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ED1938,

Ha, Ok, here is the list
1. 1930 Dodge coupe Gave a days work for it when I was 14
2. 1932 Chevy Deluxe coupe $35 My nephew still has it(Restored)
3. 1949 Chevy Fleetline My 1st "modern" car
4. 1931 Chevy Deluxe 4dr traded the 30 Dodge for it
5. 1953 Chevy Belair 4dr
6. 1947 Chevy coupe junked it
7. 1957 Desoto Firesweep push button drive about 17.5' long
8. 1949 Buick Super 4dr straight 8 straight stick
9. 1964 Ford 4dr 289 V8
10.1968 Pontiac Tempest Custom 2dr hdt 350 V8
11.1971 Ford LTD 4 dr
12.1958 Chevy Apache fleetside pickup 6cyl.
13.1969 Ford pickup 6 cyl straight stick
14.1971 Ford 3/4 ton pickup 360 V8 4 speed
15.1977 Ford T Bird Bought it new and loved that car
16.1978 Ford 1/2 ton Bought it new and OK truck
17.1976 Dodge powered Minihome
18.1982 Buick Regal Bought it new never liked it
19.1984 Ford F250 diesel Bought it new OK but no more diesels
20.1986 Mercury Couger
21.1971 Dodge Powered Winnebago MiniWinnie
22.1991 Crysler Lebaron OK little car
23.1991 GMC 3/4 ton Pickup Bought new Nice truck
24.1978 Chevy powered Minihome
25.1996 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme good car
26.1998 Chevy 1/2 ton Silverado Really nice truck
27.1999 Jeep GC limited love it, still have it 75,000 miles
28.1987 Chevy powered 32' Itasca Windcruiser 454 still have it
29.2008 Chevy 1/2 ton silverado extended cab bought new Ok but I liked my '98 better.
30.1937 Chevy Master Sport Sedan, Got it in 1967 from my brother and still have it
31.1948 Aero Sedan was my Grandmothers car I still have it with 76,000 miles still mostly original
32.1933 Chevy Master coupe built it from a basket case and still have it
Woops, I forgot a 1946 Oldsmobile 4dr painted it and sold it and a 1919 Model T Ford speedster that I built from parts collected from many junk piles. Put it together, made it run and sold it. Oh, and a couple 66/67 Chevelles that I turned into race cars. lol I've probably forgotten something.

Hey ChevNut- You forgot about that 1957 Chevy 4 door you won in the raffle at the VCCA meet!!!

hoppy

Uncle ED......WOW....You sure impressed me.
It's amazing when you think about it that these cars we had just kind of happened and you don't realize it (in my case anyway) until you look back and think of them all at once. Thanx....ED

Mr.Mack...Great picture.
I never had a Model "A" But I like them. I grew up in New York City and you very seldom seen a "A" and never seen a Model "T" in the "Big CITY" I think allot of them got scraped in the metal drives during WWII.
I seen allot of them though when we used to vacation in Ohio.
Thanx......ED

This looks like fun so I'm listing the cars I had.Please remember that I worked for Chrysler for 35 1/2 years.
1. 1952 Plymouth Cranbrook-went to kindergarten in it, high school and my first(and last)job.Still have it.
2.1951 Austin A40 blue
3.1951 Austin A40 black
4.1951 Austin A40 black-still have it
5.1958 Meteor green
6.1967 Plymouth Fury
7.1965 Oldsmobile-took 1st place in a car rally with this (beige)
8.1966 Chevelle turquoise
9.1965 Dodge 2tone blue
10.1969 Dodge green with green vinyl roof
11.1972 Plymouth Fury green
12.1973 Plymouth Fury turq. ex.highway patrol-great car
13.1959 VW bug blue
14.1962 VW bug green
15.1963 VW bug Yellow
16. 1930 Ford Model A
17.1970 GMC Pickup nice truck!
18.1967 Dodge Polara 500 drove to B.C. and back honeymoon
19.1968 Dodge Dart bronze
20.1969 Barracuda silver
21.1968 Chrysler N.Y. 440 V8
22.1968 Dodge Polara brown
23.1963 Chrysler Windsor 361 V8 excellent car
24.1965 Plymouth Fury III 2dr,htp.Blue and white
25.1968 Plymouth Fury-ex.Yellow cab
26.1974 Valiant
27.1963 Pontiac Laurentian 283 V8 (Chev engines in Canada)
28.1962 Pontiac Parisienne 327 V8
29.1964 Pontiac Parisienne 4 dr. htp.283 V8
30.1973 Chrysler Newport Custom 440 V8
31.2002 Chrysler Neon (In Canada they're Chryslers)still have it
I'm sure I've missed a few plus I had 1985,1986,1987 Horizon's as demos, 6 Sundances 1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993 as demo's and Neon's 1996,2 1997's, 1998 and 2001 Neons.


