What were you Driving/Building 20 years ago?

Does 18 years qualify????

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a big wheels with a flat spot on the back wheel from doin those rad power slides!

 

Twenty years ago, I was in Kodiak, AK driving a 74CJ5 with an LT-1/M-21 - my other ride was a Maule M5-235 on floats...there was only one corvette in town and that was the local Chevy dealer's "collector" Pace Car Vette - he had it priced at $100,000 har har de har har har - I would surmise that it's still there...waiting...for Barrett-Jackson to call

"every day above dirt...is a GOOD day"

 

Man you've got to be kidding! 20 years ago I was living on Kodiak riding a Huffy BMX bike.

-Jeff

 

Hmmmm....20 years ago. That would be one of my favorite cars that I've owned, a 73 Gran Torino Sport Fastback. Emberglo Metallic, Q - code 351CJ, 4-speed, tach & gauges, chrome Magnum 500's, power steering, power disc brakes, buckets, console, rear defroster, AM/FM Stereo, Sport Suspension, 3.42 Traction Loc, & original factory dual exhaust. It had over 263,000 miles on it and used about as much oil as gas but would still smoke the tires up into 3rd gear. I paid $300 for it off of a used car lot in Colorado in 1986.
Tom - restorit

 

20 years ago i was wishin the womb was big enough to work on a car!

 

let's see....1986....ummmm....I'm not tellin!

although I was driving my 396 powered 59 chebbie pickup in addition to the ones I'm not tellin about

 

I was driving an M60A3 Tank in Europe. That was the tank before the M1.

 

What, were you driving something HAMBarassing... like a '71 MGB? Oh, hang on, that was me...

 

I was doing this burnout with my '74 Rover 215ci V8 (Buick motor). This burnout was easier to do than you might expect because I had at one time sheared off one of the rear disc brakes by accident when doing a burnout before. Burnouts can be done simply by pressing the brake pedal and accelerator simultaneously. The power of the engine will override the rear brakes and the front brakes will keep you standing still. The disadvantages of this method is that you can shear off a inboard rear brake disc! It didn't matter I simply cut it off the axle with a hacksaw and hammered a block of wood in the brake caliper to stop the piston falling out. It lasted months and facilitated such wonderful burnouts like these. These pictures were taken the day before I scrapped the car.

 

20 years ago, I was licking my wounds after the Detroit car show. Just spent 8+ years building a homegrown, homebuilt purple 32 5 window to compete for the Riddler. The entire car was built at home by me and four of my best friends. The only part that was farmed out was the interior

(That was back when a simple minded, detail oriented, common ordinary man could compete.)

Anyway, came in 1st runner up to a drag car, a Pontiac Grand Am built in 90 days by the speed shop who sponsored the car show t-shirts.

There was no such thing as the "Great 8" back then. This race car sat in it's display all weekend with the doghouse removed and the doors and deck lid just sitting around it. Built entirely from catalog parts and looked like it had been lettered by some junior high school students with barn brushes.

That spring, when a bunch of cirrcut cars were invited to Bell Island for the photo shoot for the ISCA annual, everyone got a chance to see how terrible the panel fit was on the Grand Am. Hell you could mail a FedEx overnight letter in the gaps between most any of the panels. Lost a lot of faith and respect from many of the guys in the MHRA at the time over that car.

There were 5 cars at Detroit that year that were honored as being in serious contention for the Riddler.

This POS race car and 4 other damn nice street rods. Myself and the three other rod owners were taken by surprize at awards over the announcement that the speed shop in Garden City, Michigan won the Riddler

The MHRA should have been embarassed that year for disgracing the Riddler Memorial Award as they did. For the past few years I have been in ewe by the quality of the cars winning the award. But then again, I have never seen any of them on the road. They just set, doing what they do best, looking like a fine piece of art.

Thanks for listening to me ramble on in this post

 

I had it pretty good, didnt have sense to know it though.

 

the same old crappy clunkers I still have and can never get finished! Plus a couple more!
R.R.

 

I was driving a 1946 chevy convertable and building a model a sedan.

 

I was driving a 1954 Ford Popular V8 power ,great fun only sold it to pay solicisitors after my divorce......

 

Mustang IMCA dirt racer....

 

A Tricycle And The 68 Yenko My Dad Left Me

 

My '64 GTO, which I still have; I think I'll run it through Barrett Jackson and get $512,000 for it. I paid $450 for it with the original Muncie, but no engine, and bought a complete '69 400 Ram Air III engine for it for $150. Another $50 bought me a '66 tripower setup(which I found out years later was hot, but I think the statute of limitations is up on it now), and I had me a pretty good running car.

 

Not 20 but 18 yrs ago I was driving my first hot rod 1930 A coupe black chopped and channeled with a 3 deuce set up drove it for 5 yrs and upgraded to a '33 Ford.

 

'64 Ford Galaxie 500XL convertible, '76 Chevy Luv convertible show minitruck, '69 Firebird in red oxide primer (souped up to take money from suckers at the Friday midnight drags in Orange County).

 

I was 5 I had a Schwinn single speed. It was purple had a Banana seat, ape hangers, a bitchin ding ding horn, and a card in the spokes motor. That thing was tough. It also had all the stickers on it from the parts my Dad and his friends bought. With all the stickers that bike had to have like 1000 horse.

 

I was drivin a 73 dodge challenger with a 340 4 brl and / or a 64 plymouth valiant with the 225 with the push botton shift.

 

20 years ago I was driving a '74 Pinto with a 351W/4speed/9" rear in it. I built it when the war between the V8 Pintos and V8 Vegas were being waged.....you know the Grumpy Bill Jenkins Vega vs. the Gapp and Roush Pintos.

 

A '65 Chevy Impala SS, 402/Turbo 350. Sold it for $1400 and the idiot drove all winter for a couple years and rotted the quarters away.

 

I was drivin this. It was my high school car. Man has it been 20 years. It was literally one of those little old lady, driven to church on Sundays type of stories. I still have it and drive it occasionally. I've got so many projects this one will probably have to wait till retirement.