What were you driving 25 years ago? I got pics- show me yours.

25 years ago I bought my first car that year. A 2 owner, 60k mile, 65 Marlin. But w/a factory AMC 327, buckets and and console I was doing alright I thought!

Got to keep in mind I was only 13.

This pic was taken in Nov. of 88. The Cad. in the background is one of the other cars I drove while in high school.

 

My first car, bought in 84. A 1974 Malibu Classic

 

Had a Sony Walkman I used to listen to while I rode, I can hear Drop Dead Legs and Rock Candy now!

 

In the summer of 1984, my daily driver was an O/T 1962 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider:


The Alfa and the Coupe @ the first ever "GOODGUY'S GET TOGETHER" (March 27, 1983)

... I still have both cars!

 

1966 Dodge Coronet 500. I've owned this car since March 1980, and am the second owner. It's not HAMB-friendly, but so what!

 

This...1953 Chevy...235/powerslide...$250 running.

 

This 54 chevy...white tuck n roll...JC Whitney p.o.s. stereo...functioning pipes...drove that sucker everywhere

 

25 years ago?



23 Years Ago:

 

A 39 Standard Coupe.My daily was a 67 Nova 2dr post

 

i was drivin 73 elky ss 454 4spd, black on black. rolled it tryin to make it to the packy. ma tha was a long tyme ago , wish i still had it or even a picture

 

'72 Monte Carlo, 350/350, here in the near lane going off against a Mustang.



This was the temporary dragstrip they ran in the Stadium parking lot in San Diego.

I think I won my bracket that day!

 

My 25 year ago cars are only 1/3 HAMB friendly



62 Corvette 340 horse 4 speed (got correct caps & wheels later)



72 GMC Jimmy, 1 ton axles, big block



later converted to 2WD



62 VW Baja, dual carb 1835cc

 

6cyl auto radio delete posi custom cab. Wish I still had it.

 

lets see the 50 chevy is25 yrs ago and still have
the black 57 chevy i had over 40 yrs ago the black funnel car my hipper days(late 60,s) the van in the 70,s the blue 57 conv 63-74 (wish still had

 

78 Trans Am

 

I was one month old 25 years ago from today. I was driving my mom crazy no doubt.

My parents were still sporting their 83 Shelby Charger that they bought new. It was a lemon even for those cars, but they kept it around till the late 80's when I could remember riding in it. (new engine helped a lot.)

 

25 years ago it was my older friends '59 Cad. 23 years ago it was my first car, a Fiat Peacock blue '59 "Star Model" Ford Customline, shaved and lowered with a hot Y-block, chromies and WWW's.

 

NO big wheels for me... got to practice in Grandpa's '37

 

heres mine,,,,i still have it

 

This, every day.

 

Lets see that would have been 1984, right?

I sold my pan in 85 so I would have had a 49 101" Panhead. A real pan head stroked the hard way not a repop.

And a '68 plane jane Torino with a boss 429 lurking where the winsor should have been. Not trad by any stretch of the imagination but it was one helluva lot of fun to drive.

Sorry I've always been real bad about not keeping pics of anything.

 

I was just building - and driving - this. Still am. Was at Eyes on Design this year.

 

Nice pix i rember when

 

25 years ago......



35 years ago.....

 

Was still driving my '76 black 'n gold Trans Am that I bought new in '76, but sold it to restore my very first car that I bought when I turned 16. . . a '63 Thunderbird M-Bird with 340 h.p. 390 and tri-power. . .took 1st in National Concourse Competition in K.C.
All the while, enjoyed cruisin' and showin' my '56 Ford 2 door Wagon with 302, tunnel ram, 4-speed, disc brakes, etc. that I built from the pile o' crap pictured. It was featured in Rod 'n Custom in October 1990!!

33 years ago, I traded the Barracuda Gran Coupe for the T/A. . .wish I still had 'em both!!

 

Okay, Steve -- CONSIDERING THOSE COOL CARS -- I figure . . . Hmmmmmmm???? -- the RUSSIONS must have discovered that you'd found the Nazi plan for a working COLD-FUSION reactor?

Why would anybody sell off such great metal?

Simple logic here: THE RUSSION BASTARDS, as usual!

 

Where does the time go!!!
1982

 

Spent many days turning left hand circles around the parked crew trucks on a rig like that.

 

Maybe a little more than 25 years ago but this may be the actual reason I got into cars....hot rods.

This thing was bitchin', you could do sick 360's!

Pete-

 

I was runnin' 8 Zenith Zinger II's or alloy center Mad Dog's........