8.1966 Meteor blue

Lucky1......That's some list....That's the first time in this thread though that "Plymouth" popped up, and your showing 7?
That's real strange because Plymouth had some "HOT" cars over the years....Thanx...ED

Yeah, the Schacht Highwheeler was very cool. There was always a little fuzziness about the exact year, it seems they were built in Cincinnati from 1904/5 until 1910. This one was titled as a 1906, so that's what we called it. Got it running and driving in the summer of 1972. I was a little younger then, and had briefly forgotten how to shave for a few years...

ChevyGuru~~~ I thought you was talking about one of those old time "Highwheeler" bicycle's.
That thing is TOO COOL and to drive it also....WOW.
BTW...Nothing wrong with the beard. The last time I shaved was in 1964 my last day in the Army.
I haven't shaved since...and never will Thanx...ED

From what you said before, I thought maybe that's what you were thinking, so that's why I posted the photo. Nope, that list was a list of AUTOMOBILES. I never kept a list of bikes. I will admit, I always thought those high wheel bikes were pretty neat, too. Always looked about impossible to ride, to me.

(The mustache stayed - it's still there, also since 1972.)

So....what happened to your highwheeler?

I mis-spoke in that photo, that was the summer of '74 I think, not '72. Anyway, in about 1975 I sold it to a guy that was supposedly taking it to a museum somewhere in California. He gave me a lot more money than I had in it! Course I made it run and drive, which it did not when I got it - so it was worth more. I was in partnership with my Dad on that, but made out pretty good.

And I took that money and bought my first new car (age 21), a '75 Camaro 350 4 BBL 4 speed, posi. No A/C (mistake). Added a Casette player from Radio Shack (very cutting edge stuff - no 8 track for me!)

Kept that Camaro about a year, blew the doors off of more than one late model Moostang. Then, somehow, I decided it would be a good idea to trade it on a '73 Caddy Coupe DeVille that had caught my eye at the Chevy used car lot. Ever since, I haven't really been able to exactly re-trace the "logic" that led me to that conclusion... But it was very comfy, and got about the same mileage as the Camaro, with 500 cubic inches!

Didn't keep that real long either, and traded it in on a second new car - a '76 Nova coupe, straight 6 auto with A/C. Being new, it was almost as comfy as the Caddy, got twice the mileage, and I fell back in love with the idea of a Chevy straight 6 - just like the '60 Biscayne that I cut my teeth on. Decided that was more my type of car. Then a guy at work wanted it, made me a real good offer. I bought a '63 Nova convertible (remember, it was only 13 years old then) and got a company car shortly after. That little convertible was the first car of mine that ever got its picture in the G&D - the January 1978 issue of "Chevy Spot Light!" Remember that column?

And then 30 years went by, and here we are...

I missed one car that was registered - A 1955 Olds Super 88.

As you can see, I've never been partial to one maker. My old cars have been all over the map. Most of the new drivers were selected from Consumer Reports top ratings.
Here are the ones I can remember with a few purchase prices (there are lots of others that will eventually come to me):
1937 Packard 110
1938 Packard 110
1940 Ford 4 door project $75
1941 Ford Streetrod- all components from '69 Torino GT adapted
1950 Ford F-1 pickup V-8 $250
1953 Studebaker Starliner 2 door HT project
1957 Chevy 4 door HT w/265, powerglide $150
1957 Ford Retractable Hardtop restored
1959 Mercedes Benz 180A $95
1960 Corvair 4 door
1962 Corvair Monza 4 speed
'63 VW 1500 Notchback
'63 VW bug- totaled but driveable offroad
'64 Corvair powered VW Dune Buggy ('glass body)
'65 Corvair Monza 4 door HT factory air
'68 VW Bug
'69 Torino GT donor car
'69 Fairlane 2 door HT 302 AT AC near mint $800
'69 Olds 442 400 4 barrel 4 speed
'71 Datsun 1200 coupe
'71 Toyota Corolla
'72 Toyota Corona Wagon
'73 Dodge Colt wagon
'73 Opel Manta coupe
'74 Plymouth Fury ex police car w/440
'78 Subaru
'79 Mazda RX7
'79 Diesel Mercedes Benz
'79 Mercedes Benz 420
'80 Plymouth Champ
'80 Mazda RX7
'80 Toyota Celica
'87 Nissan 200SX coupe
'89 Tempo (married into that one)
'91 Mitsubishi Mighty Max Truck
'93 Mercedes Benz(worst car- died constantly in intersections)
'94 Nissan Truck
'93 Nissan Altima
'98 Toyota Avalon
'99 Ford Expedition
2005 Toyota Sequoia
2005 Chrysler 300C Hemi

