Remembering Our First Cars Moses Lake Classic Car Club
Dave Robins - 1947 Frazer
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Bob Kent - 1st Real Car
Unkown Make & Model
Bob Kent - 1st Car
1946 Ford Rat Rod
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Al & Chari Wallace - 1st Car
1964 Plymouth Sport Fury
Al & Cheri Wallace - 2nd Car 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner
We were 17 years old when we bought this car
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Paul Boehm- 1st Car
1949 Kaiser Deluxe
My first car was a 1949 Kaiser Deluxe that mom (Helen), sister (Ruth) and I picked up at the factory in 1949. It was painted Polar Grey. In the fall of 1954 I bought the car from my parents and proceeded to make a hot-rod out of it. It had a 226 ci. 6 cylinder engine with dual carbs on a Edmundson water heated manifold, dual straight pipes and full cam. I drag raced the car at Arlington Drag-strip in the 50's. I wanted more horsepower so I traded it for a new 1957 Plymouth.
Paul Boehm - 2nd Car
1957 Plymouth Belveder 4 door Hardtop
1957 Plymouth Belvedere 4 door Hardtop. 318 Cid with Stromberg adjustable main jet tri-power carbs. 27 MPG unless you stepped on it. Cost around $2500.00 with automatic transmission. I raced this car at the Arlington Drag-strip and in Abbortsford, Canada in the '50s. The tri-power end carbs were controlled by a T-handle on the dash board which allowed for more precise control. After the car was broadsided in '60 it never handled right again and was traded in 1962 for twin 1956 Plymouth Station wagons. (My family was growing)
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Joe McCullough - 1st Car
1950 Chevrolet BelAir
Joe's First - Still has it.
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Bill Anderson - 1st Car
1938 Ford Humpback Sedan
"This is my first car, a 1938 Ford humpback sedan. The colored picture was taken the day I was leaving for college in Ellensburg!! ( that's my sister not my girlfriend!!)"
Bill Anderson - 2nd Car
1936 Ford Coupe
This was Bill's second car. "Traded the 38 for the 36 coupe. My mom was really impressed. This was my daily driver until Glenda and I were married in 1967. Old's rear-end, Chev. 3 speed, and 283 for power."
Bill Anderson - 3rd Car
1967 Pontiac Firebird 400
"Glenda and I signed our teaching contracts to teach in Moses Lake and I ordered this from Hille Chevrolet and Pontiac in Ritzville. $4,100.00 for a loaded Firebird 400. Got it just in time to take on our honeymoon to Canada."
Trooper Bill Anderson
Our Hero Bill in Action."I just wanted Trooper Duffin to know that I too worked for the State Patrol. My base was a small Chevron station in Ritzville."
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Doug Skane - 1st Car Real Car
Lark - Super Convertible
1 B.P. 2 Stroke
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Clay Crook - 1st Car
1946 Plymouth
Clay's '46 Plymouth High School Hot Rod1958 - Bought car in May from used car lot for $125. Clay's 17, car's 121959 - Clay & Karen graduate from R.A. Long High, Longview, WA. and the car is painted. Stock Plymouth 6 with 215 cu., puts on headers.1962 - Clay & Karen are married, Car goes on honeymoon.1964 - Needs more power. Builds & installes a 1953 Chrysler flat head 6, bored to 275 cu., balanced, cam, dual 2 barrel carbs, headers, Jahns 10.5:1 racing pistons, overdrive, and suspension beefed with Dodge hearse springs.1975 - Car painted in Sunnyside with Emron Blue/Black paint.1990 - Car upholstered in Moses Lake resembling the original.2008 - In May they are 67 & 66, car is 62, same owner for 50 years, always garaged.
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LaDell Yada - 1st Car
1949 Chevrolet Club Coupe
LaDell's 1st car, 1949 Chevrolet Club Coupe
LaDell Yada - The Other Car
1950's Isetta
"This is my most unusual car I ever owned! It was a 1950 something Isetta, (made by BMW I believe) and the picture was taken in Walla Walla about 1964. This was my work car!" (What a hot rod!) It Has a Canvas excape hatch in the roof in case someone parks to close.
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Bruce Trachte - 2nd Car
1966 Dodge Cornet
I special ordered this car from "SL Savage" in downtown Seattle. I was working at BOEING at the time. SL Savage was the Dodge dealer that was in Cahoots with SPEEA (engineering union) for getting the best deal for their members. I think I paid around $2600 and the payments were $76 a month. That was a lot of $$ then for me. I ordered it with a 383 4 bbl, four speed tranny with a bench seat so my girl friend could sit in the middle. It was a intermediate size car with no power brakes or power steering so it pretty much handled like a truck. After I got it, I installed an Edelbrock Trantula intake manifold and big HOLLY carb. I would street drag race just about any one that wanted to go for it. I really enjoyed racing it at the Puyallup Raceways drag-strip on weekends. By the time I sold it I had gone through three motors.
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