My first G body was a plain jane regal LTD and I made it float more than once. Driving over deep water.
First Vehicle You Bought Yourself
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My first G body was a plain jane regal LTD and I made it float more than once. Driving over deep water.
First car I bought was a 1979 Malibu from the original owner.
Plain jane blue with blue vinyl interior, V6 and 3 speed stick, posi rear.
Drove the wheels off that car, everywhere, with some weight in the trunk it was a beast in the snow.
Traded it off when I lived in Maine for a Toyota pickup and the Malibu couldn't quite get me back into the woods as I wanted to go.
Put over 100K on that car, hit a deer and rebuilt it, it never stranded me or ever needed any major repairs.
Plain jane blue with blue vinyl interior, V6 and 3 speed stick, posi rear.
Drove the wheels off that car, everywhere, with some weight in the trunk it was a beast in the snow.
Traded it off when I lived in Maine for a Toyota pickup and the Malibu couldn't quite get me back into the woods as I wanted to go.
Put over 100K on that car, hit a deer and rebuilt it, it never stranded me or ever needed any major repairs.
1985 ltd.not the full sized v8 fun version but the small Fairmont looking platform. It was sitting in my brother's friend's mother's yard needing a starter.he worked at a junkyard and said he was going to junk it.i hounded him for months to sell it to me. Looking back now I can see he was just messing with me.i paid 1$ for it,he delivered it via tow bar and it came with a starter from the junkyard.being the oldest of my friends in 1997 with a license and a 4door car we had more fun in that sh*t box car.(i had just seen the blues Brothers for the first time too so you can see where I'm headed with this)i tried to do a h20 pump in at school but the bolt that went through the timing cover broke off.it was an awesome lesson in aluminum and other metals mixed together.i got another timing cover from the friend that sold me the car and got it back on the road again.took what felt like forever at that age having to ride the bus again to school for 2 weeks.i painted a 4inch white stripe going from the rim to the tread and my old man finally asked ok,do I want to know what that's for?I said it's so you can see the tire spinning.i must've replaced that rt rr tire 4 times🙂
First car I ever bought and own to this day -- 38 years later -- factory ordered 1983 GP LJ (August 1982).
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My first car was a 1970 MC 300$ in 1988 the very next year I picked up a 1976 MC I turned 16 got a 3000$ auto loan then a 1982 MC in 90 and a 1978 GP in 91 hundreds more after that
Let me first say I'm 35 now. I started shopping for a Cutlass when I was 15. Looked at a couple when I was 16 but they were rusty sh*t for $1500 or more
First vehicle I ever bought myself was my first car. The way it should be. When I was 17 I bought a 1987 Plymouth Sundance, had a 2.5 out of a K-car instead of the 2.2. Damn thing burnt at least a litre of oil a day. Big cloud of smoke out the back of this shitbox, real james bond stuff...
My then girlfriend, now wife was looking for something to paint, and I was like. Hell, let's brush paint my car. Painted flames down the sides to explain the blue smoke... LMAO.
Little kids loved it for some reason, adults used to flag me down in parking lots to ask me if I
"really thought that car was cool"
They just didn't get the joke. Lol
One week after I bought this pos for $700 somebody offered me an 87 Thunderbird for $1000
First vehicle I ever bought myself was my first car. The way it should be. When I was 17 I bought a 1987 Plymouth Sundance, had a 2.5 out of a K-car instead of the 2.2. Damn thing burnt at least a litre of oil a day. Big cloud of smoke out the back of this shitbox, real james bond stuff...
My then girlfriend, now wife was looking for something to paint, and I was like. Hell, let's brush paint my car. Painted flames down the sides to explain the blue smoke... LMAO.
Little kids loved it for some reason, adults used to flag me down in parking lots to ask me if I
"really thought that car was cool"
They just didn't get the joke. Lol
One week after I bought this pos for $700 somebody offered me an 87 Thunderbird for $1000
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Nice job on those brush painted flames. Actually made the car look pretty good.
My first car period was the 68 Cougar that I have now. I can't say that I bought it because it was free. My Grandfather was the original owner and passed it down to me when it was 10 years old. I was 12. That was in 1978. My Dad passed down a couple of beaters that I used through high school and college in the 80s.
The first car that I actually paid money for was, coincidentally, a G-Body 86 Grand Prix that I bought in 1989. Parents co-signed a loan for me and everything. It appeared beautiful when I first looked at it and purchased it. Unfortunately, I was pretty naïve at the time of the purchase and let first impressions cloud my judgement. Several months after getting it home I started noticing things that weren't quite right.
Upon closer inspection, I figured out that the car was wrecked previously, but I continued to work towards making it better and fixing the stuff that wasn't right. When I finally got everything sorted, I put it back up for sale with the hope of just getting my purchase price back. Nobody would give me my asking price. So I decided to keep it.
About 6 months later I got T-Boned in the driver's door by a carload of drunk teens in a terrible snowstorm. The wreck, blew all the window glass out, moved the steering column to the middle of the dash, buckled the roof, folded the backseat in half, ripped the rear axle out of the frame, and put me in the hospital overnight.
I was fine afterwards but obviously the car was totaled. Their insurance company was nervous that I was going to sue due to their underage drinking, that they settled REALLY fast and paid me over a $1,000 above what I couldn't sell the car for earlier that year. With the insurance money, I went and bought my 88 Thunderbird, which is really the car I wanted to begin with and couldn't afford when I bought the GP. And..... I still have the T-Bird almost 30 years later.
The first car that I actually paid money for was, coincidentally, a G-Body 86 Grand Prix that I bought in 1989. Parents co-signed a loan for me and everything. It appeared beautiful when I first looked at it and purchased it. Unfortunately, I was pretty naïve at the time of the purchase and let first impressions cloud my judgement. Several months after getting it home I started noticing things that weren't quite right.
Upon closer inspection, I figured out that the car was wrecked previously, but I continued to work towards making it better and fixing the stuff that wasn't right. When I finally got everything sorted, I put it back up for sale with the hope of just getting my purchase price back. Nobody would give me my asking price. So I decided to keep it.
About 6 months later I got T-Boned in the driver's door by a carload of drunk teens in a terrible snowstorm. The wreck, blew all the window glass out, moved the steering column to the middle of the dash, buckled the roof, folded the backseat in half, ripped the rear axle out of the frame, and put me in the hospital overnight.
I was fine afterwards but obviously the car was totaled. Their insurance company was nervous that I was going to sue due to their underage drinking, that they settled REALLY fast and paid me over a $1,000 above what I couldn't sell the car for earlier that year. With the insurance money, I went and bought my 88 Thunderbird, which is really the car I wanted to begin with and couldn't afford when I bought the GP. And..... I still have the T-Bird almost 30 years later.
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