Lighten up ,you will have more fun .I know the peppers looked kinda nasty ,but the foot looked seasoned to perfection ...
Here's one that turned out to be true. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=164920&highlight=dragmaster
Bob.... Let me fill in the blanks.... This is not a legend... As Paul Harvy and this is the story.... The Car..... 1961 or 62 Corvette 327 Cu In 2 4's and a 4 Speed. Owner: Moreen (Mo) Flynn General Area: Dover NJ Favorite Race Site: Sip and Sup on the corner of Route 10 and 202 You are absolutely right about the Saying on the car... Mo was one sweet looking chick and love to race... Daddy Owned Lakeland Bus Company in Dover New Jersey.... I beleive that Daddy purchased the car for Mo new and she had full access to the mechanics in Daddy's Bus Garage and took full advantage of a couple of the bus mechanics that had considerable knowledge of building and maintaining race cars... I will tell you one thing Mo never lacked for money or necessary parts to keep her car winning.. I really dont know whatever happened to Mo or where the car went... The Bus company was sold out years ago to NJ Transit... and I would guess that Mo must be pushin 70 now if she is still around... Oh by the way I never ever heard of anybody that beat Mo in a street race...... So now you know the story.... Rich
Here's one for your list. When my son was younger he had a very close friend that loved to party. Along about 1996 his dad gave him a job in his business and sold the kid a 1969 Camaro with 327 Cu. In. 4 barrel holley, 4 speed trans, posi rear-end nice black paint, red interior and so on. In 1999 the kid broke something in the suspension in the rear-end. They drug the car to one of my old barns and pushed it into a corner. I walk by this car every couple of days. The boy died in 2002. He went to bed one night after a party and sometime during the night got sick and vomited. In the morning his roommate came into his room to wake him up and he was dead. I've talked to his dad and he told me he gave the car to his daughter. I've talked to her several times and though she has no desire to get rid of the car, she also has no interest in getting it going again. The car has no rust, the motor ran strong and the interior is spotless. The car is in a very nice area on concrete floors so it's not going to deteriorate much over the years, its a damn shame it can't be driven.
Some times the tale is true. Spoted a guy washing a really ratty 1957 vette at a car wash .Talked to him in 1985, he bought it from a guys mom finally ;the son died in Nam. She decieded to sell it after all those years . college student no money but never for sell will restore after getting degree. I wished the best of luck
I know of a 32 5 window in my area, really decent original car in a garage, old man has had it since the 40's I think, it never sees the light of day, no one around here knows about it that I know of, I only know of it because I broke down at his house years ago. Jim
Not so much of a myth, but still an interesting story. Guy went out in 1969, and bought a white 69 BOSS 429. He put about 3K miles on it. He was then killed in a car crash while riding in his girlfriends car. His parents knew how much he loved that car, and refused to sell it to anyone. They did however keep it in running, driveable condition. Finally about 4 years ago, a huge mustang collector, and professional mustang drag racer got heard of the story. He invited the family to come see his private car collection. A couple months later, I saw that guy with his newly purchased r-code 69 BOSS 429 at a local mustang show in IL. The car was simply AMAZING!!!
Also back in IL, there were rumors of a poor old black man who had a hemi cuda vert. He was the original owner, and rarely drove it. He kept it in a semi trailer bed locked in his backyard in the ghetto. He never took it to any car shows at all, just a cruise here and there. About 9-10 years ago that guy came into my work, and I started talking to him. next thing I know he tells me he has a hemi cuda vert at home. 99% of the time I would have thought it was some idiot, but sure enough, this was an elderly black man.
When I was a kid there was a rumour about a 63 split window stashed in an old run down shed in a yard full of junk and vintage tin.None of us had the balls to chance getting a peek or an ass full of buckshot so the rumour continued. Fast forward to about 10 years ago when I met the supposed Vette owner at another buddys junkyard. I balls up and asks him about it and sure enough it was a true story. Only now though the car was moved to southern Ontario and put into another old shed.....
My dad told me this story years ago, but I've never been sure if it was true. Supposedly there was a woman who loved her Ferrari so much that when she died they put her in it, then put the whole thing in a huge slab of concrete, then buried all of it. I have no idea when or where this was supposed to have happened. Anyone else ever heard this?
