trivia My first coin was a st. gaudens gold piece given to me by my grandmother when I was about 6 years old. I wish i still had it. I lost it because I wantede to carry it my pocket. OUCH!! The first car that I purchased was a 1972 AMC Javelin SSt with a 360 engine. I wanted the AMC Javelin AMX with the 401 gopac but parents and insurance made it impossible. Well, today I own that car restored orginal with less than 80k original miles on it. I have been collecting since 1999. The state quarter program got me interested in it. Later all, G.E.
1. Steel cent 2. 1980 Fiat Spider (I got it in 1992 with only 20,000 miles on it) 3. 20 years very casually and more serious within the last 6 months
1. Wheat cent I believe. 2. '55 Desoto Firedome 291 Hemi (very poochie) 3. Started collecting in probably '75 or '76 and started again heavy in about '03. Hey Clembo, have you got any pics of the Sebring? My brother had a 1971 GTX, the same bodystyle as the sebring, I loved that car.
1. Silver washington quarter from Denver 2. 1972 delta 88 Oldsmobile with a 350 Rocket engine. Almost 18 ft long, over 3000 pounds, carburetor, regular gas, ran clean, did over 110 mph, got 23 mpg. What's wrong with today's cars? (My second car was a 75 Datsun 710, smaller but about the same size as today's cars. Also regular gas and carburetor, but it got 35 mpg a target figure they are wanting the big three to try and reach by 2020, some 45 years after Japan was able to do it.) 3. 37 years collecting, 43 years as a numismatist.
1. I think a Sacagewea Dollar(s), which I got from my dad when they came out. 2. Not old enough to drive. 3. Seriously collecting, 2 and a half years. Off and on for about 6? Phoenix
A Morgan dollar (someone paid for their newspapers with it). Make it three first timers on the Mercury Comet. Mine was a green '63 convertible with a 289 & 4 speed. Cost me $90. But bikes are more my thing. While not the first bike I owned, I do own the first bike that I ever had a ride on. My father bought a new model FL Harley Davidson back in 1950, and I am currently the second owner. My folks rode it from NE Ohio to Key West during their honeymoon in Feb, 1951. Dad took her for a spin on his 80th birthday (even kick started it himself), after not having driven a bike for 37 years - it was like he had never quit riding. This bike holds more sentimental value for me than any other possession, but I like the other 11 bikes too. I've been collecting for 46 years. This hobby got me my first real job (at a coin shop!). The owner said that I was there so much that I might as well get paid for it. I think he figured if I made more money than a paper route provided, I would spend more on coins. BTW, Chevy didn't make any V-8s until 1955, and the Chevy 350 engine hit the market in 1967.
1. Franklin halfs pulled out of my school lunch money. School hot lunch with milk was 50 cents. 2. 1951 Pontiac straight 8 cyl. 3 speed stick. No front fenders. Next 1953 Dodge Red Ram Hemi. Interesting sidenote: We had a big rock in the backyard we needed to get rid of. 4 kids lifted and pried the huge rock into the trunk of the Dodge. Sold the car with rock in trunk and no trunk key. Neighbors put the Hemi into a 1953 Chevy Bel-Aire. Junk man picked up the engineless Dodge with rock still in trunk. Next 1954 Chrysler New Yorker, red leather seats with 354 Hemi. cost $45. 3. 50 years on and off.
a lot of you are not old enough to drive but what you need to do is go out and get you a old car fix it for when you can drive and you will have a lot of respect for that car and somemore advise take a kid to a car show...and a coin show...
BTW, Chevy didn't make any V-8s until 1955, and the Chevy 350 engine hit the market in 1967.[/quote] true but a lot of old chevy owners put the 350 in cuz there cheep to build and dependable plus you can get some good hp out of them 1. Walking Liberty halfs from circulation 2. '34 Chevy 3. ~65 years ' 34 chevy....nice what did you have in it 350ci?
true but a lot of old chevy owners put the 350 in cuz there cheep to build and dependable plus you can get some good hp out of them>>>>>> Later on I had a 1955 2-door Chevy 210 with a 1958 Police 348 Chev engine. That car could pull the right front wheel up off the ground on a good uphill launch. The story was that a bum stole 3 brand new 348 Police interceptor engines off a train car and sold them. The 348 was the beginning of what turned out to be the 409 Chevy.
1. a 1974 coin from France. 2. I had a 1993 dodge shadow first for the first few months, then picked up a 1991 nissan skyline GTS type M with an RB 25 DET swap. And a GTR conversion kit on it. 3. About 12 yrs.
1. A 1999 State Quarter. 2. 1949 Ford. Ended up putting milled heads and triple Strombergs with headers on it. It was a great car to have because it was so nastaugic (not sure if i spelled that correct) to a lot of the older guys at that time. The headers, the milled heads, manifold, and two of the Strombergs were given to me by older guys who had these old flathead parts around from long ago. I put dual straight pipes on it when I put the headers on. It had sixteen inch wheels on it when I got it. Changed those to 14" with narrow band white sidewalls and baby moon hubcaps. Heated the springs to lower it about 2". rode like a buckboard, but I loved that car. Finally blew the engine and got a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air with a 265 cu in small block. 3. About ten years, 6 or 7 seriously.
