Anyone also into vintage cars?
- Thread starter boingk
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I have a 79 firebird I want to pro-tour! Dont have the money for it, so Ive decided to sell it! If anyone here is interested let me know! Its a fun car, and my first muscle car. Hate to sell it but it deserves a better home! I didnt show her much attention this past summer!
Besides the bikes I have a 1955 Bel-Air hardtop --->
Nothing too crazy, just a simple put put 350/350 setup that I lowered.
Has no power what so ever, but loves to cruise at 70-80mph on the tollway.
Future plans call to bodydrop the car (so it will lay flat on the floor) and do either a turbo or supercharged ls2..
Has no power what so ever, but loves to cruise at 70-80mph on the tollway.
Future plans call to bodydrop the car (so it will lay flat on the floor) and do either a turbo or supercharged ls2..
wagonmaster69
Been Around the Block
Here is my 1969 Chrysler Town & Country Wagon has a slightly built 440.
It has the third seat so I can fit 9 people in her and still cruse at 80mph.
It has the third seat so I can fit 9 people in her and still cruse at 80mph.
rockets of the metal man
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boingk said:
I've always been into Triumphs and LandRovers, here are two of my previous cars, a 1967 Triumph 2000 Mk1 Estate and a 1971 Triumph 2000 Mk2 Saloon.
It's not really vintage...but, well, I built this car from scratch. Obviously, it looks a lot like a Lotus Super Se7en. It took a couple years or design and fabrication.
And a 74 Midget I'm building for my wife. It is getting a bugeye front bonnet/hood. Under that will be a 1.6 Miata lump. I'm going to try to get it to around 160HP. We'll see.
My daily driver is an 08 Volvo C30.
--Chris
And a 74 Midget I'm building for my wife. It is getting a bugeye front bonnet/hood. Under that will be a 1.6 Miata lump. I'm going to try to get it to around 160HP. We'll see.
My daily driver is an 08 Volvo C30.
--Chris
Here's my 50 Chevy, she's got a long ways to go but i love her, runs an original 235 with a split manifold, really cool motor.
Here are some of my pops' cars:
61 Plymouth Fury.
36 Ford Chop
51 Shoebox Ford custom, got the grill and bumps back from the chromer, body works done, finally got some primer on her.
1960 Ford Thunderbird, FOR SALE if anyones interested hit me up.
Here are some of my pops' cars:
61 Plymouth Fury.
36 Ford Chop
51 Shoebox Ford custom, got the grill and bumps back from the chromer, body works done, finally got some primer on her.
1960 Ford Thunderbird, FOR SALE if anyones interested hit me up.
Disliked23
Been Around the Block
I would literally sell body parts for a superbee. At least a nut and a kidney or something...
Syke
General neer'n do-well and Rocker since 1964.
Haven't owned a vintage car since shortly after I first got my motorcycle license (1976), but my first car was a 1937 Buick Special 2-door sedan that I had for about a decade. Showed it at all the local vintage antique shows (of which there were a lot, as western Pennsylvania is a real hotbed of antique cars), and later realized that the Indian I currently own was at most of the same shows - that was two owners earlier.
Now for the fun part: What most of you guys are talking about, to me, aren't vintage cars. They're life.
My father was a Chevrolet dealer, 1950-1965. I virtually grew up in the dealership. Was down there every Tuesday afternoon, after piano lessons. My teacher lived across the street from the dealership. My earliest memory as a child was father coming home on afternoon for lunch, summer of 1953, driving this white roadster with red interior. Yep, a '53 Corvette - years later he told me it was something like #14 off the production line. Gave me a ride during lunch (this was a habit of his during the next 12 years) and took it back to the shop.
I found the car again, twenty years later. Six blocks from the family home. Sitting outdoors, alongside the residence's garage, rotting away. I spent the next two years trying to buy the car from the elderly lady who lived there but she wouldn't sell - it was her late son's car, he was killed in a '58 he also bought from dad. The car eventually rotted away to nothing and I lost track of what happened to the remains.
Back then, I loved summer. Dad made sure he came home every day in whatever was the strangest car that was sitting on the lot at the time, and I got to ride in stuff as diverse as a Humber Snipe, Hillman Minx, Renault Dauphine (the first car I ever drove - age 12), DeSoto Firedome, various Packards and Studebakers, etc., etc., etc.
However, I've never ridden in another Corvette. Never figured out why.
Now for the fun part: What most of you guys are talking about, to me, aren't vintage cars. They're life.
My father was a Chevrolet dealer, 1950-1965. I virtually grew up in the dealership. Was down there every Tuesday afternoon, after piano lessons. My teacher lived across the street from the dealership. My earliest memory as a child was father coming home on afternoon for lunch, summer of 1953, driving this white roadster with red interior. Yep, a '53 Corvette - years later he told me it was something like #14 off the production line. Gave me a ride during lunch (this was a habit of his during the next 12 years) and took it back to the shop.
I found the car again, twenty years later. Six blocks from the family home. Sitting outdoors, alongside the residence's garage, rotting away. I spent the next two years trying to buy the car from the elderly lady who lived there but she wouldn't sell - it was her late son's car, he was killed in a '58 he also bought from dad. The car eventually rotted away to nothing and I lost track of what happened to the remains.
Back then, I loved summer. Dad made sure he came home every day in whatever was the strangest car that was sitting on the lot at the time, and I got to ride in stuff as diverse as a Humber Snipe, Hillman Minx, Renault Dauphine (the first car I ever drove - age 12), DeSoto Firedome, various Packards and Studebakers, etc., etc., etc.
However, I've never ridden in another Corvette. Never figured out why.
