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what was the model of your 1973 Dodge? A Dart, Coronet Polara or Monaco? If you say you got 19 mpg I suspect it was one of the big ones(I know the Dart and Coronet could get 19)
My first car was a 1969 Pontiac Firebird convertible. The color was supposed to be "Pontiac Red," but it was orange. Could see me coming a mile away.
I bought it in my junior year of high school from my mother's hairdresser and paid $100 a month for a year. Man, was I cool . . .
It had this button on it under the dash that when you pressed it, it was supposed to sound like a horse. I think it sounded more like the engine not turning over. I loved it when the guys would look under the hood because "my car wouldn't start"; then I'd get out there, move a couple of things around, give it a tap, and go back in the car and start it right up.
1991 Caprice
Bought it because it was big and I wanted a lowrider car I could throw 14" 100 spokes on without it being too old of a car. This was in 2001...car had 50k, clean paint and perfect interior. Bought it for like $6k when I was 19 years old. Was a great car I regretfully sold in 2008? Or maybe 07...time flies when you get old (26 haha)
1970 Plymouth Fury 2-door with the 318 2-bbl. It was a faded yellow. I had $300 saved up from a summer of babysitting brats and my dad talked the guy down to $275. Then he made me do a tune-up, service the transmission, do an oil change and a brake job...myself...under his supervision. He created a monster..my second car was a '73 Mach I!!!!
I love those cars. Ever since they come out in late 1990 I wanted one. My uncle came in from out of town and had rented one at the airport. It was a base Caprice (not the Classic), but it had power windows, locks, etc options. In late 1990 these were radically styled cars to say the least. I always said I would get one. I almost bought one (a gray 1991 Caprice sedan, with 81K miles) last year, but bought another car instead. I will probably still get one of them one of these days when a nice one at a good price comes along.
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1991 Caprice
Bought it because it was big and I wanted a lowrider car I could throw 14" 100 spokes on without it being too old of a car. This was in 2001...car had 50k, clean paint and perfect interior. Bought it for like $6k when I was 19 years old. Was a great car I regretfully sold in 2008? Or maybe 07...time flies when you get old (26 haha)
1969 Firebird. It had been my brothers and since he had gotten married, had a growing family, it seemed to be a bit small to his now ex wife. I worked for 2 summers cutting every yard I could to get the money for it! A year later Iput a 455 in it and spent the rest of that summer beating everything I raced. Got it painted that next fall, and in the winter wrecked it on an icy road. Now I've come full circle, as my new dragcar I am building is a 69 Firebird with a 6.0 certified c/m chasis for the twin turbo 1800+hp engine. Yep, it will be the same color I had my first one painted!
1969 Firebird. It had been my brothers and since he had gotten married, had a growing family, it seemed to be a bit small to his now ex wife. I worked for 2 summers cutting every yard I could to get the money for it! A year later Iput a 455 in it and spent the rest of that summer beating everything I raced. Got it painted that next fall, and in the winter wrecked it on an icy road. Now I've come full circle, as my new dragcar I am building is a 69 Firebird with a 6.0 certified c/m chasis for the twin turbo 1800+hp engine. Yep, it will be the same color I had my first one painted!
Sounds like lots of fun! Except the wrecking part.
Consumer Reports mag tested the new restyled Ford Gran Torino 6 cylinder and they reported this: "last month we reported that the Mercury Grand Marquis was the quietest car we ever tested; the Torino was just about as quiet; we only heard slight wind noise and some whirring from the engine fan"
It also got good gas mileage, the 6 averaged 18 mpg on a 300 mile trip(range to be expected in normal driving was 11-21)
I remember the following year they tested the 302 V8 version and the car's range of mileage to be expected in daily driving was 8-15. That's terrible. And it idn't impress the CR testers as it did the previous year.
man I love this board. I can post my most maudlin memories and thoughts about cars and everyone is cool and no one puts me down for it.
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hey deckdoc
Got it painted that next fall, and in the winter wrecked it on an icy road. Now I've come full circle, as my new dragcar I am building is a 69 Firebird with a 6.0 certified c/m chasis for the twin turbo 1800+hp engine.
Yep, it will be the same color I had my first one painted!
