New Topic Your Oldest Original Car You Owned & Drove

[Dennis Kirban]

As the title says what is the oldest original car (not a modified hot rod) that was titled in your name that you owned and drove. This will topic will probably show how old some of the members of this forum are!

I happen think about this the other day as I passed a house we lived in back in 1970. At the time I owned a towing business (3 trucks). The oldest original vehicle I owned and drove for a short period of time before selling it was a 1940 Packard I believe it was a model 120. Packard was one of the higher end brand names
back in the day. I can't recall what I paid for it or the circumstances of why I bought it probably because it was cheap! It was one of just two Packards that I would own over the years.

With that said lets see if anyone actually owned an older original car that they drove. The topic starts now.

denniskirban@yahoo.com

 

[markboss]

1967 Shelby GT350, and 1970 Mustang Boss 302, bought in the early 80's and still have them..

 

[SPOOLFOOL2]

I still own a 67 Mustang Fastback GTA. My first car was a 65 Plymouth Barracuda.

Like this one.


Ask Turbo Lou. I think he owned a Brontosaurs.

 

[TTA308]

1978 ,real deal 400 4sp 1969 firebird, 16 yo and life is good.... oh yeah a blue eye blond as well..

 

[TexasT]

My first car I bought was the 1970 GS455 . My insurance man had me bring it down so he could look at it before covering It. He had me raise the hood and said, " it doesn't have headers so it mustn't be that fast." I drove it until i bought the 84 T-Type.

 

[turbotroy]

1964 1/2 Mustang coupe, Canary yellow with a HP260 and 4 speed with 70K miles from the original owner. I bought it when I was 14, had $53 a month car payments. My folks were not happy when the car had 82K miles on it when I turned 16 and got my license

 

[87GNSteve]

Mid 1990's : 1968 Volkswagen Beetle died of terminal rust syndrome.

 

[EVIL]

1970 cadillac. It was a 2 door with a 472 puke olive green. this was around 1992. I needed a car and a friend sold it to me for $1oo. it was a beast and i drove it for a year until one day i was driving on the highway with music blaring wounding what that other noise was at 80mph. I had accidentally put it in 2nd and was redlining bad. i took next off ramp and there it was. rod knock.

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[Jerryl]

1964 Rambler Typhoon Classic Solar yellow.
Bought it for $650 and sold it in great and running condition for $210 to pay off a campus parking ticket in college . . . They would not let me graduate with an unpaid ticket.
Looked like this . . .

 

[Marty Fairchild]

1970 Oldsmobile 442.
Bought it in 1973, traded it 1976.
Regret it to this day!

 

[usetaboost]

79 regal turbo coupe. First regal I ever owned. 49000 miles. Drove the shit out of that car. Wasn't a thang to run through a tank of gas in one weekend. It's what got me hooked on buicks.

 

[John Larkin]

64 Grand Prix tri-power.

 

[usetaboost]

64 Grand Prix tri-power. View attachment 267268 View attachment 267269

Bad ass. Love those first gen grand prixs. Don't see them too often. They don't get the credit they should.

 

[turboplow]

My first car was a 1980 Chevy Citation X-11. Paid $600 for it. Was a total POS.

 

[S10xGN]

'62 Nova 4 cylinder (ex-phone company car), was a $75 beater back in '71...

 

[novaderrik]

back in '95, i had a '68 Chevelle Nomad wagon that was all original- 307/powerglide/4 wheel power drums/rubber mat in place of carpet/dog dish hub caps on 14" wheels... that thing was a cruiser..

around that same time, i also drove a pretty much stock 67 Impala 2 door.. it had a slug of a mid 70's 350 in it, but still backed by the original Saginaw 4 speed trans... also a cruiser, but this one did some pretty sweet burnouts..

 

[BuickMike]

Technically that would be my '59 LeSabre, however I only drove it a couple of times before storing it and tearing it apart. Hopefully it will be back on the road in a couple years. This was it back when my Grandfather was still driving it.

The oldest car I relied on for transportation was my beat to hell '68 GS 400 4spd, aka the rolling garbage can. That car had rotted out and dented to hell quarters, a smashed up front fender that was banged out with a hammer, a badly bent frame due to a bad rear ender, and no interior due to a fire. It was originally my Dad's and he never took care of it as you can tell. I wish he did, because it was a COPO car with 4 wheel drum brakes (manual), manual steering, 4 speed, steel wheels with dog dish hubcaps, etc. It did have an AM radio and a heater, but that was it. That was a hell of a sleeper. I had 3 motors in that car during its life. The last one was a built 430 and it flat out moved. I have no idea what it would have run in the 1/4 because it would not pass tech, but I had no issue pulling on high 12 second cars. The motor ended up in a 4000lb '70 4 door skylark with a TH400 and ran 13'80's at 6000ft DA. The rolling garbage can is in the background.

Here is the 4 door that the motor went into. Also a sleeper.

Here is me and the motor back in the mid 90's. I kept it totally stock appearing, but it was strong. ARP fasteners, forged pistons, .030 over, Lunati custom grind cam, TA and Crower valvetrain parts, custom ported and flow benched big port heads with SS valves, etc. The motor eventually went into my sister's '68 Skylark and she sold it. I wish I still had it.

 

[larrym]

64 belair 4 door 230 6 with a 3 on the tree my first car.

 

[Gene Van Horn]

My first car was a 1968 gto convertible. Bought from my uncle for 650.00. Thats correct 650.00. It had a full set cragers worth more than that. Car was absolutly perfect. 6.5 litre convertable,hidden headlights,four speed hurst shifter,someone shoulda beat the piss out of me for the way i treated that car. Never to this day have i seen one just like it,was told they where very rare,even had a factory 8 track,blew the motor after 2 months,parked it out behind the barn,brother shot all the windows out with bb gun,old man sold it the junk yard for next to nothing.

 

[Dennis Kirban]

Kirban few comments on my thread:

Here is an interesting tidbit concerning the Chevy Citation X11 car they had a hood emblem that read High Out put V6...it is that same font style (type style) that Buick used on the SFI hood emblems....We used to sell that emblem to replace the 3.8 sfi hood emblems as High Output seemed to make more sense on our hoods.

Another weird thing with the Citation is they had a vertical style radio in the dash similar to what Corvettes 63-67 vintage had.
As for the 1968 GTO owner that is a car model I know as much about as I do Turbo Buicks...the 1968 was car of the year. The endura nose on them was something new. The one TV ad Pontiac did showing the 1968 GTO they showed a famous actor at the time hitting the endura nose with a huge sledge hammer and not damaging it. In the commercial if you listened carefully you could hear the actor breathing heavily.

I later found out he was a heavy smoker and died soon after of cancer......true story. My wife drove a 1968 GTO for several years the 8 track was a rare option came out in 1967 in the GTO. Yes I sold quite a fw GTOs back in the day....

denniskirban@yahoo.com

I can't find any photos of the 1940 Packard I had.....seems no one has owned anything older.....