I used to drive this....How about you guys and gals

[Come Back Kid]

When I was young (13ish) I learned how to drive in my parents, blue Pinto Station wagon LOL
It was a stick, which I think is a good thing for kids to learn on. Now I drive a Toyota 4 Runner.
I love it!

[billryan]

Was it a woody? I didn't care for the Pinto but the woody wagon was an exception.
Remember the Pinto cruising wagon? Half Pinto, half custom van?

[Come Back Kid]

No Bill, not the woody.

[olds442jetaway]

Cool replies guys and gals. Yep I had slant 6 too. Guy was going to junk it. 63 Valliant. I gave him 20 bucks for it and a ride back to the train station toward Manhattan. I found at least ten bucks in change in the car. I was 21. Still living with my parents. I tuned it up and gave it to a down on her luck single mom on our street. I used to deliver TV guides for mad money so I knew all of the neighbors. She ran that car for years and probably never changed the oil.

[olds442jetaway]

Talk about being anal retentive.......I have owned over 50 cars. I remember the odometer readings when I bought them and when I sold them. I only junked 2 of the 50 and that was because the frames rotted away.

[Come Back Kid]

I liked that you found $10 worth of change in the car you paid $20 for!!! LOL Too funny Olds.

[OTABILL]

My first car was a 1964 Rambler Classic that was a repo. First car in the family as my parents never learned to drive. Had it until I went overseas in 1970.

[billryan]

My first car was a 65 Nova Wagon. Seals were shot so I went thru a couple quarts of oil a week, and the oil would seep into the radiator so I'd have to flush the system weekly. It got me thru the summer and I saved up $85 to buy a 68 Skylark.

[Casino Knight]

In '63 I bought a 1950 Ford 2 door coupe for $10.00 from a neighbor who had a lock on horse at Turf Paradise. Problem was he had borrowed $20 from a neighbor lady's grocery money, with a promise to double her money....before her husband got home. Sadly, he was $10. short of the $20. It was rusted so bad that you could see the pavement through the floorboard. It ran pretty good but the hood wouldn't stay latched. I found that out when I took it on the freeway and it rolled up and covered the windshield, necessitating a quick pull over to remedy the situation. In the trunk were 4 brand new tires that I sold a week later for $15. a piece. After a month I put an ad in the paper asking $50., and sold it to the first guy that called. My next car was a 1959 Impala Convertible with a 348 engine and 3-2 barrel carburetors. I kept that gas guzzler until I enlisted.

As for the unlucky gambler, I actually saved his life. Had he not repaid Big Tom's wife the $20., grocery money before Big Tom got home, he'd be dead.

[olds442jetaway]

Hey OtaBill.....my girlfriend’s parents had a 64 Rambler Classic back in my high school days. They let her take the car to school a couple of days a week. If you remember, the seats folded completely flat into a bed. Nuf said sbout that I guess.