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nathajw

nathajw

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*Doesn't have to be the exact one. Any pic you can find will do*

I stole this idea from the Main Board.

1983 F-150 in the mid 90's that looked a lot like the one below, had a 2 year old dark blue paint job and limo tint windows. It was clean but under the hood was a 300 straight 6 with only 170k miles on it when I bought it for 1,500 bucks. To this day I still miss being able to change hi/lo headlights with my left foot on the floorboard.



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Marshal Jim Duncan

Marshal Jim Duncan

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This is pretty close. '72 Olds Cutlass; my top was white instead of creme. Came damn close to convincing the old man to helping me purchase a white with blue stripes '68 Shelby Mustang fastback. Cutlass was a good first car though.



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purkey

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this isn't it but looked like this...white w/black leather interior, 1964 goat with a 389, 3 deuces and transistorized ignition. Nothing could keep up...not camero's, not anything with a 383 in it, not even the SS396. Once you put the pedal to the metal you could watch the gas gauge go down...but at 28 cents a gallon it didn't matter. Unfortunately, when I filled up with gas I had to fill it with oil to! Paid $1,000 cash for it back a long time ago...



 
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Cowpoke

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93 ford probe. I'm pretty sure every piece of the interior fell off at some point and the paint turned pink.


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nathajw

nathajw

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My best friend had a probe. I think it's neck and neck with the 90s Mustang 5.0 hatchbacks for the smallest backseat of all-time.
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Poketologist

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1977 Ford Granada.
Four doors.
Straight-6 power plant.

That thing was utter chick repellent. Still it had an Alpine cassette player, 200 W amp, and Jensen speakers.

Pure swag.

 
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mseabolt

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76 Olds Cutlass w/Hurst Hatch T-Tops bought it for 800 with a busted grille and torn up seats .. Installed new grill and reupholstered seats. Sold it 3 years later for 3600. Damn thing got broken into to steal my stereo equipment 3 times.

 
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Anodyne

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1982 290zx. T-top like here but black with brown details. Bought it on short notice. Ran like a champion, but the under-carriage rust was beyond repair. Damn shame.
 
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hollywood

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This is what it was supposed to be: http://blacktopcandys.com/images/uploads/cars/55-Chevy-Bel-Air-4514.jpg

My step-grandmother was easing out of driving due to age and when I was about 12, I was lined up to get the car at age 16. Unfortunately, my brother (who was in the Navy) was in need of a car desperately and my grandmother sold it to him in '72 for around $1,000. The car had less than 40,000 miles on it and ran like a top, even the original interior was in great shape, the paint only needed to have a good compounding and there wasn't a spec of rust on the car. My brother drove to his next duty station in San Diego, got orders to go to sea and sold it. My parents and grandmother (as well as I) were all PO'd because he was supposed to sell it to me for what he paid for it.

As a result, this is what I got to drive when I finally got my license: http://www.history-of-cars.com/images/dodge/1970-dart-212-013.jpg Nearly identical, except it was dodge "gold" had a 318 8 cyl.

I had enough money to buy my own and at 17, I picked up a '72 Chevelle Laguna, very similar to this chevelle. http://www.allamericanclassics.com/pics/L04464-73laguna01.jpg but maroon in color. It's the car that I drove at OSU until my senior year, when I bought a Porsche 914 to restore and drive.
 
The Duke

The Duke

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I had one of these for about 3 weeks (loaner from my uncle) before the transmission went out (which probably saved my life as this was a moving coffin):



That disaster was followed by the 'vette.....Chevette, that is:
 
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Football_Goddess

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1987 Ford F-150 long bed, extended cab. It was smurf blue with a navy blue body stripe (the pic below is the closest I can find to the paint job this thing had). It had belonged to a family at our church, but the gentleman who bought it died a year later, so it only had 48,000 miles on in in 1998. But because it hadn't been driving much, a lot of stuff deteriorated. The master cylinder had to be replaced. I used a pair of pliers to turn my windshield wipers on and off. The heating coil busted and there was coolant leaking into the cab. The transmission hoses were like sponges and one day I stalled at 6 consecutive intersections because of either 4-way stops or red lights. The fuel pump busted and I leaked a half a tank of gas onto the high school parking lot. And it got a whopping 8 mpg in town.

When I finished high school, I got a 1999 Grand Prix and discovered that I could actually parallel park after all. It wasn't me so much as it was the vehicle I was driving.


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pokem

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89 NISSAN 4 BANGER, STANDARD POWER ARM WINDOWS
edit> I PAID 2 GRAND FOR THE TRUCK AND IT WAS SAME COLOR AS PICK BELOW WITH SIMILAR WHEELS BUT CHROMED OUT YO!!!!!!!!!



AND I MOWED LAWNS, WE LIVED ON A FARM AND MY DAD HAD ONE OF THE TRAILERS (EXCEPT MINE HAD ITS OWN TOOLBOX) FVCING BAD *** BRO. I USED IT TO HAUL ALL MY LAWN EQUIPMENT.. PULLED LIKE A CHARM AND WORKED IT FOR THREE YEARS HARD....

GOOD OL DAYS


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AC2017

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1974 Plymouth Duster. Looked about like this except I had white striping along the side. No air, but had a great stereo (that I installed myself).

Kind of an interesting story: I was on my way to a wedding and the hood got struck by lightning. Melted everything electrical in it. Bought a Chilton repair book and figured out how to rewire the whole thing by myself. Surprisingly simple process.

The same kind of lightning strike would total a car today.

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rocket1825

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russgoodman

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I had a 1980 Buick Regal just like this one. Dark chesnut with tan interior. Had 8000 original miles when I got it in March 1996. First thing I did was yank the AM radio out and install a CD player (that was stolen a few months later). Sold it a after a year and my parents bought me a new 96 Mustang GT.


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AC2017

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Russ my son and I are refurbishing a 79 Regal that looks just about like that.

Still have a ways to go. Thinking about dropping a new engine in it.
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russgoodman

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Originally posted by ThePokewithNoName:
Russ my son and I are refurbishing a 79 Regal that looks just about like that.

Still have a ways to go. Thinking about dropping a new engine in it.

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That's awesome! I couldn't wait to get rid of it when I sold it, mostly because I had a brand new v8 Mustang. Crazy thing was I kinda missed it all those years. Sold the Mustang in 2004 and bought a Z71 truck. Then through a friend I got addicted to the turbo intercooled 6 cyl Regals and bought one of them in 2007. Reminds me so much of that 1980 that I had, except its blue instead of tan and it is about 1 million times faster.
 
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