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67 Ford Galaxie 500 2dr. 390ci 2 bbl. with S/S Cragar rims and Kelly Springfield Super Charger white letter tires. Man was she sharp.
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The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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1980 Oldsmobile Omega w/4-speed. I had it's cousin, the 1980 Pontiac LeMans. Man what a turd that car was. Saved up and got a 1970 Chevy C-10 about 8 months later.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan
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- - - I had the 1971 VW van, probably the worst vehicle ever made. Every 7K miles the engine would blow. Other than that a great car. - - . When our four kids were in their teens I needed an economic hauler - closed my eyes, held my nose and bought a used 71 VW wagon. It turned out to be a good move - spacious, handy and 20 mpg uphill or down, slow or topped out. But it did have small quirks. The ONLY mech problem that ever cost anything - full load of 8 folks going to church - in a second it dropped to 1/2 power. By Sunday eve I had determined that one head had pulled loose from the block (aluminum). Removed rear bumper and center panel, four bolts out, put a rolling jack under the engine and OUT. Put case inserts in, remounted the head, installed engine and ran it another 40k miles - sold it for what we had paid 4 years earlier. Ugly, noisy, etc. - but good for ts purposes.
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I may be a car masochist but I love that VW van. However the engine was underpowered and would blow. I owned 3 of 'em and blew 4 engines. You reworked that head and then got 40k more miles out of that car, you had the miracle VW.
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1980 Oldsmobile Omega w/4-speed. I had it's cousin, the 1980 Pontiac LeMans. Man what a turd that car was. Saved up and got a 1970 Chevy C-10 about 8 months later. The Oldsmobile 350 rocket was a good engine IMO. What was in the Pontiac a 307?
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My twin brother and I got a Soil and Water Conservation owned surplus 1963 Plymouth station wagon. It was about 6 or 7 years old when we got it and had seen better days. I think it had a 1964 front end on it. A $50 paint job, new radio (didn't come with a radio, just a blank in the dash. How long has it been since you saw something like that?), and a replacement back seat from the junk yard and it still looked like crap. It had a slant 6 engine with 3 on the column and would crank on the first try every time. Used to park it right between a 69 SS 396 Chevelle and a 69 Camaro. We got $2.00/week for gas money to haul the neighborhood kids to school and with that slant six engine we were making money. We weren't walking and life wasn't bad...
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My first three cars were barn finds. 56' four door ford 6 cylinder and 3 on the tree. Bought it for 150 dollars when I was 14 years old. Drove it through high school. My mom got several phone calls about her 14 year old son parking in the teacher's parking lot...eventually the scoldings stuck, and I started parking in the teacher's parking lot when I was 15 and had my learners permit 57 ford two door with 352 police interceptor. Bought it for 400 dollars. Rode it hard and blew the engine in like 8 months. To be fair the engine was high mileage and rode pretty hard when I got it. 68 for mustang 6 cylinder standard shift. Bought it for 400 dollars. Sold it when I joined the military. Fun car, like a go cart for asphalt. I liked the '56 the best, it was roomy for hauling my friends around, rolled and pleated seat covers, fender skirts, fuzzy dice and just a real classy car. Since then, it's been mostly trucks for me.
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1973 Dodge Charger. Blue with white vinyl top. 318 with an automatic. ....best of times them was.
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1953 Ford two door sedan. Flat head V8. Three on the tree. Hasbeen
hasbeen (Better a has been than a never was!)
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I got a brand new 1963 Pontiac Tempest on June 18, 1963, the day I turned 16. It had a 326 cu inch V8 and was insanely fast. I had it for all of 2 days when I let a buddy take it out for a spin and he crashed it on a stone wall. Luckily, he paid for the repairs, but my Dad took the keys for two months. Four years later, I bought a brand new 1967 Austin Healy Sprite for $2000 cash.
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My Dad's best friend was a mechanic that worked on all the foreign cars in our small town. It wasn't unusual to see an Isletta or amphibious car in his shop.
From on of his clients I got a 1971 Simca, 2 years old, for 200 hundred bucks and another 2 bills for parts for the motor.
Bad part was it was hard to be incognito as a teen with the only one in town. <grin>
oh yeah, the glove box could hold a 12 pack...lol...
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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72 Mustang coupe - 351 Cleveland.
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A friend had a blue 67 LeMans with a 2bbl 326. Had the shark gills. Surprisingly fast……but he always insisted on shifting first to third, when racing. Never knew why….he just said second was too close to first. He bought it cheap, bad throw out bearing. We stupidly just changing that….without a new clutch or pressure plate. Labor didn’t count in the equation, back then. I got a brand new 1963 Pontiac Tempest on June 18, 1963, the day I turned 16. It had a 326 cu inch V8 and was insanely fast. I had it for all of 2 days when I let a buddy take it out for a spin and he crashed it on a stone wall. Luckily, he paid for the repairs, but my Dad took the keys for two months. Four years later, I bought a brand new 1967 Austin Healy Sprite for $2000 cash.
"Those that think they know everything are annoying those of us that have Google." - Dr. D. Edward Wilkinson
Note to self: Never ask an old Fogey how he is doing today. Revised note to self: Keep it short when someone asks how I am doing.
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You guys are old.....My first was a 99' Mustang gt. 4.6 v8 with a 5 speed. Pretty fun car. Been all pickups since then.
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1968 Cougar XR-7 with a 302. It was gold with a white top but painted it metallic brown. I payed $500 for it in 1980.
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My first vehicle was part ownership in a 37 Chevy pickup. Three of us 17 year olds ran the crap out of it and drank a bunch of beer in it until college or the draft hit home!
My first car of my own, was a 58 Chev, Belaire with a 348 V8. It was fast, but took awhile to get up to speed!
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1979 Ford Fairmont with 200 ci straight six.
It got me places.
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
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53 Chevy six cylinder standard transmission in green and creme color.
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