The One We Wish We Had Back
I know we've got a thread going about what Classic Car we own now, but I'm sure each one of us has the "ONE" car that we wished we'd NEVER have gotten rid of. After seeing what Muscle Cars are bringing on the BJ auctions, here's mine. A '70 Chevelle, SS454. Notice this one has the Factory Vinyl roof,chrome trip around the fenderwells, and the cowl induction hood. I gave $800 for it, in '75, and probably spent that much in gas watching the induction hood open and close when I revved it up. I was "THE FORCE" to be reckoned with at the "Back-Roads" street races, and never got beat. After driving something as powerful as that on the street, nothing even comes close. Now for the really sad part. In '77, gas prices were going through the roof, I had just had a new house built, and a guy that had a '75 Super Beetle, loaded(even with a/c), wanted to trade. At the time, I guess I was taking advantage of him, but looking back......I WANT MY CHEVELLE BACK !
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I want back my '51 Pacemaker Coupe with dual spotlights. That got away but I needed to let it go at the time because of too many cars I kept the engine to it though...also my '54 Wasp Club sedan. It was a project I wasn't in a position to take on at the time and it ended up eventually going to Korea. I admit it was a bit rusty though.0
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My Vette powered '38 Dodge 5 window Coupe. You still don't see too many Mopar street rods around and it had such a great stance.
Also, my 1941 Knucklehead, 'cause, you plain just don't see them around! And nothing like 18" apes and upswept fishtails on a rigid!0 -
I Guess I'm One Of The Lucky Ones My Black 57 Hudson Is The Love Of My Life Next To My Wife, Kids And Grand Kids And I've Been Fortunate Enough To Have Never Sold It There Have Been Times When It Has Sat In A Garage For Years With Out Me Even Looking At It ( 2 Times Both For About 5 Years ) While I Had Other Hudsons To Play With But I Always Go Back To The One That Brung Me In To The Great Hudson Club The Bolt ( Thats What My Mother Called It) Will Be At The National This Year It's In The Nattms In Arburn In The 1957 Display We Took It Out There On Jan 10th So I Guess You Could Say It's The First Hudson To Arive At The 2007 Hudson National Meet
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Don't have a picture, but my first year in college I had a '50 Olds 88 convertible with a '58 371 engine. Gave it away when I went in the USAF. Previous to that I had a 53 Olds 98 Convertible and a 53 Olds S-88 hardtop. The hardtop was one of my all time favorites, but I now have two, one, a low mileage (38K) original with one repaint and 4 way power including the hydraulic windows and seats. One muscle car that got away was a great '66 maroon GTO, that I traded in for a new orange 350 Nova coupe. Still have the 41K mile Nova coupe, my first new car.0
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1964 Impala SS...I didn't own this one...my grandparents did...they bought it new in '64 and sold it shortly after my grandfather passed in '96...I should have pushed to get the car but thought my grandma needed the money so didn't say anything...I'd love to get this car back for the memories and to keep it in the family...
GRANDPA AND THE 64 SS
I'd also like my 68 Chevelle Back - (my first car)
I also had a 1980 CJ-5 Laredo - Black loaded w.all factory options...I don't have a picture on hand right now but it was 100% stock and it was sweet!0 -
rambos_ride wrote:I'd also like my 68 Chevelle Back - (my first car)
Beauty Chevelle Dan! A kid in my high school had similar to you and was a street drag (on the old country Forest Lake Road) winner constantly.0 -
I had a 64 falcon convertible 289 4 speed I wish I had tucked away some where. I miss my 60 impala 2 dr ht.0
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My 49 Commodore eight Conv. Whine, Sob, Sniffle0
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First, My 62 Impala SS, Fire Engine Red with red interior, 327 with turbo 350. Then my 67 Fairlane Convertible with a 390, 2 4bbl holleys and 4 speed trans. Then my 67 Camaro RS with 327, 4 speed.
I sold or traded each.
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Impala was totaled about 6 months after trading it on the Fairlane.
Fairlane, Burnt to the ground after an underhood fire.
