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Old 10-11-2016, 01:14 PM   #21
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Old 10-11-2016, 01:44 PM   #23
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Mine was similar to yours Dusty. Only I had the F250, 460 big block, 8" suspension lift, 3" body lift and it sat on 44" Ground Hog tires. I had a love/hate relationship with that truck. I loved driving it, but I hated repairing and putting gas in the darn thing! I got 5 miles to the gallon!
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1967 mustang - it was wrecked and in the Salvage yard or like it was known back then the junkyard. I begged my dad to let me buy it. I was 14 and didn't even have a license. He made a deal with the owner of the yard and they towed it to my house. It took me 3 years of saving every penny and hundreds of hours of labor with my dad but we made her beautiful again.

My dad and I did a lot of cars together over the years but this one was special. The bond created by working side by side with him could never be broken. Now that he is gone, all I have are the memories but they are great ones. What I wouldn't give to do just one more car with him...
Seriously. Just what I needed today was a punch right in the feels. I've spent a lot of time turning wrenches with the old man, and he's still here, so I grab every moment I can get. Though, these days we're more likely to be chasing white tails across the TX Hill Country.

My first ride was a 1986 Mazda RX-7 (5-spd with rotary engine). It was my older brother's and was ragged out before he had it, so it didn't have much left when I finally got it. It had been totaled by the insurance company after a drunk college kid hit a stack of parked cars, and this one was at the end. I had turned 16 a few months before, and dad's patience with me driving the family Suburban all the time was waning. I remember the day my brother brought it home, we had to use a crow bar to get the passenger side door open, but it had a sun roof (that didn't leak TOO much)! It also had a short somewhere in the electrical system (I never did chase that down), so the battery wouldn't last more than a day, or even less, sitting before it was dead. My buddies' "fare" for a ride was to help me push-start it in the school parking lot (or wherever).

I don't miss that one, but the second one was a '79 Chevy Suburban. Now that was an awesome ride! It needed new rings; the blow-by was only evident under WOT, so it wasn't too bad. I had a lot of fun in both vehicles, but the 'burb was by far my favorite. It would've been a great platform for A LOT of mods, but I didn't have the dough to support them. Sold it to a buddy for what I paid for it. Today I'd gladly pay 3 or 4 times what I sold it for back then.
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In 1969 when I turned 16 I found a used '67 Camaro SS 396 that I wanted but my dad would not sign for me to buy it. Too much horsepower he said. So I bought a bright red '66 Mustang with the 200 cu. in. 6-cylinder engine and three speed on the floor. No A/C but I installed a state-of-the-art 8-track tape player under the dash.
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Old 10-11-2016, 06:11 PM   #31
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Old 10-11-2016, 06:24 PM   #32
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Old 10-11-2016, 07:15 PM   #35
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Old 10-11-2016, 07:34 PM   #36
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Awww comeon - doesn't anybody else have any pictures?

First car was this 1951 Mercury Coup. It had a flat head V8 and 3 on the tree.

My parents had a family friend who had been a repo man. Back in the 1960's they didn't use tow trucks - it was too easy to hotwire a car. Repo men worked in pairs, one would lookout for the owner while the other hotwired the car and drove it away. "Uncle Jack" used this car to do his repo work. The car had a bullet hole in the back drivers side door that went clean through the back seat and through the floorboard. Someone had taken a shot at him while doing repo work. My friends in High School thought that bullet hole was the COOLEST thing - so I never repaired it.

But another strange thing about Uncle Jack - he never drove on the early expressways and never drove faster than about 40 mph (perhaps that's why he didn't get away fast enough to miss that bullet :-)) So as long as I drove under 40 that engine was perfect - drive faster than that and it would burn a quart of oil per tank of gas.

And the transmission was SHOT. 1st was fine, but the tranny wouldn't stay in 2nd. You had to keep your hand on the shifter and press up HARD to keep it in 2nd. Then getting it into 3rd required a certain fast Flick of the wrist that none of the rest of my family could master. A friend and I took the transmission apart once and the main gear was so chewed up we just closed it back up as I couldn't afford the parts.

I drove that car my last 2 years of HS and first year of college. My Dad paid $75 for that car and I sold it 3 years later for $100.

My dad didn't help me with that car - he was working 6 days a week during that time (probably to pay for my college). But when I was younger we did work on his 1938 Ford standard 2d Coup. That car was in pristine condition. Sadly, the reason we worked on it was so Dad could sell it. I really wish I still had that car today.
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Old 10-11-2016, 07:44 PM   #37
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My first was a 1966 Chevy Biscala. Never heard of one? It was a 1966 Chevy Biscayne station wagon (gold) with a 'doghouse' (fenders, grill, hood) of a 1966 Impala (blue). I could never get in trouble because my parents and everyone else knew it was me.
Here's my list:
#1 – 1966 Biscala
#2 – 1969 Chevy Nova – totaled in snowstorm
#3 – 1969 Pontiac GTO – 400 was replaced with 6 cyl during Arab Oil Embargo
#4 – 1972 AMC Hornet bought from parents
#5 – 1971 Plymouth Duster
#6 – 1978 Plymouth Horizon
#7 – 1982 Chevy Celebrity
#8 – 1986 Pontiac Grand Am
#9 – 1988 Olds Cutlass Supreme
#10 – 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee
#11 – 2002 Mitsubishi Eclipse
#12 – 2004 Jeep Liberty
#13 – 2007 Honda Ridgeline
#14 – 1989 Chevy Camaro IROC Z-28
#15 – 2008 VW Eos
#16 – 2015 GMC Sierra
My favorite is #14 and it still only has 14,000 original miles.
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My first was a 1966 Chevy Biscala. Never heard of one? It was a 1966 Chevy Biscayne station wagon (gold) with a 'doghouse' (fenders, grill, hood) of a 1966 Impala (blue). I could never get in trouble because my parents and everyone else knew it was me.
Here's my list:
#1 – 1966 Biscala
#2 – 1969 Chevy Nova – totaled in snowstorm
#3 – 1969 Pontiac GTO – 400 was replaced with 6 cyl during Arab Oil Embargo
#4 – 1972 AMC Hornet bought from parents
#5 – 1971 Plymouth Duster
#6 – 1978 Plymouth Horizon
#7 – 1982 Chevy Celebrity
#8 – 1986 Pontiac Grand Am
#9 – 1988 Olds Cutlass Supreme
#10 – 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee
#11 – 2002 Mitsubishi Eclipse
#12 – 2004 Jeep Liberty
#13 – 2007 Honda Ridgeline
#14 – 1989 Chevy Camaro IROC Z-28
#15 – 2008 VW Eos
#16 – 2015 GMC Sierra
My favorite is #14 and it still only has 14,000 original miles.

#3 makes me sad.
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Old 10-11-2016, 09:18 PM   #39
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That was another good one. Bought from my best friend. It was immaculate! Maroon with a white interior, Hurst shifter, 411 rear end. After the 6-cyl was put in, I could barely do 60 MPH. Sad the day I sold it. Should have put it on blocks and put a 400 back in years later. It would be worth probably 40 grand right now.
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