Re: 1st car

[Tim Gaines <mtgaines@mail.presby.edu>]

>How about what year & what kind was your 1st car, and not just a T/R, "no" I
>will not go first  :)  "FT"
>


Mine was a 1958 VW with 36 hp, a sunroof that leaked, and a busted
heater.  Bought it in 1965 when I was 17.  Drove up to the mountains
of West Virginia from Maryland to see my girl in 1967 and got
passed by an 18 wheeler on a steep grade.  That weekend I nearly
froze in it when the temperature went down to 0.

Bought my second car later in 1967 after selling the VW for about
$300.  It was a 1965 Spitfire.  Boy I learned a few things on that
car; how to replace a clutch in the back yard, how to do a valve
job in the parking lot outside a machine shop.  It rusted out on
me before I built a garage to protect it (about 14 years ago).  I
sold it for almost nothing, and my son spotted it about 4 years
ago in a junk yard.  Looked pretty bad.



-- 
Tim Gaines
Clinton, SC
1980 Spitfire
1974 TR6

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