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"Fill up the engine oil and check the gas"...I had a GT Wagon...great looking car that handled well but the engine was a POS.
I learned how to drive in a 59 Apache. When it rained you just got into the ruts and gunned it in the straight 6. Oil bath air cleaner, and vacuum wipers. Suckers would go nuts when you let off the gas.
1973 Opel GT- Tires and wheels from Robertson tire in Tulsa. Roll bar from Whitlock, Tulsa (Used to be next to Casa Bonita). Lowered 2". European sway bar upgrade. Weber carburetor. Header. Billet cam. It wouldn't outrun anything but it would out corner everything.
I'll never forget the time my college roommate and I were in OKC headed back to Stillwater. It was a game day and we got behind a Porsche. We averaged 110 MPH the whole way. Pics later.
I'll never forget the time my college roommate and I were in OKC headed back to Stillwater. It was a game day and we got behind a Porsche. We averaged 110 MPH the whole way. Pics later.
74 Pontiac LeMans in 78. Had about 24,000 miles on it, and it was worn out.
Really, really big car. Looked good, except for the peeling and fading paint on the hood and roof. Drove even worse. 350 with a 4 bbl carb, and it would push that thing a lot faster than it was safe to drive. What a piece of crap.
Really, really big car. Looked good, except for the peeling and fading paint on the hood and roof. Drove even worse. 350 with a 4 bbl carb, and it would push that thing a lot faster than it was safe to drive. What a piece of crap.
Interesting.
My parents bought a new Grand Prix in '74 that I ended up driving a lot when I was in high school. It was an great driving car and with a 400 under the hood, it ran like a bat out of hell.
It is the only car that my parents kept for more than a couple of years.
The first car I bought was a '78 T-Bird Land Yacht. It had a rough life before I got it, and it didn't get much easier for the poor ol' girl. She used just about as much oil as gasoline, but she rode nice, and the stereo was worth more than the car.
That last part was a common theme with my first few vehicles...
That last part was a common theme with my first few vehicles...
I guess it depends on which one you consider my first car. This is the first one I had, a 1967 Chevy Caprice except it was a light brown color with about the same color vinyl top. But I never actually bought it. My sister bought it used while she was in college, then when she got married she sold it to my older brother. It broke a crankshaft and my Dad had a rebuilt motor put in it for $400, which my brother was supposed to pay him back. When my brother joined the Marine Corps, he said if I would pay Dad back the $400 I could have it. But I never actually got around to paying him back. Sorry Dad. He never ever mentioned it.
Then when I dropped out of college in 1978, I traded it for a 1976 "Spirit of America" Chevy Caprice, just like this one. Was a nice car for a while, but by the time I traded it off it had gotten to where it used about a quart of oil a week, apparently due to a bad piston ring because you'd have to pull one spark plug out every few weeks and clean it to stop it from missing. Then it would run fine for a while.
So technically, the second one was probably MY first car. But the first one is what I drove through my last couple of years of high school and three semesters of college.
This is my sister with the Caprice while it was still a blue 2-door convertible (not really).
Then when I dropped out of college in 1978, I traded it for a 1976 "Spirit of America" Chevy Caprice, just like this one. Was a nice car for a while, but by the time I traded it off it had gotten to where it used about a quart of oil a week, apparently due to a bad piston ring because you'd have to pull one spark plug out every few weeks and clean it to stop it from missing. Then it would run fine for a while.
So technically, the second one was probably MY first car. But the first one is what I drove through my last couple of years of high school and three semesters of college.
This is my sister with the Caprice while it was still a blue 2-door convertible (not really).
