What was your most gearhead wish as a young kid?

A 40's Willys gasser!!!

 

To work in the State Police Garage and build the Hiway Chase cars

 

<----------- I want my dad to give my the 27 haha! like that will ever happen

 

There was a local racer when I was young, he raced probably the only 55 chevy with the front bumper still on it I liked, it ran D/MP......I worked at the local track, whenever he showed up I was all over his car, see what he changed, asked all kinds of questions, generally being a pain in the ass I guess...... anyway, years later I wound up wrenching and driving for him. I actually had that 55 in my possession for a while"To Sell IT" for him, than wound up working on it for the new owner for a little while. I hooked uop with him and got to drive a well funded record holding car.I got to play with equipment I could only dream about, spent his money like water. I'd say it was pretty much a dream come true..... I never hoped for it, but am glad as hell it did happen. This goes way back to mid to late 70's

 

i know it didnt have any thing to do with my dad. didnt want to be like him or any thing to do with him. couldn't get rid of him .. but i did want a new dodge charger with a stick and that engine with the spark plugs throu the valve covers. white with black stripes

 

my grandfather bought a brand new 65 chevy stepside
handed down to my dad then to me
ive wanted that truck for as long as i can remember
still have it
probably always will

 

I wanted the eliminator coupe and the chicks that went with it!!

 

I saw AG when it came out and had a wish to own Milners '32.

 

To own a new 1947 Mustang motorbike----Had to settle for a WHIZZER 1947!!--------------Don

 

As a kid? To one day have a shiny black 34 ford with a 426 hemi in it, and mad maxs car. Still want both, but there are now other things I want more.

 

to be able to have the stuff to build MY OWN car, still is, it's been a while...

 

Rode my bike past a 1934 Ford Coupe in my neighborhood, have always wanted one since!

 

when I was about 4 I wanted to help Enzo Ferrari design and build better cars, to a 4 year old he obviously needed the help.

and from there on I wanted to hot rod every thing...and my olds to get a decent car for fu*k sake

 

I wanted to strafe the high school parking lot with a P-51.
Also wanted to do a huge burnout leaving the parking lot in a model a five window.
Street race with my hot Bug.
I wished my dad had a cool car we could go on a road trip and car show in.
Rebuild a motor myself.
Take out a good looking girl in my sweet car.
Holy crap I could go on and on.

 

i always wanted to get my dads 53 running......I did !!

 

Oh yes ! And be cool like guys that had cars to attract hot chicks.I was sorta cool but ugly,attracted girls with bad reputations into my beat up 54 Chevy.

 

Our public school had a copy of "Hot rod" the 50th year of the 32 ford."Deuces are golden"was on the cover,I didn't know what a "deuce'' was[I was 12]but I soon figured it out.Changed my life.[never returned the mag,don't tell Ms. shanks.]

 

<-to drive my grandpa's sprint car. then for my dad to let me have his 66 stang

 

On second thought, I wouldnt mind if my dad gave me the 68 stang, the 54 olds(kinda), 1927 model T, or the 55 GMC! haha, but you know, a boy can dream right?

 

Went to buy a local car advertised in one of those penny shopper free mags when I was 16 and had just got my drivers license.

1957 Ford Convertible ex-drag racing car. Scrapped together $500 of the asking price but had to bring the old man along for the next $25.00 I needed to meet the asking price of $525.00

Get there and I saw it and I was like SOLD ready to pay without even opening the hood. Then my pops the non car guy starts bugging the guy with all kinds of off the wall question like he would know what the guy was talking about.

Then I heard the magic answer to "what the heck is that over there?" and the seller said "it's a ford factory supercharger" and my old man said "Nope no way your getting a car with a supercharger on it"........ original 1957 Y block convertible with factory blower on it for $525.00 and MY POPS (bless his good intentions) says NO WAY.

 

I just wanted to get my '50 Chevy AD pickup on the road that i got when i was 7 years old for $200. I did eventually get it on the road as my daily driver, but i was 17 by then. My other dream would have been to have my dad's buddy's bad ass '50 Merc sled, i was sick of riding in the back seat on cruise night, i wanted to kick the ol guys out and take the wheel.

 

As a young kid I first off wished for a sexy promiscuous girl friend. (Didn't we all?)
Most girls considered me too geeky, too unwashed, and too shy so we'll move on to the next wish.

I wanted a red, chopped '32 5 window, channeled to death and either Caddy or early Olds powered. Never got it.

As I hit my 20's and had a small amount of money saved I lusted for a '62, '63 or even a '64 Impala 409 Super Sport. Never got that either.

Well................I got my health (I think..) so these wishes keep me going.
Maybe someday Jungle Pam or Linda Vaughn will pull up to the front door of my little house and invite me to the drive-in in her big old 409 Super Sport or chopped 5 window.

Customs are for getting women..........Hot Rods are for loosing them. "Robert Williams"

 

Race in the Indy 500. Gary

 

To own a '69 Camaro Z/28.... And I did for a couple of years till some drunk rearended it while parked in the street....

 

To own a 40 ford coupe

 

To be able to do everything to build a car myself. All the fab, mechanical, upholstery and paint. Finally have achieved that and budget aside, am going on a building frenzy.

However, the missing key in all of this would be to gain the feedback of two of my late mentors, my Godfather Johnny Parks, and his brother in law Jack Moriarty, to let them look at my work and rate it.

That would be priceless.

 

This pretty much sums it up.

 

This is an easy one for me... I remember telling anybody who would listen (probably before I turned 11 or 12) that if I became president I would have all the four door cars returned to the factory and remade into two door cars...

Scott/Gotta56forme

 

I get the car and the girl...but I don't really understand the chickens...

 

that my dad would quit buying new cars every 4 to 5 years and buy a Hot Rod as a daily driver...lol

i said it was a wish