Your First, Not A gun
 

YOUR First Car! I came across this picture of me driving my moms' 1968 Chevy Malibu with a 283 HP. Tag RXB-908. First thing I installed an 8 track in the glove. The one picture united me with a past 40 years ago. I would invite all to post your beloved past.~~~Eric

I'm still trying to forget my first car, an Opel 1.3s from 1980.

I'll show my first 'real' car instead (still own it after 15 years now). The first photo was taken in 2001, when my 500SEL was the first W126 series S-Class to be shown as a club car at the Techno Classica in Essen, Germany.

The other photo was taken at the Bremen Classic motorshow where it was on display in 2009.

How was the Autobahn?

Not as fun as it used to be. They invented laser guns and speed limits during the last decade.

But it's still a good cruiser at an average 160kph. Top speed a respectable 225kph, not bad for a 30-year old car :)

Here I am in my 1930 Model A Ford Sport Coupe just after I got back from Viet Nam (1968). I bought it in 1957, the same year I met my future wife Sarah. Both are still with me!:cheers:

Do they serve beer at you rest stops??

Ron that is simply beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!both you and the car!

I have a bit earlier, if I can find it.


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A TET survivor!!!!!! :thumbup:

God Bless You Both!!

On Boot Camp graduation day, all the wives, girlfriends, sisters and mothers gathered around me. 1970, I haven't changed a bit. :thumbsup:

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Its not a real car, unless it bears the 3 pointed star.

Learned on a '71 MBZ 220D - AND - a '63 1 ton GMC. Still carry a torch for that old truck.

Owned a '74 240D, and now an '85 300SD (W126) for the last 13 years.

My father told me, "They are all suckers for a man in uniform"

I landed in March 4th 1968, in the middle of Tet, this was taken about four months later. My wife, at that time, was superimposed in the lower left corner in her wedding dress. I was sure a happy camper when photoshop came along.:rockon:

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They sure were and I didn't complain.................:cheers:

Wasn't that their holy New Years!

If the pics taken of me back in the day with my first car still exist, I have no idea where they might be. I searched the Google images available and didn't find one of an example with the same color combo--cream over silver-grey--and this one is two years newer, a '61.

If you zoom on the pic, you may be able to discover the make and model. I'm guessing most of you will say, "WTF?" ... aber meine deutschen Freunde werden wissen! The distinctive lines--grille and tail lights--give it away.

That is sharp!!!!!!!:thumbup:

Pretty car. Its nagging me as to what it is, but not quite sure. I want to say Alfa, but that doesn't seem right...

Nice!
So you started driving in a Borgward sedan?
Did you have the column shifter?
I always liked the old Borgward Isabella. Its a neat car.
Just the kind of cars I like,obscure old European cars.

Bob

I'm tired seaching German sites, I GIVE!!!

Something called a "Borgward". A new one by me, but pretty!

Finally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgward Eric

I keep reading "Hansa" as "Hamsa".

There were 4 models Borgward, Hansa, Goliath and Lloyd!!!

My funny bone kicks in:

"Borgward" - towards a malignant alien species.
"Hansa" - "Hamsa" AKA "The Hand of Fatima/Mary/Merriam".
"Goliath" - "Goliath Awaits", a bad 1980s movie.
"Lloyd" - an insurance company.

All joking aside, that's a pretty car!

Not my first ride and it's not a classic Merc, but it'll do.

1968 RS camaro 327 12 bolt. M-21 Muncie

Steve,

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Not my first car or first bike. I bought and restored this first year 1975 Honda GoldWing in the 90's. Owned and rode many different types of bikes before and after this one, but funny as it seems this is the one I miss the most, can't explain it?

My first car, 1978 Saab 99. Damn it was fast!

