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Breakfast Cereal to HOT Cars!

I remember being in the dealership when my parents were buying a New Yorker. They had a Super Bee with the big spoiler, on the showroom floor. I was maybe 9 years old at the time; but one of the sales guys let me sit inside
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I can still remember trying to convince, mom that it was just as nice as the New Yorker...yeah that didnt work so well
 
Me first car, only picture i got. i was 18, couldn't afford no camera. had just started a full time job outta high school. wish i had taken more of it. only got two and one is me sittin on the hood. 71 rally Nova, four on the floor. was a year old and can't remember the mileage. Hedman headers. air shocks on rear. just had short glass packs on it. no exhaust pipe. i stayed in trouble with it. cops loved me. Engine was no where near stock either.

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Sweet memories of all those cars! When I first retired from the Navy in '98 and cash poor. I found a like new, low-mile White Bobcat hatchback with a red interior for $1,500. I must say, that car was fun, and the only issue it had were the brakes. Mechanics could never get the rotors trued for some reason. All of the old cars the public made fun of like the Pinto and Bobcat are worth good money if they are in excellent condition.
 
When I came home from the Army I borrowed my dad's Chevy Chevette and started looking for something of my own. I found a 68 Triumph Spitfire in British racing green colour AND it was Right Hand drive.

Man did I want that car. It was in really good shape and had been garage kept for most of its life. The owner had passed away and his daughter was selling it (cheap I thought).

I could drive a stick shift; but trying to convince my left hand to work the shifter was a bust. I took it for a test drive and spent more time stalling it and grinding the gears. Dad reminded me how much a clutch would cost to repair (and how often given my test drive) so I passed but boy did I want that car.
 
i had a 1964 T-Bird.....not like the one pictured...

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it was a freaking army tank.....guzzled gas, from gas station to gas station.

pot holes...??? what were those...??

muscle car it was not.......floating over the road following a gas hauler...it was.

and for breakfast cereal, i have oatmeal every morning, from the early fall, to early summer.
 
Old_Me said:
i had a 1964 T-Bird.....not like the one pictured...

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it was a freaking army tank.....guzzled gas, from gas station to gas station.

pot holes...??? what were those...??

muscle car it was not.......floating over the road following a gas hauler...it was.

and for breakfast cereal, i have oatmeal every morning, from the early fall, to early summer.
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Talk about floating over the road…when wife and I were younger with very little $$ (way before military started providing decent compensation to enlisted folks), we relied on used cars. Ended up with a 1971 Olds Ninety Eight that a dealer had just taken in trade, at a price we could afford. This was about 79-80. Lasted us easily until we headed off to Okinawa in late 1982 and it actually made the roadtrip from Colorado Springs to Phoenix in 1980 with no drama! Was like driving while sitting on your living room sofa…and first car we had that had electric everything!

Not a picture of our car from old, but I representation I could find online.

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I won't take exception to one word written here, everyone has their one car that was most special to them. Some muscle car, some leisure car, some pretty car, etc, etc. Although not a particularly MOPAR man myself, I know folks who consider the early Barracudas, those slant back things with the big curved rear glass, as early muscle cars. Mid to late '60's I think. After about the first couple years, the Cuda's were in fact real muscle cars. Then there's all the Fords (Mustangs, et al) and Chevys (Chevels, et al) Pontiacs (GTO's & The Judge) even Buicks back then with their (turbo Grand National) and the list goes on and on. Those of us who lived those times have many, many fond memories of our cars. For many, cars back then were as important, sometimes more important than girls.

My special car was a little earlier than some and in fact a muscle car of it's day ... In 1963-4 I was able to buy a '56 Chevy Bel Air, 2 door. And with it came a 265 SBC v8 with 'Tri-Power'. Yessiree-bob, to this day I'm not sure of the actual HP, nor even the rated HP, but for that day and time it was about the hottest thing on the road. Think of that, a small block v8 with three 2 bbls, and factory progressive linkage. Advertised as I recall at about 225hp. Then the next year, 1957, the 283 came out with the mechanical fuel injection (which I craved) and we tried, and tried, to no avail to adapt to my '56 265 Tri-power. But since it was designed for the 2x4bbl set up that came on the 283, we never got it done right. Oh well, can't have everything I guess.

Dang man, I hadn't thought if this for many years, but it's a sweet memory. As an aside, my first car after I married was a 1969 Buick (don't even remember the model), bigger/heavier than a Sherman tank and it had wings across the rear as wide as a D9 Caterpillar, and it was a damned 4 door no less. But both my new wife and my new MIL liked it. Now, it did have a 455 cid v8 in it, but It sure wasn't what I'd consider a muscle car and it did have a rep for sucking the gas tank dry PDQ, which was the only fast thing about it. :cry::cry:o_O Oh yeh, did I mention this was my first car after I got married? What happens to a man's brain once he says "I do"? ;):) Actually he usually doesn't seem to have too much to say at all. Y'all know what I mean, right? :rolleyes::rolleyes: Now, back to the car conversations!!!!
 
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