It's cool to see how many people still talk about the Porter Steel-Pac Muffelrs. And tehy are still made the same and the brothers out of Garden Valley, Ca used to make them!
Class of '82.My 1st was a Blue '72.Then I had a Tan '74. Both were Stock...What the HELL was I thinking!
1966 55 chevy 2 dr hrdtop 1967 55 chevy conv. 1968 67 camaro Z28 - out of high school 1969 69 chevy nova 396 375 4 spd 1974 59 corvette 1975 37 chevy 4 dr 1975 35 fod 5 window 1976 35 ford cabriolet 1976 40 ford cpe 1978 40 ply 1980 32 ford 5 window 1980 49 merc still have it 1993 40 merc conv. 1996 32 ford rdstr 1999 36 ford cabr. still have it 1999 48 chevy p/u still have it FRANK
This is funny. I just posted this on the " What was your ride in High school?" thread last week. Thought this was the same thread. This was my first car. 1978 Monte Carlo with bucket seats, console, power windows and T-TOPS!!! I was 15 when I bought it. Over the next couple years I put in a stock 350 (original 305 smoked with 150k miles), replaced the interior carpet and had it repainted dark blue. The beginning of my senior year in October, '91, I was t-boned by a buddy of mine from school. I was traveling down a dark country road when it started pouring rain and I lost it in the corner. Just as I corrected he came around the corner and nailed me. Everyone was just a little soar. There were no hard feelings. Shit happens. Brian <!-- / message --> <!-- sig --> __________________ www.pinheadlounge.com/bman www.bmanstriping.com
Well since I'm still in the Swedish "version" of High School, I'll have to say the car i have now, a '64 Volvo Duett converted to P/U Truck. But the model was almost unchanged from 49 thru 69 so I looks like a 40's/50's truck. It's not a runner, but I hope it will be in time for my license. Im currently building a vintage tow-truck out of it, but it's to light to actually tow anything over 1,2 tons. This is how it looked a couple of years ago (with 2 industrial size buckets of bondo on it), but I cut the ugly ass bed off and built a real end and currently working on a bed w/ towing equipment. Also the badly built flip front had to go, it was jut too bad! Will take new pics soon!
I was a bit of a Mopar guy back then. I had a 67 Charger then I had a 66 Plymouth Satellite. I'd sure like to have either one of them today Bobby
By the time I was 16 years old I wheeled and dealed my self a 56 Chevy 4 door and a 1970 Chevelle, then traded both of them for a 1967 plymouth GTX, 440 Magnum, 4 speed, metalic silver w/ black factory interior, American Torq Thrusts wheels, long Thrush cans after the head pipes. Won many steet races with it, but lost a few due to missed shifts or traction problems, man I loved that car. Met up with a gardrail-palmtree-brick fence one evening, was late for dinner (Dad wanted everyone home at dinner time) it was raining and I was going to fast on worn back tires-Hydroplaned-one tough lesson.
I walked to school most days(about 1 1/4 miles), but sometimes I would get to drive a 1980 Falcon or a 1961 Ramble Classic station wagon. After I totaled the Falcon, my Dad bought a 1965 Mercury Monterey Marauder that was pretty fast from a roll. George
In 1965 at 16 I had a channeled '30 roadster with an injected 327. Kinda ratty but very fast. Then fast-forward 41 years to the first outing of my new deuce roadster to a local drag strip, and what did I find but my old Model A, now with primer and a 348, still on the road. It's still owned by the guy I sold it to some 20 years ago. Made for a great photo-op - my first car and my "last" car side by side.
I occasionally drove my 73 SS Nova to HS... Other times I drove one of dad's cars or trucks... I bought it when I was 11, dad & I did a frame off when I was 16 with the exception of the UGLY stripes on the side and I still have it today... Graduated in 91'.
