Your first muscle car

[snakeyes]

mine where 50`s hot rods

 

[Snowtrooper1966]

My first car was a '69 Coronet 500 convertible, 383 automatic, hard loaded. (Bronze w/white top and interior) This really wasn't a muscle car, but you couldn't tell me that in 1975. :headbang:

You can't tell me that now. ;-)

What technically disqualifies it, convertible?

 

[Coyoteduster]

I guess this was my first muscle car, it only had it about 3 months before wrapping it around a tree one night, never actually had a picture. My was black and had a 427.

Dude ... :eusa_doh: I feel your pain, I slid my 69 Coronet through the wall and into the woodshop at my school. :icon_redface:

 

[Snowtrooper1966]

First car was grandma's baby blue 1970 Dart Swinger slant 6. No pic.

First MoPar I bought was a beater 1968 Dodge Charger 440 auto that I got for 600 bucks from some bikers in early '80's. Only drove it a couple times. No pic.

Then came the 900 dollar 1970 Coronet 440. 318 auto on the tree:

First true muscle car I bought was 1969.5 A12 SuperBee 440 SixPack 4speed, from the original owner for 1500 bucks in '86. Only pic I have of the Bee is the day I brought it home, before getting the correct interior and lift off hood from the seller:

I REALLY miss that one....

 

[petieg383]

My first car was a 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS396 4 Speed car. Sold it when I went to college, I never really had the money to keep it anyway. FOr some reason I kept blowing the clutch out of it. Not sure why. Wish I still had it, but at the same time I always wanted a 70 Roadrunner even when I had the Chevelle, so it worked out in the end...

Here's a pic of it from back in '92. Besides it is my friend's 1962 Impala SS, which he still has to this day...

 

[ZR9B]

first car ever @ age 16 was a 71 340 (318 when i had it and purple factory but white when I got it) cuda with power windows and about every option available that was 82. bought it for $500 and sold it for $800 three years later. now a 72 charger factory 318 but 440 now. had 3 other Cudas 70 & 71 a 71 & 72 roadrunner.

 

[Budnicks]

My 1st love 68 Charger R/T, best looking car & real Muscle car in 1974 sold it in 1987-ish, had probably 7 different engine trans combos from stock to Blown, I got it from a hot neighbor lady for $350, another 60+ cars later now a dozen 68-70 Chargers 2 or 3 at a time, I'm on my 13th 68-70 RR, my moms old 68 Sport Satty 383 4 speed they bought new, a couple 70-71 Demons & Dusters, the one I kick myself over 68 Barracuda BO29, I got from a buddies father dirt cheap, engine smoked like a freight train, I rebuilt it & sold for a tiddy profit, also had a bunch of Brand X & Power Wagons or Dakotas, a few Z28's & Camaros a few Mustangs 67-70, 64-71 GTO's, 67-69 Firebirds, 70-71 Buick GS, 64-65 & 71 Olds 442's, 89-92-94-2000 Firehawks/Trans Am's, 23 Ford Altered, 27 Ford Altered, 49 Ford Pro Gas, 61-62, 65 & 68 Corvettes, lots of toys over the years, many times multiple cars at the same time... I'm sure I've missed a few... I've always had a Mopar Muscle car of some kind... I'm Budnicks & I'm a caraholic...

 

[ord27]

my first car was a 1973 MGB. not really a muscle car. My first real muscle car was a 1971 'Vette 454 car.

I've owned more than my share of cars over the years. Since this is a Mopar forum: 1974 Roadrunner, 1971 'Cuda 440, and my current project; 1970 SuperBee purple,4 speed, N96 car!!!!

 

[cwhubb]

my first car was a muscle car kind of... it was a 64 cuda that had a totally shot 273, me and my buddy found an old demon in a junk yard with a 340 in it we bought a brand new 340 block (150 bucks, can you remember those days?) and used everything else from the old block, put 10:5:1 pistons and a 3/4 cam in it, they called em 3/4 cams because you could only get a full race cam or the factory "race" cam which was "3/4's" of a full race one, custom ground was too expensive back then. anyways that car was a rust bucket but did it ever scream

 

[mr. b]

my first car was a 63 409 2 four barrel 4 speed chevy impala ss broke the motor sold it bought my first road runner and been hooked ever since I was 16 at the time

 

[barnfind]

74 Maverick 302 4dr. Drove it like a rented mule!

 

[GrabberOrange69]

'66 Fairlane XL 390/auto. I dropped a 418ci FE in it with an Erson HiFlow 1H cam and a factory 427 4v intake with $50 headers (remember when you could get a set for $50 that actually fit?). MASSIVE peg leg burnouts ensued...

 

[64BEL]

My first car of any kind was a '70 GTX in high school. It had a 440 6bbl from a '69 RR, 4-speed, Air Grabber hood. Originally an FK5 car, it was painted black before I got it. Sure wish I still had it.

 

[Coyoteduster]

My first car of any kind was a '70 GTX in high school. It had a 440 6bbl from a '69 RR, 4-speed, Air Grabber hood. Originally an FK5 car, it was painted black before I got it. Sure wish I still had it.






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First car? Sweet! ... but how do you top that?

 

[mcmlvii]

First car was a 1966 Dart 4-dr, 273 2-bbl. Can you say *hot*? Um, no. First semi-muscle car was a 1961 Chrysler 300-G, 413 cross ram. I bought it in 1979 and sold it a year or so later. Wish I still had that one...

Others were a '65 Barracuda 273/235-4spd and a '70 Road Runner 383/727.

 

[64BEL]

First car? Sweet! ... but how do you top that?

I probably can't unless I would win the lottery and could find an original A990 car. I sold it in '84. I did track it down around 2000 - by phone. It was only about 2 hours away from me at that time. By the time I got around to getting down that way, the guy had sold it and moved away. I don't know where it is now, but likely in WI or MI. Who knows - it could be over seas by now, too. I might track it down again some day. The current owner would probably be interested in some of the car's history from over 30 years ago.

 

[Photon440]

I like it. I like it a lot.

 

[MikeyT]

1975 dart that quickly was sold for a 1972 road runner

Mike

 

[Funship32]

'72 Dodge Dart Swinger 2 dr, Ht. Pulled the 318 out and installed a 383 using a Direct Connection K-frame. Went all over that car top to bottom as the years wore on. Blew up the original r/e (7.25) and installed a 8.75 with a 3.55 sure grip, installed the OE KH 4 piston front disc brakes setup. I should probably start working on her now that I think about it....

 

[METAL BEE 68]

1970 barracuda. 340 slap stick. Vitamin C.