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Date: 8/20/2021 10:15:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 5301
...my only other option was the 1958 Chevy Biscayne that looked like a holdover from Timothy Leary or the Partridge Family.  |
Date: 8/20/2021 11:57:00 PM
From Authorid: 5940
What ever it takes to keep you occupied , even at the expense of your neighbors works for me.  |
Date: 8/21/2021 4:23:00 AM
From Authorid: 998
Ahhh, back to the days, huh. Yes, our first car was a 60's station wagon and yepperz, it had that ever present status symbol ... wood on the sides. Lotta cars from back then to now. We are firmly in the mini van era, with a practical serving of small truck on the side.  |
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Date: 8/21/2021 4:30:00 AM
From Authorid: 998
My favorite models are the fun and flirty, AMC AMX GT. I don't know, something about the simple body style, but hiding a wanna-be muscle car inside. Then my sporty side will always get my head to turn and stare if I get a chance to see the elusive creature on wheels ... the Pantera. Vroom, Vroom !!! |
Date: 8/21/2021 1:11:00 PM
From Authorid: 21435
Hekler  A very timely post, for sure. I had to be towed in, this morning. Made it two miles from the house and the old truck coasted to the curb and refused to come out of it. Grandson says it's the fuel pump. He's the expert. Could be the windshield wiper, for all I know?Anyway, I suggest checking barns in middle America. Last winter, "they" tore down a barn out in the sticks, around here, and found a 1967 Pontiac GTO, sitting on cinder blocks and badly in need of a washing. The thing was complete and had three thousand miles on it. Keep looking. Still a few out there.  |
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Date: 8/21/2021 5:26:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 5301
...Hey Larry...the neighbors (at different points in time) make me get rid of a perfectly good '65 Riviera and also a '69 Falcon undergoing a V8 swap from a lowly six cylinder. This wasn't the doings of some HOA. Sure, I made a lot of noise and it didn't look that great. I was happy. They weren't. |
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Date: 8/21/2021 5:37:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 5301
...Hiya Ginger! When I was just a wee lad, station wagons were looked upon as ungainly troop carriers and they had all the panache of a rowboat among yachts. Looking back, these may have found use as a symbol urging precautions when pursuing intimate relations. I bet old pop sure would have liked to be driving the GTO instead of the aircraft carrier. I almost bought an AMX off of a cousin one time. Always working on that thing because he pounded the life out of it. Nice looking car but very unhappy where it mattered. |
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Date: 8/21/2021 5:47:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 5301
...Kronk...you mean there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? I know the cars are out there...I read Barn Finds daily. The problem is that most of these fresh finds are sold to flippers that will turn that $500.00 car that they paid for into a $15,000.00 car just by giving it a wash and posting a pic online. The hobby has gone crazy with stupid prices so all you're left with is absolute garbage and 1970's land yachts that no one has formed an interest in as of yet. Enjoy your gas mileage. As for your truck, you should convert it to steam. It's the way of the future in the U.S. after the carnage of your next civil war. Don't forget to stock up on Trump steaks and Trump pure spring water. |
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Date: 8/22/2021 9:00:00 AM
From Authorid: 21435
Hekler Yes, it's true. In our day, one dollar, would buy a soda, two burger meals and a fried pie. The other day, I had a "saw buck" left over and thought I might want a chocolate bar. I had to put it back. I have a friend who worked with me and dealt in second hand cars, on the side, for forty years. He actually is very talented. I went by the other day and he was out in the yard, so I stopped and asked, "What are you going to do with those two old Chargers? They've been sitting here, rusting away, for the last fifteen years. Why don't you just donate them?" He tells me, "they are increasing in value, every day." What? Anyway, my truck is back in action. My grandson was right. It was the fuel pump. We had to unbolt and remove the bed, because the fuel pump is located in the gas tank. Took all of the yesterday, and we finished up this morning. I'm seriously thinking of asking "Oprah" for a new truck.  |
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Date: 8/22/2021 7:20:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 5301
...Kronk...those cars are increasing in value every day until they're not increasing in value any more. All they'll be good for then is the VIN plate if the car was anything of importance in the first place (rare). Yep, the "good old days" when you could get a running car for less than a hundred bucks and spend an afternoon playing Erwin Rommel in your new field car. |
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Date: 8/24/2021 5:46:00 PM
From Authorid: 21435
Hekler Your "Erwin Rommel" reference flashed me back, bigtime. Back when I was about fourteen, our high school principal, who owned a couple of acres, bought himself a new ride and gave his kids his old car, to ride around the property. It was a 1953 Chevrolet Belaire and the kids named it "the Green Bomb." We went round and round in that old heap. I miss those times. |
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Date: 8/24/2021 6:38:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 5301
...yep, it's a lot of fun until you plant the nose of the car into a stream gully and nobody wants to help you tow it out. Used to be a lot of farms and open lots around here. Now all ugly housing developments. Going to have to move more north into the deep freeze. |
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Date: 8/26/2021 8:23:00 AM
From Authorid: 21435
Hekler I was actually sweet on the principal's daughter. I never worked out. He knew me too well. My first vehicle was a 1964 Pontiac LeMans. My cousin begged me to let him drive it in front of a girl's house. I finally relented and sure enough, she was out in the yard. He hung his left arm out the window, blew the horn at her and when she waved back, he got so flustered that he drove off the road and into the ditch. I was upset, but had to laugh at the look on my cousin's face. The girl's father and uncle came and helped us push the car out.....Priceless... |
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Date: 8/27/2021 5:24:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 5301
Kronk...I know those types of moments too well. Memories that will never fade. A lot of them didn't feel like such good fun at the time though. If nothing else, you did get to meet members of the local constabulary. |
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Date: 8/27/2021 5:40:00 PM
From Authorid: 5940
Lol! ^^^^^ |
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