I was age 14, still 3 years shy of N.J. legal minimum when I bought a Ford Anglia 105E for $35.00. It was pretty clean, but had water in the steering box and would only steer willingly to one side. My father rope towed it home for me with a very burly friend of ours steering, and me passenger. I had great plans for it, but a $14.00 used steering box and an opportunity for a $100.00 MG TD made me sell it, for $100.00. It took me several decades to make another profitable sale! Photo taken by Dad of me and TD on arrival, again by rope tow.....Traded the TD still as a project for a parts car Sunbeam Imp many years later!
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My first car I bought cost me $300 at age 14 was a 1953 MGTD, running, driving. (Briefly, 43 miles)
Sitting down in my shop now? 1953 MGTD. No the engine isn’t original.
Got my first car, a '62 Mercury Comet, for free from my grandfather who had been using it as his daily driver.
Traded it off for a '71 Torino GT after a year of driving it in high school.
1949 Jeep- free. Belonged to a local business. It had a flat tire, they tried to use a fork lift to lift it and ran a fork thru the gas tank. Put it in a shed and forgot about it. I talked them into letting me haul it away. Put in new gas tank and after burning valves a few times in the flathead four I ordered an adapter from JC Whitney and put a Chevy V-8 in it. Awesome acceleration! Sold it to a cousin after a few years for $400. Interestingly
First car was a 1981 Porsche 924 that my dad towed out of a field for free. After many years of racing it went to the junkyard. Maybe a $50 profit?
1978 Ford Pinto. Bought for $250. Pushed it home, fixed it by driving a pencil into the side of the carburetor to plug a vacuum leak. Drove it two years and sold it for $400. It still had a pencil driven into the carb. Not the same pencil though, the first one got blow out by a backfire.
I wish I would have kept that car.
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