My first car, bought for $800 in 1986 from the original owner.
1965 Dodge Coronet 440. Had a 273 with 3 speed column shift and seated me and 7 of my buddies! Funny Eric that you mentioned putting an 8 track in the glove box, that's where I installed my cassette player cause I didn't want to remove the working AM push button radio.
I wish I still had that car...
Marc

It seems that we all appreciate fine pistols and fine rides. Nice sort of group to be associated with.

kullick
I like your 1978 Saab 99.
My first new car was a 1978 Saab Turbo.:roflmao:
The first of many Saab Turbos.
I was so proud of that car. Of course,wish I still owned it!
Remember the days of Disco??????:jumper:
Bob

Not my actual car. (wish I had a photo of it and me back then!)

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Mine was green. I paid $50.00 for it in 1966. It had 56,000 miles on it and It smoked like I was fogging for misquitoes... Took me and my Dad a couple of weekends to find and replace a couple of burnt valves, and a blown seal in the automatic transmission that was allowing transmission fluid to be vacuumed into the carburetor. (transmission used a vacuum assisted advance to change gears... that's what caused all the smoke!)

Was t-boned and totaled by an uninsured guy running a stop sign in 1967...

Noncomretired,

You look just like the Drill Sergeant I had in 1967... at Fort Bragg. (E-7-2) He had unbelieveable stamina. He would go to town or the club and drink till they closed... then come back to the baracks about 3AM, and fall asleep in front of the TV, then get up at 5AM and kick our butts ALL DAY LONG !!! ...and then do it all again!

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Eric, You were a young looking MUSTANG. I also had a '68 Malibu with a Hurst floor shift and the big engine in my younger days. I wish that I still had it. Tom

Not me John, I was a Drill at Ft Campbell, Mar 70-Oct 72, Ft Wood, Oct 72- July 75. I've had a lot of twins it seems around the world, one got me in a lot of crap when I living in Dunoon, Scotland, didn't pay his bills, womanized, it was a Navy Sub Base, Holyloch. I got kicked out of some places and my face slapped by a few women and one gal was pregnant. Never did come face to face with him.

As for unbelievable stamina.... I've been accused of having that too all my life by all 'my' lady friends. :thumbsup:

My first car was a 49 Ford sedan, I had to sell it before I could drive it, I was 16, I didn't make enough money that summer to pay for the car and my school books and clothes. Next year I got a 54 Chevy sedan on my 17th birthday, first day I drove it, it was to school a wild woman hit me in the driver side rear, that happened on a Friday, I was at the recruiter that Monday. My first cars bring back bad memories and a mother of all pessimist. My classic cars came after I established my own life on my own. :thumbup:

True story, Four of us went to the drive-in in Moms 68 Malibu. My best friend Jimmy was in the back seat with a first date. My future first wife and I left them alone for at least a half and hour to the snack bar. Playing was 'The Last House On The Left'!! Every thing was fine until my mom went out to use her car the next morning. Evidently Jimmy had a open black magic marker in his back pocket. You could map out his moves. All over the back seat including the cars' ceiling. They we permanent and were there for as long as mom owned her car~

I had a young Lt in Germany that I worked side by side with that needed a ride to the Saab dealer in Frankfort to pick up his new Saab one day. That was in 79/80, sharp car, I traded my piece of junk in on a brand new Ford Mustang while we were there. That young Lt turned into a full Colonel and a hero on 9-11 at the Pentagon.

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Mark was one of very very few Lt's I had respect for and one of few officers I had respect for during my career. We were the OIC and the NCOIC , S-2 75th Field Artillery Bn. We were the Bn A/B team members for accountability of our 8inch Nuclear rounds and the codes used to release those weapons and the training of other A/B members at battery level.

I hated pumpkin pie but his wife changed my mind, hers was damn good. I haven't ate pumpkin pie since.

First to own... First to ride in!
 

Here's the first car I owned. My 1967 Plymouth Fury III land yacht... 440 Mopar engine with 2 bbl carb... of course the weight of the car took that much power to keep up... I remember 8mpg - of course the gas was 14 cents a gallon in 1970.

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Here's the first car I rode in. It's a 1950 Dodge. I'm in the picture (not visible) with my mother... The Dodge had a Fluid Drive transmission. I remember it being fun to watch my Mother shift this car...

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