Your uncle must have suffered from AMC envy....very common among Ford, Chevy and Mopar guys....LOL.

 

My first new car, a 1969 Pontiac GTO.


Photo taken on Ektachrome with a Nikon F at Yorktown battlefield, VA, fall 1970.

 

Man, that struck a chord in me, it would have been right up my alley as well.

 

fun offroad car. not super fast at 115 hp . my current WRX is much better at 265 hp

 

I am not sure I will ever be able to replace this one...

 

Guess my best friend in high school did better than you did. He sold his yellow '65 Mustang convertible which looked like this one the summer after we graduated in May of 1975. He got $600 for it. We'd cruised through our high school years in that car. I said: "Jerry, why didn't you let me know. I'd have loved the chance to buy it from you." He replied: "Oh, I didn't even think about it. It needed brakes and front-end work and I just wanted to get rid of it."

It was just the 225 hp 4-bbl 289 V8, but that thing would run! It was an automatic car rather than a 4-speed.

 

It seems incredible today that $100 was the going price for a first generation Mustang in 1975. I bought an Ivy Green 1965 Mustang fastback (photo courtesy of the web) in 1977 when I was in college. I noticed the car sitting in a farmer's field just off a highway in upstate NY. The owner wanted $100 for the car and said it hadn't been running for some time. Rust protection being what it was in those years, the rear portion of the right frame rail where the leaf spring attached had totally rusted away, and the end of the leaf spring had pushed its way through a rust hole into the trunk. I talked the owner down to $75, and returned the next day with what few tools I had. After several hours I got the car running and off I went onto the highway. I was surprised how well the car ran. Within 10-15 minutes I got up the courage to take my new ride (with bald tires) up to 85mph. It didn't occur to me until I tried to slow down for my exit on the highway that I probably should have checked the brakes before starting off. In my enthusiasm for getting the car going I had totally overlooked getting the car to stop....and it didn't.

When my three sons were teenagers I would often look at some of boneheaded things they did and ask myself, "was I that dumb when I was their age?"....and I would inevitably flashback to flying past my exit in my "new" $75 Mustang and answer, "yes, I was that dumb". However, as @Mad Dog might say, "good times!"

 

I can say that we have gathered quite a diversity of cars on here, from tall guys with small cars, muscle(including a friendly camaro-mustang rivalry) to euro cars of all kinds. This is exactly the type of content I was hoping to get with this thread. You people have some great stories and I thank you all for sharing them here, especially during these tough times. I wish you all well.

 

Mopar Zielsziek. Don't forget that the Mopar Hemi turns the earth.

Hah!

 

Morgan with the Coventry Climax side valve engine, loved that car but way back then never even thought of taking pictures

 

Some nice comments about my 74 Midget. Thank you. Some years later I added this to the stable...74 Aston AMV8 S3. Had many journeys and stories in her. Should have seen look on my trimmers face when I asked for him to design custom baby seat in back! This will never be sold...I hope. Part of the family. Sadly it is in UK and I am locked down in US so she isn’t going to get her normal exercise run to Goodwood. I miss her...

 

Dang...all this car talk...currently taking my 01 Mustang Bullitt GT our for a cruise...time to spank some Camaros.

 

Like many of you I've owned a wide range of really, really nice cars. My passion is aircooled Porsche, with a nice mix of 911s and 356s in the past. Nonetheless, the one car that I have the best memories of was an '84 Rabbit GTI, like this:


I drove it 105,000 miles, everywhere. Graduate school in the frozen Notre Dame tundra (hand brake turns into 90 deg parking spots, between two cars!) to Lime Rock Park drivers ed (tricycling, baby!) and everything in between.

That car will always be my favorite, even tho I have a vintage 911 in the garage at the moment.

 

Sharing memories.....my dad got me into the car hobby when I was twelve or so when he bought a car from his youth for us to restore, a 1931 Ford Model "A". In the fifty years since, and the fifty or so cars I have owned since, I have met some really great car enthusiasts....it is a wonderful passion that connects people, like watches.

Years ago, I responded to an ad for a 1968 Intermeccanica Italia spyder. The car had belonged to a gentleman who had recently passed away, and his son was selling the car for his mother who was moving into a nursing home. I ended up buying the car, and as I was walking back to my car to leave the son asked if I would be interested in anything else. I didn't realize there were more cars. I ended up buying this 1969 Mustang sportroof.....I hadn't woken up that morning thinking that I wanted to buy a Mustang, and God knows I certainly didn't need another car, but it was there and I was there and....

I kept the car for a year or so, and it was fun, but I had other projects, so I put it up for sale. I got a call from a man interested in the car who lived about an hour away. I told him I would drive the car down to his place if he was really interested. The guy turned out to be a Vietnam veteran who told me he had fallen in love with the 1969 Mustang sportsroof when he was serving in Vietnam. He said Ford used to bring cars over to Vietnam and put on demonstrations at airbases, where service persons could test drive the cars -- smart marketing. He ended up buying a 1969 Mustang sportsroof when he got back to the States, and he ended up buying my Mustang on the spot.

We did the paperwork, he gave me a check, and offered to drive me to the train station in the Mustang. On the way to the station he was going on about how the car was just like his...how it felt exactly like the Mustang he bought when he got out of the service....it felt like he had put on his favorite jacket, it fit perfectly....it was exactly like the one he used to own, he said, except his was a metallic jade green. I smiled to myself. As I got out of the car told him to check the paint code on the firewall tag when he got the car home....the car was originally metallic jade green. I don't think I have ever seen a happier person....it is not an exaggeration to say this sixty-something year old guy looked like a kid on Christmas morning opening the gift of his dreams.

Keep the shiny side up OFers, and stay healthy.

 

Gee whiz...couldn’t find any Camaros to spank...maybe we’ll give it the old college try again tomorrow.

Pic from a few minutes ago...

 

Maybe look for an AMC to spank! IF you can find one. But avoid a Javelin with a 401! Or a Rebel Machine, or a Scrambler!

 

Or the AMX/3!

 

Probably this one. One of the finest engines sounds ever, and handles like it's on rails. The eccentric body style is not for everyone, but I think it's a classic.

 

I had to look this one up.

https://sites.google.com/site/morganatica/engine/coventry-climax

https://www.google.com/search?q=Mor...oAhVKA6wKHTzADIsQsAR6BAgKEAE&biw=1272&bih=821



Yeah, I could be induced to own it.

 

Don’t forget about the 304 V-8 optioned Gremlin...I should definitely avoid one of those as well.