Seen here before, but since you asked...:3gears:

Bought from original owner Oct of '67. What we now call "Day 2" started immediately beginning with peeling off the SS stripes. I flogged the original 396 to death, Hurst, Hooker, Crower, 4:88s etc, etc, then an over the counter L88.

Since 1977 a '69 L78 that I've gone through twice.
Today it is unrestored with much original paint and 40K miles. MCACN Day 2 Display 2016 (Thanks Dan!!), MCACN MCR Cover Car Display 2017 (Thanks Arvid!!) and Day 2 Concours Gold.

Bill W

First car was not a GM car, but fun! 1970 Triumph Spitfire. 3rd car was a 69 Camaro X44 327 manual (was Orange) from Virginia :)
First pic was as bought, then I painted it an unknown red-ish color and added the RS option :)

----Steve,,,Jake Dykstra (senior), his wife (Birdie), Jan and I were there. Jake had his fairly fresh resto 62 Impala 409 and I had a white 69 El Camino with a low horse 454, and a 400hp Tri-Power set up with (at the time) a new set of 79 Corvette aluminum wheels and tires. I liked that old beast a lot!.....Bill S

Here's me with my second Mopar, a Los Angeles built 70 440+6 4 speed Cuda in 1982. Im wearing my 1981 Street Machine Nationals T-shirt and the car has the 1980 Street Machine Nats license plate frame.

I still got that license plate frame...and none of that hair.

Nothing exciting, but mine was a beige 1985 Olds Firenza sedan, in all its 85-horsepower overhead cam fury. First car also became my first wreck after hot dogging it on a gravel road, sliding off the edge of the road and parking it on its roof. No photos of the actual car seem to have survived.

69 Meteor Montcalm
 

1969 Meteor Montcalm 2 dr ht 302 cid. No frame from the dog legs back. Rear bumper held on with wire to the trunk lid hinges. 105 mph top speed, down hill with a tailwind. House speakers in the back seat.

Not my 1st car, but the 1st car I learned to drive in. A 1966 AMC Ambassador. My folks were willing to give it to me, but I wanted a 1969 Camaro. I eventually got the Garnet red/red 1969 Camaro by working at McDonalds etc. I think it cost me $1400. There's a guy close to me that has a red/red 1969 that I think is my 1st car. I told him to give me 1st crack at it if he sells it. The 1966 AMC Ambassador is really a pretty nice looking car. It had a 327CID engine and reminds me of a 1965 Chevelle. It would be cool to have today and would be a great LS swap car. Here's a pic off the web of what it looked like.

67 Camaro in 1975.

My 1st car I bought. June 1984 I bought this off my cousin who was the 2nd owner. It sat in the back of the dealership building that his family had. Paid $3500 for it with the paint job that is still on it today. Factory quad black 1974 E58 360-4bbl auto 3.55 with 34k miles on it. Hardly gets out anymore. Oldest boy wants to get it up and going so he can race PSMCDR with me.

2nd one in April 1987. Can find it in Member Rides section. https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=83327

As purchased 1981 (seventeen)
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Couple Hi-boys out prowlin
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A little more cleaned up
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This Afternoon
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Y'alls first cars were way cooler than mine. I turned 16 in 1992 and my first truck was my Grandmother's 10 year old GMC 1500 regular cab long bed. It only had 32k miles on it when I got it. I begged my parents to let me buy a 1st or 2nd gen Camaro or Trans Am but they weren't having it. So, I got the hand-me-down truck. It was pretty nice but I never stopped wanting a sports or muscle car.

I kept it for 2 years before buying a 1988 300ZX 2 seater automatic that was loaded with every option except for the turbo. I was still under my parents roof so a Camaro was still out of the question. The 300ZX only had about 30k miles on it and it was a great car. I thought it was the coolest with the digital dash and t-tops. Definitely one of the nicest cars in the high school parking lot.

One day, the summer after graduating high school, I was in a neighboring town(Sherman, Tx) and drove past a used car lot with a red '87 IROC Z that I just had to have. It was a 305 TPI automatic with power everything and t-tops. Swapped the 300ZX even for it and didn't even ask my parents. They were not pleased with me. Of course, it ended up being the biggest turd I've ever owned. lol After finally getting fed up with the constant problems that car had, I ended up swapping that even for another low mileage 300ZX 2 seater. This one was a 87 but it was a 5 speed manual, my first manual! Loved that car too.

No pics of the GMC or IROC but here's the first 300ZX. I thought those terrible wheels looked good back then. Uggh. Anyway, like I said, you guys had way cooler first and second cars than me. Makes me wish I had been born about 10-15 years earlier!

My first car in 1980 was a 70 SS-350 Camaro. Bone stock Camaro Gold w/ vinyl top, auto on column and no gauges. By '83, I had the vinyl top removed, repainted blue with Z-28 stripes, spoiler and snorkel. Changed it to 3-pedal about the same time. Drove it from MD to CO and back twice for college. Somewhere along the way, I replaced the snorkel hood with an L-88 glass hood. Graduated college in '87 and sold it in '88 as I thought it was "the adult thing to do"...urgh...regretted it the moment I took the kid's money. Heard it got wrapped around a tree in the early 90s. Still have the snorkel hood in my shed.

Is that an Olds Toronado with a 455 and fwd in the background? A friend had one in college and it was a ton of fun going out in the Rochester NY winters with.

