1967 Mercury Montclaire.Click to view attachment

...1977 Olds Cutlass Salon...

We need pics!

1985 Chrysler New Yorker.....powder blue with a ripped landow roof lol....no pics on my computer...they're all at my parents place

Mine was a 1969 Chevy Belair, blue, almost the same colour a this one.

Ran great!



Joey

1964 Hillman Imp, similar to this. Rear engine aluminum, overhead cam, ahead of its time...Didn't handle too well though. Designed to compete with the mini but never quite pulled it off.
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1982 Chevy Chevette. Cheap to insure; cheap to repair; cheap on gas.

No power, but it handled amazing in the snow.

1984 Taupe Sunbird... paid like $2500 for it... insurance $3100... still a farce back then... stick shift ... taught myself how to drive it... blew the clutch out 4 years later... in Madoc on the way home to Oshawa... cost me $700 to fix it... was never right after that crook "fixed" it... I liked that car... got me back and forth to visit the future wife in Kingston at school... usually with the needle buried!! yee haw!!!

tiny little red old junker honda civic.........forget the year.

god that thing was ugly..........

use to park it around the corner from school so my friends wouldnt see it

Here's Terry's.. http://www.forofriki.com/wp-content/upload...tstones-car.jpg

It was my "winter beater":

1969 Dodge Polara 4 door / Light blue / 318 engine

i bought it for $300.00

had it safety checked for $50.00

put a $500.00 Pioneer sound system in it

did a LOT of gravel tours in Perth county while enjoying some their infamous herbs eh !

That car's nickname was: "The land yaught"

and Iwas definately : Captain"high" liner in those days.

This was my second car, not much power but handled like it was on rails...

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Spliff? Is that you? Ha,ha

A tan coloured Pheonix...don't remember the year...just remember being the first one to take off from waiting at the red light...loved it!!

The good old days eh.........lol
My nick name was otis lol

Beer in one hand and joint in other............cruising the side roads....

What was i thinking............ scares me now thinking i got two kids of my own......

nope,

but that car was big enough that you could sit in the "no spliff section" if ya wanted and still be able to breathe!

In those days, i used to drive those back roads with my girl and look for the spot to "enjoy the view."

Ohhh to be 17 again. lol

ahhhhhhhh i wish to be 17 too

well atleast i can still act it

1986 Chevy Camaro. Red, t-tops, 72' vette engine that I did up pretty good. I still have the car, but it hasn't seen the road in quite a while. I'll put up some pics later.

I had a burgundy/black topped 67 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible. Plain Jane with only a 289 but it was a fun car. Lots of memorable trips in "The Gal" One time 7 of us and all our gear went camping for 3 days in it. It would fit 3 people comfortably in the trunk for sneaking into the drive in for long weekend all nighters. It also got about 25 miles to the gallon on the highway if you laid off the 4 barrels....

My dad rebuilt the motor for me and left it in the car while he did it!!! There was enough room to stand inside the engine bay while doing the top end and for the bottom end we just put it on jackstands to do the bottom end.

I found a pic that looks just like it here.
http://www.supermotors.net/vehicles/registry/10/60708-2

1973 plymouth

Mopar rules!! My second car was a '70 Cuda 383 cu.in. + 4-spd = lost lic in 2 months!

Mine was a 1974 VW Super Beetle.

1976 Plymouth Duster
maroon
straight six
am radio
single bench front seat
how come they don't make 'em like that any more. hahaha
looked something like this, but mine had a vinyl top

1984 dodge omni,,,200.00 total invested on the road,,not as nice as the picture below.Mine was more burgandy and rust.The floors leak so bad in the winter it was an ice rink when you stepped in.Had to stick something in the carb to start it(girlfriends lipchap usually)lol,,,,I can't believe she stayed to be my wife,lol.....Owned only 5 veichles and haven't owned any newer than a 86 chev truck,

1991 candy apple red camaro. i bought it at the end of my jr. year in high school, with the money i had saved up from selling my calves and pigs that i showed in 4-h and ffa. sorry no pics

jason

1st - 1984 Z28 Camaro - 5.0L High Output


2nd - 1999 Z24 Cavalier


Current - 1999 Chevy Xtreme

My first car was a 1969 VW Beetle I got in 1976. My Uncle GAVE it to me when I paid him for the newer battery and muffler! I think i gave him $50.
The brakes were totally shot, the body was like Swiss cheese, had no heat, and I couldn't drive standard at the time. I loved doing body work, so I spent the summer patching her up and had it professionally painted..bright orange!
I replaced the carpet after I replaced the floor boards! LOL This kept the majority of the water on the outside of the car.
The heater was a gasoline fired burner and worked well, but had very little control.
I loved that car and it took me everywhere!
Eventually, I passed it on to my girlfriend (now wife of 28 years!) and it went for a few more years.

ahh...memories! Wish I had some photo's...well at least digital ones.

