Any motor heads / vintage car guys around?

[Ohiogoldfever]

Hi, I’m Jeremy and I’m a junkoholic. As a lover of old stuff I’ve taken to rebuilding old cars and trucks. Anybody else have the affliction? I’ve got a few things I’d like to run past some fellow motor heads.

 

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[3cylbill]

I like most cars from th early 60's and for $3000 you could get most one of them...brand new.....

 

[GirlWithWolf]

I don’t have the affliction, but my best friend rode back home from Dallas this summer with a guy on her dad’s team in a 1967 Mercury Cougar convertible that looks like it just rolled off the lot. That thing was sweet!

 

[Jatrox]

Yes sir. Just finished a 70 HD chopper and starting on the family heirloom Firebird

 

[Ohiogoldfever]

Yes sir. Just finished a 70 HD chopper and starting on the family heirloom FirebirdView attachment 2177373

Beautiful! Love those old firebirds.

 

[Ohiogoldfever]

Here’s a shot of my 84 square body I’m nearly finished with. It was a real rust bucket when I started a couple years back. It’s come a long way.

Also my jeep I’ve dropped a small block and 5 speed transmission.

 

[xr7ator]

I don’t have the affliction, but my best friend rode back home from Dallas this summer with a guy on her dad’s team in a 1967 Mercury Cougar convertible that looks like it just rolled off the lot. That thing was sweet!

It must be a custom since Mercury didn't start building Cougar convertibles until 1969.
I've seen several, though, and are made with the sister car, Mustang parts.

 

[Tony in SC]

My hobby is the really old stuff, But I do have a '61 Harley and a "28 Model A coop!

 

[l.cutler]

Got a '26 Model T Tudor and a '59 Ford Galaxie. Drove a '59 Galaxie to high school, had another a few years later, this is my third. The first two are still around and became parts cars for number three.

 

[3cylbill]

Got a '26 Model T Tudor and a '59 Ford Galaxie. Drove a '59 Galaxie to high school, had another a few years later, this is my third. The first two are still around and became parts cars for number three.

Got a '26 Model T Tudor and a '59 Ford Galaxie. Drove a '59 Galaxie to high school, had another a few years later, this is my third. The first two are still around and became parts cars for number three.

I remember going down to gasoline ally in Paterson NJ and having dickie simonek build a smoking 406 from his 62 galaxie..a 427 killer...

 

[GirlWithWolf]

It must be a custom since Mercury didn't start building Cougar convertibles until 1969.
I've seen several, though, and are made with the sister car, Mustang parts.

I have the year wrong. I know for sure he said 1960 something so it must be a ‘69.

 

[NHBandit]

I've got a couple things... "Treasure hunting" isn't only digging things out of the dirt. Discovering that one part you've been looking for for many years hidden away in a long forgotten junkyard is just as much of a thrill.

 

[robertk]

I've got a couple things...

Nice cars. And I love those old gas cans. Those were the days, when you could pour gas out of a can and it actually just poured right out without fighting some stupid emission control spout just to get a trickle.

 

[Jatrox]

Nice cars. And I love those old gas cans. Those were the days, when you could pour gas out of a can and it actually just poured right out without fighting some stupid emission control spout just to get a trickle.

100% Been using race cans since they started ruining the simple gas can

 

[Limitool]

I don't / didn't have a vintage car or worked on one but I did build one hell of a V-8 Chevy Vega. And boy it was fun to drive...! A full 2X4 tube steel frame, narrowed 9" Ford axle with coil 4-link suspension. Completely tubbed out floorboard with M-50's tires. Got a one piece fiberglass tilt front end for it and it set up on hydraulics's. Push button and the entire front end would tilt forward exposing a 355 CID strong motor with no interwells. Plenty of room to work on motor. 4 wheel disc all around. Had a Muncie 4-speed trans with an inline shifter. That car was FAST and all street legal. I wish now I had it back...

 

[releventchair]

 

[releventchair]

I don't / didn't have a vintage car or worked on one but I did build one hell of a V-8 Chevy Vega. And boy it was fun to drive...! A full 2X4 tube steel frame, narrowed 9" Ford axle with coil 4-link suspension. Completely tubbed out floorboard with M-50's tires. Got a one piece fiberglass tilt front end for it and it set up on hydraulics's. Push button and the entire front end would tilt forward exposing a 355 CID strong motor with no interwells. Plenty of room to work on motor. 4 wheel disc all around. Had a Muncie 4-speed trans with an inline shifter. That car was FAST and all street legal. I wish now I had it back...

Had a sky blue stock 72 Vega.
Put a header on it and had to go to work before putting the rest of the exhaust on.
Had the floor mat melting before I got there!