[FourEightyNine]

Just curious what all drew everyone to there chevelle/camino/nova/special/monza:thumbsup:

First car was a 66 mustang in good condition, 289 v8 a/c car, pony interior WOOO!

After driving that around for a couple months I decided that it was too small and I felt like a girl driving it. I wanted a muscle car damnit.

In my mind back then the 70-72 gm A-bodies were what a muscle car was to me, and once I saw my chevelle I knew thats what I wanted. Promised the old lady I wouldnt turn it into a race car

 

[animal69]

1st car '53 Chevy 283-3spd.
2nd car '28 Model a 283 (301) 4spd.
3rd car '66 Nova SS 327-275HP peplaced with a DZ from a '69 Z28 (fun car).
4th car '68 Camaro 327-210 HP transportation
5th '69 Camaro SS396-375HP L89 (real fun car). 1st new car!
6th car '70 El Camino 307 (for insurance reasons) replaced with a 372-TH400 (tow vehicle for '69 Camaro).
7th car '66 Cutlass L88 TH400 4.33 posi (the most fun car)

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42nd car 1972 El Camino SS396
And so on. While I love Camaros at 6'4" and 325 they have gotten smaller over the years so I prefer a larger muscle car.:thumbsup:

 

[65lkey]

for me my dad always tells the story of his 72 chevelle ss, then my mom wanted one because thats why she started dating him cause he had a boss car. Well he came home with a 70 chevelle and we built that for my mom, she sold that and now has her 67 chevelle convertible.

When it came time for my first car we went to a garage sale with my moms convertible and the lady said "i've got a car like that you could have" We said really? it turned out to be a 66 chevelle hardtop that ran, drove, and everything worked, but it was a rust bucket. bought that for $800 sold it 3 months later for $2700 and that funded the el camino and then my albertson's job did the rest.

future plans I will always have a chevelle, and if I ever forget i will soon have a chevelle emblem tattoo

 

[66 Buick Special]

My first car was a '68 Chevelle. I wasn't necessarily looking for a Chevelle specifically, but I had about 7-8 cars I was searching the want ads for in the Times. Yes Brian back in 1980 we had to use the newspaper to car shop.

I was checking for a Camaro, Chevelle, Nova, Charger, Challenger, Mustang, Fairlane... it had to be a cool body style, and it had to be cheap. Those were my criteria.

So I bought this:http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2466148

I thoroughly enjoyed building it into something that looked respectable, but with a 350/2bbl/PG it wasn't winnng any races (Mods, I'm not implying that I ever actually raced anyone:noway.

About a year after completion my cousin told me his best friend was going to be selling his '67 Mustang GT. 86,000 miles 390/4sp for $1600... I liquidated the Chevelle that week for more power!:yes:

The Mustang: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2352880

The Mustang couldn't handle my abuse and left me no choice but to trade it for a '77 Monte so I could get back and forth to my new County job.

Got into SCCA/ICSCC Road Racing with a Rabbit... After a year or so I decided I wanted a tow vehicle... enter the '67 ElCamino shown here: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2466107

Another year or so went by... decided I didn't have the cashflow to be competitive and sold the Rabbit and the Elky to buy a new Toyota 4x4 and a boat.

Other than putting a couple of cat-backs and K&N's in a couple of trucks and SUV's I've not had a car to play with until I bought the "Special" 17 years after selling the Elky.

I wanted an early Chevy II but couldn't find a running car for under $1000 which was all I could possibly justify. Looked at a '68 cuda but thought about it too long and missed it, missed a '62 Special convertible by hours...

I really wanted something Chevy since I was most comfortable with them.

I saw the ad for the Special right after it hit Craigslist on a Sunday night in Feb '06 and it said it had a SBC in it. I had no idea what a '66 looked like but I knew I liked the '64 Special a lot.

I Googled 1966 Buick Special and thought, hmmm.. it kinda looks like a '66Chevelle and it does have the SBC in it...

The next day I stopped in at lunch, drove it, left a deposit and came back that night with the balance of the $700 he had said he would take for it and drove it home.

The rest is well documented in my signature.

 

[Kevin R]

My first car was a 1967 camaro 327 210hp powerglide car that was only $2000 with 118000 orignal miles on it. I blew the stocker 327 and put in a 67 impalla ss 327 and put a big a$$ cam and carb on it. It ran 14.5 in the 1/4. My step dad bought a 1966 chevelle off the lot brand new in 66 and I even have a pic of my dad bro and I standing in front of it when I was 3. He sold it in 1988 and I never got to drive it but I always loved the car. It was black on black with buckets,knee knocker tack,console clock,327 4speed car. Rode in it lots of times and I remember it pulling pretty hard and said someday I will have one and now I do

 

[OutCast]

Bought my first car in 1981 at the age of 14. It was a '67 Chevy II with a 327, muncie m-21, and a 10 bolt posi...oh yeah, it had shackles in the rear which raised it about 3"...most very cool at the time.

