First lbc Jag E-type Mk 1 blue with black leather interior it was 1964
I was 2 years old and it was a peddle car sold it when I was 6 for 10
silver dollars that I still have today.
Moving forward in time it was 1979 I was 17 and had $8,000.00 in the
bank, all money I earned working part time since I was 14. I went to the
local Pontiac dealer to buy a new Trans Am the sales manager was a
friend of my dad's and he knew I was 17 so he wouldn't sell me the car
with out my dad signing for it even if I was paying cash in full for it.
Called my dad and he said I couldn't have a car until I was 18 even
though he bought my sister her VW Beetle when she was seventeen 4 years
earlier. She got a DUI shortly after getting her car so I couldn't have
a car, punished for my sisters crimes.
A few months later I found a 1973 AMC AMX sitting on a used lot bought
it for $1500.00 took it to work and stored it in a warehouse under the
car wash I worked at where we did all our detailing. My boss let me work
on the car on my days off so I pulled the motor and had the best local
engine builder build my 401 into a 500 hp beast, balanced, blue printed,
ported heads, 10.5:1 +0.030 pistons, 480 degree .500" cam, Torker
intake, 750cfm Carter carb, Mallory ignition, etc all for $3500.00. The
net result was a car that was 2900lbs, it put out 435 hp at the rear
wheels on a chassis dyno, 1/4 mile in 12.65 sec at 115 mph, top speed in
excess of 140 mph ( it would pull another 1000 rpm after the speedo
pegged at 140 mph). After fixing it all up I took it home and got
grounded for a month. I sold that car in 1986 for $4500.00 very few
people knew what it really was. In the 7 years I had it, it had a bare
metal paint job and the transmission, rear axle, brakes and suspension
where all rebuilt. A Camaro or Mustang in the same shape at that time
where selling for 50-100 % more. I recently saw an identical looking AMX
sell on Ebay for $38,000.00. But at the time I needed the money to road
race my Yamaha RZ500 motorcycle something else that is worth about 10x
what I sold it for I should have kept both of them.
Doug Hamilton
1960 Triumph TR3A
1963 Fiat Cabriolet
>Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:07:30 -0500
>From: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
>Subject: 1st car
>
>How about what year & what kind was your 1st car, and not just a T/R, "no" I
>will not go first :) "FT"
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