- 1. First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:09:38 -0600
- Okay I'm bored... what's up with you guys.... how bout your first car? Mine was a 56 Chevy 2 door wagon... worked my butt off on it and it was still very average... but I paid for it myself and did I
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00287.html (7,322 bytes)
- 2. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:30:54 -0600
- you know Paul.... since your there.... tell me what the narrowest car ever sold in England is.... I can't help but think there are some cars that were never imported over here that would make interes
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00288.html (7,368 bytes)
- 3. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:58:42 EST
- First car was a 1926 Model T Ford Tudor delivered 1/1/67 for $225.00. First car I had that was on the road was a 1954 Chevy that I bought from the original LOL in 1968. Though it was ugly back then b
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00289.html (7,603 bytes)
- 4. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:01:52 EST
- My guess would be Moretti, might have the shortest wheelbase too.
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00290.html (7,834 bytes)
- 5. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jon E. Wennerberg" <jon@infodestruction.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:06:52 -0500
- Okay - Briefly,my first car was a 1959 Thunderbird 352 2bbl with Ford-o-matic 2-speed. Not much off the line, but damn, good top end (135 on the speedo and no speeding tickets ever to calibrate that
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00291.html (9,434 bytes)
- 6. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:08:58 -0800
- I'm not bored...more to do than I can get done. Have been running back and forth between Redding and Bend Oregon trying to rid myself of a property that my daughter has been occupying. Have gone up
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00292.html (8,959 bytes)
- 7. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "piggy" <piggy@accessatc.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:23:41 -0500
- well in 1962 my dad knowing that he would pass away soon ( cancer ) and knowing i would soon be old enough for a car , bought a 1956 ford 4 door with auto and 312 v8 . i did inherit that car but soon
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00293.html (8,477 bytes)
- 8. RE: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:36:19 -0600
- My first car was a '57 Stude Golden Hawk, a cool car with really marginal brakes. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ Okay I'm bored... what's up with you guys.... how bout your first car? Mine was a 56 Chevy
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00294.html (8,448 bytes)
- 9. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:43:22 -0700
- Mine was a hand me down 1930 Mod. A ford coupe. I had to make it run as it was in poor condition. It would be my 1st hot rod. In the end I had a 4 port reilly head, twin 97 carbs and a Winfield cam.
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00295.html (8,520 bytes)
- 10. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:52:26 -0500
- Jon, my first was a '49 Hudson Super Six Coupe in two-tone coral paint in '56(still in HS) for $200. Untold mileage on it but in good running condition, from "Chuck" the 'pizza-faced' lot man at the
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00296.html (8,626 bytes)
- 11. RE: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:56:37 -0600
- You might be right about that one but it wasn't "production". I took a couple of photos of a red Moretti at a car show held at The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena last year. In the first pic
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00297.html (8,537 bytes)
- 12. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: W S Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:06:48 -0700
- I'd better get in on this first car stuff before Glen Barrett or Tom Shannon make some pun about expecting Keith's first car to be an Oldsmobile "Rock"et 88. I spent more on my first car than any of
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00298.html (10,172 bytes)
- 13. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:22:12 -0700
- How could you even think I would say someting about Keith and his 1st car. Come to think of it, knowing KT I would think it would have been a HUMPMOBILE or was that Hupmobile. OK Tom your turn. Glen
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00300.html (8,826 bytes)
- 14. RE: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Meierle" <mike.meierle@alcatel.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:27:37 -0800
- 1966 Chevy Impala 4 door, Aquamarine (you remember THAT color). 283 w the 2 speed automatic....many memories Mike M.
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00301.html (8,156 bytes)
- 15. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:04:21 -0600
- Mike you ever rev it up in neutral and drop it back in drive at oh say..... 40mph? you could make that sucker chirp the tires if you were aggressive enough.... Keith ( the joys of being a teenager an
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00302.html (8,742 bytes)
- 16. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: John Szalay <john.szalay@att.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:11:47 -0500
- 1948 Dodge paid $10.00 Took the rear window out, so that I could carry my surfboard. sold it for $25.00 Then got a 53 Stude coupe. loved that car. wish I still had it. then bought a morris-minor pick
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00303.html (8,512 bytes)
- 17. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: Nt788@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:24:46 EST
- In high school 1952, I built a '40 coupe with a dropped axle, louvered and molded hood and Desoto bumpers I didn't drive it until I built a 3/8 X 3/8 and painted it '53 Olds Palm Green. Very fast and
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00304.html (8,326 bytes)
- 18. first car? (score: 1)
- Author: pork.pie@t-online.de (Pork Pie)
- Date: 30 Nov 2004 17:31 GMT
- Sorry Folks, we haven't the cance to get a real hot rod here in Germany as a first own car. Before I had my first own car, I drove a lot of other cars which I got from a good friend of mine - he owns
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00305.html (9,853 bytes)
- 19. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:46:36 -0800
- My first car was a '39 Ford Standard Coup. Looked like a '40 Ford with a '38 grill. It had a tired '49 Merc in it. I wasn't old enough for a drivers license, 15 1/5 at that time,.so my dad drove it h
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00306.html (8,675 bytes)
- 20. Re: First car? (score: 1)
- Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:16:15 EST
- We all need to know what year that deal happened! Bob in connecticut
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00307.html (8,285 bytes)
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