What was your first NEW car?

[lyman]

1967 Pontiac Sprint LeMans with cast iron OHC slant 6.

nice car,

my mother had a 68 Lemans, red with black interior,

this was after her second Corvair,

replaced the 68 later with a 73 (that car was ugly)

[Former Cav]

Came home from Vietnam and was on Convalescent leave from the Hospital.
Bought a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner on Dec 18, 1968. It was Seafoam Torqoise in color. Had the functional ram air hood, "road wheels" (Magnum 500 wheels), red stripe wide oval tires. Bench Seat. Automatic, 383 magnum motor, 3.23 sure grip, optional rear seat armrests (about 7 bucks) and optional rear seat speaker for that big bad AM radio. It was carpeted. Black interior.
It cost me $3151 including tax and plates out the door and they gave me two STUDDED snow tires with it. (I lived in St. Paul, MN back then). It snowed about 18 inches the day after I picked it up. It would go through snow!
It was a lemon (or so I thought) and I traded it off. Hindsight being 20-20, I believe they were setting the points wrong.
I traded it on a coronet R/T (another 69) and it was fine until I had it tuned up and I heard the mechanic say set the points at 28-32 (single point distributer as both cars were automatics). Then that car ran like the "road LIMPER". I got ahold of my fathers motor repair manual and stumbled across the distributer spec page and it said set the points at 30-35. So that is 30 vs 32.5 degrees.
that is 5 degrees on the crank!! I'll bet I got rid of a perfectly good car over the points being set wrong. !
Took it in the shorts too on the trade in and new car price!

[remus]

First new car was a 1968 VW forest green VW beetle bought in Murray Ky, when the 63 VW died.

[Darreld Walton]

76 Mustang Mach I, 302 auto. Traded my 72 Bronco against the thing, because I got tired of listening to the wife whine about putting the kids in and out of car seats in the Bronco. Should've traded off the wife....

[Allen]

76 Mustang Mach I, 302 auto. Traded my 72 Bronco against the thing, because I got tired of listening to the wife whine about putting the kids in and out of car seats in the Bronco. Should've traded off the wife....

I see those old Bronco's (in restored condition) bringing $100K on auctions such as Mecum and Barrett Jackson. Of course most all of our old "treasures" we got rid of would bring big bucks these days.

[dryheat]

76 Mustang Mach I, 302 auto. Traded my 72 Bronco against the thing, because I got tired of listening to the wife whine about putting the kids in and out of car seats in the Bronco. Should've traded off the wife....

Ha!

[dryheat]

I see those old Bronco's (in restored condition) bringing $100K on auctions such as Mecum and Barrett Jackson. Of course most all of our old "treasures" we got rid of would bring big bucks these days.

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Yessire. I left my 66 GTO behind (actually got stolen, but it was my fault). Then I ran into a guy who only restored GTO's. He did "from frame up" work. He was getting fifty thousand for some of them back in the 80's. What's kind of sought after these days? A little four wheel drive Geo. Snowbirds tow them behind their $200K RV's

[Critch]

1973 Ford F-100, 360 cu. in., 4 speed. Great truck. Drove it for 12 years then sold it to a cousin for darn near what I paid for it.
That's me in the middle. Summer of 1973, Cheyenne, Wy.