was lucky growing up, the vehicles i like (early '60's to early '70's) were still at give-away prices, and my dad was a serious gearhead. for the first 20 yrs of my driving life, i bought and sold cars like i change my underwear
don't have a pic of my first car, a '74 (gag) amc hornet. it was my mom's and one night i jacked the keys before i got my license, then proceeded to grenade the sixer in it. as
part of my punishment, she made me buy it with the blown 6. my dad had a 390 out of an old '69 f100, so we shoehorned it in, and it. was. fast. but in a couple months the doors would drop like an inch when ya opened them, that 390 twisted the car right up.
here's me as a snot nosed 16 yr old wit my '69 nova with a 327, around '79-'80.
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my dad was into ford trucks and mopar cars, so i ended up with a couple of each...but i don't talk about them much...and because most kids want to be different than their folks at that age, i started buying GM's.
my '71 chevelle, one of my camaro's and ya, like everybody back in the day, i had a V8 vega as well
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one of my more fav cars was this '67 beaumont Sports Deluxe wit a 396, never should have got rid of it. was also one of the last cars i owned, been trucks only since the late'80's...the blaze i owned in the early '90's, as well as the sidewinder
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funnest truck i owned was this '68 Custom cab with a 383 stroker. used to catch the "four barrel and header crowd" guy's off guard with it all the time. first square was this old sub. my dad and his buddy were drinking one night, and after awhile i talked him into selling it to me for a $100. it never went on the street, was strictly a bush wagon. the green and tan 3/4 ton was my first streetable square. that cordoba in front of it was my dad's and it was
FAST. he took the 440 outta my mom's old newport, we did a little work on it and it cranked out an honest 450 hp. with 2 something highway gears in the axle, it would motor on the freeway. he actually got nailed doing 128 in a 60 zone with it
now that i'm waaaaay older, my trucks seem to have become long termer's. the '90 k1500 stepper i bought from the orig owner in '95, and i still daily drive it today, 26 yrs and still going. my crewcab i have had since '97, and my wifes XUV (behind my custom cab) we bought new in '04 and she still drives it.....lately she's been thinking she wants to sell it and get an AT4 Canyon
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