Your First Automobile.
Feb 15, 2022 14:23:33 #
Feb 15, 2022 14:25:30 #
First car in high school...55 Sudebaker. Looked like a shark.cool.
My current project..71 pontiac ventura II. Basically from windshield back...a Nova. Punched 454, muncie 'rock crusher' trans, 355 rear. Will try and post pic. Will definitely be faster than the Studebaker was. p.s. I am 74.
Bill
My current project..71 pontiac ventura II. Basically from windshield back...a Nova. Punched 454, muncie 'rock crusher' trans, 355 rear. Will try and post pic. Will definitely be faster than the Studebaker was. p.s. I am 74.
Bill
Feb 15, 2022 14:45:01 #
Flytier wrote:
With the ski rack for rods and the heavy duty crash bar on the nose my Tahoe gets confused as a police vehicle quite often.
I almost have the cop's SUV's around here pegged, but the unmarked cars are almost unfair.
Feb 15, 2022 14:48:55 #
Fishing Fool
Loc: redding, ca
1955 chevy taht I stuffed a 4 speed muncie and a 427 in. It was a mover.
Feb 15, 2022 14:51:55 #
IROLL
Loc: San Martin Ca.
Jeremy wrote:
Mine was a 1968 Black Volkswagen Baja Bug with a 1 piece fiberglass front end that was white. I had headers with NO Muffler just an off-road type stinger.
Mine was a1964 Chevy Nova with a 283 and four on the floor. Was pretty fast but didn’t handle at all.
Feb 15, 2022 14:52:01 #
Fishing Fool wrote:
1955 chevy taht I stuffed a 4 speed muncie and a 427 in. It was a mover.
Sounds like we came from the same mentality. Lol. And 104 octane gas was $.68/gallon
Feb 15, 2022 15:01:25 #
Mine was a 64 Dodge push button automatic ugly ass cream color. Froze up the water pump on top 4th July pass middle of winter. Walked away left the car there sent title to towing company.
Feb 15, 2022 15:01:52 #
Also somehow the heater leaked some carbon monoxide from the exhaust. And yes, it was in that Red Asphalt, trying to scare the poop out of you movie
Feb 15, 2022 15:03:26 #
51 Chrysler 4 door Windsor. Paid $50 bucks for it in April of '61 when I was a junior at Seton Hall University. Ran until I joined the AF in SEP '63. My brother destroyed it in two months!
Feb 15, 2022 15:08:20 #
Catfish hunter wrote:
Sounds like we came from the same mentality. Lol. And 104 octane gas was $.68/gallon
Can't recall what the gas price was when i started driving in Maryland, so here is a google source just for Sh**s and giggles.
In the year 1967, the average retail price of gas was $0.33. This is equivalent to $2.61 in 2021 dollars.
Feb 15, 2022 15:27:31 #
Americanman28 wrote:
Also somehow the heater leaked some carbon monoxide from the exhaust. And yes, it was in that Red Asphalt, trying to scare the poop out of you movie
Because the heater was simply shrouded area around the exhaust manifolds because air cooled.
Feb 15, 2022 15:30:36 #
Mine was a 30 model A 2 door sedan when I was 16, it was in pieces including a 8BA flat head engine and 39 ford hydrolic brakes. Paid $35 and my dad wanted his garage back so I traded the brake setup for a balsa wood surfboard and junked the rest of a complete mode A. What it would be worth now, that was in 1960. First drivable was a 1950 Chevy 2 door sedan totally modified with a built 235 Chevy engine custom paint and tuck and rolled interior and lowered in the front end and reversed rims in the rear. The fastest thing I ever owned was a 1940 Chevy with a 409 W block with duel 4s and 425 hp and 4speed and 4:56 posi rear and m&h slicks. Got 3 miles to the gallon in 1968.
Feb 15, 2022 15:30:57 #
IROLL wrote:
Mine was a1964 Chevy Nova with a 283 and four on the floor. Was pretty fast but didn’t handle at all.
283 can be made into a very quick power plant because of short stroke (high revs) without flying apart. Can cam them four barrel or fuel injection aftermarket. Can rev the living crap out of them without ripping hole in the fenders and oil pan with a connecting rod.
I wonder if that vehicle had a stabilizer bar to help it through turns… maybe not.
Feb 15, 2022 15:34:05 #
Fishing Fool
Loc: redding, ca
None of those small blocks ever kept up with the big blocks though. I ran a few 383 strokers and lots of RPM but no real pulling away power.
Feb 15, 2022 15:49:28 #
OLDNDN
Loc: Merced County, Calif.
1964 ford thunderbird. Boy that car was a beast. I installed a vibrasonic radio system with a light bar across and below the dash. That light bar would pulsate different colors to the best of the music. I had a blast in that. We called
Them “tuna boats” back then.
Them “tuna boats” back then.
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