Thought of another one but this is from my teen years (many moons ago). My dad told me and my buds about an early 30's mopar sedan, the story was that a fairly comfortable family had purchased the car new and driven it from Muskogee, Ok. to the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Mn. to seek treatment for a family member. The car made one trip and was locked up in a garage behind their home. Me and the buds loaded up and took off across town, went down the alley where dad said the car was kept. You could see into the garage through a crack in the old wooden door and sure as hell there was the sedan sitting there. You could still see the shine of the paint under a heavy layer of dust. There was a tree grown up in front of the door that was as big as my thigh. We didn't try to buy the car cause we probably couldn't have scraped up $200 between the three of us. Probably just as well as we would have screwed the thing to death trying to make a half-assed rod out of it. Later the car ended up in the Jim Leake collection in Muskogee, when Leake was still alive he had a fine collection of unusual cars.
This one's been kickin' around upstate NY for 30 yrs- Guy sees an ad in the paper for a '53 chevy convertible, $200....hmm not a bad price for a 53 convert. So the guy goes to look at the car and it turns out to be a '53 Vette!!! Soldier was killed in Vietnam and his mom finally decided to sell the car; the registration said 1953 Chev Conv..... Also slightly OT but has been verified- Guy crusing down a back road sees a farmer dragging an old motorcycle across a field; he stops and asks about it, turns out is a late 40's harley police special. Ask's the farmer if it's for sale; farmer tells him that he can have the bike for nothing but he has to load it in his truck by himself with no help, flat tires on the bike, etc. the guy did get the cycle loaded while the farmer sat on the tractor watching!!! Restored and running... Stories like this are one of the things that make the hamb THE BEST!!! GASPUMPCHAS " HEY, MAN, GOT ANY MORE OF THOSE SECRET AGENT SPY SCOPES??" " HIT PARADE ON THE STETHOSCOPE?? YOU GOT THE WRONG NUMBER, PARTNER....."
I know were there are two 1970 LS6 chevelles that the owner new one for him and one for his wife when gas prices got high around 73 he parked them in two unused tobacco kiln's and has never taking them out since and wont sell them, and the barns are ready to fall in kinda a shame but neat none the less
In my teens some guys told me there was a good looking girl down town that had a sign in her car that said "If You Can Beat Me..You Can Eat Me" I never found her.
This has been around for years, might be the time to ressurrect it........ Missing Horsepower Found!!One of the enduring flathead mysteries has been solved. For years, owners of early V8’s have scratched their heads and wondered why the horsepower delivered by their engines did not quite match manufacturer’s specs, or the claims made by the purveyors of various performance parts. Now the truth can be told. In the mid-1930’s, government planners feared that a serious horsepower deficit would develop as the nation began its recovery from the Great Depression. To meet this potential crisis, a top-secret National Horsepower Reserve was established under the auspices of the U.S. Forestry Service and with the cooperation of the Ford Motor Co. Under the plan, small amounts of horsepower were covertly diverted from each new Ford V-8 engine, and placed in a secret depository that had been built by the Civilian Conservation Corps inside a hollowed out mountain in a remote area of one of the western states. Initially, all V-8 engines were included in the program, but 60 hp models were subsequently exempted when it was shown that they had absolutely no horsepower to spare. The program was discontinued in 1954, and over time the existence of the National Horsepower Reserve and the location of the depository were all but forgotten. However, the depository was recently rediscovered when it was inadvertently included in a tract of timberland auctioned off by the Forestry Service. While cruising their new tract, the purchasers came across the entrance to the depository, and upon opening it found a vast, multi-leveled chamber holding row after row of horsepower containers neatly labeled with the serial numbers of the donor engines. All were packed in cosmoline and Marvel Mystery Oil, and appear to be in excellent condition. For proprietary reasons, the new owners are continuing to keep the depository’s location a secret while preparations are being made to hold a public auction to dispose of the horsepower. Arrangements are also being made to contact the current owners of donor engines, and to offer them the right of first refusal on the horsepower originally diverted from their engines. If you have reason to believe that any of this horsepower came from your early V8, and would like further information on the depository and the upcoming auction, you should contact the owners’ agents, Dewey, Cheat’im, & Howe
C'mon nash... do you really expect us to believe that. There not gonna aucion off any horse power. They will just let it rot, and rust, until it will be no good except for imports.
