Your first car: Thought you might enjoy seeing your first car ad. Find your first car or the one you drove to high school or college; Hopefully your car brochure is available. This has...

bodacious Loc: Oregon

Thought you might enjoy seeing your first car ad.

Find your first car or the one you drove to high school or college;
Hopefully your car brochure is available.

This has to be one of the neatest web sites whether you have gasoline
in your veins or not.

This is a website featuring the original factory brochures for nearly every American car you have ever owned. Pick the manufacturer, the year and the model.
Click Here:
http://www.lov2xlr8.no/broch1.html

Beowulf Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI

Great website. Love all the brochures. I've added the appropriate brochure image for my first vehicle, purchased for $50 when I was 14 years old. When I was licensed at 16 and it was on the road, it had flaps, suicide knobs, wolf whistle, etc.

In the early to mid-'50s the canary yellow seemed to be very popular.

bodacious Loc: Oregon

Beowulf wrote:

Great website. Love all the brochures. I've added the appropriate brochure image for my first vehicle, purchased for $50 when I was 14 years old. When I was licensed at 16 and it was on the road, it had flaps, suicide knobs, wolf whistle, etc.

In the early to mid-'50s the canary yellow seemed to be very popular.

That's a cool Chevy ragtop, bet you wished you still owned it. I have had so many $50 to $150 cars in the 60s to 70s I would be very wealthy now if they were still in my garage. There goes that hind sight again.

stephgc Loc: Texas

This is cool, mine was a 59 Rambler

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

My first car was a 1948 Plymouth that I paid $25.00 for in 1960. It had a hole in the floorboards of the passenger side that was big enough for my 45lb Belgian Sheepdog to get through.

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

[quote=bodacious]Wonderful collection of car art. Thanks, David

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

[quote=bodacious]Wonderful collection of car art. Thanks, David

I use to know every Make and Model. Now I can't tell any of them.

bodacious Loc: Oregon

[quote=Meives]

bodacious wrote:

Wonderful collection of car art. Thanks, David

I use to know every Make and Model. Now I can't tell any of them.

Everything from a cheap late model clunker to a Mercedes looks like a jap car to me. No distinguishing characteristics any more.

Black Bart Loc: Indiana

I did not think they would have mine but they did.

1924 Chevrolet $640.00 new but mine was used.

bodacious Loc: Oregon

Black Bart wrote:

I did not think they would have mine but they did.

1924 Chevrolet $640.00 new but mine was used.

Glad you bought it used as if it was new at the time, well damn you old. :lol: :lol: :oops:

Black Bart Loc: Indiana

bodacious wrote:

Glad you bought it used as if it was new at the time, well damn you old. :lol: :lol: :oops:

Yes I'm probably the oldest on this forum.
If I had the 24 Chevy coupe today in the condition it was when I had it I would sell it at BJ for about a hundred grand. :mrgreen:

EoS_User Loc: Oshawa, Ontario Canada

I knew with certainty my first would not be found there. Yes it was a GM built car and there were plenty of them around in these parts. It was a 1968 Acadian Beaumont, like the city in Texas. There was an entire line of Acadian models. The Beaumont body style was very similar to the Chevelle Malibu of the time. Interestingly enough, the interior, dashboard and instrument panel was the same as what was in the Pontiac GTO not the Chevelle. There was also the Acadian Canso and Invader, they were very much similar body styles to the Chevy Novas of this era. Cansos were a two door model where the Invader was a four door. The Acadian line as I have learned, and if no-one has figured out yet, was Canadian made and Canadian sold. It is my believe none of these models were actually imported into the US.

n3eg Loc: West coast USA

EoS_User wrote:

The Acadian line as I have learned, and if no-one has figured out yet, was Canadian made and Canadian sold. It is my believe none of these models were actually imported into the US.

I had a 1973 1/2 Plymouth Valiant California fleet car made in Windsor. None of the parts matched anything American. It ran for 3 years in the mid 1980s on a carburetor with a loose shaft that could not be rebuilt, and no American junkyard had one. The rear window was convex instead of the usual Valiant concave. It also failed every California smog test, usually taking 3 days of my time to go to various places before they signed a waiver.

bodacious Loc: Oregon

EoS_User wrote:

I knew with certainty my first would not be found ... (show quote)

I have seen a few Canadian GM cars at shows and a couple on the streets, mostly Chevy style but Pontiac and Oldsmobile I think also. Cool cars because of their differences from the American counterpart. Cant remember the name but a Pontiac Bonneville I think a 1961 model counterpart was at a local car show last year. No one seemed to know what it was, most guessed it was a custom built hot rod from Barris or something.

superpijak Loc: Middle TN

bodacious wrote:

Thought you might enjoy seeing your first car ad.

Find your first car or the one you drove to high school or college;
Hopefully your car brochure is available.

This has to be one of the neatest web sites whether you have gasoline
in your veins or not.

This is a website featuring the original factory brochures for nearly every American car you have ever owned. Pick the manufacturer, the year and the model.
Click Here:
http://www.lov2xlr8.no/broch1.html

Thanks for the trip down memory lane...... 8-)