Post #71309 by vintagegirl on Tue, Jan 20, 2004 10:37 PM

On 2004-01-19 09:44, Swanky wrote:
My first car was a 1964 Mercury Comet.

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I can't beleive I survived this car. It must have had 200,000 miles on it and a lot of that was spent hauling firewood. You could turn the wheel from 2 oclock to 10 oclick and nothing happened. Lots of play. The engine barely ran. I had a rubber band under the hood for the throttle spring. I had a string in the gas pedal to pull it back up after I pressed it down. The lights would turn off on occasion. The gears were slipped so that I had to have the safety turned off so it would start in any gear. You could not tell what gear you were in by looking. Oh, and the left rear quarter was smashed.

Yeah, but what a paint job!

My first car was a miserable 1976 Chevy Monza. Blue with white vinyl top and white vinyl interior (which was really great for those 100 degree San Fernando Valley summer days). No A/C, no heat, no FM radio. I was lucky if I could do 50 mph on the freeway.

I had it for 6 years. I wanted to push it off a cliff, but I needed the $200 too badly.

Oh, did I mentioned it was painted at Earl Scheib ("I'll paint any car any color for only $99.95!") and when the paint started peeling after a year, my dad gave it his own paint job with a few spray paint cans. Tres chic.

[ Edited by: vintagegirl on 2004-01-20 22:40 ]