Bike and Car pics

Kid Setzer · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:44 am

Hmmmm.. seeing all your great rides has made me reconsider my next purchase.. I WAS going to by a brand new car (something zippy and small like a 2008 Mazda 2).. HOWEVER, I'd much rather use that AU$16,000 on a vintage car.. but I'm only a student so I'd need something that was already clean and ready to go, without too much cost involved... also with fuel prices the way they are I'm only really interested in a 4 cylinder, any cool vintage cars that are 4 cylinders?

I'm a fan of mainly pre-1960's type cars.. just love that shape.. At the moment I have two cars (look, the second purchase was a spontanious moment of mine), but they're only Japanese 4 cylinders.. actually one of them is only 3 cylinders, but I'm always worried that I can't make it up steep hills Razz

Kid.

tvthewiredturtle · Posts: 1764 Join date: 2008-04-20 Age: 95 Location: so cal.

pony65k wrote:

tvthewiredturtle wrote:

This is fun seein' all your rides!! sweet.

sold a gretsch to have this repainted to try to sell it faster..ha..its still for sale but I'm drivin it till
they pry my cold brokenhearted hands from the wheel and put cash in em. Smile

Wicked ride TV, for us non American folk, what is it? Love the flat black paint. What's under the hood?

sure thing:
she's ( jezebel ) a 1954 Buick Century sedan shaved and dropped. 322 rebuilt nailhead
with a Holly electric fuel pump into an Edlebrock 600cmf 4barrel. automatic dynaglide trans.

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Pinkpiratekitty · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:23 am

Kid Setzer wrote:

Hmmmm.. seeing all your great rides has made me reconsider my next purchase.. I WAS going to by a brand new car (something zippy and small like a 2008 Mazda 2).. HOWEVER, I'd much rather use that AU$16,000 on a vintage car.. but I'm only a student so I'd need something that was already clean and ready to go, without too much cost involved... also with fuel prices the way they are I'm only really interested in a 4 cylinder, any cool vintage cars that are 4 cylinders?

I'm a fan of mainly pre-1960's type cars.. just love that shape.. At the moment I have two cars (look, the second purchase was a spontanious moment of mine), but they're only Japanese 4 cylinders.. actually one of them is only 3 cylinders, but I'm always worried that I can't make it up steep hills Razz

Kid.

We used to own a chevy sprint with 3 cylinders. We bought it the year we got married (1986). My brother-in-law is still driving it daily if you can imagine that!

If you're going to buy a vintage car ready-to-go here you're looking at about $35K to start, at least where I live. And that's for one that is not custom, has a lot of a NOS parts. I'd been looking for a while before I bought my Olds. The car that I would have bought if I had the money was a fully restored 1955 Chevy Nomad (station wagon), but it was $65k - a little out of my price range. Wink

PPk

Hot Rod Girl · Posts: 378 Join date: 2008-04-18 Location: Wisconsin

Pinkpiratekitty wrote:

If you're going to buy a vintage car ready-to-go here you're looking at about $35K to start, at least where I live. And that's for one that is not custom, has a lot of a NOS parts. I'd been looking for a while before I bought my Olds. The car that I would have bought if I had the money was a fully restored 1955 Chevy Nomad (station wagon), but it was $65k - a little out of my price range. Wink

PPk

I'd give my eye teeth for a '55 Nomad! Ahhhhhhh yeah. Too bad my budget comes in way under 65k for a car. Hubby and I have been talking about selling our 72 Chevelle convertible (matching numbers), and going a couple of decades older. I told him I'd definitely get my hands dirty over a 55 Chevy. Looking for the project car, as we have the 454 big block sitting in the garage, just waiting for a good home. Very Happy

Take care all,
hrg

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Pinkpiratekitty · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:38 am

Hey HRG - just check on ebay all the time. I came across my beauty just five minutes after it was posted and bought her. The seller had about 30 photos and a video of all the parts of the car, and a video of the car driving. She even did a video of the car being loaded on the carrier when it was shipped out. If there hadn't been so much detail of the car, I probably wouldn't have bought it. I still think that they didn't know what they had. I'm reupoholstering it myself, and the original foam and material all had the paper tag with the part numbers still attached inside when I unwrapped it. It was pretty cool!

pirat

pony65k · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:07 am

Pinkpiratekitty wrote:

Hey HRG - just check on ebay all the time. I came across my beauty just five minutes after it was posted and bought her. The seller had about 30 photos and a video of all the parts of the car, and a video of the car driving. She even did a video of the car being loaded on the carrier when it was shipped out. If there hadn't been so much detail of the car, I probably wouldn't have bought it. I still think that they didn't know what they had. I'm reupoholstering it myself, and the original foam and material all had the paper tag with the part numbers still attached inside when I unwrapped it. It was pretty cool!

pirat

Hey PPK, sounds like you had a great find. Congrats!!! We look forward to pics galore.