1968 RS Camaro, 350/4gear/12bolt, trantula intake, double pumper, dual points, muncie M21, 4:11s, Rocket and ET style Cragars, chrome slapper bars, it had a Craig Power Play 8track with matchin Speakers, and a Sparkomatic Graphic EQ. Tiny superior steering wheel and no PS, LOL, a bitch to Parellel park. After I dropped the 3rd trans, my dad took it from me....replaced it with a bare bones 65 Fairlane sedan, 289/3gear, had a foxcraft shifter, and 61 Impala SS hubcaps(later replaced with chrome slots!), bought by skimming my lunch money for a few months, LOL, the ole man was SEVERLY Tweaked when he found out how I raised the $$$ to buy it. After a few months of a blue oval settin in the driveway, he convinced me to sell it and gave me the camaro back, but after HS when he didnt co-sign a loan to get her painted I bought a 76 ASTRE all on my own, FELT GOOD! not needing any help.......had that way after HS.....I could go on and on, but Ill let someone else tell their story now, LOL....
i had a 57 chevy convertible yellow black top , 57 2door hardtop , 57 4 door wagon , 1946 chevy pick-up still have needs restored , . i flipped to 57 convertible over about 5 times or more while racing a 1958 chevy 2door , the 57 hardtop i man ran a red light hit my car and then the 57 car hit a phone poll . sold the wagon wish i had all of them back. i also had 32 ford coupe , 36 chevy covertible , 55 chevy covertible and a few more.thanks
In my great wisdom,(You know 16 and smarter than everyone) I turned down a '64 Malibu, for a '80 ford Granada with an exhaust leak and bad brakes... Just to save $500. LET THE A@# KICKN' BEGIN
I had a 73 camaro lt and a 54 ford f100 w/351 cleveland.The f100 was lowered with smoothies and porter walls.I remember I painted a stray cat on the spare tire cover.I had pinstriped flames and called it white lightning.I got alot of slack back then in 1982-83.Everyone was drive z28s ,t/a s and mustangs.Everyone thought I was so weird.Thank God I am still weird
First purchased vehicle: 1974 Ford F100 $100 Age 15, Napoleon Dynamite boots and all. My plans were lowered, Mickey Thompsons, blower. Then I realized I hated working on it in the snow and on cold gravel. Went to the crusher. First driveable vehicle: 1985 Doge Daytona Turbo $3000 If you watch The Wraith, this car, somehow, almost beat the Corvette in the beginning. Lots of transmission issues. The car is dumped somewhere on a street in Mexico. First real project 1950 Dodge Coronet $450. I would have actually gone somewhere with it if I didn't leave for college.
1971 gmc sprint (el camino) 350 4 speed 1965 chevelle 2 door post 283 glide 1968 chevelle 2 door post 6cyl glide 1965 buick riviara 401 st400 (fast fun, 2nd gear rubber) 1972 chev elcamino 350 th350 355 posi (not so good in the winter but i dealt) 1953 ford f100 350th350, kaboom, 283/th350, kaboom 283/700r4. this was all in 3 years of high school, i changed cars like underwear! i still have the 71 sprint and going to redoo it some day! jeff
'77 Trans Am 400-4 speed. Silver so faded it looked like primer with a black interior. Hard top with rally II's. Car was stolen and never found .
1940 Ford Opera Coupe. The first photo is when I bought it in my senior year, 1965 for $100. The second photo is when I had a Allstate rebuilt flathead in her from Sears. The third I was putting my new 296 full race Flathead in. That was in there until 1977 when it was in Rod Action magazine. By the time the magazine hit the stands I had put a 289 Ford with C4 automatic. The last photo is of it today. It currently has a 350 Vortec in it and about to hit the streets after being garaged for 20 years. The car has taken me thru a vocational training school, college, and my daily driver for another 10 years and all over the NW going to rod runs. It has been thru one wife and still currant, two kids that are now all grown up and now looking into retirement. I can truly say she has been a lifetime love affair and can still see a lot of fun and years in her yet.
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