Spent the next two years messing with it before I actually got my driver's licence. Prompty scattered the engine, rebuilt a 283 in AutoShop at school, blew that one up...parted out the Nova for cash.

Got a '68 Beaumont at 17, was a decent ride for high school. 327 th350, turbine rims identical to Greg 66Malibu's, and oh yeah...this one had rear fender flares :sad:

Fast forward 20+ years, took in a '74 Impala on trade for $500 and thought, "Hey, I'd like to build up a big block and put it in something. " Yarded out the 454 and turbo 400, gave the carcass to a friend, (buddy with the car trailer,) and he's going to smash it in a demolition derby.

The Chevelle came home on Father's Day 3 years ago, first fired up the 454 in it in Sept/07, and the rest is history as you know it.

 

[ehjorten]

I actually wasn't looking for my Chevelle. I was looking for my dream car, which was and probably still is, a '55 Chevy. I had money in hand, found the right car, told him I wanted it, don't sell it, I will be there on Saturday and would pay his price, called the night before to solidify the meeting arrangements and he told me that he sold it that morning!

So...started looking for another car...I found my '69 Chevelle Sport Coupe in Portland (at the time I was growing-up in Astoria) at Stark Steet Motors. That was 1990 I think. It was a complete one-owner, Grandma mobile and solid. Right next to it was a BBC 1969 Camaro with white convertible top. I really wanted that one, but they wanted way too much money for it, even in 1990! So...I settled for the Chevelle. Now looking back I absolutely love my Chevelle, but still want to add a '55 to the stable along with a bunch of other rides.

 

[anychevy]

A 69 Dodge Phoenix was my first "American" car in 1981. at age 19, it was mostly Holdens before that.
From there I progressed to Impala's, traded up to a few camaro's, then corvette's.
I breifly owned a 65 Buick riviera, a 64 coupe DeVille and even a Mach 1 mustang along the way,
but it wasn't till 1999 that I found my first chevelle, a 67 SS coupe.
I restored it from top to bottom and never intended selling it, but $hit happens and it was gone by 2002.
Anyway, after a long wait and a year searching, I found the car that makes me forget about all the others.

 

[Dave]

for me my dad always tells the story of his 72 chevelle ss, then my mom wanted one because thats why she started dating him cause he had a boss car. Well he came home with a 70 chevelle and we built that for my mom, she sold that and now has her 67 chevelle convertible.

When it came time for my first car we went to a garage sale with my moms convertible and the lady said "i've got a car like that you could have" We said really? it turned out to be a 66 chevelle hardtop that ran, drove, and everything worked, but it was a rust bucket. bought that for $800 sold it 3 months later for $2700 and that funded the el camino and then my albertson's job did the rest.

future plans I will always have a chevelle, and if I ever forget i will soon have a chevelle emblem tattoo

I knew that was You, I met Your parent's at Yesterday's show's in '05 and '06. I think it was '05, You Guy's had to head home with the bad Alternator.

 

[kettbo]

Older guy Perry had a 66 SS 396/375....I rebuilt the 396 while my mentor watched
My bud Flint had a 66 Chevelle, got it from his dad who was the original owner
The Mulholland Bros each had a 70 SS Chevelle
Lotsa cars for me since my 68 Nova....the yellow thing is my 3rd Vette, soon 17 years of ownership

After Iraq, the 91 Bronco was coming up on 200,000 mi so I got rid of it...got wifey the Scion tC. Starting DEC 04 I began the remodel....a few months of borrowing the daughter's S-10 got me thinking I needed a truck. Local guy Ted had a 70 Granny 307 one-owner...helped him stuff a 454 into it. So, wanted a Chevelle. What do you do when you need a truck but want a Chevelle? Get an Elky! A teenager down the road had what was to become my Elky,,,,father/son project gone bad....

 

[depley]

My first car was a 61 Mercury Comet 4 door. Paid a whopping $50 for it. Sold it 9 months later for $75 without te snow tires.
2nd car was a 67 barracuda Fastback 273 4 speed.
3rd car was a 71 Vega GT
4th car was a 1964 Chevelle SS, which after a while got a bored out built 283 that would fly
5th car was a 69 pontiac Bonneville Brougham a guy trade me that plus $1200 for the 64
after that an assortment of regular cars till I got a 1970 GTO which the block cracked on and sold off.
Then after years of normal cars 5 years ago I got my 72 sprint and then a couple weeks ago added the 72 Sport Sedan.

