My first car doesn't necessarily fall into that category but we all start somewhere,right? My Dad decided to help me get into my first car. So we would go out on the weekends cruising the used car lots on the north side of town. I always headed for something that Dad either didn't want me to have or that he couldn't afford. This went on for several weeks with Dad and I getting further apart on what to agree on instead of closer together. Then one day I came home from my part-time job after school and parked in the driveway is a green 1951 Plymouth station wagon that appears to have been painted with a paint brush!! When I go in the house and ask who owns the car, Dad says "You do!" Turns out he had bought it from a guy he works with for 150.00. I loved my Dad too much to let him see how disappointed I was, so I acted excited and really I was - sort of. After all, it was a set of wheels! And it was mine!
I drove the Plymouth for a few months and then started having trouble with the motor, so we traded it in on a 1954 Bel-Air 2-dr post 6 cyl with standard transmission. It was light yellow with black vinyl interior. It was a nice little car. It originally had full wheel covers and skirts but I took those off and added chrome reverse smoothies with moons and split the manifold so I could run duals and glass packs. I had the '54 for about a year while I attended my first year of junior college. I then traded for a 1964 Corvair Monza Spyder. It was also yellow with black interior. The Spyder was a flat six that was turbo charged. I liked the Spyder but I had chronic troubles with the side mounted single carb and the turbo unit so I sold it and bought a 1955 Chevy 2-dr post. It had the 6 cyl with standard trans and it was the 210 model. It was baby blue with medium blue interior and had under dash air conditioning. It was a great car. Super dependable and solid as a rock. I owned the '55 for about 7 years and eventually painted it '74 Corvette metallic gray, redid the interior and split the manifold and installed 8 x 15 Corvette Rally wheels with BFG white letter radials. I always wanted to drop in a small block and four-speed but never had the money or time. Then I got married, got a house and when times got tough I sold the '55. Can you spell stupid, I can!
Well,that's where I stop for now. More when I get the time! Thanks for your time.
Gary -
