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« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2008, 05:47:03 am »
heres mine 150.00 1964 @at the time it was 10 yrs old ,1974 scott bakken
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« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2008, 22:42:39 pm »
Nice..... Smiley  Good to see you around here Scott !!!!!     Cool
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« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2008, 09:10:39 am »
Back then drove a 69 bug with a hot 1679 engine.
Later chopped the roof and used the car for dragracing Grin
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« Reply #33 on: January 28, 2008, 10:27:35 am »
Quote from: Richard Roth on January 25, 2008, 10:30:57 am
1969 Boss 429 Mustang
OK, you win... Grin

My choice was a 1963 Austin Mini, followed by a 1964 Fiat 600 Angry
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« Reply #34 on: January 29, 2008, 01:58:26 am »
Quote from: Richard Roth on January 25, 2008, 10:30:57 am
1969 Boss 429 Mustang

Wow! A friend of the family has an original '69 Boss 429 (Black Jade with 40,000 original miles) sitting in my uncles warehouse (for about 8 years now) covered in about 1/2 inch worth of dust.  Looks just like this one (just not as clean)
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« Reply #35 on: January 29, 2008, 02:14:16 am »
Quote from: Dick Mitchell on January 29, 2008, 01:58:26 am
Quote from: Richard Roth on January 25, 2008, 10:30:57 am
1969 Boss 429 Mustang

Wow! A friend of the family has an original '69 Boss 429 (Black Jade with 40,000 original miles) sitting in my uncles warehouse (for about 8 years now) covered in about 1/2 inch worth of dust.  Looks just like this one (just not as clean)


Jim and I smoked one of those, side by side up the Strohbridge I-580 entrance on our poker ralley. We had him up to about a hundred and he started puffing white smoke out of the exhaust.
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« Reply #36 on: January 29, 2008, 03:36:47 am »
Musta been a sick 429.  Those things were killers!
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« Reply #37 on: January 29, 2008, 04:01:24 am »
Quote from: stealth67vw on January 29, 2008, 02:14:16 am
Jim and I smoked one of those, side by side up the Strohbridge I-580 entrance on our poker ralley. We had him up to about a hundred and he started puffing white smoke out of the exhaust.

Where is this?!
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« Reply #38 on: January 29, 2008, 04:15:58 am »
Castro Valley, California in the East Bay Area. It's an up hill on ramp, barely wide enough for 2 cars, that merges onto east bound 580 towards Pleasanton/Livermore.
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« Reply #39 on: January 29, 2008, 04:56:47 am »
<---------------------San Ramon, LOL!

Quote from: stealth67vw on January 29, 2008, 04:15:58 am
Castro Valley, California in the East Bay Area. It's an up hill on ramp, barely wide enough for 2 cars, that merges onto east bound 580 towards Pleasanton/Livermore.

I drive by there every weekday on my way to work, San Leandro.
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« Reply #40 on: January 29, 2008, 05:17:04 am »
Quote from: Lemonade on January 29, 2008, 04:56:47 am
<---------------------San Ramon, LOL!

Quote from: stealth67vw on January 29, 2008, 04:15:58 am
Castro Valley, California in the East Bay Area. It's an up hill on ramp, barely wide enough for 2 cars, that merges onto east bound 580 towards Pleasanton/Livermore.

I drive by there every weekday on my way to work, San Leandro.

There are a few bay area guys on here. Myself (Livermore/Hayward/Fremont now Grass Pants, OR.), Jim Ratto (Ptown, Livermore, San Leandro now Simi Valley), Bryan "Soda" Wenzel (San Ramon, now Tracy), KaferCup (Castro Valley),  Sheep (Ptown now Citrus Heights)Tony Mace(Ptown), Jason Cross (Disco Bay), and maybe a few others.
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« Reply #41 on: February 26, 2016, 20:55:38 pm »
taken along PCH near San Simeon CA, senior year '89
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« Reply #42 on: February 27, 2016, 00:33:21 am »
66 Cal looker about 15 years after it had been built.  It was a bit rusty, but came with a 2165, IDAs, and was rolling on 16x6 and 15x6 fuchs.  We pulled the motor after the gland nut bearing seized to the input shaft and destroyed the crank.  It then got a 1600dp and a set of BRMs.  I drove it like that for a year or so, then tossed in a swap meet 1835, and an old school rajay turbo setup with sidedraft Zenith carb.  Lots of fun.  Drove it everyday, made awesome heat with stock heater boxes even during the 0*F weather.

This is an OLD photo from when it was originally built, long before I got to it.


