Hemis now have 2 plugs per cyl.

1940 Nash Ambassador.
Bought when I was 14 years old in 1958.
Way cool back then. Had 16 spark plugs!!!

Gotta say Steve, this is by far the best topic you have put up here in some time. Something all of those who posted can agree on, good, no great memories of days gone by. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

1972 Grand Torino sport with hood scope. Worked at A&W saved 50 cent pieces customers who know I was saving made sure to leave as tips and I bought it for $400 sure loved that car won a few races and got a ticket and a few warnings boy those were the days. I think kids today should also buy there own cars it taught us to appreciate and respect what we had. Wasn't given to us it was earned!!!

My first car was a 1982 Ford Fairmont Futura. Found out later it was a former drug dealers car, not cool. My daughters first car was a 1995 Dodge Neon, purple and all girly.

Red 1962 VW Beetle in 1974. It had no heat and I had to scrape the windows on the inside! Absolutely the best car!

Goodyear tires for my first automobile -a 1967 Thunderbird.

66 Olds 442. One word description....SWEET!
Let it go after 4 years.
One word description.....STUPID!

1976 GM lime green cutlass with the white vinyl top. Boy that was a heavy car rode like a dream and went like a bat out of hell. Bought it in 1984 sold it in 1986 after summer break before I enlisted in the Air Force that fall. The friend I sold it to crashed it, stupid friend.

1975 Oldsmobile Omega (Olds version of the Nova). Inline six, 3speed automatic, power steering and brakes, bucket seats, limited slip rear diff, AM/FM radio, no ac. It ran great, with a top speed of 85mph, downhill, with the wind at my back. My dad loaned me the cash to buy it ($200), and I sold it after a year for $600. I sold it for another Olds (Delta 88 Royale) because the Delta 88 could spin the tires. The Omega would only spin the tires in the snow, gravel, grass, dirt. Stupid reason for getting rid of a good car, but what can you tell a 16 year old, know it all, kid?

This has been a lot of fun to read-my first car was a 68 Camaro I paid $1400 for. Really wish I had it today. The people who have commented on their cars Wortnik 67 Pontiac Lemans what a great car! Cardmember a 67 Tempest, I think that was the first car where the gas pedal was not connected to the floor, but free floating pedal and think it could have been a 326. ThirdEye a 55 Chevy Green and White, I know that car - Fedup taxpayer a 64 Impala- Wow! That was better than my car. Anyway memories of long lost cars make me happy.

Come on out and get some sun billy. I think your Seasonal Disorder is having an impact upon your brain. You begrudge me of a "lavish" lifestyle, but don't want the multi-millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share?! Maybe you just need massive doses vitamin D3 if you can't come to the sun. So, did the Presiden'ts bail out of GM work or not, billy?

'72 Camero - Drove it for about a year before I left for college my parents made me sell it for book money. Bought it for $200 and sold it for the same.

3 years later I, too, moved into the Chevette owning group! A '79 Chevette, brown, with the trim missing down one side (didn't the trim fall off of every Chevette?!?!). Paid $170 but learned great life lessons like how to change my own oil and shift on the fly when the clutch cable breaks!!

Bought a 1967 cream two door Pontiac Lemans from my uncle in 1971 when I was still 15 years old. Took out a loan and paid it off in 3 years. Still got the car, Had it sort of restored in early 80's and probably need to look at it again. I used to be upset that my uncle didn't go for the GTO model, but I most likely would have wrapped that around some tree. A great car!

1975 Buick Century. Big ole' boat of a car. Two door, AM radio, crank windows. Ugly as sin green/black paisley print bench seats. But it had a powerful and reliable engine that never once let me down.

First and most favorite was a late 1960s gray-blue Buick LeSabre convertible. It was huge and talk about power to fly!

1964 Chevy Impala - 2 door - 283 duce with a 3 on the Tree.

My First Car: 69 Olds cutlass - first was grandpas, then Mom&Dads, then Big Bro's, then mine. I drove that AWESOME ROCKET from 1986 until summer of 1990. I LOVED THAT CAR!!! Green 2 door and a engine that no teenager should have access to. (Buried the needle soo many times, and that was at 120mph I think - FOOLISH!!!)
I have purchased acar for my teen driver, a 88 Dodge Prospector. drove it 20 mos. paid $1000 - no rust - fun truck. Why buy a teen a expensive vehicle, other will key it, ding it and have you parked in a High school parking lot?? Trusty but rusty and a beater with a heater is what a teen needs until trust is proven.

55 Chevy. 4 door green and white, 6 cyl, 3 on the tree. Seems 'plain Jane' now but pretty much the norm for the early 60's. Had it before my 16th birthday and took my drivers test in it. I sold it shortly after graduating from high school 2 years later.

After finishing college back east, I found a '63 Sunbeam Alpine at a shop in Philly. Loaded it up with luggage and my stereo and headed west. The little green sports car cost all of $900 in '69 and I had to rebuild the generator at a stop on the Tollway.

