Past transportation just for fun

[Tony Shelton]

How about a thread showing some of the awesome and sometimes dorky modes of transportation we have owned over the years.

This is what first transported Tony Shelton across the roads of Tennessee when I was 15 years old.

How about you guys, we are are weird group, surely there have been a lot of strange autos and bikes in our past.

 

[Larry Millette]

My first ride...18yrs old. 1973 Pontiac Grand Prix. 400 4bb. 2 door 4 on the floor. Pleather Bucket seats and auto cimate control. I was the bomb in this baby. LOL... Actually I still Love these cars. Heavy and gas guzzlers but what did I care back then. Mine was Brown. Same car though.

 

[Trae R]

My first truck was a beauty!
1980 Dodge D50

Loved it, rusty floorboards and all!

 

[Tony Shelton]

My first ride...18yrs old. 1973 Pontiac Grand Prix. 400 4bb. 2 door 4 on the floor. Pleather Bucket seats and auto cimate control. I was the bomb in this baby. LOL... Actually I still Love these cars. Heavy and gas guzzlers but what did I care back then. Mine was Brown. Same car though.


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Larry, you have got to be kidding me. 4 on the floor! I didn't even know that was available!

My first car was given to me by an uncle When I was 15, it was a 1971 Monte Carlo with about 3 different shades of green. I never got to drive it. It sat in my yard waiting for me to get my drivers license.




Then another uncle who swapped me a 1973 Olds Cutlass for the Monte Carlo. The Olds sat in my yard till I got my license and I drove it a couple of times.



THEN another relative swapped me for my PRIDE AND JOY. 1974 Grand Prix SJ. 455, cloth bucket seats, a back seat so small only a teenager could get down in it, and an 8 track player. (and a slanted goofy armrest that always hit your funny bone!) To this day that was one of my favorite cars and I drove it throughout most of high school. (When I could, it only got about 8 mpg)

I'd have to to get in some old polaroids to find an actual picture, but this is what it looked like except it was maroon:

 

["Red"]

My first ride and one of my all time favorites... the Mustang ('67 convertible is this case).

 

[Tony Shelton]

My first ride and one of my all time favorites... the Mustang ('67 convertible is this case).

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Sweet!

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[Christopher]

My favorites were always my Ford Mustangs (10 of them) from 1970 Mach1, 1972 Mach1, 1973 Mach1 (had 2 or 3 of each of these throughout the years) then the 1989 GT 5.0 (modified and very fast!) and the last one was my 1998 GT 4.6 (never modified anything, just kept it all original so no more speeding tickets).

Then came the work trucks 1996 GMC Sierra, 2005 Dodge Ram 2500 quad cab, 1993 GMC Top Kick Bucket Truck (60' reach) and the 1996 Ford E450 box truck.

There might be some others that I cannot remember right now.

 

[pdmcali]

My favorite was the 65 Mustang but my first car was 49 Plymouth, 3speed on the column with a flat head six engine. Mine didn't look this good but it ran well and had a huge back seat. I call it the drive inn movie car.

 

[Larry Millette]

Tony, sorry. When I said 4 on the floor I meant 4 speed automatic. It had 1st thou 3 rd and then drive. It had bucket seats and the shift was in the middle. Even for a heavy car that thing was a screamer. Mine also had the half landou roof.

 

[Russ Johnson]

65 Impala SS
66 Impala SS conv
67 Chevelle
67 Impala
68 Chevelle
69 Bel Air
70 Chevelle
72 LeMans
73 Nova
73 Caprice
74 Monte Carlo
74 F250 Crew Cab
77 Monte Carlo
77 F250 Crew Cab
78 Caprice
79 Caprice
85 Monte Carlo SS
85 Chevy 2500 van
90 C2500
94 Impala SS
94 K3500
97 E350 Motor Home
02 Sonoma
06 Silverado 2500
Honda S90
Kawasaki OHC400
Suzuki 750

 

[Larry Millette]

I see a couple SWEET rides on that list Russ. No Corvettes? Lol.

 

[Larry Millette]

This Dodge Omni 024 was actually a great little car. Pretty quick too.


This be my least favorite. AMC Hornet station wagon. Oil leakes and it smoked. Floor board were rotted out and i always had to keep the windows down. It was a bitch in winter up in Rhode Island. I had to cover myself with a blanket because I had no heat and the windows HAD to stay down. How else was the burning oil smoke supposed to get out? Hahaha! This car,,,,,NO GOOD for long Sunday drives. lol

 

[outdoorprowash]

79 Mustang GT It would have had a four cylinder turbo, but mine had a 302 by the time I bought it. It was loud because it sat low and the mufflers kept getting knocked off.

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[Chesapeake]

1968 Mercury Cougar. I bought the car when I was 14. Started driving at 16 and drove this car daily until I was 20 or so. At that point I realized racing my daily driver wasn't the best idea, and bought an 88 camaro to drive. I continued to spend money on the Cougar over the next 4-5 years until she was parked. I just let her go this past summer after being parked for close to 10 years.

 

[Ron Musgraves]

Man this is a fun thread, thanks Tony. I have to dig up some photos.

I drove a 72 Pinto when I was 12....its Floor was missing from the Cancer it had.


I spent a ton of Time Driving around in these two cars 68 ss that was my brothers. This was not his but it was similiar to this photo


Mom & Dads Ride

 

[mistersqueegee]

Sorry I can't find any pics of the Suzuki moped I had when I was 14 or the Honda 70 cycle that my brother and I ran around our neighborhood when we were kids. :wink2:

 

[Tony Shelton]

1968 Mercury Cougar. I bought the car when I was 14. Started driving at 16 and drove this car daily until I was 20 or so. At that point I realized racing my daily driver wasn't the best idea, and bought an 88 camaro to drive. I continued to spend money on the Cougar over the next 4-5 years until she was parked. I just let her go this past summer after being parked for close to 10 years.
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That's a great high school ride!!!!

 

[Tony Shelton]

79 Mustang GT It would have had a four cylinder turbo, but mine had a 302 by the time I bought it. It was loud because it sat low and the mufflers kept getting knocked off.

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Good thing you had the 302.

The 70's "muscle" cars (including the impotent corvettes of those years) are a perfect example of what happens when the government controls production!

 

[Ron Musgraves]

Sorry I can't find any pics of the Suzuki moped I had when I was 14 or the Honda 70 cycle that my brother and I ran around our neighborhood when we were kids. :wink2:

You reminded me I had a vespa

 

[Tony Shelton]

This Dodge Omni 024 was actually a great little car. Pretty quick too.
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This be my least favorite. AMC Hornet station wagon. Oil leakes and it smoked. Floor board were rotted out and i always had to keep the windows down. It was a bitch in winter up in Rhode Island. I had to cover myself with a blanket because I had no heat and the windows HAD to stay down. How else was the burning oil smoke supposed to get out? Hahaha! This car,,,,,NO GOOD for long Sunday drives. lol
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Larry, this is starting to get eerie.

This is what I had in college:



That thing was FAST. I could take mustangs stoplight to stoplight all day with it. But it was front wheel drive and too powerful and I broke the CV axles in it twice!! And it was not put together very well and once you get up to about 90 it sounded like it was going to fall apart.

This is what my parents drove me to Jr high in:



This was the first and only car my parents ever financed. They bought it for $10k with $5k down. Within a year it was randomly shutting off while driving. Sometimes even when crossing the highway. It was DANGEROUS. They never fixed it and my parents got rid of it and bought a Volkswagon Rabbit Diesel. It didn't randomly stop, it just felt like it was stopped even when you were moving. lol.

Why do we have so much in common?

And we look alike too. We could be twins!