Memories...... 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.. Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #2 – 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... Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #3 – 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: ). Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #4 – December 09, 2005, 11:18:34 PM Isn't that a Talledaga model, with those "flying butresses"? Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #5 – 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. Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #6 – December 09, 2005, 11:44:06 PM Quote from: thunderjet302I 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. Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #7 – December 09, 2005, 11:59:43 PM Quote from: TurboCoupe50Nice Torino... Cobra or a GT??Here's a memory, me and the 34 year old daughter with the Cobra Jet...It was just a sportsrooffactory 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.... Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #8 – 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 Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #9 – December 10, 2005, 01:13:18 AM Quote from: SLEEPER T-BIRD 87kind 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 farHummm I have a spare 428 Cobra Jet engine and my 5.0 is gettin tired maybe I'll.... NAWWW that ain't gonna happen... Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #10 – December 10, 2005, 01:19:18 AM Quote from: TurboCoupe50Hummm 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. Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #11 – 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 :) Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #12 – December 10, 2005, 01:47:01 PM Quotesad 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. Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #13 – December 10, 2005, 03:24:12 PM QuoteThat'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... Quote Selected
Memories...... Reply #14 – 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 :) Quote Selected
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