PS: If it was not for the loans the government gave the car industry, we would all be driving foreign cars. Now I try to stick with US brands.

Chevy used to be a division of GM... today its pretty much all just GM. Chevy died years ago. There are no seperate divisions anymore. :(

1962 Mercury Comet, powder blue, manual transmission, 4 cyl. Had to share it with my mother.

tjncj- The dart is coming back for 2013!

87 Plymouth Turizmo Duster pkg. Brand new so nothing would break. Paid for it myself.

Yes, thank you Mr. President for subsidizing NVgrf's Chevy purchase! (as if us taxpayers don't subsidize enough of his rather lavish lifestyle already!)

Back on subject, my first car was a '65 Mustang convertible which I bought in March of '72 for $650, much to my father's chagrin. It came with a bad alternator and a three speed transmission that did not have a synchronized first gear. I never could master the art of coming to a full stop before shifting into first which cost me more than a couple of transmission repairs. I sold it 2 years later to my everlasting regret.

A gray '85 Buick Skyhawk. It was so nice that the brakes would seize up in the winter and I'd have to pump them relentlessly after I started the car until they worked right. Ah, memories!

'57 Chevy...Sure glad chevy is up and running at #1 again! Just purchased a new Traverse. Thank you Mr. President! Go Chevy!

77 Caprice Classic. White. Red dash and carpet. Baby blue velour seats that had been taken out of a caddy ( I was told). They were not bolted down. When I would take a fast corner, they would tip to the side a little. Speedometer went to 85 I think, but she'd top out at about 125 (so said my friend with the 67 camaro). Had it two years. Only left me stranded once when it broke a tie rod 1/4 mile from my house. Heat went out and she had to go. I remember driving to school with my wet Freak Flag freezing stiff, because you had to keep the window open to keep the windshield from frosting up.

1967 Pontiac Tempest

thayer75: My first used car was a 64 Rambler Classic w fold down seats. Whoohoo!

Sigma40: Like you my first new car was a 72 Nova. Red/orange w a black vinyl top. I jacked it up and had dual exhaust, and had a 350 in it. Wish I still had it. I remember it was $3100 new.

1972 Vega!! My dad bought me my first car...Cream color..and full of rust! Burned oil so much that I had to buy a case of it a week--but it ran...I loaded it with bumper stickers (hey, I was a teenager, and that was the "thing" to do back then)...and boy..did I love that car.
Lots and lots of memories with that car.
Thanks Steve, for a good blog.

55 Olds Rocket 88 repainted all green. My friends called it "The Pickle".

Snirt...my first car was also a 54 chevy, four door, had a rope going all the way across the back of the front seat. Something for the passengers to grab onto when I went around the corners too fast. It was light blue and white,perfect condition with no rust,purchased in 1967 for 500 bucks.(they called it an old ladies car until they needed a ride, then it was cool)

78 Ford Pinto. It had flames painted on the trunk. I think they were painted.

My first (used) car, was a 1962 red & white Rambler Classic. But my first and still favorite brand new car was a 1971 pumpkin colored Karmann Ghia. And it had 4 on the floor! With the engine in the trunk, it was great for winter driving.

I was forced to accept a car my father picked out for me. It was a 54 chevy sedan, green with a creme colored top. Being your typical teenager of the late fifties, I tried to give it my idea of customizing. Port-a-walls for the tires and a glass pack muffler. What a waste of time. It sounded like the car had a bad case of flatulence.

Turd Brown 1973 Dodge Dart Swinger. Owned it until we met a tree on a back country road the week after I graduated high school. The next full-time car was a '72 Chevelle I bought from my brother. Going from a 225 CI slant six to the V-8 350 CI 4 barrel was a nice upgrade.

Both cars had over 100,000 miles when I got them. I paid $800 for the Dart, $500 for the Chevelle.

Steve, I can see you in a Chevette versus a Firebird. It was destiny.

70 firebird.....that would be nice to have today. A highly desirable car. Mine was a 72 Nova... still have it.

Big Wheel with racing brake.

My first car was an '82 Monte Carlo. LOVED IT! I think it had over 160K on it when I got rid of it. I wish they still made a Monte Carlo....I'd have one again.

85 S10. Great truck til I smashed it.

The first car I owned was was a Plymouth Horizon.

April, 1970. Just returned from a tour in Viet Nam, I found a ’65 Chevelle Malibu, coffee & cream color, on the used lot on Center Avenue ( somewhere near the Pick n Save site ). My salesman passed away just last week...he was a fair dealer.
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Four door. Automatic transmission. Manual everything else. AM radio, wipers, and heater. Roomy inside. Great handling and easy to maneuver in traffic or parking. ‘Ego had no need for “muscle”.
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I loved that old relic, driving it for five more years before the Cost-to-Benefit ration of repairs caused its departure. My head still whips around when I see a collector version of it go by.
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Thanks for the reflections, Steve!