Appears as though I went about this b***ackwards. Put my tech question in the intro section. Oops. No better way to break the ice, I guess. Make a mess, clean it up. Hi all, I'm Bryan form Montana. Lived here since 1969. Been into grease monkey stuff for most of my life. As a kid, I cut off forks from wrecked bicycles so I could "chop" my Schwinn Stingray. Looked cool, handled like S__T! A few mini motorbikes, couple Briggs powered go-carts, and tore apart a 4bl Rochester just to see how it worked in my bedroom at 12. It came off my dads 1969 Olds Cutl***, he smelled the fuel at the top of the stairs, man, he was not happy. Had to pay a guy to put it back together. Wrecked the same car a few months later when dad left the keys so i could "wash" it to earn my allowance. Joyride ended when I was showing off for 2 girls I knew, hooked the front bumper on a street sign. This led to me getting my fisrt car, a $50 AMC Hornet that didn't run, dad said if I wanted to learn about cars it wouldn't be on any of his. Much to my fathers dislike, I had it running and drivable by 13, wouldn't get to drive it for couple more years. At 15 I got a 1965 Galaxie with a 232 and 2 speed Cruisomatic. What a barge. Put a 390/c6 with straight duals in it soon after. Promptly lost my license for 6 months. Cops dont like numerous BIG burnouts and loud pipes. Go figure... At 16, I fell in love with a 1970 Roadrunner my friend's brother had. Bought it, rebuilt the 383 in auto shop cl***. Became a true MOPAR guy because of that car. Lost my license AGAIN a month after the 'Runner was driveable again. Had to sell both cars, dad wasnt liking the way his insurance premiums were headed. At 17, I dropped out of school 2 weeks into my senior year, moved out of the folks house, bought a beater 64 Ford pickup to get around during the winter and haul my 500 BSA motorcycle when it broke down in the summer. Pretty much thought I knew it all. Got into a little more trouble with the man. Went back and finished high school, graduated at 19. Street and drag raced a 1966 Dodge Coronet with a 440 out of an old Cop car for a few years (high 13 car all day long on skinny tires), got married at 20, was driving a really cool little 67 dart 2 door sedan with a slant 6. Had 3 kids before I was 25, worked my a__ off to suport my family at numerous **** jobs (maybe I wasn't that smart after all). Got divorced after 15 not so happy years. Now My kids are grown, 1 with grandkids, 1 in college, 1 doing who knows what out in Seatlle. Got remarried 2 years ago, moved to a small town 12 miles east of Billings. Bought a house, bought another house, turned first one into a rental. Somwhere along the way I learned how to weld, got certified, now I build big beams, columns, stairs, handrail, etc for the steel construction industry. Over the last 30 years I have owned and/or built a 51 Studebaker pickup with a 354 hemi, a couple 50's Ford pickups, a 1935 ford pickup, a 455 72 Buick Skylark Suncoupe, a 77 Pontiac 455 LeMans, and a 74 455 Buick Century. My true p***ion has been a long, long string of misc MOPAR cars and trucks, Chargers, Coronets, Darts, Dusters, Valiants, and gobs of 70's pickups. I have probably owned a couple hundred, some projects, some drivers, some for parts. My current projects/toys include a 1976 Dodge 2wd Warlock with a non original 440/auto. A 1976 Dodge Clubcab 4x4 about to become a ***mins converet. A 1985 Dodge Ramcharger 2wd panel, tubbed, caged, ladder bars, fuel cell, fiberlgl*** nose, 440/4 speed (money pit), a pitifully neglected 1959 Plymouth Belvedere 4 door sedan, and most recently, a 1958 Dodge 1/2 ton pickup. I have been bitten a few times by the old 50's stuff and dediced I wanted a cruiser. Really prefer pickups to cars, anymore.
Great intro...you dont know me do ya? You wrote about me,haha Welcome from Ga.Got some old mopar stuff so give me a pm sometime ,i might have it or not,got mostly od ball stuff no one saved.Welcome again.........................YG
Hey, Welcome from the other side of the state (Whitehall, MT about 30 miles east of ****e) We do have a Montana group here come on in and join.http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/group.php?groupid=505 -Donn-
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