Camaro was striped and turned into a drag car, Don't know where it is now. Probably still in Ohio somewhere.
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jsrail wrote:Beauty Chevelle Dan! A kid in my high school had similar to you and was a street drag (on the old country Forest Lake Road) winner constantly.
Thanks Jay!
That was my first paint job too! Acyrilic Lacquer over Deltron...long story...
The best I did was a 14.90 (96 mph) in the 1/4 with a stock 350 smogger, TH350, saw blade 1-wheel wonder 3.73 limited slip diff. Not too bad! I bracket raced it every summer at SIR for about 4 years in the late 70.s early 80.s (boy does that show my age!)
Shortly after that picture I put a built 350 and 4:11 posi and never raced it again? It was my driver after that point and I didn't have a backup vehicle if it broke
Then I moved and drifted away from 1/4 mile racing, eventually sold the car and got into 4x4's until buying the Hudson a (sniff, long sigh) couple of years ago...0 -
1936 Graham Crusader, with Continental spare. Dog of a car that I dismantled and dumped in 1963. But it definitely had character, and was certainly different.
Geoff.0 -
So many cars, so many mistakes (selling them).
1965 Dodge Dart GT. I bought it from a judge here in town, whose son had the engine built on his mothers credit card (Formula S 273 balanced, blueprinted, Edlebrock, big cam, fenderwell headers) 4spd., posi. His son got a ticket for street racing, so he put it up for sale. I could abuse it all week long going back and forth to school and it would run consistant 13.30's at the strip.
Or maybe the 1966 GTO 389, 4spd. comfort and ungodly torque.
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I miss my 68 AMX 390 4spd! Bought it new and planned to keep it forever. Unfortunately Uncle Sam had an idea that I was going to participate in Viet Nam for a while. Left the car with my dad - he drove it a couple of times and scared himself badly. He sold it ( he said it was as a favor to me ). Turns out I got shot up and sent home for an early separation about one week after he sold my car for me. That is the one car I still dream about - all except the 5 mpg!
BST RGDS
GARY ( happychris )0 -
The one I wish I had back for driving on long trips was my '52 Hornet with "Twin H". Financially would like back the '64 GTO convert, fresh red paint , all the options that I sold for $1800.
For the challenge of driving and operation the 86 GMC/ FMC
Fire Engine, oh yeah the siren and lights were so cool!
29 Vic0 -
I miss my Grabber Orange 1970 Mustang Mach I - 428 Cobra Jet - Shaker hood - Sport slats...:D0
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no use crying over spilt milk, but how about my 41 Hudson woody wagon, my 37 Terraplane sedan del. and a 35K mi 52 Hornet conv, OH WELL, BILL ALBRIGHT0
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I did not actually own this, but 20+ years ago a guy wanted to give me a nice cab and box for a 1936 Hudson pick-up and a trailer load of various 36-37 parts. I didn't take the offer as I was doing my '37 Terraplane at the time and the parts he had were not what I needed for my car. I did not know at the time that I would soon become a Hudson fanatic, so these parts went to the scrap yard.0
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My first restoration - '55 Chev PU. Sold it to get the barn-fresh Hudson, though. Also first car after high school...'63 Chev 2 dr post 327 ci 3-on-the tree which I converted to the floor with a Foxcraft kit (if anybody remembers those). Had American mags on the rear, couldn't afford 4 so had black wheels with chrome acorn nuts on front. Rockers and quarter panels had my early (and last) experiments with Bondo and rattle cans...(ah, youth). :rolleyes:0
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Sweat equity!
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a 69 grand prix sj 455 triple black, loaded. 70 swinger 340, 57 chev 210 4 door yellow w/black insert, 3 on tree. learned to drive in that car. the farm tractors went to slow, lol. 60 panhead ridgid , 68 shovelhead, and a 1974 74 c.i. shovel.
i would love them all back. now a 70 year old 37 t-plane coupe, this will be with me till death, i flat out dig this car. dermott.:)0 -
I had a 52 Wasp Hollywood, red and white that I sold in 1968. It came back to Iowa and last I heard was that it was in a garage in Osage. Iowa with the engine out. It was a real runner. Nobody seems to know where it went from there.0
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'52 Wasp HH I had from 1975 through mid 80's. Cream top with maroon on the bottom. The car was a ground-up with a 308 TwinH in it, headers and the last B&M racing Hydro from the factory. Couldn't keep drive lines in it though!
