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My first car at 16 years old. A 53' Chevy Belair Hardtop. I paid $25.00 for it at a wrecking yard. No engine or trans. Who needs that! It's sitting behind my High School Auto Shop parking lot in this picture. -
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I shoehorned a 392 Chrysler Hemi in it in Auto Shop class. Built fenderwell headers for it. I painted it in my parents garage. It was quite the home built hot rod. But it was all mine, and you better not slam the doors! -
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I bought this at the same wrecking yard for $35.00! A 48' Pontiac "Woodie" This was a complete car! I thought it would be easy to restore a wood car.....NOT! I sold it later to somebody who thought they could do it. -
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OK. It's not a car, but it was a really cool boat. 1970 18' Campbell Flat Bottom. 427 Chevy. 80 MPH I almost flipped it once! Gotta love the American Mags on the trailer! -
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39' Chrysler Royal. It was stored in a chicken coop for over 20 years. A new battery & gas, and it purred like a kitten! 6cyl. with overdrive. It was my daily driver for several years! -
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If you live in So. Cal, you gotta love drag racing. Former 80's Top Fuel car. 427 Chevy w/Crower injection. Went about 190. I was too poor for this hobby. Had my second child right after. That ended this expensive endeavor! -
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1970 Greeves Griffon Motocross Bike. I raced it at famous Ascot Park Raceway. Ascot Park was famous...I was not. I didn't have the kahonies to be competitive!
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72' Vega. I bought this car brand new. I worked at a Chevy dealer in 72'. Converted it to a V8 a year later. 327 with a Muncie 4sp, 12 bolt narrowed rear. One of the first V8 Vega in So. Cal. It was real fast, but still got great gas milage! Great combo! -
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My favorite car. 53 Studebaker Commander Coupe. Bought it in running condition from the 2nd owner for $900.00. 289 Avanti engine with a 4 speed. Spent $5000.00 on the body & paint alone. My daily driver for 8 years! -
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Built my own supercharger manifold & drive system for it. It was on the front cover of Hot Rod Mechanix magazine. When I would do the car show scene, everybody thought it was a Caddy engine! Still drove it daily like that! Totaled in an accident. -
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66' Cadillac Hearse. I told you that I liked different stuff. I bought this as a daily driver after the Stude got totalled. I loved doing car shows with this one! Yes, it had a casket in the back. Drove it for a year till' the uniqueness wore off! -
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65' Barracuda. Paid $500.00 for this one. My wife went with me to look at it and couldn't figure out why I just didn't walk away! She didn't see potential in stuff like this like I did! I'm thinking Super Stock 60's drag racer! -
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A dinky 273 V8.....that's not gonna do! -
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Oh yeah! I stuffed a big ol' Mopar 440 with a Richmond 5 speed behind it. Nascar cross ram manifold, fenderwell headers, and a teardrop hood scoop should finish it off! -
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Ok....now this finished it off! A chrome tube front straight axle. Pure drag racing stuff here! It was fast & loud.....but steered worse than an old truck. This didn't work as a daily driver on this one!
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This pic was taken at the NEW OWNERS house! The car came out just like I wanted.....I was just gettin' too old for this stuff! I hated no: A/C, power steering/brakes/windows, & no stereo. And the heat from the headers was terrible! Wow...I am old! -
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I bought this 72' Triumph TR6 to drive while I was building the Cuda' I really liked it, completley restored it, then it became my daily driver! -
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I was working for a guy that had a couple vintage Vettes' I did ground up restorations on them. They got NCRS Silver Certified (that's a big deal) 1965 396 powered (very rare) Corvettes. I'm the only person to drive them. They just sit at his business! -
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Here's the other one. Both are 100% numbers matching cars (that's a really big deal)! -
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He had a 86' Vette that he had me convert into a 96' model. Highly modified 400ci. shaved door handles, polished suspension. Fastest street car I had ever driven! Scarey! -
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Four wheel independent, polished, coil over suspension. He drove it once! It's been sitting with a car cover on it for over 12 years now! -
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He also had to have a race car. I installed a new body on a car he bought from somebody, painted it, built a very expensive race engine for it. We took it to the track one time. He drove it, the former owner drove it, then I drove it. 190 mph. Yahoo! -
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OK. this is where you will really realize I like different stuff. I bought a Allison V12 Aircraft engine. 1710 cu. in. 1400 HP supercharged! I was gonna put it into a street rod because I was tired of seeing small block chevys. How was I going to cool it?
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Vintage Parker Planes Pelican Check out the "mini" Cannon 5ch radio! -
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Scratch built 1/4 scale Mooney Chaparral Fuji 64 powered. I've still got this one! -
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Yellow Aircraft AT-6 Texan Fuji 64 Powered RIP -
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I added 5000 rivets on that plane! -
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Before final flight! -
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Old never flown Nosen Gere Sport I bought off of Craigslist. Quadra 50 power What a great flyer! -
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I scratch built a Model A Ford engine out of balsa. Everybody thought it was the real engine!
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Cover photo from one of the car racing magazines. -
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Yours truly with his hands in his pockets, smoozing with customers! -
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Faded out pictures of the inside of the money maker.....I mean spare parts department! -
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Veiw of the track. -
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Another view of the track. -
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Yours truly doing the unglorified part of ownership! -
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The old shop van at a outdoor race I sponsored -
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Yours truly actually racing a car at a outdoor event.