Your Car Story

[500/600]

Mine was purchased new by a man about 100 from where I lived all my life. How it stayed in West Virginia all of it's life and still had zero rust is a testimonial to only 53,000 miles and how he treated it. It has a near perfect stock interior. He went into a nursing home and they sold all of his stuff. I paid $5,000 for it, drove it home, and jerked the drivetrain out of it. He'd either love it or hate me...………………………...either way I like it.

 

[JAMCAR223]

I got my GN in a trade. I had been into drag cars, and had a BBC s10. It was a nice drag truck, but had been sitting for 1.5 years, after my friends drag car went down for a while, and my trailer got stolen. So, I thought I would turn into something different... I would search Craigslist with the term " trade for drag car". Of course, things would come up, but the one that caught my eye was this 87 GN. His Craigslist ad said " trade for something stupid". I replied with pics of my truck, and simply said " I have your something stupid". Not even 24 hours later he came to my house with the GN on the trailer, we loaded up my truck, and exchanged titles. Come to find out he was one of the announcers at the dragstrip, and remembered the truck. I still message him periodically. He wrecked the truck the 1st time out, and it sat in a suspension/fab shop until it was traded off again... 🙁. He is amazed at the job I did on the GN, and would love to have it back. NOT!!

 

[Drkuhar]

I bought my cutlass in 1992 with my high school graduation money. It got hit by a uninsured driver in 1995. Sat around till i fixed it up as a project /toy and traded it to a guy that wanted to make a drag car out of it in 1999.
2018 he got a hold of me and had to get rid of some cars and wanted to know if i wanted it back, he had never done anything with it but pull it apart. it was a shell no motor, transmission, or rearend. We made a deal and he brought me the title and it was still in my name. He had never transferred it since he never got it together.. it wont leave again.

 

[1983calais]

I bought my Monte Carlo from a guy who said it needed a new engine and if I didn’t buy it he was going to fix it up. I’ve heard that story before. He wasn’t going to do anything with it but let it sit the same place it had been sitting for two years. I put a battery in it and gas. Fired right up. I bought it to clean up and sell to make money for my other project. I drove it all summer. It now has a junkyard 327 I built, converted to a standard transmission, put wheels, tires, and to much other stuff to mention. It is now MY car. A stick shift, 327, g body was my vision since I was 18. I’m 41 now. It’s not going anywhere!

 

[fleming442]

The Pig was acquired from a guy I was plowing snow for. He owed me $1300, so rather than get hit by the tax man, I said "Just give me the title to that Bonneville". It was an old man car with just 83,500 on the clock. I took a battery over, got it running, and drove it home. Click the link in my sig to see how I butchered it!

 

[old80cs]

I bought my 80’ Cutlass Supreme from my Dad back in 1986 with 94k miles for $1200. I was 15 at the time working at a gas station. It hasn’t seen a road since 1992 when I tore apart, worst mistake I ever made in that respect. Good news is for the last 21 year’s it’s been sleeping comfortably in the garage.

 

[joesregalproject]

I bought mine from a cash poor crackhead in a garbage neighborhood 😆 Somehow it worked out but I probably wouldn't roll those dice again!

 

[Kennybill]

I've been "legally" driving for 54 years, car guy longer. Have my own "recovery" truck (there's a story behind the word recovery 🙂) for 28 years. Dragged around 60 cars off small mountains, fields, woods in 3 states. Nope, no stories here. 🙂

 

[39F]

So when I 10 went to dirt track races one night with mom and dad the track had a big banner hanging up about a new 4 cyl racing class soy dad looked at me asked said you wanna try this ? Needles to say I said yes lol had to be 13 to race so my dad's buddy gave us a grand am from his junkyard 2 years later car was done raced it 3 years got spun out into the wall rolled it down the track thankfully me and my dad had the new car in the process of being complete . A guy my dad worked with gave us a 1984 Cutlass all stock V6 great body very clean frame needed a door do to rust on bottom . So my dad and me gutted the car bare frame removed all inner panels l, fire wall, trunk everything . We spent alot of time welding and fabbing . Learned alot from him and this car ,has alot of time on it ,alot of great night's alot of bad nights too it happens , wouldn't be able to do my own roll cages and ford 9"s and build motors without my dad . Lil fast forward to 2 years ago was coming out of turn 1-2 RR tire started going low it went sideways another car hit me and I rolled down the back straight away , after getting back to the pits I ripped parts of the body off put 3 tires on it went back out for the feature race got 2nd place , that was the original body from 1986 most cars on the dirt don't last that long 2009-2017 ,so we took the car completely apart checked every weld for cracks ,bent bars, anything harmful , new paint, new decals, was ready for the following season ........ Can't wait for 2020 season!!!!!!!

 

[JAMCAR223]

I bought my 80’ Cutlass Supreme from my Dad back in 1986 with 94k miles for $1200. I was 15 at the time working at a gas station. It hasn’t seen a road since 1992 when I tore apart, worst mistake I ever made in that respect. Good news is for the last 21 year’s it’s been sleeping comfortably in the garage.

I wish you the best, in getting it back together, but this is exactly how I have bought several cars for less than $500.