Finished off my Senior year in a 66 21 Window bus that was found and pulled out of hibernation.  Got it on the road the day before Prom.  It rolled on a set of BRMs, but needed to be lowered.  Should have kept that thing...Graduated in 2004
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« Reply #43 on: February 27, 2016, 01:26:28 am »
Family pic.
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« Reply #44 on: February 27, 2016, 04:36:25 am »
My family is a bit like that!
Nannas KG, Opas Split then Lo-Light (all he ever owned was these 2 Kombis, nothing else), my uncles '63 street racer.
When I got my own first car I rebelled a bit. This thing ('68 Monaro GTS) ended up with a 307ci-4sp, but it still couldn't catch the street Bug of my uncles, no chance of that!


Come to think of it, my hotrod Square I had 2 years later would've given it a run too!  Grin
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« Reply #45 on: February 27, 2016, 14:10:02 pm »
My 57 oval rag.
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« Reply #46 on: February 27, 2016, 18:49:21 pm »
Just out of High School actually. It was 1984. When I was in High School my transportation was the city bus, a Patterson long 20" bike or a Powell Peralta Jay Smith snubnose.
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« Reply #47 on: February 28, 2016, 09:50:28 am »
You guys were so lucky this is what most people in holland drive to school  Cry  including me
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« Reply #48 on: February 28, 2016, 10:18:36 am »
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My first car :-)
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« Reply #49 on: February 28, 2016, 17:49:37 pm »
Nice oval Larry!

First car was a gift from my grandparents a gas guzzling 61 Pontiac Bonneville.
Back in 1974 the first car I bought was a $400 64 VW sunroof.
It was a solid car till my construction "buddy" offered to carpet it for me.
He (we) used 100 short nails pounded into the pan and front and rear firewalls to hold the carpet down.
Bottom of the pan looked like a bed of nails.  Shocked
I'm sure it rusted out quickly with 100 holes in the floor and wet carpet.
When the 1200 blew up and we traded it in for a 69 bug.
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« Reply #50 on: February 28, 2016, 20:58:20 pm »
Quote from: John Rayburn on January 25, 2008, 07:39:44 am
Same Beetle I drive today.

Me too!  Smiley

Was only 2003 though.
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« Reply #51 on: February 29, 2016, 02:03:27 am »
thank you MG! I got the car for my 16th birthday in 1979, it was stock with chrome rims and a single port 1500. I lowered it and had wide 5 crestlines on it for awhile then went to the 14" alloys. I added a gene berg merged header, 010, kadrons and drove the crap out of it. I then installed a dave folts close trans and bad boy 1750cc with IDA's. I had the car for 28 years. I did a complete pan off and it was featured in HotVw's sep 2003. I have a 56 oval I am doing now.
Larry
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« Reply #52 on: May 17, 2016, 22:39:35 pm »
Quote from: John Rayburn on January 25, 2008, 07:39:44 am
Same Beetle I drive today.
Same here. I've only ever owned the one car.
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« Reply #53 on: May 17, 2016, 23:12:20 pm »
Quote from: JezWest on May 17, 2016, 22:39:35 pm
Quote from: John Rayburn on January 25, 2008, 07:39:44 am
Same Beetle I drive today.
Same here. I've only ever owned the one car.

I've owned over a dozen, but the only one I've still got is my first one. I even sold it to my brother and bought it back a few years later.
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« Reply #54 on: May 18, 2016, 09:37:33 am »
Didnt go to high school, started farming right after 10th grade. My first car was a ´65 1200, then I got into alfa Romeo´s. Then I went to commercial school and got a 1974 type 2 and became the "parts hauler" in that period  Grin

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« Reply #55 on: May 19, 2016, 00:42:30 am »
All I ever drove in high school was my 1954 lambretta ld150 I mean everywhere  Grin
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« Reply #56 on: May 19, 2016, 05:07:02 am »


This one circa 1988, still have it, my red bug



And this one a 68 stick shift, bought for 35 pounds, the dash used to move when you slammed the doors,! Biggest POS I've owned!
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« Reply #57 on: May 19, 2016, 14:45:56 pm »
Quote from: Cheesepanzer on January 26, 2008, 02:33:23 am
My '70 Beetle "in-Process".   Cheesy

Soon to be stunning in Peugeot Tulip Yellow!

Whose car was that in the driveway, Dave?
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« Reply #58 on: May 20, 2016, 03:27:31 am »
My '68 bug from 1982, Estancia high, Costa Mesa, CA
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« Reply #59 on: May 20, 2016, 11:19:44 am »
Turkis & primer 63 ragtop - 1756cc and a single 40 Dell

1989
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