History What was your 1st piece of Speed Equipmet

I bought a pair of 15 x 8 Chrome reverse rims with Monster Boots tires on them when I was a kid. I didn,t even own a car to put them on....

 

nailhead drag star 6x2 intake, it was all over after that!

JEFF

 

That's funny that is what I did as well to my 69 Malibu. I also bought a kit to re-cruve the distributor.

I don't care who you are you can't make a 307 fast!

My first hot rod circa 1974

After looking at this photo I remembered I first bought rear aluminum wheels with 60 series tires. Then of course air shocks.

 

my first real piece of speed equipment!! and it came with a german 'B' banger!! it's in the process of being polished.... i have about 6 or 7 hours in it... it's alot of work.... but will be worth it!

 

A friend of mine gave the Tri-Power intake and carbs off his 1967 Pontiac GTO 389 engine. He replaced this set up with a single 4 barrel carb.

I was 15 and did not have a car to put in on but mom drove a Pontiac wagon with a 455 in it. As fate would have it her factory intake/carb started having problems so the Tri-Power went on her '72 Grand Safari wagon! In 1978 I pulled it off and replaced it with a stock unit when a guy I went to high school with offered me $750 for the Tri-Power.

 

I was about 10 years old (late 60's). I found an Edelbrock 3 pot manifold in some junk that a tenant left when he vacated one of my dad's rental properties. My dad said I could have it. I sold it at a garage sale for a buck.

 

Ah my sweet mystery shifter for my 3 speed 235 to go along with my rac tach

 

My first "speed" equipment items were the glass-pack muffler and chrome smoothies I put on my avatar '60 F-100 when I was 16...

Made the old 223 inch 6 a real scorcher!

 

Here we go. I just found an old scanned image of my 1st car. I had so much fun driving this car around. The guy in the pic is my cousin.

 

Cherry bombs I made the neighbors soo happy. I still have them too and there still red.... Wow they made good stuff back in the day. the guts are rotted and gone though... oh well not bad for 40+years

 

a bigger carberator for my basket case dirt bike i built when i was 13...oh 32 some odd years ago..
I also got the bomb new style clutch disks before i put it back together..that sucker was fun to ride wheelies on

 

A set of used Clifford headers and a used 4 bbl Offenhauser intake for a 300 I6 Ford... man I miss that motor... It was a screamer.

 

1964--worked most of the summer to save up enough to buy a Foxcraft floor shifter, a Varnes and Hunter camshaft, and dual smittys for my 54 ford 239 3 speed. My mom wanted me to by school clothes but a pair of jeans could go 7 days without washing!!!!!!!

 

I was 15 and my dad bought me a edmunds dual intake for my 49 Plymouth Special Deluxe. He also got me a 6 to 12 volt converter so I could put an am/fm 8-track in it too.

 

I need an opinon

does a bosh 009 count...

 

It was a used Holley 3310, along with a cast iron stocker 4 barrel manifold to replace the 2 barrel setup on my 289 Ford.

 

My very first peice of speed equipment was a one peice 'glass tilt front end for a 69 GTO. I bought it on my 15th birthday. Parents had a fit as I did not have a car yet. I got my GTO at 15 yrs, 7 months and had the tilt on it by my 16th birthday. I still have the car and the 'glass front end.

Steve

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I have yet to get mine but when i do it'll be a good one

 

I would have to say The B&M Mega scoop I put on my 72 torino CJ. The car already had the factory CJ scoop on the hood so I just cut a hole in the middle of it for the scoop to stick through. I was 16 and had the most bad ass car in school, LOL. To this day I still have people ask me "Aint you the kid that had the double scoop on that ford?"

 

Offy Tri-power for my 239 Y-block. It never wound up on my engine, because it didn't have the bell crank bosses on the back, and I pulled the 239. Later replacing it with a Hi-po 292, and a perfect offy big-port tripower intake, with the bosses on the back for my bell crank.

 

Comp Cam

 

Clear red spark plug wires and Honest Charley decal on my 53 Pontiac. Then came the chrome acorn bolt covers and theres a shitload of 'em on a straight eight !

 

The one on the right.
That thing blew-up a lot of $15 three speed trannys

 

A 2x4 manifold for my Riv,..$200 out of some dude's garage in Houston.

 

I bought a Fenton 3 speed shifter and a pair of golden goose mufflers for a 61 falcon that I had put a 260 v8 and a comet 3 speed trany into - everything worked great untill the rear end let go - weakest link - live and learn - Jaxx

 

adapter plate ,i put a 55 nailhead in a 40 ford pu ,,what a wilde ride !!!!!!!!

 

Race gas for my ol 71 F250 camper special back in high school. That or slicks for the family drag car (1955 Chevy 210 post). Cant remember which one I bought first.

 

Thrush mufflers and 10 inch shackles for my '59 Ford in '68

 

double ace fenton manifold for my '40 Chebbie... that was about 22 years ago... i was 17... don't know wth it ended up

 

HOLY SHIT !!.........I thought I was the only guy who had some "Golden Goose" mufflers !! We sold them at the Goodyear store I worked at when I was 17. I called them "Ruptured Duck" mufflers...LMAO