'67 Fairlane 500 2 door hardtop with 390, C6, 4:56s that ran 13 flat at all the tracks I took it to. Sacramento, Fremont, Sears Point, Firebird in Boise, Las Vegas, Portland, Orodam in Oroville California.
'40 Packard limousine with factory A/C that I sold to Bill Harrah in 1973. The car got a full restoration and still is in the collection...0 -
I had a clean '84 AMC Eagle Wagon Sport, I thrashed it pretty hard and it just wouldn't quit. I think it was a pretty rare package, I've never seen another like it. Sold it for $400 bucks:( Also, my '84 VW Vanagon weekender. We did a lot of camping in that van, and took a few awesome road trips. I sold it for a newer one. The newer one just didn't have the same feel.
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In the 1960s I had a 1949 Commador 6 and a 1954 Hornet and both were Rust-free CONVERTABLES. Sold both of them Because i wanted to go Racing and at that time with a Steel top hudson. What a BIG MISTAKE,MISTAKE,MISTAKE. Dummy me. (gave 49 away for 400.00 and the 54 to Spencer Blake in Amarillo Texas for 1900.00,did I say sell, NO I GAVE THEM AWAY.0
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The 35 Olds straight eight sedan I had in high school from 1951-1953. You just don't see em any more.
Come to think of it, also my 52 Hornet coupe that my mechanic used to haul his Hudson stock car to the track with, with over 200K miles and a noisy rear main. I quit driving it in Feb 'cause it wouldn't start when it was cold and we had a baby coming any minute. The replacement Chevy 6 would start but wasn't good for anything else. Wish I'd kept the Hudson and fixed it up. Didn't know about the HET club.
I sold it to a guy in the spring for $50. He put some Chrysler skins on it and drove it out the driveway with wheels spinning. I heard he took it to the dirt track that Sat and came in 2nd with it.0 -
i would say the 1972 chevelle i owned which was never on the road and the 1972 Cutlas(first car) but the brakes kept going on it which forced me to sell, really wish i still had that because it had a great heater good for pennsylvania winters and my car now takes forever to heat up0
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I was 15, and working at the neighbor's dairy farm when one of the owners tragically drowned in Lake Monona. He had a '57 Cadillac convertible. Black with white top, black and white leather, loaded with all the options, and low miles. I was able to buy it for $200.
Unfortunately, when I started to drive regularly (about a week after I turned 16!) I couldn't really do the car justice, or afford it, so I traded it to my Dad for his '63 Nova station wagon. Sure wish I had that Caddy today.0 -
bill a wrote:no use crying over spilt milk, but how about my 41 Hudson woody wagon, my 37 Terraplane sedan del. and a 35K mi 52 Hornet conv, OH WELL, BILL ALBRIGHT
Bill,
I recall reading in the WTN many years ago about a woody that was rescued from a mountain in (I think) Colorado.. Was this the same car? What a story that made.. can't recall all the details though.
Dave w.0 -
In the late '60s, and I won't regale you with how I came upon it, I bought a 30 K mile '50 C8 conv. with a factory 7X engine in it from the original owner. Jack Miller told me it was "the best original convertible I've ever seen". I pulled the 7X engine & put it into a stick o.d. '51 HH which I restored (which I wish I had back too), putting an 8 back into the conv.
I drove the '50 C8 conv. back to a National in Ind. but later sold it to an HET member & collector after he begged to buy it. He resold it & I believe it's back in So. Calif. now. Saw it a few years ago at a Regional & unfortunately had declined in condition due to neglect.0 -
I noticed very few of us have only "One" pick as the post title suggested...that makes a lot of us...
1) Really old...
2) Really dumb for getting rid of all these cars!
But if you're not a collector with unlimited $$ and space you ususally have to "sell one to get another one" 0
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