Present cars:
2007 Toyota Highlander
2007 Nissan Altima
1919 Chevrolet 490 Touring

Here's my list as best I can remember (in somewhat chronological order) beginning with the first car that I considered mine but in my dads name. The first in my name was a 41 coupe I bought in AK. (I'm just counting the old stuff here)
:

1939 Dodge (with Ford engine) (had a powder puff paint job)
1937 Olds (solid as a rock)
1950 Ford Convertible (I abused it)
1941 Chevrolet Sport Sedan (Just transportation)

1941 Chevrolet (the AK one) from here on they were in my name.
1951 Nash Ambassador
1956 Chevrolet Convertible (new) (No job. Repossessed. Went back in Army)
1947 Pontiac (Courted my wife in it )
1952 Nash Ambassador (What I had when I got married)
1953 Coupe de Ville Cadillac (Burnt the transmission up in it. Drag racing)
1959 Studebaker Silver Hawk (new)
1962 Olds Convertible (triple white)
1965 Ford Landau Coupe Thunderbird (Nice car, for a Ford)
1966 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible. (Sweet)
1941 Chevrolet SD Town Sedan. Great car.
1941 Chevrolet Convertible (from NY. Rust bucket. Even worse than the one I have now.)
1941 Chevrolet Convertible (from NC.)
1966 Ford Mustang.
1966 Ford Mustang Coupe. (Gave to son #1)
1965 Ford Mustang Conv. (Gave to son #2)
1966 Ford Mustang GT Conv. (Gave to son #4. He's the source of more money for the 41 Conv.)
1967 Z28


Still have:

1941 Conv. (From IL. Should have sold it too.)
1941 SD Coupe (from DE)
1950 Conv. (from NC)
1953 pick up (from NC)

(1966 Mustang GT Conv. Got a bid on it (currently on ebay) so it will soon be gone and more bucks poured down a bottomless pit (read 1941 conv.) Pray for me.
Charlie

BTW: The two I most look back on and wish I'd have hung on to? 1953 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and the 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible. Go figure.

1966 Bel Air Convertible ?

There Now Charlie.... That wasn't too bad now was it?????
Don't you feel better now that you confessed? (6 Ford's??)

I don't know though~~~2 Nash Ambassadors is kind of scary.
But a 59 Studebaker Silver Hawk...That is Real Class!..Those cars were beautiful and FAST!.......ED

Yep, 1966 Chevrolet convertible with factory air. But I may be wrong about the "bel air" part. Can't remember. It was full size and not a Chevelle. What was it called when it was a step down from the "super sport?"
Charlie

BTW: The Z28 was a 76 not 67. Got my numbers mixed up.

Impala...................maybe that will ring a bell!

Impala it is and wuz. I remember now.
Thanks,
Charlie

The list of cars I have owned (68) is too long to put here so I will just give some facts regarding my cars. They were all licensed for the road except 4 and that includes my '38 Chev currently a work in progress and a 1932 Pontiac with it's original V/8 engine which myself and a friend purchased from the original owner in 1957.

First Car - '48 Chev Convertible

Purchased New - 17 including a 1975 Coachman Motor Home (Ford) (first, 1967 VW Bug; last, 2010 Toyota Prius)

Worst - toss up between a '69 Camaro RS, limited edition "Snowbird" and a 1992 Dodge Dakota extra cab pick-up (both purchased new)

Best - toss up between a '95 GMC full size extra cab pick-up and a 1985 Toyota SR5 extra cab pickup (both purchased new)

Ones I owned and would like to own today:
'32 Pontiac V/8
'48 Chevy Convertible
'55 Mercury Montclair 2dr hdtp
'57 Olds 88, J2 equipped

Company I Would Never Buy From Again: Chrysler (Sorry MOPAR fans but they put the shaft to me so bad I am still wearing it.)

Regarding "extra cab" used with the pick-ups, I know that is not the correct term for all makes but it is one that I believe everyone understands. Beamer

For a minute, I was thinking you had some rare vehicle in a Bel Air Convert.