can't have nuthin nice.
- Thread starter fiver
- Start date
Pistolero
Well-Known Member
Smokeywolf - a real 9 second car in the quarter is a seriously fast car, even today. I never
owned anything that fast, but did drive a few. 440 six pak, 4 speed, shaker hood, '71 Challenger,
with headers, traction bars. VERY fast, 6500 RPM redline! The killer, literally, was - unassisted
drum brakes! What were they thinking?! Nice looker, though. Never took it over 130, but
there was a lot left.
Ahh - sand pits and woods when you are a kid. Yep. Coastal VA for me, and crabbing too. First time I
brought home a bucket of blue crabs and provided dinner for the family at age 8 or so. That was a pretty
cool feeling, still remember thinking it was so cool to go out and get dinner. Used to get oysters and
sell to a friend of my Dad's for 50 cents a bucket. That was equal to a week's allowance!
Had long hair in the 70s, too. Wish I had the hair today, long or otherwise.
Bill
owned anything that fast, but did drive a few. 440 six pak, 4 speed, shaker hood, '71 Challenger,
with headers, traction bars. VERY fast, 6500 RPM redline! The killer, literally, was - unassisted
drum brakes! What were they thinking?! Nice looker, though. Never took it over 130, but
there was a lot left.
Ahh - sand pits and woods when you are a kid. Yep. Coastal VA for me, and crabbing too. First time I
brought home a bucket of blue crabs and provided dinner for the family at age 8 or so. That was a pretty
cool feeling, still remember thinking it was so cool to go out and get dinner. Used to get oysters and
sell to a friend of my Dad's for 50 cents a bucket. That was equal to a week's allowance!
Had long hair in the 70s, too. Wish I had the hair today, long or otherwise.
Bill
Last edited:
fiver
Well-Known Member
that's what my front yard looked like this winter.
today there is only 2"s out there but it's nice shiny new snow, and more is trying to pile up on it.
I'm pretty sure Mom still has all the old photo's.
the only one's I have around here is of me standing by some deer at the back of my sisters step side chevy.
it was the first year my little Brother could actually hunt and we took her truck cause there was no way any of my cars was going on dirt.
I think I have another one of me working on the Chevelle, setting the Timing or something, it would have been taken about the same time, and one of me in my Dress Blues on my wedding day.
today there is only 2"s out there but it's nice shiny new snow, and more is trying to pile up on it.
I'm pretty sure Mom still has all the old photo's.
the only one's I have around here is of me standing by some deer at the back of my sisters step side chevy.
it was the first year my little Brother could actually hunt and we took her truck cause there was no way any of my cars was going on dirt.
I think I have another one of me working on the Chevelle, setting the Timing or something, it would have been taken about the same time, and one of me in my Dress Blues on my wedding day.
RBHarter
West Central AR
My Dad and uncle's kick themselves for all of those old cars they raced to death wrecked or otherwise gave away .
The uncle had a 34' 3 window Ford business coupe . It was chopped by Barris (yes the Batmobile guys) to a 9" windshield , 3/8x7/16 39AB block with Offenhauser intake and headers , Kong ignition , 3/97 Strombergs , Lincoln 3 speed top shift with a Columbia wish bone air shift . Even by today's standards it was fast with a best run of 104.65 .
Dad had a 35' 5 window reequipped with a 256 Dodge and a 4 speed . He had a straight 8 40' Packard coupe also . Later on he built up 51' Ford F1 that would 140 with the flat head 6 on the highway between Bishop and Ridgecrest CA back in about 1963 ...... In 64' Mom an Dad bought a brand new 64 1/2 Falcon Futura Sprint .
In 1982 I learned to drive in a 66 C30 Chevy truck and got my license in a 69' Chrysler New Port coupe late in 83 I bought a 59' Ranchero with a factory 352 Tbird rated at 317 HP ....... The Chevy and that 383 Chrysler are long gone but the 56' F100 that I took my very first "out in the air" ride home from the hospital on Dad's 27th birthday is still hanging around with the Ranchero .
The uncle had a 34' 3 window Ford business coupe . It was chopped by Barris (yes the Batmobile guys) to a 9" windshield , 3/8x7/16 39AB block with Offenhauser intake and headers , Kong ignition , 3/97 Strombergs , Lincoln 3 speed top shift with a Columbia wish bone air shift . Even by today's standards it was fast with a best run of 104.65 .
Dad had a 35' 5 window reequipped with a 256 Dodge and a 4 speed . He had a straight 8 40' Packard coupe also . Later on he built up 51' Ford F1 that would 140 with the flat head 6 on the highway between Bishop and Ridgecrest CA back in about 1963 ...... In 64' Mom an Dad bought a brand new 64 1/2 Falcon Futura Sprint .
In 1982 I learned to drive in a 66 C30 Chevy truck and got my license in a 69' Chrysler New Port coupe late in 83 I bought a 59' Ranchero with a factory 352 Tbird rated at 317 HP ....... The Chevy and that 383 Chrysler are long gone but the 56' F100 that I took my very first "out in the air" ride home from the hospital on Dad's 27th birthday is still hanging around with the Ranchero .
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Some peoples BS continues
