What were you driving 20 years ago?

I sold the '57 about 1980 and bought the '60 348 4 sp car. Great fun till you tear the upper control arm out or shuck the drive shaft on El Camino Real.

 

Top alky dragster, 200 mph but not on the street. I had built a 27T roadster at that time that had a 241 Dodge hemi for a diversion.

 

Me in my C-cab 20 years ago. Note the arm resting on the sill... a true hot rodder from a young age.

 

Did the same to my 60. Tore the crossmember out of the rear and broke
rearend and trans. Great engineering!

 

My first car...1964 Ford Country Squire Wagon. Black w/ red interior...wish I still had it!

 

20 years ago you could probably catch me cruising the front yard in my Big Foot power wheels or my cast iron John Deer pedal tractor(learned how to back a trailor on my little deer).

 

I had the power wheels just like drop lord

thats it.

 

Me too.

 

The year....1989 and I was a struggling radio and club DJ...so I was poor and broke. Top Ramen was my main source of food and going to Taco Bell meant i had some money left over after after paying bills.

A friend of mine had bought this little car new somewhere around 81 and had driven it many many miles from Taft Ca to SF CA back and forth hauling a marshall half stack and other equipment. The car was leaking oil badly and he thought it was on its last leg. So, he parked it and bought a new car.

I ended up buying the car off of him for 500 bucks. I found out that the oil leak was from the broken plastic seal on the oil sensor. I changed that and cleaned up the oil mess and drove that car...no abused that car for almost 6 years before selling it to another friend who abused it for a couple more years and in all that time the only thing that had ever been done to the car was change the oil and put gas in it. I do not even know if the air filter was ever changed.

Best daily driver I ever owned and I should have never sold it.

That car was a 81 Toyota Starlet...that looked just like this one.

 

76 plymouth volare, leaning tower of power, lime green and i put a custome r/t strip across trunk

i beat the **** out of her, and never changed the oil as i had to add a quart every other day

 

'65 Mustang..... I know, I know. I was young

 

1970 Chevelle and sure wish I still had it.
Mike

 

52 BUICK RIV 2dr hrdtp GREY PRIMER(FINISH COLOR 1983) CAD WIRES T-BIRD CENTERS OLDS SKIRTS
55 BUICK HEADLITE RINGS MOPAR CONSOLE LITE IN THE PORT HOLES(SOLD THE SIDE TRIM TO MERC DUDE)
HAVE YET TO SEE ANOTHER 52 SPEC RIV HRDTP (THATS 30 YEARS)

67 DODGE POLARA 440-4BBL G60-15 front L6015 rears
BODY DECHROMED ..68 CHRYS INTERIOR .. CENTER ARM REST ( FACT. WOODGRAINED DASH AND DOORS)

WINTER BEATERS
67 PLYMOUTH WAGON (WAS A LO MILE GRANNY CAR!)
70 PLYMOUTH FURY III 4 DOOR HRDTP (1 OF ? )440-4BBL
FACTORY (NON FOLDING) FRONT BUCKET SEATS AND AT/CONSOLE ON THE FLOOR

MISS THEM ALL

 

do you always have to do this?

we are all very capable of doing the basic math, just like you...

no need to constantly point out how wrong we all are at everything.

gotcha bro.

 

apparently, neither you or I can do math...

that was 11 years ago...

 

A hugger orange 68 RS Camaro Convertible and a black 63 Plymouth Sport Fury.

 

OOPS,,a '84 Dodge D50, just about the cheapest 4 wheels other than a Yugo at the time,,still cost almost twice what my '63 Falcon 260 4 sp. cost new.

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=5725&pictureid=49822

Wuz drivin all three of these. Both cars were at the NSRA Nationals that year (1988). The ex drove the '48. Drove the '34 to Bonneville in '89 (almost 20 years, now) from northeastern M***.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=5725&pictureid=49825

and we looked like this 44 years ago last August out in western M***.



Yes, I STILL have the hubcaps AND the headlights

 

Daily driver was a 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix NASCAR Edition 2+2 Aerocoupe and the 1967 GTO I still have.

 

Our daily driver was the '57 Chevy that we still have. My wife drove it everywhere, girl scout meetings( she was a leader), grocery store, literally everywhere. It was our daily for several years. It had a 350 and a 4 speed. Now it has a 327 and the same ******. It was flat black. I usually rode the Harley that we still own, a '75 Shovel in a rigid frame, either that or an old Ford truck that's long gone.

 

1965 Corvette roadster, 327/365 4sp. 4:11 both tops and side pipes...damn it!

 

LOL...A 1967 Bronco. 3" body lift, 2" suspension lift (Any more and the C-V 's would wear out faster), blasted and epoxied frame, poly bushings, Dana 30 xfer case, automatic conversion from a '74, 302, 4.10 gears, custom 28 gal. tank, 6 point cage, soft top. Man, wish I still had her.... Wife had a 1989 Suzuki Samurai hardtop......24mpg...gutless....fun to drive.

 

A clapped out '64 Galaxie 4 door named Minerva that was given to me by a friend's mom because he already had 20 cars! He's still got the 20, plus more. I traded the Galaxie for an AMC Police Interceptor motor for my Jeep after my brother grenaded the Galaxie cooling system the following winter delivering pizza! I bet he was cold running that thing home!

 

57 chevy 2 door sedan. Cragars...15x6 on back with L-60's. I had to
flatten them to get them up in the quater panel. No door panels, no
carpet, no headliner and not a care in the world

Then i decided it needed fixed up and made this...



Looked nice but not as much fun and costly

 

"WOW"... a blast from the past... How are you doing????

I thought you stopped posting when you post count reached 666?

Drop me a P.M....!

Just "SOLD" 179 last Sunday for a friend... he shed a tear because he had it for 40 years!!!

Just found a 63 Fuelie... this is the "ONLY" plastic Coupe I'd own! I used to own a Roadster with a Big Block and had a ton of fun with it!!!!

 

1958 plymouth belvedere 4d ht.Sold new in sweden.RAGGAR BIL.

 

That's what I was driving 40 years ago..... I was young also.


...Sold it for $800

.

 

My first car: 1978 Volkswagon Beetle Convertible, white w/black top

 

1975 Monza...