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08-26-2013, 02:28 PM | #1 |
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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
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08-26-2013, 03:06 PM | #2 |
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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. |
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08-26-2013, 03:09 PM | #3 |
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How was the Autobahn?
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08-26-2013, 03:15 PM | #4 |
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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 |
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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!
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08-26-2013, 03:32 PM | #6 |
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Do they serve beer at you rest stops??
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08-26-2013, 03:20 PM | #8 |
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Ron that is simply beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!both you and the car!
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08-26-2013, 03:30 PM | #9 |
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08-26-2013, 03:33 PM | #10 |
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God Bless You Both!!
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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. |
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08-26-2013, 03:38 PM | #12 |
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08-27-2013, 09:16 AM | #13 |
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Not my actual car. (wish I had a photo of it and me back then!)
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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08-27-2013, 10:52 AM | #14 |
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As for unbelievable stamina.... I've been accused of having that too all my life by all 'my' lady friends. 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. |
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My father told me, "They are all suckers for a man in uniform"
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Wasn't that their holy New Years!
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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.
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