Finding that car again!

[jmurray01]

It is the brand of a shifter and linkage, not transmission. Check out the link

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[Blast Chamber]

I still regret selling my 1967 Mercury Cougar GT a few years back. I lost my job and decided to unload it even though I didn't really need the cash. Been kicking myself ever since.

Back when I was in high school I had the opportunity to buy a 1968 Dodge Dart GTS for $1,800. I had the money, but the Dart needed a new rear axle in order to be drivable and I didn't have a place to park/store it. I now consider it "the one that got away".

 

[sandman2234]

I like your car. Just my personal taste, but that car would look great with the small hub caps and painted wheels.

Yeah, that would make it a great looking car! What is the point of buying a "numbers matching" car and show the world that it isn't original by putting aftermarket wheels on it? I am with the old school keeping stock tires and wheels...
David from jax
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Guess I should answer the o/p question. I had several really great and sometimes sorta of rare MoPars, heck, used to swear by MoPar. Last hotrod I got a chance to buy was my old roommates vette. Told him when we got it back on the road in '75 that if he ever decided to sell it, let me know,not that I would have the money, but let me have a chance at it just the same. Call came in just 6 months before I got married in '82. Told the wife to be I was thinking of buying it, and she thought I was crazy for asking her, cause we weren't married. I explained that if I bought it, the payments would continue into married life. She said do it anyway. Went after it, drove it home, we drove it on our honeymoon, and it for now is still sitting out in the garage. It isn't the perfect car that I would like it to be but it has so many memories that it is almost that to me.
Roomie and I were charter members of the Miracle Strip Corvete Club and our first rally/autocross roommate couldn't make it, so he gave me the keys and told me to go see what it would do. Picked up 2nd place and got a trophy. Made him proud...
David
'66 Convertible with both tops, small block, Muncie 4sp, no air, no power but it does have AM/FM, lol.

 

[sandman2234]

Back when I had my Mach 1, I knew a lot of other guys with muscle cars but we never thought they would be worth much down the road. My brother...back in 1985 he got a '65 Stingray convert with the original big block 396 and factory sidepipes...he sold it because his girlfriend could not drive a stick...and has been kicking himself the last fifteen years.

Just six months after buying my '66 vette, I found a basket case car about 110 miles from here. It was a '65 with the 396. The body was rough, the interior completely trashed (inlaws have a auto uphostery shop, so that wasn't a big deal) but no way did I have the $1500 to buy it. I took a bunch of pictures of it, tried to get everyone I knew to buy it, but it finally went onto a truck headed for Texas. Ten years later, a buddy was trying to figure out the value of mine and noticed the blue book option value for the 396 motor was "add $20,000.00" for that option and told me about it. Made me sick, but such is life.
David from jax
My wife couldn't drive a stick when we got married, and I bought her a 79 vette, L82. She walked past it for six months to drive her previous car, a Chevette, till I sold it out from under her. When she was learning to drive my vette, she twisted a halfshaft like opening a can of bisquits (whop biscuits)

 

[deerefan]

My first car was a 1987 Camaro, V6 5 speed. Not real fast but still fun to drive. Real nice looking, midnight blue with black interior. I also had a 94 chevy 1500 reg cab stepside, teal with grey interior, V6 automatic. I put some chrome pieces under the hood and entered it in a few shows. I kept that truck spotless. The first car i bought with no parental assistance was a fair 70 Chevelle Malibu for 500. It is sitting in my barn, half restored waiting on me to finish. Hopefully I will never need to sell it.

 

[ultrarunner]

I doubt I'm older than most of you...

My first car that, bought and paid for was a 1929 Model A... still have and bought it at age 13.

The next was a 57 Ford and then a 68 Mustang Convertible... still have those too...

 

[tech141]

Mine was a 1972 Monte Carlo with a 427 under the hood. Would live to have that monster back, but can't afford the asking price today.

 

[ricsrx]

I still have my 70 Chevelle SS 396 that my dad "made" me buy while I was in college...Ain't parting with it. It's sitting in the back of the shop covered up and waiting for a motor rebuild...Someday.

I kept my high school car also. 1969 mustang fastback, and it is siting in the back of the shop waiting for my son (14) to get started on it. My brother bought it in 1976 and handed it down to me in 1979.

 

[bucktaker]

My 1968 Camaro was stored in my barn waiting for me to restore....bought car in 1985 while in US Navy. drove it home from LA in 1988 parked outside till 1993 been inside since. Currently working on getting it back on the road
doing a mechanical over haul, rebuilt suspension front and rear new power disc brakes, lowered front springs. rebuilt original 327....still in progress hope to have it running this summer.

 

[JDgreen227]

I kept my high school car also. 1969 mustang fastback, and it is siting in the back of the shop waiting for my son (14) to get started on it. My brother bought it in 1976 and handed it down to me in 1979.

Welcome to TBN, good to know that SOMEBODY here isn't worried about finding that car again...:laughing:

What engine does your car have, a 302 or 351, the 351 is the Windsor block, my cousin had a '69 Mach 1 with the 351, he took delivery of his late in the model year and wished he had known the Cleveland was going to become available in the new models. I offered to sell him my '70 model a few years later but he wasn't interested then.