Re: [AMC-List] My First Car

["ROSS BLAIR" <bigbad69@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well not really MY first car, it was my Dad's, but it was also the first car I ever drove. By 1977, the former family car, a '69 Rambler, was abandoned in the driveway. At age 17, I resurected it from the dead and called it my own. After getting it running, I also had to straighten out the body where my older brothers had "adjusted" the factory styling previously. In my last year of high school, I got a lot of snide comments from classmates about the beater Rambler I was driving until I reminded them I didn't have to ask permission to drive it. 

It was a Beale St. Blue 440 (they were all 440's in '69 weren't they?) sedan with the 199 in it. No powerhouse by any stretch of the imagination, but it took a lot of abuse (three teenage drivers and an owner who did minimal maintenance) and kept on going. I have always respected the toughness of these cars. 

After high school, a summer of working produced enough cash to buy a more stylish (read chick-magnet) car: a '69 Javelin. The Rambler was again abandoned in the driveway where it bio-degraded for a couple of years, then was towed away for scrap. 

Even though it was never really my car, I liked to think of it as mine, and I was proud of my accomplishments. Growing up in a family of accountants and book keepers, I was the gear-head and figured it all out by myself.




Ross Blair
69 BBO Javelin 390
Ottawa, Ont.

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