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Mine was a 67 Ford Country Squire station wagon with a crunched in right side. I sawed the exhaust off and installed 2 thrush mufflers. Only problem was when we went around a corner the right muffler would swing out perpendicular to the car. The passenger would open the door and have to kick the exhaust pipe back under the car. It was hard on dates.
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It was sitting on the side of a neighbor's house, buried in leaves and a substantial amount of Bondo and rust.
I asked him what he was going to do with it, and he said, "If you can make it run, you can have it."
I went home for some tools, WD-40, fresh gas, and a battery.
Had it running in less than an hour.
The thing was so fugly my dad made me park it around the corner...
I drove it for about six months before I got the "Fix-It" ticket from hell, and gave it back.
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Do the guys at the bicycle shop call you "Fred", or "Barney"?
Still a lot of fun at 1100 lbs.
My third car (I still have it) is a 1968 912 with a cam, Super 90 pistons and cylinders, polished intake, blue printed and balanced crank...
Might be pushing 115 HP.
1800 lbs. full of gas, and it's a blast to drive.
0 to 60 sucks, but once it's rollin', look out!
Had a '69 Galaxi 500 2dr, with a custom rag top (nicely done, worked and looked factory). Wrecked that after the strut sucked out of the frame and the front wheel turned sideways. Ended up fabbing a roll cage on it and racing it in a 250 mile enduro. I think I had that the longest out of all my cars......'cause it was a bitchin' weekend cruiser. i could get like 8 people in it, and like 10 cases of beer in the trunk.
'67 Impala super sport.......a real SS, with leather bucket seats and the chrome instrumentation. Somebody before me had pulled the 327 out and it had a shitty 350 in it, which I pulled and replaced with a slightly less shitty 350. Wrecked that.......blew a turn and hit a tree. My favorite of all my cars.......I really would have liked to keep it.
'64 Tbird. Got it wholesale for almost nothing......car was mint and only had about 40K on it......but the steering column was busted. Those cars didn't have tilt, the whole column slid to the center.........every time I turned left, the steering wheel would slide to the middle of the car. Replacing that was the hardest job I ever did on a vehicle. Sold it for 3x what I paid.............about 1% of it's value today.
'62 Falcon.........ran good.......don't remember what I did with that.
'73 Chevy Nova SS Hatchback (or was it a Malibu?) Neat car, sold it. Only hatchback I ever saw on that body style.
'71 Gran Tourino, mint green, factory stripe package and w/ Factory Magnesium wheels. Hot car, ran great, fast as shit. Sold it ( or wrecked it, can't remember).
'68 Pontiac Sunbird or something.......looked like a TA but a convertible. Had a weird engine in it........big block of some sort. 3spd manual tranny on the floor. I bought it for 200 with the drivers door smashed in........found a replacement at a junkyard from a different model car, but fit, rattle canned it, and sold it for 2 grand.
I had quite a few more........but those come to mind. Pops didn't pay for a single one of them.
I had a special hole cut in the back seat so we could throw our beer cans in the trunk without getting busted. Boy we were smart back then. Doh!
Pit Row
Finished it up one evening, and first trip out took Larry and a couple of our friends out for a "test drive", out onto I-285 in the rain. Needless to say, we're lucky to be alive...
Believe it or not you can get laid in one of those things although it does take a great deal of cooperation from all parties. Oh and from personal experiance, if you get bushwacked by the cops you're pretty much caught.
Jeep CJ7- totaled
Jeep Wrangler - totaled
Jeep Wrangler - sold
Honda Accord - stolen
Honda Accord - totaled
Nissan Altima - totaled
Jeep Grand Cherokee - totaled
Jeep Grand Cherokee - totaled
Chrysler LHS - sold
Acura TL - sold
BMW 330 - sold
Land Rover Defender 90 - still own
Jeep Commander - The lady's car
Toyota Tundra - sold
Toyota 4Runner - still own
Totals:
Stolen - 1
Currently Own - 3
Sold - 5
Totaled - 7
made up for it with vortech blown mustang gts, vette z06s, 2 vipers and some other goodies.
That's right the Chick magnet from Hell !
Yep...Busted a lot of cherries in that thing. I was the only 16 year old with a car. The older, (more willing) chicks liked it.
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