RE: dumb thread

[Don Vermillion <dvermillion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One more story:

My first mopar was not my first car, but it is part of an interesting story.
Growing up, my uncle was a ford mechanic, so you kind of know what I
starting out driving.  In high school in the mid sixties I drove a '56 ford
club sedan 292 auto, and raced a '53 ford mainline coupe (flathead) at the
drags on weekends.  In 1968 I found a black '62 Polara 500 hardtop for sale
and had to have it.  I sold the '56 ford for $500 and paid $650 for the
Polara.  I loved that car, my uncle hated it and wouldn't work on it!  Funny
thing, I met my wife that same year, she was driving a '62 rose beige
Chrysler Newport.  Love at first site!

Don Vermillion
62 Polara 500 convertible



-----Original Message-----
From: Gary B. [mailto:wedge65@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:28 PM
To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: dumb thread

I guess I am one of the old f*rts around here. I bought my first car on my
16th birthday in 1960. I saved up for two years from my paper route and came
up with $135.00. My dad took me car hunting and we found the prettiest 1947
Plymouth business coupe in the world. It had new black paint and red
leatherette interior and wide portawalls( you youngsters won't know what
those were.) The flathead six had a milled head.(It ran 21.00 flat) The car
was $150.00 and I didn't have enough money. We started to leave and I think
my dad saw the tear in my eye and loaned me the $15.00 to buy it. I have
been a moparhead ever since. Sorry for the long post but it brought back
good memories. Gary Bradshaw Ft. Worth, Texas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Duross" <tduross1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:35 AM
Subject: RE: dumb thread


> My very first car was in fact a 1965 Belvedere I.  I bought it with a loan
> from my Dad when I was 15.  I worked after school as a janitor at my high
> school and weekends at a florist's greenhouse complex making dozens of
those
> flats all the ladies would buy and plant around there houses.  All annuals
> so they would come back every spring and buy more.
> The car was a former taxi so it had HD brakes and suspension, leather
bench
> seats, towel bar style door handles, slant six and three on the tree.  No
> radio or windshield washer when I got it, got a kick ass AM-FM with
> "cassette" player and a bag type washer with dash lever.  I painted it in
> the driveway with a shaker can.  When I got my permit, I learned to drive
on
> it and although I moved to a BB Chevelle, we kept the car and my four
> brothers and sisters also learned to drive in it.  We must have totaled it
> three times, finally so bad we had to send it to the junk yard.  But I've
> always missed that car, that's why I always wanted another one and got
into
> this a few years ago.  Now I have two and a 64 was well.  One day a
> convertible with a hemi will be mine.  My Dad and I took the 64 out for a
> spin Monday afternoon, it was warm and the sun was shining.
> Now we have a foot of snow AGAIN!
> Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!  We're all Irish today.
>
> Tom Duross
> Boston
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: georlrs@xxxxxxx [mailto:georlrs@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:05 PM
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: dumb thread
>
>
>
> I have to admit, I bought my first 67 Dodge Polara 383 slapstick 2 dr
> complete with fender skirts when I was 15 yrs old. I am 39 now. It was
> bought from
> dishwashing as well. The down side is that I never got to drive it, and
the
> guy
> that bought it from me for 800.00 still owes me 300.00. The worst part was
> he
> was a good childhood friend up until that time.
>
>   Don
>
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topic.  Thanks!
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Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person --
directly to that person.  I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations
as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to
the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy,
reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar
topic.  Thanks!

'62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines:
http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html.

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