 

[primernovaben]

my first ride and the only one that matters is the nova. the first time i saw it, it was white, rusty but it had a 454 and when the dude mashed the gas it freakin pounced. i wanted it.

well he ran into money trouble, i got it for christmas when i was 13. i built the 350 in it now after the other one was too tired to have any fun with. years of tinkering a colour change and now its just a plain fun ride!:thumbsup:

 

[SteelChevelle/]

I originally wanted a Nova, but my dad wouldnt let me get one, said they were too cheap and too small for me...probably cause my sister kept racing guys and blowing engines in them...

So then I wanted a Camaro...no, dad said...they rust too easily, and being a unibody when they rust they usually go bad above the rear chackles and such and are too expensive to repair..

So, he said, go with a Chevelle..good ride and same performance and more out there to fix....?..so i get a 68 for $1000! All there minus engine and trans..but then find a 68 was scarce in the area, so i spent lots of time and money looking for parts...didnt have internet so had to do it the old fashioned way!

Now, i wouldnt part with it..or have a problem owning more of them...still would love a Camaro..but would take a 66-69 vert anyday!:thumbsup:

 

[65lkey]

I knew that was You, I met Your parent's at Yesterday's show's in '05 and '06. I think it was '05, You Guy's had to head home with the bad Alternator.

ok got ya now saw the car and recognized it, you went on the cruise with us, I'm like you now always on the trailerout:

 

[kettbo]

I saw this pic in the WELCOME forum

Made me think of 'gotago' and his Chevelle roasting under the Texas sun.....
Q. Why did Mark buy a Chevelle?
A. So DAVE could pick on his Q-Jet!:yes:

 

[1966malibu]

My first car was a 1966 Chevelle Malibu. Drove the heck out of it in high school (raced it, went off road with it ,filled the truck with kegs and partied in it ). Let her sit for a few years ,then I fixed her up and she became my daily transport through college and my first job. She sat in the back of the garage for awhile. Then I fixed her up again and rediscovered that first car feeling all over again. I now have owned her for almost thirty years. I guess I just had a wise Dad and he new a great car when he saw it and decided to pass her down to his son. Thanks Dad.

 

[JWA]

Chevelles were an accident for me. My first ride was a beat 73 Duster. A shady guy I knew who bought and sold cars snookered some folks out of what would become my first 68 Chevelle. Sold it to me on payments for 3x what he paid for it. Since I got it for $1500 I figured the original owners must have got snookered. The reason I say he was shady was he had a regular clientele who bought cars on payments ($1-3k) and if they missed a payment he came and got the car. He then would resell the car to the same folks and they would start all over. He also tend to be on the bad side of the cops from when he was younger from the stories I heard. I saw him about 10 years after the Malibu deal and he didn't look all that well driving a cab in the local town. I'd be surprised if he was still alive.
After getting the red machine I was hooked. I just fell in love with the 68 stylings. I then got my first 68 SS, then I had a white/black 71 Malibu project that never got off the ground. Then it was off to the military where all I did was talk about the ones I had for about 8 years. Finally in 1992 I got a black 68 SS which I spun a bearing on the way home in (car had been sitting for years and we were surprised it even started. ) On the hunt for parts I ended up with Old Blue in 1993. Other stuff has come and gone but Old Blue hangs out in the garage just waiting for those nice days where she comes out and beats up our favorite stomping ground and our own semi private burnout box

THe first:

 

[Brettd85]

I wanted a chevelle but couldnt afford one, then I found the Camino. I only liked the 68 and 69 caminos but have learned to love all of the pre '72s.

 

[webfoot]

In high school I didn't know a lug nut from a distributor cap, but there was this kid that drove a 70 chevelle to school. I didn't even know what kind of car it was aside from it being a chevy! It stuck and as time went by and I learned what the difference was between lug nuts and distributor caps, I started researching. It came down to 2 cars. One was a SOLID but disassembled 70 SS for $2000 in Idaho. The other was a beater malibu the guy was asking $1400 for, in Redmond OR. I offered the guy with the beater $800 and towed it home. (bad transmission.) That was in Aug. 2000.

 

[66SSFan]

My father had a really nice '66 malibu 327 4 speed car when I was a kid and I have loved them ever since. He was a big muscle car fan back in the day and tought me a lot about them and was my biggest influence for performance cars. When I found the '66 I own now it was not for sale, only took 6 years of constant phone calls and begging to make it happen and that also lead to a great friend ship with the then owner. I was not looking for another car when I bought the '70 but I called in most of my favors to make it happen. I have owned a few nice cars over the years and most would be worth big $$ today but no other car matches my first experience with hotrods, if I could I'd own a dozen '66s