Richard,

This is a great thread, and ties nicely into the My Garage & Journey application we've been working on. My first car is the beginning of the Journey.

My FIRST (KYT286) car was this Sweet little 1967 F Body; My then brother in law was marrying my sister Feb 14 1981 and I was at the reception in my Brown ruffled Monkey suit, Usher duty and he handed me the Key when I was chatting up a Girl Named "Ginger" he said Hey Take the Camaro & Girl out for a drive. I fell in love with the Car. 230 cu in Turbo Thrift, with Iron Saginaw 4 speed, Muncie shifter, Alpine Stereo, Appliance mags & AMX hood scoops grafted on a flat hood. Called a Singer-Special for Bremerton Washington's Longs Autobody Fluff and Buff sourced cars in our local area. ALL looks and No Go. Turned out to be a Fun car that lead to the passion and purchase of a second Car 1983 68 SSRS 396,,,,,,,,,,,,,

First Car
 

This is my 1st, 68 el camino, factory 327, bench, 4sp, 12 bolt, no power anything. Had healthy 70 LT1 350, headers, flowmasters, weld wheels, m-21, 373's. Man that was a fun car, pic 1988ish.
Thanks guys,
Mitchell

Sorry if pic isn't straight, I rotated the pic, then saved it.

Fixed it for ya.:beers:

First car
 

Thanks Steve, I never thought the thread would take off like it has. Seems as if most guys on the site are like me, once a gearhead always a gearhead!
Bring it on, more pics and stories please.

Richard

P.S. I found an old pic of my first car when it was white with black top circa 1972 that i'll post up soon.

Awesome pics guys, keep them coming :biggthumpup:

My 1st.

Yes, my Dad's 66.

Not a great first car but it was free since my parents gave it to me. Around 1978-79 they bought a new car for my mom and I got her 1972 Buick Skylark 2 door. Gold, black vinyl top and saddle/gold interior. 350/automatic on the floor. Was a nice car but not muscle/sporty.

Beat the snot out of my first car.

Purchased for $500 and eventually installed a mid 60's Corvette motor (L76 I think) and 3 speed Hurst floor shifter. Owned several '57s in my early years including a Nomad but this was my first.

Ohhawk
 

I like those early style mags on front of your 57. Lot of those mags back in the day. Cool!

Richard

----Those are Mickey Thompson's.....Bill S

My first purchased-by-me was a 1964 GTO I bought on the Southside of Chicago, my college roomate has a pic buried in a box. I don't have the vin otherwise I would try to find it, I heard it was repainted but still had the Chevy 327 in there. White vinyl top, orig a red car, body was a plum color and it has "Insanity" stenciled on the rear quarters. I sold it to a guy named Rich back in 1987.

Thunderbolt with Mickey Thompson mags
 

I’ve got a pic of a Thunderbolt with those mags in the front. The local Ford dealer in my hometown raced it. I think the pic is circa 1967,68. I’ve got to get my daughter to scan these pics I’m talking about on to her computer.
Thanks Bill, all these years and I never knew what brand those mags were.

Richard

My memory, though operating on less than 100% these days, recalls them being Fenton. When's the last time you saw redlines on a '57 by the way :)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/33414497615...SABEgLZp_D_BwE

P.S. Had Fenton slots on my next '57........Nomad

They are Mickey Thompson Rader wheels. They have a single rib down the center of each spoke. The George Barris batmobile had those wheels on it too.

----The add shows a Fenton. An MT Rader wheel would have a different center section with a rib in the center of each spoke......Bill S
----Guess we both responed at the same time, Got Grunt.

My first car on this date 1988 - 10/7/88 - I was 15
'69 Olds F-85 W-31 4 speed

Followed by pics on the 30th Anniversary at the very same house we bought it.

Ill also show pics of my daughters first car - purchased on April 27, 2019 in extremely rough - abandoned condition.
1969 Cutlass Convertible

The last picture is in real time - in the garage.

LOVE your 1969 F-85 W-31 :)

Great garage too....thanks for sharing.

Dan

At the ripe old age of 15 (1987) I bought my first 1969 GM A Body.

1969 Beaumont (with Chevelle front clip)

Side note: Soon after a girl caught my eye and this car took a back seat. You can see the church we got married in, in the back ground of the photo, we walked across our neighbours back yard to get to the church on time…. I forgot the rings so Dad ran home and got them :-)

Ryan W31

1969 z24
 

Here’s my first car. 1969 Z24 convertible four Spd.

LOVE a 69 Chevelle!!! Funny - a chevelle was my first "want" a 1969 at that! but would've taken a 66-72. My dad and I looked and looked at every Chevelle around for over a year. This was 1987-1988. With his encouragement to consider something other than a Chevy, I began to research a bit more.
He suggested i look at Buicks , Olds and Pontiacs and offered to match every dollar that I saved so I could get a much better car to start with.
Not long after we found the W-31.
While Ive never owned a chevelle I did recently purchase my next project.
A 1968 El Camino SS396. Maybe that will fill the chevelle void?

1969 Firebird with metalflake paint a friend and I did over a long weekend.

1975 Camaro
 

First car in high school at 16 - 1975 Camaro w/ a 350 my Dad and I built, 350 Turbo trans, 3.07 open rear end. Had it through college and then a woman ran a red light and totaled it. Miss that car.