When did you get your first E-Body?

[Cuda Cody]

When did you get your first E-Body?  What year, how old were you and what E-Body was it? 

[GrandpaKevin]

1973 Challenger with original 318 3 speed manual transmission.

Bought in 1979 at age 15, drove it home with no drivers' license

Drove it through high school, to my prom, college a few years then turned it into a street/strip car

Still own it today

[Brads70]

1986 for me I was 19. Car was a total rot box springs came thru the trunk and front frame was rotten also, but it was the best 11 months while it lasted! Air shocks, cragers  , I was cool for 11 months LOL  It was my first car ever, always a special experience.  I feel really blessed to be able to own another as I thought I never would get the chance to again after this one bit the dust. 

[RUNCHARGER]

1977, go big or go home so I bought a 71 R/T, 383, 4 speed with deluxe interior (black and white cloth).  It was a rough car though. I really liked the options/colours. Too bad it wasn't a better car. I swapped in a built 440 and 18 spline for the tired originals. It ran hard and anyone who has driven a rear sway bar equipped E-body hard can identify with how well they drifted and pulled doughnuts.

[soundcontrol]

1979, I was 18, traded in a 1961 Impala that I got from my dad, at a car dealer and got this N-code Cuda. At the time I paid about $2800 for it. It was only 9 years old!

[cuda hunter]

Musta been like 2005 or 2006.  I had been saving and looking for a cuda to buy for several years.  Everyone wanted the dear lords fortune for them. 
Found this one in Blackhawk Colorado. It had been used as a storage compartment for mice.  They were able to get into the home and stuffed this thing full of noodles and cereal.  I had to kill them at my property with a blow gun.  couldn't catch em. 
  Rust box from Pennsylvania.   I paid 5K for this rot box.  It was such a fun time to own and to get road worthy again.  Sold it to some folks in the Dakota's as I recall. They were gonna do a full resto on the car.
  No fender tag, no build sheet.  It was originally petty blue though.   

[torredcuda]

1982, 23-24 yrs old,  I was looking for a project car, something I could drive as I collected parts and eventually tear down and restore. At the time I was pretty open to a bunch of different makes and models -  Mustangs, Torinos, Chevelles, `cudas, Challengers, road runners etc. I found a Mach 1 and a couple others but they were over my budget and so it came down to a two E-bodies, the first was a `70 Challenger, 383 4 spd. lime green with houndstooth interior, pretty solid body but engine was tired and smoking so it needed a rebuild, second was a `72 Barracuda 318 car but had a 340 and 727, white interior, crappy dark blue repaint, ran and drove, rear quarter and trunk rust and interior was trashed. I loved the houndstooth interior and 4 spd but also always loved `cudas and since the 383 wasn`t really in driveable condition the Barracuda won out, paid $1000 and drove it home. Today it still has the same 340 but now a 4 speed and repainted back to it`s original V2 Tor-red.

[Floyd]

1977, age 15.  1970 Challenger R/T, 383 auto trans for $325.  Hemi Orange with a black butt stripe.  Car needed every panel due to rust or collision damage.  While searching for parts, my dad found an add for another 70 Challenger and I bought that one for $500.  Took that one home and had my much more knowledgeable Mopar buddy check it out.  Turns out I accidentally bought a T/A.

Here's a pic of the car right after I bought it.

[JS29]

In 1979 at 20 years old I went to San de ago California. I had owned a 70 duster beforehand, and wanted to move up the game. I was looking for a cuda. the second gas crises hit, and in the newspaper was a 70 challenger R/T 383 4-speed.    I called and talked to the owner, He wanted $1'500.00 for it. I only had $800.00. he told me to come look at it.    It was FY1 yellow with a black painted roof and a black interior. With the gas crisis going on, he took my offer. A year later I decided to move back home, The day I got back home my brother garbed the keys, and with out my permission took the car. less than two miles still on the same road  that we lived on, lost it on a curve and snapped off a telephone pole with the left front tire.  buckled the floor pan and firewall.       

[Topcat]

Mom & Dad brought it home in March 72'

318 GC A/T 2 tag car.

My grad present in 78' & first car I owned.

[PatO]

In 73 when I was 18 I bought a 72 Rallye.  Pic is from summer of 74.

[benlavigne]

I guess I am a late bloomer, I got my first E in 2017... My first car in 1980 was a Superbird, though, wish I still had that one.
After working my way up to and selling a nice A12 Road Runner during the Winter, I was on the hunt for an E, I was actually looking for a 72-74 to suit my budget, and maybe do a resto-mod, but a friend steered me towards a 71 R/T that needed a little bit of finishing, so it was at a price I could afford...
I replaced the (non-original) engine, dash, lots of small stuff(that adds up!), but then my current 70 340 came along, and I could not resist!

Ben

[Challenger in NC]

1986, Age 19, 1970 U code, Picture taken in Hercules, CA 1986
Second photo, 1987, Turlock, CA (sold a few months later for $3,200)

[JH27N0B]

My T/A was my first car, I bought it in late '78 at age 16 and quickly found it wasn't a very practical choice for a daily driver in the snow belt!  It somehow survived, and I bought my mom's old Pinto as a beater the following September for a beater and I didn't need to risk and abuse the T/A the following winter.  And I never got rear ended driving the Pinto so I survived also!

[bentpshrods]

    July 1977---I was 20 years old.  I was a chevy man back then when a  friend went down to California and brought back a yellow/black Challenger T/A.  That car was just so cool. About a month later I was doing a delivery out in the farm area outside of Boise and saw a car sitting in a field with the same body style (sort of)  so I stopped and checked it out. It was a 71 Cuda.  The rear window louvers were gone, wing was broke in half, paint was completely shot, but the car was all there and solid.  Paid $1,200.00 for it and just by stupid luck I still have it today.  Pretty cool hearing stories of members who have had there cars for a long time, and seeing the changes they have gone thru.