Your First Automobile.
Feb 15, 2022 15:53:06 #
NorthMoccasin
Loc: SW Virginia, sometimes east central Florida
37 Plymouth 4 dr 3 on the floor. 82 hp 6 cylinder. Top speed about 65 -70 wot. Wish I had it back!
Feb 15, 2022 16:03:25 #
Justoldjim
Loc: JUNCTION CITY, OR.
Did you hear about the wreck involving a Thunderbird and a Mustang?-------horse sxxt and feathers all over the place
Feb 15, 2022 16:22:55 #
Justoldjim wrote:
Did you hear about the wreck involving a Thunderbird and a Mustang?-------horse sxxt and feathers all over the place
Didn't know horse sxxt had 2 x's in it Jim. Is that because it's good sxxt?
Feb 15, 2022 17:04:56 #
Scudrnr
Loc: Hancock, Wisconsin
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 a '56 Pontiac Chieftain. It was a tank.
Feb 15, 2022 17:09:32 #
bcinphx wrote:
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
Get ‘em, Bill!
Feb 15, 2022 17:14:35 #
Feb 15, 2022 17:21:00 #
Learned to drive in my Aunts 39 Buick with a Pontiac V8 firebird engine. At 80mph you barely tap the accelerator it'd set you back in the seat. Aunt scared little brother going 120. I never had it over 90. Dad sold it, it only got 8mpg.
Feb 15, 2022 17:24:27 #
davedumont
Loc: Oscoda, Michigan
67 ford fairlane 500 with a v8. I don't remember how many cubic inches. But before I even had my license I would go to the back of our 5 acres and burn rubber until the grass lit on fire. Then I would run back and put the fire out before it could spread. Just a stupid kid doing stupid things. But I had a lot of fun doing it!
Feb 15, 2022 17:57:34 #
First car was a 1951 Ford 2-door. It had a flathead V-8 that I was excited about until I found out that the straight six had only 5 less horsepower and probably weighed a whole lot less. It overheated reliably, because it had a cracked block (5 cracks, I counted them). I carried a couple of gallon jugs of water in the trunk, and by heart I knew every water hole, ditch, stream, faucet, fountain, windmill, pond, puddle and stock tank within 50 miles of home. It would NOT burn rubber. After learning that, I had to learn how to fix a transmission. That turned out OK, because the tranny I got for parts had an overdrive. I made one good tranny with overdrive out of the two. 15 MPG, but gas was cheap. I'd often pull over and pick up empty pop bottles, the 2 cent deposit went towards gas money. That car and Dad's old Motor's manual taught me a lot about wrenching. FORD:
Fix
Or
Repair
Daily!
Fix
Or
Repair
Daily!
Feb 15, 2022 18:51:34 #
Betts. Still trying...
Still love driving...took the Porsche up to 155 for kicks...till she started floating.
Still love driving...took the Porsche up to 155 for kicks...till she started floating.
Feb 15, 2022 19:35:28 #
CD in WBR
Loc: Port Allen,LA
bcinphx wrote:
Betts. Still trying...
Still love driving...took the Porsche up to 155 for kicks...till she started floating.
Still love driving...took the Porsche up to 155 for kicks...till she started floating.
67 Cougar with classic 289. Next was 72 Grand Am with 400 cu in and rack and pinion steering. Had much bigger back seat.
Feb 15, 2022 19:45:59 #
Best fishing ever
Loc: So California
bcinphx wrote:
Betts. Still trying...
Still love driving...took the Porsche up to 155 for kicks...till she started floating.
Still love driving...took the Porsche up to 155 for kicks...till she started floating.
Had my 911s up to 115mph but that's as fast as I wanted to go
Feb 15, 2022 19:52:35 #
Sport
Loc: Sacramento county north. California
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.
'60 beetle. 36 hp. The sky blue one. That was a fun car. The trunk in front held a full kit. Tent included. At high elevation you wanted to get out and push. Top speed in town bout 54 mph.
Feb 15, 2022 19:55:17 #
Barnacles wrote:
First car was a 1951 Ford 2-door. It had a flathe... (show quote)
I had a 1965 Chevy Van. Used for a DJ Business. It overheated for a few reasons. I grew up in Mojave Desert. Density of air is less. Heat can be high. The radiator is blocked by body design. The radiator needed rodding out. I had a custom 4 core built for it out of more modern 4 core radiator core they used my Harrison brass tanks. It quit running hot.
What I did is used water and a transmission funnel simply dumped a little water through the hole in doghouse in front of radiator to cool it off.
My parents later bought a 1969 Dodge Lazydaze Motorhome that was built on a Dodge Van chassis at Lazydaze factory. It liked to run hot too. It was a 318CID. The coach had a copper tubing system hooked to the water system in the coach. If you pushed a button or cracked a valve ( hard to remember now) on the doghouse it sprayed a mist in front of radiator on hills to cool it off. Think of wind chill. It really worked great.
Feb 15, 2022 20:03:54 #
jlf1938
Loc: Acworth, GA
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.
And mine was a 1954 Pontiac with a straight 8 engine and Hydromatic transmission. It was a dark green and each time the brake pedal was used there was a kind of honking noise, so it became known as the Green Goose.
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