René

Pistol Pete · Posts: 459 Join date: 2008-09-05 Age: 40

Hey crew,
Some of my stuff...

Some garage shots....

That's an original 1969 Ford XT GT Falcon 302W Toploader, 1966 Ford XR Falcon 500 Wagon and 1966 Ford XR Falcon 500 Sleeper,

Cheers Pete.

enjay07 · Posts: 170 Join date: 2008-04-18

My first car when I was 16 was a 71 Chevelle (not a convertible), but 2 tone hardtop. Medium blue below, and bright white up top. Two doors. Only 19,000 ORIGINAL miles. Purchased new by a little old lady who kept it parked in a garage, and only drove it to church & the grocery store for about 14 yrs until I inheirited the gem. While expecting a fire engine red, convertible, 5-speed, Mustang for my 16 b-day....I was quickly lassoed & drug back to earth to my BRAND NEW CAR....the 71 Chevelle. Ok..so not what I was expecting.
Turns out neither my folks nor I got what I wanted out of that car. 1st day of school I had guys crawling all over me to find out about my "cool car." I came home asking my dad, "What's she got under the hood, dad?" etc etc. Suddenly he's figured out this is a "guy-gettin'" car. Just a different kind of guy than what my previous "target market" thad been..

Let me just stop & sat right now...If I can find a picture of this beautiful baby I will share her. Unfortunately she had a little accident one day & things changed.

I have to stop writing this e-mail now, because I'm having some vision problems, where the words seem to be bouncing all over the screen and quite frankly I can't read them very well. Doesn't sound very well....does it. Maybe you'll want to have someone from the board check on me in the morning. Ha ha! When my children run out of food, pop & toilet paper....they'll call their grandpaernts, no worries!!j
later!
~nj

sidelake bob · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:29 pm

pony65k wrote:

Here's my second baby (my wife is the first)

Hence the username. Pity we lost all these great threads from the other board Evil or Very Mad

I love your car Rene, Is it 100% Original?

WildCat · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:45 am

pony65k wrote:

w00t! Where's my towel?!?! Wink

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pony65k · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:43 am

sidelake bob wrote:

I love your car Rene, Is it 100% Original?

Hi Bob.

Thanks for that, but no, not 100% or a survivor. It was last resprayed in 81 but the paint still shines strong. The door skins are reproductions and she's had a floor panel replaced. Apart from that she's still got the original motor, transmission and running gear and parts.

WildCat wrote:

w00t! Where's my towel?!?! Wink

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Hey WildCat Razz

are we gonna replay the whole gag? Wink

You're a crack up Very Happy

RenéaPony

Pistol Pete · Posts: 459 Join date: 2008-09-05 Age: 40

Original owner Rene? I mean you're 42 and all!! hahahahaa!!!

Pinkpiratekitty · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:03 am

Hey Pete - tongue

pony65k · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:28 am

Pistol Pete wrote:

Original owner Rene? I mean you're 42 and all!! hahahahaa!!!

I totally agree with PPK Pete tongue

Pinkpiratekitty · Subject: Re: Bike and Car pics Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:42 am

My hubby (then boyfriend) and I were going to restore his 65. It was a fastback with Shelby rear quarter windows, side scoops, fiberglass hood scoop, with a cobra gas cap (my hubby's description, I have no idea what all that means). We disassembled it, put every little piece in separate little marked bags. Had everything off it, and then decided it would take too long and too much money to restore it. We sold it that way to some guy I worked with. He had the money and time to finish it. I just kinda noticed today that it looked the same as the one we had, don't know why I didn't before. Anyway - to make a long story short - Nice car!!

cat