Old Car Thread

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The midget spent more time in a Fort Walton Beach, FL. repair garage than it did in my driveway. I had a roll bar welded on (you can see it in the photo) because I did quite a bit of autocrossing in those days. Never did roll it, but came close. I actually traded it and $400.00 for the MGA in which I kept the driver's door closed with a bungee cord. Never could locate the parts to fix the danged handle... Eventually traded it for a 1972 VW Beetle Convertible. As I was driving it home, the left rear tire & rim departed and passed the car and me on Highway 90. Tow truck got me home. Ahhh, those were the days... Can't find a picture of that VW anywhere.

More pics of the 1967 vette staging at an autocross in Edwardsville Ill, circa 1975. The brown 1966 vette was my project car. It had a blown 396 engine in it and some idiot replaced the original carpet with shag. I dropped a 327 with 80/80 roller in it; Mickey Thompson heads etc. Ran great till a busted tie rod at 60 mph put it into junkyard retirement. Went through a custom van stage too... I bought the Chevy van in Dayton, OH. and sold it for a nice profit when I moved back to South Carolina... Last two are my bar band circa 1976 and road racing at a track in Missouri somewhere around 1973

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Dang fellas; I haven't looked in those boxes of old photos for years. What fun going back in time... Wish I had hung onto some of those but I still have fun with my 07 Mustang on these curvy hill country roads. Just have to keep an eye out for the deer!!
 

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Awesome stuff Ken! By comparison I've owned relatively few cars. If I like them I tend to keep them a long time, sometimes too long. I love that '68 GTO, and the Boss 302 is sweet, too!

I have broken down in many varieties of British cars; a Jaguar E-Type, Austin Healy 3000, MGB and Midget, and my late and very unlamented Triumph TR-4a. What was funny is that my mom owned three british Fords (an Anglia and two Cortinas; the last a GT) when I was a kid, and they were pretty good cars. Not so the British Leyland stuff! It always amazed me that a country where it rains so much made cars that didn't like running in the rain. :roll:
 
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