Very cool site

[Captain]

I know Thumper (and others here) will enjoy this site.
It Has the official poster for about about every car/truck ever made.
Really neat!
http://www.lov2xlr8.no/broch1.html

[Big Muddy]

Real cool site, Cap....thanks....Haha, I found my first car.....'51 Studebaker....bought it in '63 for $165 bucks....it was just like this one, except it was turd gray....it had been wrecked, and was all beat up to hell, and had no reverse gear....but had tons of fun with it.

7554

[Thumper]

Mudward, Studebakers were all my grandfather (mom's side) would ever drive. I remember my favorite place to ride was laying on the package shelf at the rear window. It seemed like it was as big as my bed at home. I can remember how disappointed I was when I outgrew it and had to sit in the back seat instead!

I guess my first cars were not real popular as they don't have posters on that site. My first car ... well, my first 1/3 of a car actually, was a '49 Plymouth. Two buddy's and myself pitched in $25 apiece and bought it for $75.00 ... and not one of us had a driver's license! We sure had fun with that car though! It finally threw a rod and we drove it forever knocking like a son-of-a-gun! You could hear it coming from 2-3 blocks away! We finally drove it to a junk yard and the guy told us where to park it. When we got out, we put the tranny in neutral, set the parking brake and threw an old brake drum on the accelerator pedal, then stood back to watch the thing hand-grenade! Ha! It didn't even have enough power left to blow itself up. It just sat there clattering away at full throttle and kept running ... and running ... and running! We finally gave up, reached in, turned the key off and walked away. :)


http://www.buyoldcars.com/images/49turtle-driver-side-03-2009.jpg


My next car was '56 Chrysler Town & Country station wagon I inherited from my grandfather (dad's side). It had something like 275,000 miles on it at that time ... which was a LOT of miles for a car in those days. It had an old hemi engine with a 2-speed (push-button) automatic tranny. I took that old car from Florida to Vicksburg, Mississippi with me and drove it in high school. Everybody at school LOVED that old car and whenever we had an outing planned (to the lake for example), everybody would scramble to ride in "The Bat Tank"! (Batman was big back then) It had three seats and we could pack half the dang school into that car! When we moved to Memphis, the car went with me. I finally sold it to an old black guy who worked on the wash rack at the Cadillac dealer where I worked in high school, and he drove it for years.


http://cdn.barrett-jackson.com/staging/carlist/items/Fullsize/Cars/117759/117759_Rear_3-4_Web.JPG


Then it was a '60 Pontiac Ventura with a GTO engine (standard 389 cid with a GTO cam and carb).


http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Pontiac/60_Pontiac-Ventura-Hardtop-DV-10-MB_011.jpg


I drove the Pontiac until I built my street racer while a senior in high school. Drove it to college ... (and made a shitload of beer money from street racing)! ;)


7559 7560


Then sumpin' called the Vietnam War got in the way and interrupted all the fun. :(

[LJ3]

Here's mine. 66 Galaxy ragtop. Mine was something of an odd bird as it had the 352 windsor where I think most others had the tree-fiddy-one Cleveland block.

7565

[Flatlander]

This one was mine. Traded it for a Buick wagon in '71. 7585 But it probably saved me a bunch of Speeding Tickets. It would do 140 and have pedal left.