I've heard this story from at least six people starting with my dad 40 years ago. Usually the story teller is talking about a buddy's buddy or they got there just as the Vette was being loaded on to trailer. The last person to tell me this story told me he actually answered the ad. He added to the story by saying when he got to the old lady's house he saw that it was a Corvette worth a lot more than the $500 asking price. He said he couldn't take advantage of the old lady's naiveté but just as he about to tell the lady she had a classic car another guy came up and tried to buy it for the $500. My friend told me he stepped in and told the old lady the car was worth 20 times the asking price and not to take a penny less. At this point, supposedly, the second guy almost got into a fist fight with my friend but my friend literally grabbed the guy's collar and escorted him off the old lady's property. My friend tends to tell tale stories. Every time I have been told the story of the Corvette being sold by the elderly mother of a Viet Nam vet it gets harder to hold back the laugh.
.... you should contact the owners agents, Dewey, Cheatim, & Howe thats the "law firm" from the "Three Stooges" movies....
not much of a legend, but my grandfather has reason to believe his old 34 ford may still be sitting somewhere in this small town i live in, i'd love to go search for it, but i'd have to search with him.
I,ve heard the story about the guy who picks up an old bike from a barn. Looks under the seat & finds the registration registered to Elvis. He must have owned a lot them because I've heard this story about 10 times (from coast to coast). Related Elvis stories are that he impulse buys a bunch of Cadillacs or Harleys for whoever he is hangin with at the time.
It's my understanding that 29nash's story is true. The way I heard it, Chrysler continued skimming Horsepower off it's production engines after 1954. They were concerned that the government was going to re-instate the program so they stockpiled it in a warehouse in Lancing Michigan. Eventually, the warehouse became filled to capacity, untill a brilliant engineer named Zora Duntov decided to buy some of the excess. Once Mopar caught wind of what Duntov was up to, they didn't want to be upstaged by rival Chevrolet, so they began their own program to dispose of the excess HP in their own HEMI engines. One thing led to another, and eventually the *Factory Horespower Wars* of the 1960's were set off. Slowly, consumers caught on, and they began buying these "muscle cars" up by the thousands to take advantage of the lost horsepower they had been deprived of for so many years. Everything was going great untill November 3rd, 1970. On that day, Ford did a press release that horsepower supplies were running dangerously low. As a result, all 1971 models would be built with reduced compression ratios in an effort to cut back on the run-away horsepower fever that had swep up the whole country. Mopar, having still retained the original warehouse of excess horsepower, was able to offer it's customers a nice horespower fix thru '71, and a few months into '72, but eventually, the party ended. The lack ov available horespower didnt stop the consumer tho. While Detroit was forced to build cars that could only deliver "standard horsepower", it didn't stop the consumer from ordering 450+ cubic inch big blocks equiped with 4 speed transmissions, 4 barrel carburetors, and posi rear ends. Rumor has it that the only way the factories were able to deliver these cars was by skimming small amounts of HP from the lesser models, such as Pinto's and Vega's... It seemed that no matter how 'un-available" excess horsepower was, it didn't stop the intoxicated consumer from wanting it. And they were getting it any way they could. Eventually the bottom fell out. On April 7th, 1974, a Ford Torino equiped with a 351 Cleveland 4 barrel received the very last bottle of excess horsepower. On that same day, just a few miles away at a Chevrolet assembly plant, a 4 cylinder Vega was built that had had sooo much of it's horsepower skimmed off the top, that the car simply would not run under it's own power. In the end, it took government intervention, and later regulation to stabilize the industry. There were some seriously dark times of the late 70's and early 80's when the public at large was completely deprived of horsepower while the government regulators slowly rebuilt the stockpile. It wasn't untill 1984 that the regulators finally allowed manufacturers to put excess horsepower back into cars. The first one to receive a dose of excess HP was a white mustang GT that rolled off the assembly line at 3:12 pm on July 11th, 1984. Today, the horsepower industry has been de-regulated, and manufacturers across the world have done an excellent job of self regulation. All manufacturers produce a broad range of automobiles that allow them to remove excess horsepower from compact models, replacing it with economy, and depositing it into fuel injected computer controled road burning machines once again. There has been some talk about the government machine regulating economy, but hopefully it wont come to that.... We shall see.
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