What was your very first car?

[NYC-SE]

1964 Dodge Dart. It was originally my Grandfather's and was older than me (not by much). I used to ride on his lap and help steer when I was a kid. Was in the family for a long time and sometime in the late 80's I wound up with it. I had it until sometime in the early 90's when it died on me on my way to work. I pushed it to the side of the road and went to work. 12 hours later I went back and it was gone. No idea what happened to it. I like to think that someone found it, got it started and that it lived another day.

Anyway great car. Slant six engine was super reliable. After all it lasted close to 30 years. Of course by then the body was in pretty bad shape.

This is NOT a picture of my actual car, just a photo I found online to give you an idea of what the car looked like. It's even the same color, but as I said mine was in considerably worse shape than this one.

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Originally Posted by NYC-SE

1964 Dodge Dart. It was originally my Grandfather's and was older than me (not by much). I used to ride on his lap and help steer when I was a kid. Was in the family for a long time and sometime in the late 80's I wound up with it. I had it until sometime in the early 90's when it died on me on my way to work. I pushed it to the side of the road and went to work. 12 hours later I went back and it was gone. No idea what happened to it. I like to think that someone found it, got it started and that it lived another day.

Anyway great car. Slant six engine was super reliable. After all it lasted close to 30 years. Of course by then the body was in pretty bad shape.

This is NOT a picture of my actual car, just a photo I found online to give you an idea of what the car looked like. It's even the same color, but as I said mine was in considerably worse shape than this one.

My roommate in college had a 65 Plymouth Valiant with the 170 cu in slant six and a manual three on the tree transmission. The garage he had change the oil left the oil filter gasket on the block and put the new filter on top of it.He asked me What Does This Red Light Mean on the dashboard?

By then it was too late! The garage did rebuild the engine.

I bet he still has it!