Dennis Kirban
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New Topic......
Based on readership I think its safe to assume most readers are younger than myself so cars purchased will probably be of a newer variety.
Lets hear about the very first car you bought with your OWN money after you got out of high school. Give the year also you got out of high school.
Here is my quick story:
Year 1965 basically the very start of what is considered the first big wave of US muscle cars. My senior year I had two cars a 1950 Ford sedan as a back up and a 1956 Crown Victoria Ford. (A very desireable model today). Like most car crazed kids at that time I wanted a Corvette badly. Every sunday going to Church we would pass Purcell Motors which was a used car dealership and they always had a front line of used Corvettes.
The tough part was coming up with a deposit and convincing my Dad who like many Dads visualized cars as mere transportation. I sold my Crown Vic to a friend for a mere $500. The Corvette I wanted was a 1961 3-speed manual shift car. The price was $1,700.
I convinced my Dad and that summer fresh out of high school I had my first Corvette. The honeymoon was short lived....as I had no college plans, was in good health, and Vietnam was in full swing. By fall the honeymoon was over I enlisted to beat the draft and sold my Corvette to a small local used car dealership thinking I would not be able to keep up the payments.
Jump forward 3 years......I was at the nearby Yum Yums (Donut shop) one nite and a guy pulls in driving my old Corvette with a sale sign in it. He only wanted $900 for it. At the time I just did not have the funds to buy it back. Hard to believe it was that long ago now.
denniskirban@yahoo.com
Based on readership I think its safe to assume most readers are younger than myself so cars purchased will probably be of a newer variety.
Lets hear about the very first car you bought with your OWN money after you got out of high school. Give the year also you got out of high school.
Here is my quick story:
Year 1965 basically the very start of what is considered the first big wave of US muscle cars. My senior year I had two cars a 1950 Ford sedan as a back up and a 1956 Crown Victoria Ford. (A very desireable model today). Like most car crazed kids at that time I wanted a Corvette badly. Every sunday going to Church we would pass Purcell Motors which was a used car dealership and they always had a front line of used Corvettes.
The tough part was coming up with a deposit and convincing my Dad who like many Dads visualized cars as mere transportation. I sold my Crown Vic to a friend for a mere $500. The Corvette I wanted was a 1961 3-speed manual shift car. The price was $1,700.
I convinced my Dad and that summer fresh out of high school I had my first Corvette. The honeymoon was short lived....as I had no college plans, was in good health, and Vietnam was in full swing. By fall the honeymoon was over I enlisted to beat the draft and sold my Corvette to a small local used car dealership thinking I would not be able to keep up the payments.
Jump forward 3 years......I was at the nearby Yum Yums (Donut shop) one nite and a guy pulls in driving my old Corvette with a sale sign in it. He only wanted $900 for it. At the time I just did not have the funds to buy it back. Hard to believe it was that long ago now.
denniskirban@yahoo.com