What Was Your First Vehicle?

YosemiteSam

Unfriendly and Aloof!
Messages
45,756
Reaction score
21,940
Great car. My father had a gold one, and put a cap on the back and took out the back window, so it was like a sporty Blazer.
heh we always called El Caminos and Grand Torinos Mullet Trucks. It's what dudes with Mullets drove hah and what a mullet haircut would look like if you could have one on a truck.
 

YosemiteSam

Unfriendly and Aloof!
Messages
45,756
Reaction score
21,940
I had long hair too, but never came close to mullethood, because I would never let my mother cut my hair.
heh I was a metal head. Or as they called us in school I was part of the Freak crowd. When I first started growing my hair out. The normal cut became sort of a mullet until the hair got long enough and I trimed the back a bit and all the hair became the same length. There was a bad hair cut that I got maybe a year before I finally cut my hair off. Though I finally chopped it all off at 17. I decided I wanted to earn my own money and the hair (while I still liked / wanted it) wasn't as important as having cash and a car to get around.

The car and the job was required so I could move out!
 

pete026

Well-Known Member
Messages
1,049
Reaction score
1,158
My mother's first car was a brand new yellow 1966 Mustang. Too bad my father totaled it hah.
My grandmother had a 64 1/2 Mustang hardtop. She use to drive me, my 4 siblings, and my cousin to the beach in it. 4 in the back seat, 1 in the passenger seat, and 1 straddling the shifter. Screw seatbelts??????? Passed it on to my family in the late 70s before it finally rusted out.
 

Crazed Liotta Eyes

Well-Known Member
Messages
2,290
Reaction score
5,267
heh I was a metal head. Or as they called us in school I was part of the Freak crowd. When I first started growing my hair out. The normal cut became sort of a mullet until the hair got long enough and I trimed the back a bit and all the hair became the same length. There was a bad hair cut that I got maybe a year before I finally cut my hair off. Though I finally chopped it all off at 17. I decided I wanted to earn my own money and the hair (while I still liked / wanted it) wasn't as important as having cash and a car to get around.

The car and the job was required so I could move out!
Funny, I haven't heard the term "Freaks" in years. I was part of that crowd growing up in Austin, Texas. We pretty much got along with everyone because we had the weed. You had the Preppies, Kickers, Freaks, Punks, etc.
 

Crazed Liotta Eyes

Well-Known Member
Messages
2,290
Reaction score
5,267
My first vehicle was an '82 Ford Van with a custom interior. I had the whole wall to wall carpet thing with the convertible couch and table in the back. Ridiculous sound system in that thing too. It even had a hidden mini-bar in the wall that I kept those little airline liquor bottles in. Good times and I miss that van. I ended up trading it in on a Toyota Celica...yuck.
 

YosemiteSam

Unfriendly and Aloof!
Messages
45,756
Reaction score
21,940
Funny, I haven't heard the term "Freaks" in years. I was part of that crowd growing up in Austin, Texas. We pretty much got along with everyone because we had the weed. You had the Preppies, Kickers, Freaks, Punks, etc.
In my school there was more than a few tussles between the Freaks and the Jocks. Actually, there was a lot of tension in the school back then though. It wasn't just Freaks and the Jocks.
 

Runwildboys

Confused about stuff
Messages
50,240
Reaction score
94,113
CowboysZone DIEHARD Fan
In my school there was more than a few tussles between the Freaks and the Jocks. Actually, there was a lot of tension in the school back then though. It wasn't just Freaks and the Jocks.
I had the same deal growing up in Jersey. There was either jocks or "heads", you couldn't be both. We used to have 30 on 30 brawls between us.
 

pete026

Well-Known Member
Messages
1,049
Reaction score
1,158
I went to a small tech school in the 70s. Some of the "Jocks" (star athletes) were the biggest "Heads" in the school. Come to think of it, our class president was the biggest "Head" in our school, followed by the class treasurer and secretary lmao. 60s-70s were different times!

One night, the class president and class secretary got high and broke into the school cafeteria to get munchies. Didn't go well when their arrest showed up in the local newspaper.
 

Runwildboys

Confused about stuff
Messages
50,240
Reaction score
94,113
CowboysZone DIEHARD Fan
I went to a small tech school in the 70s. Some of the "Jocks" (star athletes) were the biggest "Heads" in the school. Come to think of it, our class president was the biggest "Head" in our school, followed by the class treasurer and secretary lmao. 60s-70s were different times!

One night, the class president and class secretary got high and broke into the school cafeteria to get munchies. Didn't go well when their arrest showed up in the local newspaper.
And they clearly went on to claim their respective positions in the U.S. government.
:laugh:
 

RJ_MacReady

It's all in the reflexes
Messages
3,952
Reaction score
7,084
CowboysZone LOYAL Fan
White 1979 Chevy Silverado “Big 10” edition. It was a hand me down from Grandpa to Dad to Older Brother and then me.
 

Jammer

Retired Air Force Guy
Messages
5,696
Reaction score
3,925
CowboysZone ULTIMATE Fan
...a mid size 1964 Ford Fairlane 500...blue & white/ Auto/ 6cyl/ 4door/ Htr-AC/ with a kickass 8 track system...Good on gas too...lol:thumbup:
That was my first car too, but mine was black and white. I learned a lot on how to work on cars on that thing. That's why I knew I did not want to be a mechanic for my future job.

I really wish I had that car again. I don't even remember how I got rid of it.
 

Jammer

Retired Air Force Guy
Messages
5,696
Reaction score
3,925
CowboysZone ULTIMATE Fan
75 Monte......oh, the memories.

1975_chevrolet_monte_carlo-pic-34983-640x480.jpeg
That was my second car. All white and I loved it. Only problem I had was the carburetor float would stick and it would sometimes flood the carburetor when I started the car. I had a small ball peen hammer I would use to tap on the carb to unstick it.
 
Top