Your shop is better than mine!

[Creighton]

And the last: Used to buy junkyard poly tires and shred them with my 68 XR7-GT 390 Merc Cougar (added 428 CJ parts). Only got about 5' worth. Those were the days indeed :-) Thanks for sharing!!
Creighton

[Creighton]

Leonard you sure have had some great toys! Here's the TransAm. Friend had a white one, scary fast and got ourselves into a few tickets and "oh ssh*ts with that car :-) Sorry this thread has gone off the rails but hope nobody minds.
Creighton

[firemun]

OK you guys have stirred up the old mopar lust...and since this thread is off the rails...

My first car was a 74 charger...came with an unusually weak 400...I put 383 super commando out of 68 Road Runner in it.  Like you guys watched in the side view mirror as my meager paycheck disappeared in a white cloud around the wheel wells.

Friday nights were high school grudge match nights at the local drag strip.  Work on the car all week, run it on Friday night, limp it home, work on it all week etc, etc.

A friend at last count had 14 Road Runners, GTXs and a stray challenger.  The RR and GTXs are all 68, 69 models.  One is a 68 GTX 440 6 PK Convertible.  He bought them all years ago for 2 - 3K each before people got nostalgic (or ever heard of Barrett -Jackson).  Another buddy had 3 super birds and 2 Daytonas.  He sold them in the mid 80's thinking they had reached their peak value. DOH!

jeff

[dprat1]

My "Man Space" for what it's worth. Half of the garage is reserved for the the Mrs. vehicle to sleep at night. She said it was in the marriage vows '> That was 25 years ago..and I can't even remember what I promised anyone yesterday  '> Have to take her word for it though....can get alittle chilly in the garage at night. Garage is pretty full of Mustang right now...replacing toasted heads  I moved the C-51 inside closer to it's final resting place for finishing touch's. Won't be long now '>
PS: Nice car pic's guys.
doug

[dprat1]

more.....

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more..

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last one....

[dprat1]

By the way..my first car was a "59" Ford with a 223. Dropped in a 351 with a hurst in VOC class then..sweet....burned to the ground in the school parking lot a month later. I suppose that should have been a sign then to quit smoking '>  I remember it well...because it was on Friday Halloween and the only thing left were a few bars of Ivory soap and toilet paper floating around in the rear floor boards '> How they got there....I may never know
doug

[firemun]

What about the eggs....were they cooked?  No self respecting teenager was without eggs on halloween  '>

jeff

[sodaworks]

I have an uncle in Bakersfield who is really into Mopars. The family thinks we're both nuts for collecting what we do. Anyways the last time I was at his shop he had 40+ early Mopars and still buys them all the time. He does all the Mopar nationals, has reproduced some obsolete parts and writes an ocasional article for Mopar magazine. If you do the big swap meets and see a guy flying a big red mopar blimp over his spaces thats my uncle Dan. '>