First Car Stories

I'll try and be brief:). It was late 1974 and i was set to get my license in Feb. 75, 16th b-day. Moved to a neighborhood in 1970 that had 10-12 guys in their late teens and early 20s and all most all of them drove Mopar muscle of some type. Needless to say now i'm hooked. Back to 74', i was determined to have a 340 car and liked Dusters more then anything else. My best friend, seeing my passion for the 340 engine, decided he'd like one also but he was into 68-69 Darts. He was already driving at the time, his dad's 72 Vega and i was set to inherite a 1963 4 dr. Chevy II. We looked at alot of cars, mainly for him at the time, and looking back i am amazed what poor condition most were in. Just some were....68 GTS 383. 69 GTS 340, 2-69 Swinger 340s. Quarter rust, body damage, interiors with alot of wear, high mileage, etc. Well, he decided to just keep driving the Vega for a while. My grandfather had set aside $1,500 for my first car and i was getting close to my license and it was burning a hole in my pocket:). I was pumping gas at a shell station full time, yea we actully did that and for $1.60 hr. no less. So many cars came through there, mainly GM's, and i couldn't take it anymore. A super clean 69 Chevelle SS came in, family driven car, for sale at $1,600. Well $1,400 later it was mine.
Now, 1 week later mind you, here comes my buddy with a want-ad paper and says let's go look at this Duster. Well he bought it for $1,050 dollars, got a trunk full of parts that he sold and made enough to buy the wheels that are pictured on it. He got the car i wanted:banghead:. Next for me was a 71 Scamp 318, but my timing really sucked on the first one.
P.S. every one of the Darts we looked at were priced under a grand.