'79 Thunderbird that had belonged to my great uncle. He had taken really good care of it and I bought it from him for $900 in 1993. Worked all summer, saved up enough to buy it and put new tires on it.

Had all the bells and whistles that one could get in 1979. Had a 351, but was geared for the highway... An old lady with a walker could beat me off the line... But I would run out of nerve before I ran out of top end. She could pass anything but a gas station.

Thing must've had 90 feet of hood in front of it. Lol

Mike

1964 Olds dynamic 88. 394 cubic inch for $75. Was working at the Elks country club in Kankakee Illinois for $1.50 an hour in 1975.

1986 F150 2wd 302 v8 had over drive and dual gas tanks , Fords first year fro multi port fuel injection it got 20-22mpg a friend had a 1987 it got 15mpg at it's best

with both tanks full it had a range of almost 800 miles , oh to be able to drive to the UP and back without stopping to fill up.

One of my high school buddies had a 64 Impala, (not the SS). 283 with 2 speed PowerGlide automatic. The faster he went the smoother the ride was. I can still remember the steel dashboard and the huge steering wheel with the chrome bar and leaping impala in the center.

Mike

I got a 67 ford f250 4x4 in 1987 with a 352 oil bath air cleaner and 80000 miles on it took over 2 hours of using a flat file to open the metal dasy enough to install a fm tape player stereo. Wish i still had that rig

Only thing it needed was power steering lol

1969 Ford Mustang just like this but gold colored. 302 V8. My dad has leased it through his company for 3 years when I bought it. 3 spd stick shift. Sure wish it had been a 4 spd but I guess dad didn't think a 4 spd was the right thing to do for a business lease.

1959 black ford prefect.

63 GMC 1/2 ton. Then a 71 Chevy C-10

Mine was 65SS convertible. White on White, 327 with a power glide trans
I work a whole week splitting wood, and $10 dollars out of my pocket.
I was 15.
No I don't have it anymore.

1970 Plymouth Duster, green like the truck in the first picture, bought in 1984, when I was 19

Came with a 225, but we put in a built 360 w/340 J heads, and a custom reverse pattern manual 904 transmission a couple of years later.
Lots of fun tearing it up in Brooklyn NY with that baby during the mid 1980s !!!
Bench seat too, always fun shifting with a girl sitting in the middle

*as a side note, I still have that drivetrain to this car, along with a 1971 Duster body - which I've owned since late 1986 after I wrecked my 70 on the BQE, but the shop I was working at in Bay Ridge [G.C. Performance] lost it's lease, so I kept the 70 going for as long as I could, till 93 where between the twisted unibody and another broken torque converted - I had enough and bought a brandy new 93 Jeep, which served me well till it had to be junked due to severe rust among other things... maybe not quite two years ago.

I keep saying I'm going to put the 71 on the road, but I'm figuring at least $25k to make that happen - probably closer to $35k... because everything needs to be done over, as my drivetrain has been sitting since 1996....

Problem is i just bought a new project car, a 2002 Monte Carlo SS that's black with the checkered flags on the sides, along with some cool options.
That one should only cost about $10k to get where I want it.

I love these threads, because the older cars - and trucks - were just so much better and easier to work on than what's made today.

Like, my 70 Duster has a mechanical dual point distributor, and a Holly carb with mechanical secondaries - so no vacuum lines !!
Brakes were manual, so was the steering... you opened up the hood, and it was a dream to work on.

My old 79 C-10 truck was/is the same way, but that's off the road - probably for good.

I envy those posting here, all of the older rides were/are so much more beautiful than what I started with !!

1978 Ford 2wd

1974 Impala....

67 VW beetle

66 VW fastback, that thing would go about anywhere.

After reading some of the commments about 3 speeds on the column, does anyone think if you left a 3 speed on the column parked on a city street with keys in it would anyone know how to steel it?

71 camaro . Still own it 28 years later

88 LX Mustang fastback 5.0. Man do i miss that car, had a lot of good times with her. Eric

No way!

Chris

Anyone trying to steal it under 40 would scream oh (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman), and then run lol.

63 rambler six cyl, three on the tree plus overdrive