The cars we drove back then.....

[buckhunter]

My first was a 53 Bucik two door with a auto transmission. Car was a tank. Would pull the heads and replace them just to see what was under there. Would top out about 110 downhill.

Ended up blowing the transmission. Paid $50 for it in 1963.

Second car was a 55 Chevy four door. Got a great price on it cause the car got caught in a hail strom and was dingged up pretty good. Had 3 on the tree. I believe it was a straight 6. Painted it RED. Chrome wheels. Bald tires. My bro ended up totaling it.

[Mad_Jack]

I graduated HS in 1966. In 1969 after graduating FairburyJuCo in Nebraska, I bought a 1965 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe. $650. A two door, 3 speed, 283 cu engine with a racing cam, Chrome wheel, Mickey Thompson standard size front tires and J-78x14 rear tires just to jack it up a little. Candy Apple Burgandy with metal flake exterior and a black and burgandy cloth interior with red underdash lighting. It had that now famous 8 Track tape player and booming Pioneer sound system. Holly 4 bbl carb and a high speed rear end, duel cherry bomb exaust system. I couldn't lay down rubber because of the rear end (It was a 5--something RE can't remember which, but, in Nebraska and Missouri I buried the speedometer and kept accelerating several times a week for most of the early summer. A friend of mine had his brother die in a car crash at an estimated 80 MPH accident when he rolled his car after hitting two large sized dogs on the highway. His 327 cu '67 Chevelle disintegrated when he hit the dogs and the rest of the car rolled. That's when I grew a whole lot of functioning grey matter. The proof is I'm still lucky enough to be here. I had that car until 1972, 1 year after I got married. Most of you know why I let it go. Oh yeah. Nice memories.