GM at the Sahara

[oltrunt]

Mustangs?, Vetts?  I quit counting after 100 Carryalls (Suburbans).  I drove them, fixed them and sold them to buy another.  They were great for camping until we got old and lazy and had to have our creature comforts.  Still, hardly a 'Burb goes by that I don't give the once over.  I've always been a sucker for a pretty face!  Jack

[B_K]

Dave vetts are only good for filling in holes! 
  BK 

[CrabbyMilton]

People think I'm crazy if the topic of sports cars comes up and I tell them I never liked them. I'm serious when I tell them that if someone gave me let's say a CORVETTE or PORSCHE, I would immediately drive it to a LINCOLN dealer and trade it in for a new LINCOLN CONTINENTAL. I want one!!!!!

[B_K]

Back when I was young and dangerous (21) I got a "SMOKIN'" deal on a '69 Stingray 427 4 speed basket case.
I quickly built the 427 with upgraded goodies like an edelbrock aluminum manifold, huge holley double pumper carb, huge lananti roller cam, jackson gear drive, and a host of other go fast goodies. Put a ceramic clutch in it and some sticky mickey (thompson) tires all the way around and took it for it's first drive since it was completely stripped 10 yrs earlier!
2 days later it was up for sale when I discover the lowest legal insurance required by law was going to cost ME double what I had invested in the car!
I traded it for a 1948 Harley pan head with suicide clutch & shifter. Which I rode a year before taking what I thought to be a crazy high offer on it. (wish I knew then what I know now, on both the vette and the hog!)
  BK 

[lvmci]

Hi All, my brother served in the Air force in Korea during the late 60s & early 70s, and left his Shelby Cobra Cougar XR7 with red stripe tiger paw tires, for me to start & drive once every week. I-15 ended at Sahara Blvd then and there was still no speed limit in Nevada, during those years. As you can imagine, my purpose to blowout the carbon every week took on the thrill of tremendous acceleration, for a teenage boy! lvmci...

[Dave5Cs]

Now days they are just overpriced pieces of junk in my book.

[CrabbyMilton]

Well Dave, unless you can get FORD to build the MODEL T again, I guess you're out of luck since they have been saying that cars are no good in all my 53 years of life.

[lvmci]

What started me thinking about the Shelby, was BKs mention of a 427 in a chevy. The cougar was a Shelby cobra Ford 427, 425 HP, there's been a few 427 cubic inches engines in car history, lvmci...

[windtrader]

I know drifting is a big deal these days with hot cars but this thread has sure drifted off from the OP? http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=32391.msg365675#msg365675 LOL

[lvmci]

No problem, just meant to reminisce about the old beauties that roamed the southwest and my home town when I was a kid, lvmci...

[DoubleEagle]

Back when I was young and dangerous (21) I got a "SMOKIN'" deal on a '69 Stingray 427 4 speed basket case.
I quickly built the 427 with upgraded goodies like an edelbrock aluminum manifold, huge holley double pumper carb, huge lananti roller cam, jackson gear drive, and a host of other go fast goodies. Put a ceramic clutch in it and some sticky mickey (thompson) tires all the way around and took it for it's first drive since it was completely stripped 10 yrs earlier!
2 days later it was up for sale when I discover the lowest legal insurance required by law was going to cost ME double what I had invested in the car!
I traded it for a 1948 Harley pan head with suicide clutch & shifter. Which I rode a year before taking what I thought to be a crazy high offer on it. (wish I knew then what I know now, on both the vette and the hog!)
  BK 

This whole thread is one big drift in time, but it gives a few of us a warm fuzzy feeling. Speaking of Corvettes, I passed up buying a 1963 split window coupe for $2300, and a 1967 435 hp 427 with a close-ratio 4 speed for $2900 to buy a 1968 convertible with a 350 hp 327 for $3600. The first two are now worth more than that 1968. Back then, some people took out the split window to put in a one-piece to make it look newer. Yes indeed, because of the crazy street racing going on with all the super-cars of that time, only the affluent could afford the insurance. 

[lvmci]

Mine was/is Tbirds, my first car was a 1959 square bird, stock from the factory, with a 430cid police interceptor Lincoln engine, then a beautiful midnight blue 63 390cid, a few more til I got the 1957 312 4barrell Y block, it was always a Vegas car,  it had all the options of Dan Tanna's tv car. A crime group found out about all the tbirds in LV, after we formed the classic tbird club international so. Nevada branch, I lost my porthoole top, wind wings and turn signal stem. My last was a 2002 turquoise tbird, my kids got me a tbird hat, in turquoise, when tbirds came out again, we had to get a four door then as they were sprouting up like crazy, so when I could finally get one again, I found a tbird to match the hat they got me, lvmci...

[oltrunt]

What the hey--we've drifted so far now how could it matter.  Tom. I had mis-remembered Dan Tanna's car as being a  '56 bird.  I ended up watching a whole bunch of episodes hoping to find one where Tanna's warehouse could change seasons with the push of a button--that was Tanna's place wasn't it?  Jack

[lvmci]

Yes parked the tbird, in his living room, in a warehouse, most of the show was shot in LV, tom...

[Dave5Cs]

Tom By You?