What was your daily driver in the mid 1960's

[Rich Biebel]

The question was what were you driving in 1966 as a daily driver.....not what was your first car.....


My first car was a 1955 Buick that I got when I was about 15. I figured if I worked on a car it would help me learn to be a mechanic So I got this Buick for about $20. I think the trans was puked......

I started it up all the time and drove it from our front yard to the backyard on the grass leaving a trail of trans oil wherever I went. The battery wasn't charging so the local car expert and general all around cool guy said the generator must be bad. I tried to remove it and broke the end plate. I took it to the car guy and asked him if it could be welded to fix it and he laughed and said you can't weld that...it's pot metal.........So my start as a mechanic didnt go so well......I junked the Buick.......

First car that I drove as a senior in high school was my fathers former car...a 1955 Pontiac....Not much of a car but better than walking....LOL

[Mark Yacavone]

Vespa 150 GL that my brother left me when he went to college.

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[55 Chevy]

Whatever I was playing with that day in the living room on that 60's shag carpet, or on that institutional lino in the kitchen.

Allan

[Don Dimeler]

I had a 1967 Chevy II 100 series(2 door post) with a 327/275 motor. Also had a 4-speed, 12 bolt rear(3:55 posi), dual exhaust, heavy duty suspension, and a radio. It was purchased for around 2200 bucks. Car weighed 2860 and was maroon with black interior. Not a girl magnet, but I sure had alot of fun.

[Dan Bennett]

First motorized vehicle was a 150 Vespa that started out blue but I got the local Dodge dealer to paint it 64 Cutlass yellow. I can't believe it's the second one mentioned already!

Then on to a 1959 Nash Metropolitan which I bought for $100 when I was 14 using my grass cuttting money. I learned to drive a stick in a few acres next to the house. It would actually bark off almost a car length going into second and I was young and stupid enough to actually race it at Pacific Dragway (AHRA XF/G)

Then a 62 Corvair Monza Spyder with the turbo - could handle 260 Mustangs but not 289s.

67 Barracuda notchback with 273/235. Hated the styling but I bought it at the end of the year and the only fastbacks I could find were 2 barrels.

68 AMX, gold with Go Package. Beautiful car but was an embarrassing slug with the auto transmission and 2.87? positraction.

That takes me up to 1970 and a 340 Duster. I couldn't afford much, so the only options were a radio, 4 speed, and sure grip.

I had a very good friend who had an unbelievable string of cars. He was an only child of wealthy parents but didn't act like it. They bought him a 66 396/325 Chevelle when he was 15 and he had a neighbor kid drive him around.

In 67 he stepped up to an XKE coupe. I'll never forget the day we all took turns with it at Ste Gen dragway. Poor car had its tongue hanging out.

Dad made him cut back to a 68 Catalina but it was verdoro green which was a very hot color. Somehow he got a guy to swap his 69 Grand Prix SJ for it.

The Grand Prix got traded for a 69 Corvette coupe, Monaco Orange with 427/435 and side exhausts. He traded that for a 69 SS396/375 Chevelle because his girlfriend said the Corvette was too hot (side pipes pumping heat up the door) and rode too rough.

Finishing the decade, he bought the first 70 Z28 I ever saw and it had even had a Turbo 400 in it. That's the car where I found out about the turbo's override into second gear.

Fond memories, but we were just dumb kids working hard and never knew how good we had it.

[Ronnie Smith Jr]

In the car seat in the back of Mom and Dad's 63 Chevy 327/250 4 speed. Well, there was that one time I was driving (and apparently speed shifting) and pulled it into neutral...down the driveway I went (backwards) with the drivers door open. The tree helped to stop me and wedged the car into the wall. New driver door, rear bumper and some quarter panel work. Dad was out of town and I kept telling Mom to get it fixed before Dad comes home. My first driving experience at about the age of 4.

Then into their 68 Malibu 327/325 4 speed bench seat. Never had the chance to drive this one (lol).

[bill dedman]

I was 27 in 1965, and had been watching the Pontiac spec sheets long enough to realize that if it had an automatic transmission, it had 10:1 compression, and even the 2bbl got a decent cam, so I bougtht a '56 Chieftan 2 dr. HT and swapped a '58 (370 c.i.) 2bbl motor into it. I paid $100 for the car and $75 for the motor, traded some parts for a 4bbl manifold and carb, and swapped the 3.08 third member for a 3.90 I had lying around from an earlier Olds project....

Took it to the strip, where it ran 90mph.... total investment, $175.00.

Try that today... LOL!

[Dan Bernay]

1965 chevy impala.
327/250