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Post by Randy on Mar 2, 2010 12:56:40 GMT -5
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Post by herron on Mar 2, 2010 19:16:30 GMT -5
Brings back memories of cruising Woodward Avenue, in suburban Detroit, back when cruising was cruising!  |
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Post by photax on Mar 6, 2010 13:44:17 GMT -5
I wish i had been a part of "we" in the sentence "the cars we drove". This kind of cars are not very common on european streets. In my younger days i drove VW beetles, can you imagine the acceleration with a 32 HP engine ! But my oncle has a 69`Impala Convertible in his garage. White paint and red leather, a real cool car !
MIK
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2010 23:26:52 GMT -5
Top photo is of my dad's brothers, Boyd and Clark, racing Model T Fords in 1940. The boy in front of the car is my cousin, Roger. The bottom photo was taken in 1966 when cousin Roger won the Western States Canadian American Championship, driving a modified hardtop he built from the ground up. The car was powered by a highly modified Chevy six cylinder engine. All the other cars were powered by modified Chevy V8s--but they didn't handle as well on the flat quarter mile track. After Roger won the championship some of the big name drivers complained and said they wouldn't race at the track again unless the track increased the bank on the corners. Getting beat by a six-cylinder Chevy embarrassed them. Rogers's car had one of the first 250 cubic inch Chevy sixes with a head from a 235 cI six that gave it megag compression. It had a racing cam and a tuned exhaust that made it sound like a freaking Ferrari. You could pick the howl of the six out of a pack of a dozen V8s. I miss those days. I didn't shhot either photo. The first was taken before I was born--the second was when I was away at Army Basic Training at Ft. Lewis, Washington. That's one of the things about those days I don't miss.  |
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Post by Robert Ross on May 26, 2010 21:08:34 GMT -5
I came full circle...bought a 1978 Chevy Caprice Classic back in the day..brand new. When the flood came shortly thereafter, it was under 8 feet of water and mud. A total loss.
Several years ago I decided to buy another one just for old times sake, in the interim, after spending many dollars, it has been hit twice..(and fixed)..stolen once, it still serves me faithfully each day.
There is a message to me somewhere in this story..it's just not quite in focus just yet.
Robert
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