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!

 

[Ohiogoldfever]

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!

Hahahaha! My dad had a Toyota Land Cruiser when I was a kid that would make your shoes tacky the floors got so hot.

 

[Limitool]

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!

Well that was all your fault and "bad".... As was this "BAD".... Had this car and drove it for 3 years back and forth to work with no upgrades. Just a blast to drive...! So one day I decided to have a Chevy 400 CID built with a built 400 turbo trans. So I had a professionally built 406 engine built along with it's new trans. After installing engine and trans it sat in in my garage. There was NO EXHAUST at all from the heads nor any cooling set up. It sat there for 4-5 months with no work done toward completion. One winter Sunday morning I decided I wanted to hear that wonderful new motor for a few minutes. I put battery in and it fired right up. I knew it could run for a couple minutes before shutoff time. I sat in car watching the gauges while gunning the new engine. Suddenly I smelled RUBBER burning. I turned off car..... WHAT A DUMBASS.... I blistered the hell out of both front tires. Both were smoking away.... NOT A PROUD MOMENT AT ALL.

We both ratted ourselves out for stupidly......!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your not alone sir.

 

[Ohiogoldfever]

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