Mine was a 1983 Cutlass Supreme. I paid $1700. it was loaded. A week after I bought it we drove it to Florida where along the way I found the electric moonroof leaked...


It is still my favorite car...

Quote from: Neener Neener Neener.... on July 31, 2011, 07:54:36 PM
Mine was a 1983 Cutlass Supreme. I paid $1700. it was loaded. A week after I bought it we drove it to Florida where along the way I found the electric moonroof leaked...


It is still my favorite car...

1942 Studebaker Champion.         :D

A 1962 Ford Fairlane 500 with a blown Ford-O-Matic tranny and blown head gasket (inline 170 cubic inch 6 cylinder).  Otherwise it was in pristine shape - perfect interior, exterior.  A long weekend worth of work, $300 for the original car (it had sat in a garage for 3 years), $150 in replacement parts and it got me through 3 years of college, and I sold it for $3500 - down payment on my second car ever...

Quote from: Neener Neener Neener.... on July 31, 2011, 07:54:36 PM
Mine was a 1983 Cutlass Supreme. I paid $1700. it was loaded. A week after I bought it we drove it to Florida where along the way I found the electric moonroof leaked...


It is still my favorite car...

Nice cruiser you had there. 8)

Mine was a 1963 Austin Healey Sprite, if it wasn't leaking oil, it was out.
I really have to thank my dad on this one, what better way to learn about mechanics, than to have a car that needs constant attention?
I swear, that damned thing very seldom repeated the same problem, it was always something different.
He told me that the English didn't drive that many miles a year so tinkering on a car on weekends was just another past time.
Me, I spent more time working on it than I did driving it, and I think that was his plan for helping me find it.
But the late 60s was not a time to have a car that could drive under a big rig, it was muscle car era, and I didn't stand a chance in a drag race.
But I could fill the tank for two bucks and drive all week long. :D

67 chevy pickup. Wish I still had that dam truck! Best truck I've ever owned.

Quote from: The mighty wu on August 01, 2011, 06:21:25 AM
67 chevy pickup. Wish I still had that dam truck! Best truck I've ever owned.

They were actually made of metal.
I still have my 70 El Camino I bought new in 1970, just don't want to restore it a third time, the parts are harder to find and expensive.

I just realized that I've never own anything but trucks, and I've never owned an import.

1938 Ford 2Door Sedan. Sure would love to have that baby back

Mechanical brakes

Air driven windshield wipers

No radio

Not much of a heater

Mom made me some burlap seat covers for it

Flathead V-8 60 hp engine.

1966 Chevy Corvair Monza 2-door hardtop with the 110-hp engine and the Saginaw 4-speed tranny. Three dollars' worth of 30-cent premium filled the tank and I ran around all week on it. With studded snow tires on the back, that car would damn near climb trees in the winter. But I always had to keep a spare belt (there was only the one) and a 1/2"-drive breaker bar with a 9/16" socket in the trunk. When that belt let go, you had about 60 seconds to park and shut that air-cooled puppy down.

Quote from: tbone0106 on August 02, 2011, 06:35:35 PM
1966 Chevy Corvair Monza 2-door hardtop with the 110-hp engine and the Saginaw 4-speed tranny. Three dollars' worth of 30-cent premium filled the tank and I ran around all week on it. With studded snow tires on the back, that car would damn near climb trees in the winter. But I always had to keep a spare belt (there was only the one) and a 1/2"-drive breaker bar with a 9/16" socket in the trunk. When that belt let go, you had about 60 seconds to park and shut that air-cooled puppy down.

Ahh yes, Nader,s call to fame, destroying a fine car.

A '57 Chevy 2 door Bel-Air with a 283c.i./2 barrel. Powerglide tranny.

I've always considered that G.M.'s 283 and Ford's 289 were two of the best small block engines ever made in the '50's/'60's era.

1966 Chevy Nova   It was owned by a little old lady who couldn't drive anymore.  My mom help me get it for $400.  Two door, red leather interior, 4 on the column....  I had to have a pillow behind me so I could get the clutch to the floor. 
While learning to drive it with my Mom I back into a corn field. :o   Those were the days... 8) 8)

1973 Plymouth Satellite, $300. Purchased it in 1985 and had it for five years. My high school "beater". Had a ton of fun in that car!!! Could pass everything but the gas station!!!
 

1965 Ford Country Squire station wagon.

Quote from: MAC Man on August 03, 2011, 03:08:17 AM
A '57 Chevy 2 door Bel-Air with a 283c.i./2 barrel. Powerglide tranny.

I've always considered that G.M.'s 283 and Ford's 289 were two of the best small block engines ever made in the '50's/'60's era.

Oh, yeah. My third car was a '57 Chevy, but mine was rough on the outside and the interior. I bought it because of the work done under the hood -- 327 small block rebuilt with 12:1 Jahns pistons, "3/4 race" cam, Holley 600 dual-line four-barrel sitting on an aluminum Edelbrock semi-highrise intake manifold, Hedman "hedders," Accel ignition, double-hump heads, a floor-shifted Saginaw 4-speed in place of the original three-on-the-tree, etc. Shit, that thing was fast.

And you're right about the small block Chevies and Fords -- best automotive engines ever produced, and still in production today, largely unchanged. My current Chevy pickup uses a 5.3L version of the same basic 265 engine Chevy introduced in 1955.