General => Lounge => Topic started by: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87 on December 09, 2005, 08:10:17 PM
Title: Memories......
Post by: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87 on December 09, 2005, 08:10:17 PM
was digging around in the picture box and found some of my first car.... made me tear up.. sorry for the py pics i dont have a scanner..
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Post by: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87 on December 09, 2005, 08:42:16 PM
cool picture:D
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Post by: TurboCoupe50 on December 09, 2005, 08:51:36 PM
Nice Torino... Cobra or a GT??
Here's a memory, me and the 34 year old daughter with the Cobra Jet... (http://www.members.pen 15s.net/mr428/dawncobra.jpg)
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Post by: thunderjet302 on December 09, 2005, 11:04:38 PM
It's a GT right? I always liked those 70-71 Torinos. One day I'll have one. That looked like a kick ass Torino though:D . Since it's a memory thread here's a pic of me and my Bird on prom night (yes I had a real date too :flip: ).
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Post by: Thunder Chicken on December 09, 2005, 11:18:34 PM
Isn't that a Talledaga model, with those "flying butresses"?
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Post by: thunderjet302 on December 09, 2005, 11:23:40 PM
I thought the Talledaga was a special Fairlane made in 69 for the race way of the same name. The had a unique front end and they all had 428 CJs and C6s I think. 70-71 Torinos had a sports roof or fastback as an option which Gt's or Cobras always had.
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Post by: TurboCoupe50 on December 09, 2005, 11:44:06 PM
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I thought the Talledaga was a special Fairlane made in 69 for the race way of the same name. The had a unique front end and they all had 428 CJs and C6s I think. 70-71 Torinos had a sports roof or fastback as an option which Gt's or Cobras always had.
DING... DING.... Correct answer.. The Tallaegedas were actually based on the '69 Cobra like I have. They were a one year only model, all built in Jan/Feb of '69 at the Atlanta assembly plant, 754 were built... That is except for Bunkie Knusen's, then president of Ford. He decided he wanted one after the run was completed so Lorain ran off a full option Cobra in primer. Wheather it had the long nose when it left the plant or was added at Dearborn Steel Tubing I don't remember... Anyway it was painted yellow which made it unique(it still survives)... All the others were either Presidental Blue, white, or maroon, and had P/S, P/B, bench seats, column automatic and AM radio.
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Post by: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87 on December 09, 2005, 11:59:43 PM
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Nice Torino... Cobra or a GT??
Here's a memory, me and the 34 year old daughter with the Cobra Jet... (http://www.members.pen 15s.net/mr428/dawncobra.jpg)
It was just a sportsroof
factory 351c auto with air
I bought it when i was 13 with no motor or trans from a junkyard.I spent all my money and time till i could drive to get it running with a bone stock 351w and c-4..drove it in primer for a long time.. I later found a 429-c-6 wich i bought and put in it..and i also painted it myself and done the bodywork that is alot of blood sweat and tears. It is the one thing in life i had put everything into and always got something in return..It took me many miles on alot of dates met alot of people.. ran over a pinto in the junkyard when i bought the cobra grill..alot of stuff great old car and alot of memories.I just been trying to find it to give it what it has always deserved.. a full restoration.
heres what it looked like when i traded it off for a 86 mustang worst mistake i ever made.........................started tearing it down for some tlc....
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Post by: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87 on December 10, 2005, 12:19:08 AM
kind of a long story but is the one reason my 87 has a 429-c/6 car kind of a temp replacment..funny how it makes me think of the torino.......possibly why i have kept it around so far
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Post by: TurboCoupe50 on December 10, 2005, 01:13:18 AM
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kind of a long story but is the one reason my 87 has a 429-c/6 car kind of a temp replacment..funny how it makes me think of the torino.......possibly why i have kept it around so far
Hummm I have a spare 428 Cobra Jet engine and my 5.0 is gettin tired maybe I'll.... NAWWW that ain't gonna happen...
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Post by: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87 on December 10, 2005, 01:19:18 AM
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Hummm I have a spare 428 Cobra Jet engine and my 5.0 is gettin tired maybe I'll.... NAWWW that ain't gonna happen...
:D
sad thing is the bird will never mean as much as the torino does.
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Post by: Red_LX on December 10, 2005, 11:59:43 AM
I only just recently sold my first car... my old '90 2.3L LX Mustang. I always told myself I would keep it forever, but it ended up being a total pile after I'd had it for about 5 years ("structural" problems, plus tons of rust). Sold it to some guys for parts for $100.
That car was never that nice even when I bought it, though. Had be totalled once, I totalled it again when I had it and it was fixed, then I was in 2 other minor accidents (one that f'ed up the rear suspension) and then hit a deer in 2002 and that was when I gave up on it. Bought my Thunderbird not too long after and now all is well :)
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Post by: V8Demon on December 10, 2005, 01:47:01 PM
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sad thing is the bird will never mean as much as the torino does.
That's cause it sounds like you actually had a lot of good memories in your first car. My first car was a 78 Oldsmobile Regency 2 door with the Olds 350 (had a cam and some headwork done to it).
I loved that car and still do. Wish I still had it. I got pictures packed away. My new Mustang is nice but, I still like the Cougar more. It's a good friend that's been with me through some tough times. I guess that's why no matter what happens to it, I'll keep fixin it.
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Post by: Thunder Chicken on December 10, 2005, 03:24:12 PM
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That's cause it sounds like you actually had a lot of good memories in your first car.