Here's my first...1981 Mercury Lynx

My first car was a '72 Chevy Vega (similar to the photo). This car was GM's answer to the oil crisis at the time but was built with a "throw away" 4 cylinder engine. When it was time for my THIRD engine (first replacement paid for by GM) I secured an all aluminum Oldsmobile 215 cubic inch V8. My shop teacher would not let me use the school's facility to effect the transplant so car and motor was sold.

This car FOREVER soured me on ANYTHING remotely tied to GM.

The only good thing about this car was the completely flat area under the hatch when the back seat was folded down. Great for camp outs or impromptu lounging facilities Ironically my next car was also a hatchback that had a flat rear area ('69 Mustang Mach I - that didn't need an engine transplant!)

Have not driven domestic since these two early encounters with N.A. built "stuff"

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'79 diesel Volkswagen rabbit.

A 1976 Honda Civic hatchback.

Roof racks on top for the canoe, and easy storage for the fishing rods and gear in the back. I think I went places in that car that I probably wouldn't take my 4x4 into,

'89 Shelby Dodge Daytona.

i thought the Civic didnt get introduced until '78

1971 Saab 96, ford V4 1.5L engine, 4 speed column gear shift, they even had a free wheel coaster to disengage the gearbox when on the highway, almost like an early cruise,to save gas,!!! had two the other was a 1970 then progressed to an Alfa sud 1500TI now that was a snot rocket 140mph boxer 4cylinder with 170hp at the wheels hahahaha


cheers

ian

Check out Honda America's Website, and choose the historical timeline.

It says 1972 - Honda Civic debuts....

http://corporate.honda.com/america/timeline.aspx

My very first car was a '61 Austin Healy Sprite, the bugeye. Here's a pic of one. My first one was white, the second one black.



My second car was a '66 MGB. Here's a pic of the identical car, BRG, wires and all. I still have the knockoff hammer but that's all that remains of it.



Then I got married and we got practical. There followed a long boring succession of VW's Then the company cars took over my life, but I snuck in one Corvair convertible, an early model, can't even remember the year now.

JF

hmmm
my dad got his Honda Civic 5 Speed in '78, he was told it was first year in Canada, maybe only for the 5Speed model, comprable to the Si today...

cool cars none the less, they must be half the size of todays Civic Hatchbacks!

You got me thinking about the US/Canada thing...so a quick visit to Honda Canada's website also has a history...

http://www.honda.ca/HondaCorp/en/about4_4....p;subNavIndex=4

It says Honda Civic introduced in Canada in 1973.

very nice...
good research!

My 1st car was a 1961 Corvair that I bought when I got outta the Navy. Fun little car to drive and handled really well with the air cooled engine in the rear.



But my FAVORITE car out of all the ones I've ever owned and the one I wish I still had today was a 1965 Pontiac Parisienne convertible.

It was identicle to this one, cept mine was turquoise instead of red but still had the white convertible top and interior.

This thing was as big as a bus but just floated down the hiway and handled like a dream.

Put down the top, crank up the tunes and me & the Mrs would cruise the hiways for hours

I've still got the Mrs. after 42 years, but I got rid of the convertible 35 years ago and am still kicking myself for ever letting it go. It was still in mint condition when I traded it in.

I gotta do something while I'm at work

You guys had some sweet rides...Lew your 1965 Pontiac Parisienne is "sick" lol.

I'm a youngun and still drive my purple '94 civic si which my friends nicknamed "Barney". No pic, you can still see them on the road.

79 Chevette that came with The Resident Love Goddess, a package deal.

1961 Chevrolet Biscayne 4 door.

283 V8 2 speed automatic, it ran well!


The most fun car I ever owned was a 1972 Gremlin Levi edition kinda like this one

258 IL 6 cyl w/ 3 speed manual on the floor would smoke the tires!

1981 Toyota Turdcell - repainted it painfully bright blue, with fluorescent pink accessories. Couldn't afford collision when I was 16, so I figured I may as well be visible. Cost $400, but the powertrain was really reliable. The body...wasn't. Oh well - every girl needs to learn how to Bondo sometime, right?

I never thought that car was worth wasting film on, but here's one on Wikipedia.

My first was a 1965 Ford XL 500 convertable, then a 1969 Firebird convertable (I feel Like Lew) should of kept that one. All downhill after that – "family cars"

I inherited a 1968 Fiat 124 like this from my sister after she killed the clutch.I also had a Gremlin for a couple of years while I was in the NAVY.Very fun little car for sure.I gave it to my brother in law to learn to drive on and he passed it on to his younger brother.Just couldn't kill that Gremlin.

I had a pimple wagon just like this
lots of miles lots of skin

Couldn't find the one I wanted so I got a 68 Torino body at the wreckers and put a blueprinted 390 in it and drove it for a few months.

Found the one I wanted 69 ford Cobra, put the 390 in it till I could find and build up a 428. It needs an interior now but with the new chirp your tires and we take your car law I'm in no hurry to put it back on the road.

That car is a tank, its gone everywhere...

Barney the Beast is more appropriate

1991 buick roadmaster wagon