Re: What was your first car?
Originally Posted by
MoparFreak69
My first car was a 1975 Datsun 620 pickup. My brother bought it for body parts to fix his '77 after he rearended a 4-runner. He sold the rest to me for $75. I took his old parts and straigtened them up and put them back on my truck. Drove it for a couple months until I could afford a rebuild kit for the engine at $75. Did a quick driveway in-frame refurb (didnt measure anything, just removed old rings and bushings and replaced with standard sized parts, new gaskets and slapped it back together) and drove the crap out of it for a couple years. Pick a color and it probably had it on the body somewhere, rust and bondo included.
Ugly, but I sure miss that old truck!
Seems just like yesterday, hang on .... it was.
My first car was a 1954 Austin A40 Somerset, license # OYY 397, broke the crankshaft, a common occurrence, rebuilt the engine in the garden shed, whoops .... how do we put it back in. Took the head off and my Dad and I lifted it back in. Awkward to do but we had strong backs and did not know any better, that hood was high though. 
Last edited by onehundred80; Sep 21, 2013 at 07:44 PM.