The reason Renault put "Le Car" on the side of them is so people wouldn't confuse them with Le Shit House. dave
My dad sold his Indian so he would have enough money to marry my mother. He sold his Austin Healy 3000 when I was born because there wasn't enough room for a baby and two adults. He never let either of us forget it. Slonaker
One guy that was my boss for a short while was telling a story about his "Old Truck" I natually perked up and asked what he had, told him I might be interested in buying it if it was for sale, he didn't know what it was but he said he would find out and let me know. Next day he informed me that he didn't want to sell as it was a backup for his new truck and his old truck was a two year Chevrolet 1/2 ton that he had bought new. Idiot had to look at the title to find out what he had. dave
I had a guy call me just the other day and ask me if I could get him rods and mains for for his car, when I asked him what engine they were for he responded with, Oh! do you need to know that? Dumbass! I hung up on him when I asked him what size bearings he needed and he said the ones that fit his motor.
No biggie. I can't even count how many '65-'70 Mustangs including Mach I's we cut up for stock car tin back in the mid-late '70. There was even one '69 or '70 Shelby. Oh well.... I bought my first '69 Mach I in '71 for $1850. It was a clean mildly rodded 351 4bbl /automatic car with the obiligatory chrome slots, jacked up ass end and 60 series skins sticking out the rear fenderwells. I really wanted a '68 'Stang GT with a 390 but the insurance bux were too high at age 21. Traded the Mach and some cash toward a Mustang Late Model circle burner, a 427 Side Oiler, a bunch of other racing parts in '77 and never looked back. A Cougar and a couple of '67-'68 Mustangs donated their bodies for that race car over the years too. Cars is cars when you want to have fun... Jan
Shit, I sold my '56 Olds last year and all I got was a bunch of paper with dead presidents pictures on them, talk about stuff that doesn't last! I didn't even vote for those guys either.
He should be pissed at the guy that told him the dual quads were factory installed. There was never a big block Corvette that came from the factory with dual quads, only single 4 bbl and 3X2 induction. Frank
I feel sorry for the local moron who just layed out $10,250 for a 70 Mach I. not origional motor, not running, three speed replaced the four speed and rusted torque boxes. Missing parts also. Car was MAYBE worth $5-6000 to the right person. Who are these dumb asses payiing way too much for junk? My father's story is good. He had a glass top '54 Merc with a hot Y-block in it while in HS. His father crushed the car when he was off in the service. Then bought a '61 Vette when it was just a few years old, drove it for a few years, got out of the service, got married, traded it in on a new '67 GTO, four speed car none the less. They gave him $1500 for the vette, I saw the invoice! Then in 73 or 74 he needed a better car to drive to NY for something and sold the GTO in on a Ford station wagon. It has been 2wd pickups since then, now upgraged to a minivan. Sad story, hope I never have one like that!
I sold Mercedes parts for 25 years - oh so close on that one! I had a guy once where I informed him of the different sizes & he was a dick & said I should know what he needs because I was the parts guy. Told him I was giving him the information because he was going to have to go to a machine shop & they would have to advise him of what sizes to get. The idiot jerk just left. I do not miss dealing with those types anymore! We could easily go story for story on these common themes. Another favorite was "What year & model Mercedes do you have? They would get mad & say "you should know I bought it here".. Gary 4t950 Chevy Guy
Damn , three pages of old stories of lost cars 'cause I was whinin about an Idiot wasting my time -KOOL! lmfao, I have SO many of these stories it pisses me off to even think about em , How about a 427 yes, 427chevy 66 Impala SS , i picked up in 1978 orso and turned into a STOCK CAR cause the B_tch that owned it B4 would NOT release the title , told her to come see it at the track then, she heard about it + was major Po'd, I won alot till I vented the block
All this talk about Mustangs made me remember the last car I helped to restore when I worked at Classics Plus in Fond du Lac, Wi.... 1967 Mustang Shelby Gt 500 with a 427 side oiler...yep that's right, a 427 side oiler in a '67...we verified it with The Shelby Club of America as being one of three experimental cars built by Shelby with the 427 side oiler...one was aluminum heads with a 4 speed, one was cast iron heads with a 4 speed, and one was cast iron heads with an automatic....the one in our shop was cast iron heads with a 4 speed...so really it was one of one....we restored the whole car, which was in nice shape when it showed up I might add....Red...white racing stripes...black interior...factory roll cage....The guy who owns it lives in Brookfield, Wi, and he supposedly bought the car off of a used car lot for $30K!! Makes you kinda sick cuz when we finished with it, the car was appraised at $300,000!! And this was 10 years ago...
Went into our neighborhood Napa, clutch plate, pressure plate and throw out bearing in hand, 1970 small block corvette, kid asked me if its a stick or automatic transmission.!!!!!!!!!!!!! They don'y have a friggin clue.
Here's another sad story in Gracie's life (even if it IS a chevy)... my uncle's best friend bought a brand new 69 Corvette stingray convertible when he graduated med school... drove it for 6 months then went to Viet Nam... he put it up on blocks so his little bro couldn't drive it while he was gone... came back from Nam, and a short while later they found brain cancer and he was dead within 6 months... He willed the car to my uncle who never drove it cuz it made him sad... so he told my dad he was going to sell it (this was in like 1980)... But at the time, my dad didn't have much "extra" so he didn't even try to buy it... so my uncle sold it and gave the money to his friend's mom... THEN we found out that he had sold it for only $2700... it had only 12K miles and had been garaged all that time. Dad was pissed, cuz he could have come up with that much if he'd only known... Just think, if Dad had bought that vette, I could have been turned from Ford to chevy maybe... and my life would have been way different....
Before we got married, I had a new '68 Z-28 and my wife had a '63 split window Corvette. Both were totalled. Then we wed.
Easy there! I own a 67 Mustang, but I'll tell you if I see another row of perfectly restored Mustangs at a show I'll probably puke! My '67 was (is) a rusted out wreck so anything I do to it is an improvement. Stu
My dad (nothing interesting ever happens to me) owned a '67 Sting Ray roadster, 435hp 427, yellow with a black stinger for a whole week before he found out he couldn't get insurance on it and had to get rid of it. Later on he ended up buying a '69 Stingray and putting an LT-1 in it, but he passed on a whole mess of big block cars (early seventies) and a '62 roadster with a 350 in it. All of which would be worth more than the '69 non-matching coupe today (though it's not exactly worthless). Also, he traded his '65 GTO 3x2 4-speed convertible for a brand new 351C/auto Mach I in '71 and the thing was a dog. He immediately regretted it but the kid who got his Goat rolled the thing a week later. He saw it years later in an Alpena junkyard, sans engine. He shoulda bought it back anyway!
i get that alot too. my dad used to bitch, " ya know, in 71 i was doing well. i had a good sportsman car that always at least finished 3rd, a 68 cuda w/ a 383, a 56 f-100 and damn cheap rent with free food.... then i met your mom. four years later i have none of those things plus a mortgage, two kids, and i drive a VW that i have to use the parking brake to stop."
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