History What was your 1st piece of Speed Equipmet

Tri-power setup for my early Olds; Holleys, Edelbrock manifold and linkage..
$25.00 - used..about '65.....

 

Edelbrock 573 tri power Y block intake

 

ugh....
Traction bars for my.....Vega wagon
Hung one on a manhole and ripped the trailing arm out of the chassis.
Gimme a break---we ALL were stupid kids once....

 

Air shocks for the rear! Had to jack that baby up in the 70s

 

283 and a power glide for my 1950 willys panel to swap out a chev 4 and auto

 

Mine was a 283 that needed rebuilding cause it was full of water. Built it up and replaced the 235-6 that came in my '57. Couldn't blow that thing up. Ended up pulling it out and selling it!

 

Holley 750 double pumper. It went on a stock SBC and ran like crap (for the obvious reason). Hey, I was young and bigger was supposed to be better. Right?

 

I bought a used Hurst shifter for the 3 sped in my 57 150 sedan when I was 17. We never flipped the shift arms on the tranny so the shift pattern was all buggered up. No one could drive it other than me, so that was a good thing. After that I bought two Keystone classics and some glue on white rubber letters and had 'genuine' 57 Chevy Radial T/A's

 

Mary Ellen back in 59,oops,Baby moons on my 55 merc.Did not go faster but it sure looked like it would.

 

a cherrybomb

 

hooker headers for my chevy ll of course they hit the linkage so i had to bu a b&m starshifter the next day!

 

bought a pair of used sbc gold moroso valve covers and breathers and hold downs from a friend of my dad's....now that i think about it , it was probably the hedman headers for my chevy II wagon ...then the valve covers....not sure if i would classify the chrome valve covers i got for christmas when i was 14 as speed equipment , though , i suspect , they were everybit of speed equipment to me then.... didn't get serious into the speed stuff till i got out of school and went to work for myself.....

 

A 4 barrel Intake for a 345 International V8

 

after reading a few of the post , i totally forgot about get a pair of those , oh so bitchin, shackles for my 1st nova..... those were good times....

 

Holley 4 bbl , intake , headers !

 

Pontiac Tri-power setup for my 400 that I had in my 68 Chevelle....I bought it from SPEED CITY, Eastlake Ohio......They sold used stuff....but are now long gone...before I bought this, I tried to talk my mother into loaning me 1,200 bucks to by a jet engine out of the local Trade in Times, years later only to find out I had talked to Art Arfons, for he was the one selling it out of Akron Ohio....my mom would not loan her 16 yr. old son the money...I was sad...Littleman

 

A used Isky cam and a '55 Ford 4-bbl intake with a WCFB carb for my '57 Custom 300 272 Y-block. With stock converter and 3:00 gears, it didn't work too swift, but sounded cool idling. The '57 "Thunderbird Special" valve covers helped a lot too! lol

 

Spark-O-Matic....shifter

 

1959, An edlebrock hi-throat manifold for twin strobmerg 97's for my 47 Ford convertible.

 

A header and megaphone tailpipe, they were called stingers...for my bone stock 1600 cc vw motor in my '56 bug, it didn't make it any faster but with no baffle in it was louder the shit going down the street at 3000 rpm. in 3rd gear.
Brian.

 

Either a holley carb or hurst sifter for my 65 Mustang. That was in the early 70's . Totaled it three months later

 

I bought a two year old Super Stocker (in 1962) and took the engine apart and had it bored .125 over with 12.5 to 1 pistons, balanced it and added an Isky cam. It already had 3 deuces and a four speed. As time allowed I covered the engine in every chrome part I could find in the JC WHitney catalog.

 

Glass pack in 1969 for my Dad's '63 Ford pickup. He wasn't to keen about it.

 

A Hurst 3-speed shifter for my old 61 chevy. Guess that was in 1966 or 67. Thing was a bear to install.

 

Hurst shifter for my '55 Nomad. I was 16, the year was '67.

 

Sun tach in 1962, mounted top center of the dash board of my '40 Ford 2-door sedan. Yes......I was cooooool!!!!!!!

 

A chrome exhaust pipe for my Rupp Continetal Custom Mini-Bike. Then a go-cart 2-stroke racing motor replaced the old 4 cycle engine. GM

 

My first piece was a '28 Ford Tudor that my dad bought, I helped build and by the age 16 took over completely. My highschool hot rod. It was completley built for speed and I drove it everywhere.

 

454 Weiand tunnel ram intake with twin Holley 450 mechanical carbs

 

Offy 360 intake for a 383 Mopar when I was in Junior High.