My First Car

[47Hammer]

Was that a Troker?

[Xplantdad]

Yep...Edelbrock Torker...mine was a 2-0 (O meaning oval port)

They also had a 2-R for rectagular port heads...

I thought that manifold was so cool...with the carb sitting at an angle.

[TimG]

Ouch, looks like something broke and came through the valve cover.
Neat car.

[ANDY M]

There was a similar thread about this topic in the lounge.
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...page/97#175219

[TDW]

Bart...I like that Nova. It looks sorta familiar

[SS454Elky]

Wreckage of my Youth.

My First Car. I still have this one. Bought it in Prescott, Arizona in June of 1977 when I was 16.



Bought this one when I was 18. 300 hp 327/4 spd. Much nicer car than it looked like in pictures. I miss it. Junked it in the early 80's.



'73 442. Factory four speed car. 100% original. Wife's uncle bought it new. He was a racer in Ft. Worth back in the day. He was the original owner of a '69 L89 Chevelle, '65 Shelby Mustang. Needless to say he has lots of interesting stories.

[x Baldwin Motion]

well this was not my first car, but the first attempt at performance. I fought granny for this 64 Nova from Ft. Sumter SC Chevrolet with plastic seat covers so I could try to blow up the six banger PG and put in a 350/TH350. Lots of fun, not practical, it only liked long straight roads with plenty of room to slow down. I towed my motorcycle in a trailer with this from Chas. SC back to NY. It became a lawn ornament shortly after that. Wish I still had it.
Chris

[StriperSS]

My first car was a 59 VW Beetle bought for $50.00 and needed a little work to get going. It was black, and in good shape. 36 horsepower that moved it with lethargic pride. Much planning had to be done in traffic due to acceleration that could only be properly measured with a calender. Managed to have fun with it though.
The car pictured below was not even my first performance car, but is all I can find photos of right now.

I bought this in the summer of 1975 for $2,200.00. A 1970 W-31 4 spd. It was a repaint, I found out later, but was green when I bought it, and not a GM green either. Black interior with guages and the sport wheel. I had about 3 sets of wheels and tires for it, and of course, the Hijacker shocks. Two friends and I went to California and Nevada in it in the winter of 1975. We went to Iskenderians shop, met Ed and the boys, met some other salt flats racers, cruised Whittier, etc. Never saw another performance Oldsmobile the whole time. We also went to Tonopah, Nevada to look at a Bonneville car that my friend was considering buying. It was 'The Worlds Fastest Coupe', a 53 Studebaker with a 68 Corvette nose on it. It had gone well over 200 MPH at Bonneville, closer to 300 if I remember correctly.
It's funny how when you own a car, suddenly you see others like it. I met the original owner of this next one in 1976, and a little while later, he traded it in at one of the GM dealers that I did business with. Naturally, I was all over it, and made a deal on it. So now I owned two 1970 W-31's.


While I was making the deal, they had sent the car out for paint. It was a case of one hand not knowing what the other was doing. It was originally a white roof, white stripe car, in this same green, but I was much happier with a one color car. I added narrower W-style gold stripes.
The previous owner had regularly raced the car at Mission Raceway, and it had Doug's Headers, Hurst Line Loc, and a reworked Turbo 350 trans, and 3:91 gears. Had a green interior with no guages and a plain steering wheel.
This car was a lot of fun. Wouldn't spin the tires off the line, but would just go. Won a lot of street races with it, against cars that would eat me at the strip. It would chirp second gear every time, no matter how you drove it.
I ran it once at Mission, but had carb issues, and didn't get a good run in. The previous owner had run high 13's in it, and he was a big guy.

[Rixls6]

My first car was a 65 Mustang fastback purchased in 1970 for $750. It went through several changes in the years I owned it. First thing was to make the single exhaust into duals, then after that wasn't enough, I put in a Boss 302 engine with the 1125 cfm inline 4 Barrel.
I eventually turned the car into drag racer with occasional street use.
In 1977 I went to Florida and found a nice 70 SS454 Chevelle that became my wife-to be's car. We still have it and luckily I never got rid of the original engine when I went the hotrod route with it and installed a hotter 454.
That engine still sits on a stand waiting for the day the car gets restored.
The Mustang pic is from 1978 while the engine pic is from 1975 in that car. The Chevelle pic is also from 1978.

[Steven J]

My first car was a 69 Camaro L-78 SS/RS. I bought it in 1970 with 14,000 miles on it for $2150. It was orignally sold new at McInerney Chevrolet in Chicago. I later sold it to buy a 70 Chevelle.