Precisely why some day my Thunderbird will share the driveway with a '78 Trans Am. I had a lot of fun in that car, most of it illegal, including a 140MPH "ricer fly by" to a mountie car (he turned his lights on, the off and didn't even bother trying to catch me) and a "Dukes of Hazzard"-esqe display of jumps, dunuts, burnouts, etc at a construction site (to this day I still don't know how I didn't break that car in half with those jumps, but I did make the local "rich kid", who was in the back seat, cry). I would never do such stupid things now, of course, (especially considering that second-gen F-bodies have increased greatly in value from the $600 I paid for mine) but having another one would make those memories that much more vivid...
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Post by: merccougar50 on December 10, 2005, 05:02:33 PM
Those late seventies firebirds / TA's were the best looking, but could hardly get out of their own way (165 hp 305). Think of the new memories you could make with a big block 400 or 454 under the hood :)
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Post by: Thunder Chicken on December 10, 2005, 05:14:15 PM
True enough, most late 70's Firebirds were gutless, but the T/A 6.6 models (the 400 Pontiacs) had 220 HP. Not ground shaking, but quite respectable for the day. Mine, however, had a 325HP LT1 from a '70 Vette. Combine that with the fact that it weiged about half as much as a normal Firebird (no options, no carpet, no insulation, and of course, no quarter panels, no floor, no lers :D the back half was pretty much rusted away, hence the $600 price) - ol' Bertha, as I called her due to her ugliness, was very, very fast. I still don't know what ever possessed my father to let me buy that...
I can still remember having saved up the money to buy a car and my father circled a bunch of car ads in the paper that he thought I should look at: Chevettes, Escorts, Omnis, Citations - nice, sensible cars for a 16 year old. I ignored 'em and looked at proper cars: Monte Carlos, Camaros, Firebirds, Mustangs, Cutlasses, etc (Fox Thunderbirds/Cougars were still fairly new in 1989 and therefore quite out of my price range). I had the ugliest and fastest car of any of my friends or classmates. I loved the car so much I bought another Firebird when Bertha was no longer road legal. The next one was a 1980 Formula with a pristine white/blue body and blue velour interior, but the 301 was enough to make me hate the car no matter how pretty it was. I sold that one and bought my first Thunderbird, a 1985 light sage green/grey interior V6 2bbl no-option car. V6 or not it was faster than the 301 Firebird, and that car started my love affair for these things...
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Post by: CougarSE on December 10, 2005, 05:58:59 PM
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but the T/A 6.6 models (the 400 Pontiacs) had 220 HP
Some of those had 403 olds motors in them.
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Post by: Clayton on December 10, 2005, 07:14:48 PM
i still have my very first car....its a 66 chevelle and its in my garage devistated with parts strung all over..... because my dad was an ass and tore it apart........then left us.... ill have to snap a pic or two...... second car........the foxus-maximus third is going to be a new addition.... a 84 Cuttlass with a 350
heres the pics....... be prepared.....there ugly (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/Tcj429/chevelle.jpg) (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/Tcj429/chevelle2.jpg)
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Post by: merccougar50 on December 10, 2005, 07:26:49 PM
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True enough, most late 70's Firebirds were gutless, but the T/A 6.6 models (the 400 Pontiacs) had 220 HP. Not ground shaking, but quite respectable for the day. Mine, however, had a 325HP LT1 from a '70 Vette. Combine that with the fact that it weiged about half as much as a normal Firebird (no options, no carpet, no insulation, and of course, no quarter panels, no floor, no lers :D the back half was pretty much rusted away, hence the $600 price) - ol' Bertha, as I called her due to her ugliness, was very, very fast. I still don't know what ever possessed my father to let me buy that...
WOW
Much better than my first car: 86 T-Bird "Canadian Special" carbbed V6, no options except AC and cruise. However it did run 300,000km on origional head gaskets!
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Post by: Thunder Chicken on December 10, 2005, 07:29:06 PM
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Some of those had 403 olds motors in them.
The ones that said "T/A 6.6" on the shaker were the Pontiac 400. The ones that said "6.6 litre" were Oldsmobile 403's. The ones that said "Trans Am" were 301's. At least I seem to remember reading something like that. My car originally had the 301.
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However it did run 300,000km on origional head gaskets!
Mine had 270k on it when I traded it in on a '91 V6 'Bird. The '85 was a much better car. I don't think the carbed 3.8's had the head gasket problem of the later EFI models
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Post by: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87 on December 10, 2005, 08:59:28 PM
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i still have my very first car....its a 66 chevelle and its in my garage devistated with parts strung all over..... because my dad was an ass and tore it apart........then left us.... ill have to snap a pic or two...... second car........the foxus-maximus third is going to be a new addition.... a 84 Cuttlass with a 350
heres the pics....... be prepared.....there ugly (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/Tcj429/chevelle.jpg) (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/Tcj429/chevelle2.jpg)
thats always something nice to have stashed away
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Post by: Clayton on December 10, 2005, 09:02:38 PM
yeah man... now i keep trowing more projects into the mix and never have time for it...... im gonna keep it until im out of college then im gonna start dumping money into it
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Post by: CougarSE on December 10, 2005, 10:13:44 PM
Hey, I've got one of those two! Mine is my 73 nova in its current condition. Only reason this garage door was opened was because my girl jamie wanted a pic of me sitting in it like this. Notice that shagY TPI setup and the wiring mess on top of it!