with "The Meat Wagon"
a 1968 Oldsmobile 98 sedan. It was Grey with a lot of dents and a broken engine mount. It ran out of gas once and my friend Paul ( the owner at the time ) pissed in the tank 
to get it to the next gas station!
Even more funny, it WORKED!
So this was my gift in the fall of '77.
The Blizard of 78 came and I still had not registered the Grey Ghost aka Meat Wagon. It had three flats so I gave it a fourth and drove through the street like no one had seen in days The cops could care less we had six feet of snow to deal with and the Olds sure moved a lot of it!
I was popular in our apartment complex!
Summer came, I gave up my three paper routes for a job in the petrol industry ,employed at a Gulf station learning about Rochester quadrjets and other GM componants.
455 CU, four hundred horses stock. A great car to learn on. I'd pass anything
on a straightaway
In a year I bought a 1972 98 sedan, then a 1975 Buick Park avenue. I guess I like them luxury beasts, eh?
The eighties came and it was time to move forward and get into Chevy Corvairs
Hey, they are great on gas!
Nikko Alpha amps, JBL L-300 speakers , lights, turntables, and we Boogie, Oggie Oggied 'til we just couldn't boogie no more.....
Once we rented the Battleship Massachusetts and put the speakers on the gun turrets! Booggie Oggie Oggie!
For my summer of perfoming this travesty to mankind I was rewarded with "The Meat Wagon"
a 1968 Oldsmobile 98 sedan. It was Grey with a lot of dents and a broken engine mount. It ran out of gas once and my friend Paul ( the owner at the time ) pissed in the tank to get it to the next gas station! Even more funny, it WORKED! So this was my gift in the fall of '77.
The Blizard of 78 came and I still had not registered the Grey Ghost aka Meat Wagon. It had three flats so I gave it a fourth and drove through the street like no one had seen in days
The cops could care less we had six feet of snow to deal with and the Olds sure moved a lot of it!I was popular in our apartment complex!
Summer came, I gave up my three paper routes for a job in the petrol industry ,employed at a Gulf station learning about Rochester quadrjets and other GM componants.
455 CU, four hundred horses stock. A great car to learn on. I'd pass anything
on a straightaway
In a year I bought a 1972 98 sedan, then a 1975 Buick Park avenue. I guess I like them luxury beasts, eh?
The eighties came and it was time to move forward and get into Chevy Corvairs
Hey, they are great on gas!
Last edited by Harpozep; Aug 21, 2006 at 01:19 AM.
Senior Member
Joined: 08-01-2006
Posts: 175
From: San Marcos, TX
First car I ever bought was a new 1973 Chevy Vega GT $3300/$103 payment. Ended up selling it to my Dad when I got transferred overseas, it turned into a serious lemon at that point. That was the year that Chevy went with the unsleeved aluminum block, needless to say it developed serious oil useage issues; and then the rust issues began. The '73 Vega wasn't Chevy's best model. But I loved it while I had it.
My Dad never blamed me, but he did leave it parked at work with the keys in it. Nobody ever bit
He was about to junk it and my sister's husband begged to buy it. So Dad sold it to him, shortly afterwards my sister divorced him. I think his buying that car finally convinced my sister that he was a loser (something we already knew).
My Dad never blamed me, but he did leave it parked at work with the keys in it. Nobody ever bit
He was about to junk it and my sister's husband begged to buy it. So Dad sold it to him, shortly afterwards my sister divorced him. I think his buying that car finally convinced my sister that he was a loser (something we already knew).
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Joined: 03-12-2006
Posts: 6,543
From: Lake Isabella CA
$600 for a '71 VW Bug in 1980.
Funny story about how we bought it from a friend.
It had a fresh motor when we bought it because the hubby told the wife after she said she was going to go put gas in it, "fill the radiator while your at it". Her not knowing this is an air cooled motor, found the only 'cap' (other than the gas cap), removed it and filled it with water.
Funny story about how we bought it from a friend.
It had a fresh motor when we bought it because the hubby told the wife after she said she was going to go put gas in it, "fill the radiator while your at it". Her not knowing this is an air cooled motor, found the only 'cap' (other than the gas cap), removed it and filled it with water.
