All the " Barn Finds " are neat but who has owned their ride more than 5 years ?

HAd my mercury since1998. It was a stock virgin when we met. I was 20 yrs old.

 

Huh? Lets see... My '48 Plymouth has been with me since 1987, driven daily since '94. My '62 Falcon will have been with me thirty years as of April 22 of this year. That car has actually been stolen and recovered twice in those years...

 

Cool thread.

I've owned my '33 lotsadoors for well over 30 years.

However my relationship with this one goes back to when it was new.


Served as the folk's daily driver before being parked in the early '60s. Towards the end of that decade it was dragged out to serve as the 'paddock basher' and driver training machine. Needing something for the road in the 'early '70s, it was again ressurected and put back into service as a driver. Then over the next few years it evolved into the car pictured although back then it had chrome wheels and narrow whites. It served us well but at the end of the '70s it was sold to help fund the things a newly wed needs more than old cars.

The buyer drove it home and it was never seen again. However unknown to anybody was that it hadn't 'gone to God' as we thought, it had instead been put into hibernation.

In the early days of the new millenium, thru a weird chain of events, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, late at night when it was rolled into the moonlight after more than 25 years in the darkness of an inner city shed. not one thing had changed, it even still had the same air in the same tyres as the day I sold it.

After a little negotiation with the guy I had sold it to all those years before, it again resides next to the '33 in my shed where it will remain unless it's being driven.

 

I have owned my 34 truck in my avatar, since the 70s. I do not remember the date as I wuz in a daze at the time. Time! wow what a concept!!! Groovy !!! Keep On Truckin!

 

Both of my caddys I have had for over 6 years. My 53 is just finishing up a motor transplant. I hope to have her done by this weekend or next week.

 

I have had the one in my avatar since 1979.

 

I've driven the green 72 c20 on the left for 30 years, it's a memeber of the family!

 

34 years so far, put the lacquer job on it in 1976.

 

43 years

 

Got my Studebaker in 73, it had been my mother's car since 1959 or so. Did the build on it in 96.

 

My 38 project in the family since early 40's....that count?

 

I got my '55 F100 in '71, met my last wife in '78, still got 'em both.
The roadster and tub aren't done, she remembers the last roadsters when we had the shop.
Now the F100 is almost paint ready (again!) and we take it to Billetproof and all the local drags. It is always well-received, but she says it's like we now star in the 'Support Vehicle'. Shit! Almost 40 years! (they both look young still....)

 

Well I bought my present car when I was 23 and fresh out of the Air Force. That was in 1973 when the car was 2 yrs. old. I've had it 37 years now.

 

My 55 210 2dr Sedan.. 17yrs old/ 1989 = almost 21 yrs now

57 Bel Air Sport Coupe.. 23 yrs old/1995 been my daily for 13 yrs

58 2dr Biscayne 26yrs old /'98 .. next to be finished(in it's darkest hour right now)

59 El Camino just bought it oct/5/2010 .. should be done in about 2 monthes.

 

owned my coupe since 1977
my roadster 1979
now I own my grandfathers sedan
all 1933 Dodge cars

 

the above sure beats me. i have owned my 32 chev coupe since '58. bought it in Ogdensburg NY. was sitting next to a garage along w/ 33 chevy coupe. it has been dragged all over "upstate NY" and now resides in venice fl. if you're interested in the "other deuce" take a look at car in my profile. some of us just have a hard time breaking off a relationship!!

 

had my truck since 1971 corvette since 1993 both in my avatar along with my digger bilt in 1956

 

I've had my '40 (in the avatar) for 34 years - got it in the winter of 1976!

***** Well, since it's now 2020, this winter I will have had my '40 for 43 years! It's in my will, it will belong to my son Charlie, who helped me with the frame-off build!

Buckshot40

 

Well .....

Guys who know me well know I have a penchant for tuff moPars. Ive had my Charger since 1982 and will never sell it I've decided, been with the car too long and have had too many memories and experiences with it to let her go.

My 3W scrapes in as its been on the road since late 2005.

My Bow Tie doesnt make the cut.

Rat

 

My truck's been in the family since about '75 when my cousin bought it. (b&w pic), then my brother got it from him in a trade in about 1981 (Blue pic)...my brother then gave it to me in the spring of 2001 and I've had it since...with a few different looks. I'd don't ever see me getting rid of her...

 

Started collecting parts for the coupe in my avatar in 1988. Got the frame that year, and the body in 1991. Still drive it regularly.

 

I've owned the silver 72 nova 23 years,black 69 nova 19 years,79 T/A 7 years,72 vette 9 years,Silverado 13 years,9C1 caprice 10 years (2 pics same car B-4 n after) And it all started in 1973 when I was 5 and my brother bought my 72 Nova SS 350 !

 

I've owned my Wildcat for only 34 years...

 

16 years


10 years


6 years

 

truck in my avatar have owned since 1994

 

I've had my '54 for 12 years, now.

 

14 years for my 49 AD....

Been drivin it for the majority of those 14 years (read prob 11 in between of build phases) took it apart a short time ago to finish her up...should have her done this year....hope so cause I made myself a deal that it wont be driven until the last bolt is in it the way I want it.

 

This is from 1961. Got it in 1959. So, 51 years.



This is where it's at today.



This one I had for seventeen years and recently sold because of a divorce.



This's been on the road for about twelve years now.

 

about ten years with my avatar.

 

We have owned the '58 for 15 years.
Pulled out of a barn in '95 with brakes locked on and dirty as hell!
New fuel, battery, freed up brakes, air in the tyres and we drove it home 250 miles.
Speedo then read 47,000 miles.
Gave it a major clean and detail as well as giving it a mechanical rebuild over the years.
January this year, completed a 1400 mile road trip around parts of the North Island with my teenage Son. The speedo clicked over 73,000 miles then.
Still work in progress and collecting road trophies as we go.......