My First Car

[Ed]

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My first car was a red 1965 Mustang Fastback 2+2. By the “true definition” of muscle car this was not. This would be considered a pony car. I was really proud of my new car and all my buddies had nice classic car as well. It was a basic 289, 2 barrel carb, AT car. Not that fast but I thought it was. I always wanted to make it faster, have better wheels and tires and the best sound system but never seem to have the resources to do it. Six years later I sold the car to help fund my tools to become a licensed automotive technician. As I got older, I really began to miss that first car of mine and told myself when I had the resources to do so I was going to buy a 1965 mustang and restore it from ground up. So here is a picture of that restored mustang. 1965 Mustang restomod GT 350 clone, 347 stroker, 5 speed, ford 9in, 4 wheel disc brakes, AC and rod custom front end with dual wish bone suspension and rack an pinion steering. Finally I had met my goal.

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Ed Hyslip

[Calicoco]

My first car was a '67 Mustang coupe! Loved the car and alot of great memories, but it nickel and dimed me to death all thru out high school. Hind sight 20/20, but I had an opporutnity to by a '66 Mustang 2+2 fastback, poppy red, with a 289, but I had just bought the '67.

[CobraMatt17]

Awesome, Ed!

My first car is a 1999 Mustang GT. Though I seriously doubt I will ever restore one of these later on in life, it's gotta be the most fun you can have with a $6000 car!

Since I bought it, I've been tweaking it a little here and there, I just bought a $300 sound system from Rockford/Fosgate, so I'm enjoying that!

Sweet looking car. I want to restore a '65-'66 someday.

[Ed]

Thanks Guys

[Don DePontee]

My first car was a 55' Chevy Bel Air 2 door post that I built back in 68' while in high school. I had 2 periods of outside work experience working at a wrecking yard where I pieced together a 55' with a 365hp dual 4 barrel 327 engine with a B/W T-10 trans out of a 65' Vette. The Vette had been hit in the rear and burned up to the middle of the car. I had painted it white over canary yellow. After having the car for about a year I sold it for great price of $500.00 to buy a beautiful 65 GTO which I paid $900.00 for which was a lot of money back then --- too funny to think about that now days when I have so much wrapped up in a cobra replica.
Don

[Campbell Enterprises]

My first was an inherited 67 GTO conv. that my older brother and i got when the motor went out in 1981. We both shared it through high school and then another seven (7) years at Virginia Tech untill we retired it again in 1995. Its parked behind my brother's house today waiting for my nephews and niece to get into their teenage years and help bring it back to life again. I can't sell it because not only did i have my diapers changed in it, but i eventually went on dates in it.

[first time builder]

My first car was a 1956 Belair Conv. 265V8 auto very nice car, paid 600.00 for it in 1963.(yep I'm old) .Traded it in for a a brand new 1964 Corvair Monza. Should have kept the Belair , but at the time it was "just an old car". Only photo I have of car is a print from then and dont have negative so I'm real careful of the photo.