Your first muscle car

[PlumcrazyRR]

I am a little younger than most on here, so my first wasn't as old as some on here and sorry not a mopar. It was an 85 Monte Carlo SS that I upgraded to a 383 stroker. Bought it when I was 15 and built it myself. It was a pretty fun car to drive around in high school and yep, every cop in town knew that car.

 

[razreddobie]

Don't laugh but my first muscle car was a '70 Buick Wildcat 455 Wildcat engine 400 turbo 4.10 posi. Used to eat big block Chevelles for lunch. Traded it for a '69 Chevelle for my girl at the time. She dumped me soon after. Isn't life grand. Still have the first Mopar hot rod the Cordobeast. Love those big cars.

 

[nakita7]

a 1970 Plymouth Belvedere 2-door post. When was the last time you saw one of those?

Green on green, bench seat, 318 column shift. Bought it for complete and running for $75 in the early 80's.

 

[Crizila]

1963 Plymouth Sport Fury Convert 426 max wedge. One of 8.

 

[tallhair]

70 Road Runner .. 383 4 speed and a few months later a 68 RR with 413 and 4 speed

Always had at least one running if I was working on one

 

[djais1801]

my 1st muscle car was a 67 Camaro RS/SS M50's on the back, murals on the doors, fiberglass quarter flares, real pig.

 

[dryheat]

Mine was a 1966 Pontiac GTO, 455 Oldsmobile Rocket, 4 speed. Cornered like a Conestoga wagon ... straight line speed was terrific if you could keep that damn rear end from rattling your teeth loose out of the hole.

 

[barnfind]

The First?

 

[Photon440]

1963 Plymouth Sport Fury Convert 426 max wedge. One of 8.

Nice...got a picture with the top down?

 

[black64]

My first muscle car was a 63 split window back in 1965 looked like the picture.

 

[kiwigtx]

For me it was straight into the good stuff.....a '69 Charger

First ever glimpse of my new car;

Mid-way through the restoration;

and finally ready for a big road trip down country....

We towed that big-*** Chrysler 9-passenger car approx 300 miles on a Friday night. :icon_mrgreen: One motha of a load to haul.

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The funny thing is .....in the first pic, those blue garage doors are concealing the '70 GTX that I now own. :headbang:

 

[inspector]

When I was 15 my Dad bought a new 66 Skylark Gran Sport, which I totaled when I got my licence. My first car was a 65 Pontiac 2&2 Catilina, 421 4-speed, then a 69 GTX super track pack, then a 69 Nova 396-375 4-speed.Then marraige and baby's I always liked the GTX the best, but the Nova sure was the fastest by far.

 

[Hemi Rebel]

My first car was a 74 duster with a 318. Paid 300 for it. I was 14 or 15. Never saw the road. Then came a 64 dart /6. Then the 66 coronet. 318 car that got a 440. I guess that would be the first "muscle car". I was 18. Then there was the super coupe that I put a 340 in. 71 scamp 318. 78 magnum 318. No muscle there. 69 satty that got a 400 with cam 4bbl and headers. The first real muscle car, as in came factory equipped with muscle is the 68 charger r/t which i still have and and 68 super bee came 7 years after that. Still have it.
I got a rumble bee In 2004. Traded that for a 70 charger 318 car that had a 440 in it. That ran strong. Sold that to a guy in the yukon territory. There where a few shelby chargers in there early on too. If they count

 

[fwi]

A brand new 69 Roadrunner, 383, 4 speed, orange, black hood stripes. I traded in my 62 Volkswagen and my payments were to be about $80/month for 3 years. About 3 weeks later the dealership called me and told me my credit was not approved (I had just gotten a job with an airline a month prior and I had no previous credit history being a kid), so I had to take it back to the dealership (the rear tires were totally bald) and got my VW back!

 

[BarrsRestoration]

Obviously there are lots of former GTO owners on here. Here is my GTO story.

In November of 1973, at the tender age of 16, I got my first muscle car. It was a nicely optioned two owner, four speed 1967 GTO, a local car that I had known of since 1968. It belonged to the son of my mother's friend, and I first rode in it when I was about 10 years old. About 8 years later it was joined by a 1965 GTO convertible that I restored and sold. Then there was the 442 and the Hurst/Olds.
At least I still have the 1967 GTO after these 41 years.

 

[Bruzilla]

Sorry guys, but Corvettes have always been sports cars, Pony cars (Mustangs, Camaros, Cougars, Firebirds, Challengers, and E-body Barracudas/'Cudas) have always been Pony cars, and A bodies have always been compacts. The only cars originally classified as "Muscle" cars were mid-sized coupes.

My first Muscle car was also my first car. 1973 Roadrunner GTX, B5 blue on blue with white stripes.

 

[Photon440]

Hey, you left Javelin out of that list of Pony cars.

 

[BarrsRestoration]

Sorry guys, but Corvettes have always been sports cars, Pony cars (Mustangs, Camaros, Cougars, Firebirds, Challengers, and E-body Barracudas/'Cudas) have always been Pony cars, and A bodies have always been compacts. The only cars originally classified as "Muscle" cars were mid-sized cars.

My first Muscle car was also my first car. 1973 Roadrunner GTX, B5 blue on blue with white stripes.

Yep, MOPARS were B bodies, GMs were A bodies. Did Ford build a muscle car?:tongue5:

 

[Bruzilla]

Yep, MOPARS were B bodies, GMs were A bodies. Did Ford build a muscle car?:tongue5:

Torinos, Fairlanes, and Cyclones. They also made and sold high-performance Galaxies but those were classified as full-size so they aren't muscle cars either.

Also, body codes don't mean anything. It's body class that counts. It's still hard to believe that Dusters were ever classified as a compact car!

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Hey, you left Javelin out of that list of Pony cars.

That is true.

 

[MOBodyman]

My first muscle car was a '69 Super Bee. I got it in 1975 or '76. It had a blown head gasket and I traded 2 Ford pickups for it. I'll always say that's the best trade I ever made. (Anytime you can get rid of 2 Fords at once is a good day, especially if you can trade them for a Dodge lol)
Anyway, as projects tend to do this escalated from simply replacing the head gaskets to a full rebuild with balancing and blueprinting the 383. I had a lot of fun with that car.
Dallas