at the risk of much pesonal ridicule I found a pic of my actual first ride. I had forgotten about this circa early 1960s  (Attachment Link)

 classic crash cap!     do you remember if it was a "keystone" mini bike , my cousin had one out on the island. got in a high speed wobble (15mph) with him on the back and ate it, remember crying like a couple little bitches   

at the risk of much pesonal ridicule I found a pic of my actual first ride. I had forgotten about this circa early 1960s  (Attachment Link)

Taco 99 ??  Taco 44???


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 oh ya...remember when we would scrap to see who we're the "lucky ones" to be human projectiles in the front camper window over top the truck cab...lol.   seat belts , we don't need no stinkin seatbelts!!     

My first ride was a Harley 175. Got it when I was 15 and rode it to school.

First 4 wheel ride was a 78 Dodge van, bought it new.
Was only making $3.25 an hour, up from $2.65 where I started a couple months before.

First ride was a beat up '73 Dodge Club Cab 4x2 pops gave me......Slant 6 with "three on the tree".....Loved that truck, couldn't break it no matter how stupid I tried. Damn thing is probably still running out there somewhere...... Tailgate was held on by bungee cords, later built a flat bed for it out of 4x6's that out-weighed the truck, but that's another story.......In my Junior year in HS I bought a '73 Nova SS (Somewhere Mom has pictures of it....never made it out of primer/bad brown original paint before I wrecked it). It was blown up when I bought it ($300 at the time). So I made a deal for a 427 from the guy we used to get engines from for pops dump trucks, etc, rebuilt it and threw a tunnel ram on it and a 12 Bolt rear....and a few months later drove it through a Beer Distributor store street racing when an axle broke.........Problem was, is wasn't open at the time......Fitting, I guess. Did fix it and sell it later to fund the '69 Firebird 400 Convertible I drive for a few years later......sold that to fund Divorce #1, and regretted doing so ever since.

First New car was an '89 Turbo Grand Prix. Had previously bought my wife (At the time) a Grand Am with a Quad-4 (VERY under rated engine, DAMN that thing would run!) and needed sumpin' faster. Quad-4 Grand Am was STILL faster, if you must know......1/4 mile time slips here to prove it here somewhere, but ex-wife handed me my ass at Quaker City Drag Strip 3 out of 4......

Ray 

70 Nova, 454, TH350, 2.73 gears. Several shades of primer gray lmao! I'll have to find the pics.

Hey Brad, how did it tow your boat

So my uncle found a picture of the day that my great grandma brought it home!



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Looks like a 72 Chevelle because of the front turn signal lights.  71 had a bar through the middle of them and I believe 70 was differant all together.

Yup, 70 had double headlight, 71 had a single headlights with a single bar across the grill, 72 had the 4 stainless bars across the grill.

My first car was a '72 El Camino.  Had the console shifter in SS dash, but was a 350 2 barrel.  I still got in plenty of trouble.