52 chevy 2 door in 1965........bone stock......painted '' hemi hunter'' on the hood.....got my ass kicked by every bad ass car in town.....good times
What else for me but a 56' Chevrolet; I've only had nine of them since 1968. Bought a brand new Dodge Dart Swinger 340 after graduation and paid cash, my ONLY venture away from Chevrolet. My current car, 56' Chevrolet Sedan Delivery, I say it's the car they'll bury me in. Drive an 82' Chevrolet 3/4 ton P.U. Truck as a driver, my other street car is actually my wifes,a 90' Mustang LX 5.0 I bought for her new. Recently picked up a 51' Chevrolet Business coupe to build into a cruiser. Daughter will probably wind up with the Mustang, she's 16 and wants a tuner type car, no way in the world will that happen if I can prevent it! Butch/56sedandelivery.
Unfortunately I did not start taking pix of my rides till around '76, after I got out of school. But, while in school I bought my first ride at 15 with my own money, a '54 Ford 2 door with a 272, I bought for $60.00 I made working at a body shop. Bought it, drug it out of the sellers yard in the street, Dad gave me a big push with his 55 Ford PU and the 54 started right up. Had brushed on blue paint. Took it to the body shop where I worked after shcool and the guy who owned the shop said I could paint it, just mix up some old paint he had and go. Turned out kind of an army green. Got it all redy for state inspection myself and of course did not pass the first time, but I figured it out and did the next time around. Had aa lot of fun in that car. used it to give kids ride home for 1.00 a week gas money. Burned up the motor. Shoulda put one of those JC Whitney rocker oiler kits on it. Y-blocks were famous for not getting oil to one side of the rockers. Shoulda listened to Dad, he told me so! After that Dad bought a 55 Chevfour door from the school principle and I drove that for awhile to haul my bros and sisters. Had to use a stiff wire though the floor to get it in reverse. Then I bought another 54, a Victoria, for 60 bucks at 16 and had it until this year. My nephew owns it now. My second car was 62 Impala body bought for 25 bucks. Uncle gave me a 64 Chevy fo door and I pulled the 283/PG out and put it in the 62. My first engine swap. After those rides I ended up with jacked up 55 Chevy 2 dr h-top, 283 punched to a 292, Duntov cam, Mallory, big Holley, muncie four speed, 4.56 gears. Would run like the dickens for about a 1/4 mile. I had two huge house stereo speakers in the back seat. That was really THE sound system of the times. ZZ top "Fandango" was the fav for cruising. It sat pretty high but Dad showed me the flavor of lowered, so we lowered it. And that was way back in 74 when everyone else was high-jacking their cars. 55 Got wrapped around a tree by the next owner. It still sits in the same spot where they parked it since 1976 not far from where I lived. Shackles and wide-ovals. Remember them? Mikey "I do Bad Things To Cars that Sit too High" www.MikeysPinstriping.com www.HotRodConsulting.com
67 RS - 327... bought it for $2k in 1982 and drove it 3 years...sold it for $2k and I remember thinking " thank god I got my money out of it!" ....What a putz!
This will be my high-school ride for my next year and semester. I got it freshman year at the start of the second semester, lowered it and put chrome wheels and skinny-whites on it. Then drove it all through sophmore year, than had some underbody work done, and had the bumper plated, and bought some WWW cokers for my 14's. Then frenched and tunneled '59 caddy lights. I'm gonna shorten and float the stock grill ala Jimmie V's car this winter, as well as try and get it in a single shade of tinted primer with all the body work completed. I'm hoping for Shiny paint in a few years. Im also hoping to be able to afford to chrome all my garnish moldings when I get my interior stiched. I can't wait to get this car finished. I also cant wait for spring to come so I can drive it again!
71 chevelle malibu, 2 door coupe. light green with matching green interior, and a dark green vynal[sp?] top. 307 auto w/air. drove it 6 months, ripped it apart, had it for 14 years and 80% done, then sold it to finance another project.
Year 1955 my channeled 29 Ford coupe got a flathead engine after removal of the banger, age 16. After the 1955 Ahra Nationals in Laurenceville, Il. the flathead had to go and the top was cut off and new dropped center A chassis with Olds Eng, La Salle box and Ply front axle, now 1956. I don't know when I had the time with highschool, a parttime job and building cars.
Looked EXACTLY like one this in 1980... the 10.25:1 original 425 smoked like a chimney when it got to temp. Swapped in a low compression long block out of a '67 Delmont and it was good until the wiring started to eat itself.
I had a 46 Chevy coupe.... 48 years later I have moved up to a 1948 Chevy Coupe..... I paid $75 for the 1946. Marty
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