"The Good Ol' Days"

[Greg Myers]

[High octane]

Yes they were Greg. Those pics look like they're from the fifties and I really didn't start likin' cars 'til the late fifties. In the 60's I was definitely "hooked."

[Jon Haigwood]

Tad before my timeline. I was a wee lad about then.

[Ramfins59]

Great stuff Greg... I love the 5 window coupe.

[unclescott58]

Fun photos.

Scott

[wayne swayze]

THANK YOU!!

[Jon Haigwood]

Some good stuff for the 1:1 picture area

[Ace-Garageguy]

In the first shot, the guy with the glasses did the homework for the other 3, so they would have time to work on the car.

He also did anything that required math concerning the car...gear ratios, weight distribution, figuring jet sizes based on weather conditions, etc.

And, because he was such a helpful little guy, the others let him drive the car at the strip...once. Turned out he had faster reaction times, and another slight advantage by being lighter.

So, smart kid became the regular driver at the drags, got to hang with the kool kids, and ended up married to the homecoming queen, and working at NASA.

[FordRodnKustom]

Is that Joe Friday(Jack Webb) behind the wheel of that channeled roadster in the last pic?

[Southern Fried]

My "Good Ol' Days" was in the mid '70's.

You could buy '68/69 Chevelles, Nova's, Camaro's, Road Runners', Impala SS, Chargers, 'Cuda's , ect...In prime condition...NOT pristine, but workable...$500- to $1200 bucks.

I bought a rock solid '68 Chevelle, SS, 396, for $500 bucks....because the engine had a "knock"? Perfect paint. Kidney Bean rims.

Not ONE flaw on the interior.

Dropped in a "Trade School" 427 that Chevy "contributed" to the local Trade School. ...For tear down/demonstration purposes.They could not sell it, unless it was scrap.

To scrap it, they had to make it "un-usable". Talked the teacher into knocking a hole into the rear water jacket. Bought it, welded up the hole, had a brand new 427.

'72 "Heavy Chevy" body. $400.

'67 Impala SS, 327...console, buckets, Powerglide...$500. Installed an 8 Track.

'56 Bel Air Hardtop. 30 over 327. Camaro buckets. M22 Rock Crusher. 50's on American 5 spoke aluminum. 10 on the back with 50's. Had a crapy, worn out Hurst shifter. Sometimes locked up, and I would have to slide under it...and break it loose.

Last one was a '38 Ford Coupe. Ex drag car.Some kind of Olds "Posi".rear end..350 Cop engine. Original front suspension. Edelbock high rise that you could change the top half to run 1 or 2 carbs. I ran 1 650 Holly. That was a "hoot" to drive.

Yep...wish I had have known what to keep!.

[Greg Myers]

Edited October 22, 2014 by Greg Myers

[southpier]

age doesn't matter; it's the spirit which lives

[unclescott58]

My "Good Ol' Days" was in the mid '70's.

You could buy '68/69 Chevelles, Nova's, Camaro's, Road Runners', Impala SS, Chargers, 'Cuda's , ect...In prime condition...NOT pristine, but workable...$500- to $1200 bucks.

I bought a rock solid '68 Chevelle, SS, 396, for $500 bucks....because the engine had a "knock"? Perfect paint. Kidney Bean rims.

Not ONE flaw on the interior.

Dropped in a "Trade School" 427 that Chevy "contributed" to the local Trade School. ...For tear down/demonstration purposes.They could not sell it, unless it was scrap.

To scrap it, they had to make it "un-usable". Talked the teacher into knocking a hole into the rear water jacket. Bought it, welded up the hole, had a brand new 427.

'72 "Heavy Chevy" body. $400.

'67 Impala SS, 327...console, buckets, Powerglide...$500. Installed an 8 Track.

'56 Bel Air Hardtop. 30 over 327. Camaro buckets. M22 Rock Crusher. 50's on American 5 spoke aluminum. 10 on the back with 50's. Had a crapy, worn out Hurst shifter. Sometimes locked up, and I would have to slide under it...and break it loose.

Last one was a '38 Ford Coupe. Ex drag car.Some kind of Olds "Posi".rear end..350 Cop engine. Original front suspension. Edelbock high rise that you could change the top half to run 1 or 2 carbs. I ran 1 650 Holly. That was a "hoot" to drive.

Yep...wish I had have known what to keep!.

The mid-70's were not the good old days at all. I was there. Muscle cars were all but dead by the mid-70's. The '73 gas crisis ran the price of gas to the point of making it too expensive to drive the cars above. It was a time of Pintos and Vegas. Government regulation was changing our cars in ways that were nessary, but not looking good at the time. 5-mph bumpers. The fazing out of the hardtop. The death of the convertible (thankfully, only temporarily). Pollution controls that strangled the life out of our car. In other areas. America pulling out of Vietman. A President resigning in disgrace. Inflation. The basic end of sending humans out to explore space, in any real way. 8-track tape!

There is no way I would want to go back and relive the any of the 1970's. Much less the mid-1970's. 50's and 60's maybe. But the 70's!?

Scott

[unclescott58]

In the first shot, the guy with the glasses did the homework for the other 3, so they would have time to work on the car.

He also did anything that required math concerning the car...gear ratios, weight distribution, figuring jet sizes based on weather conditions, etc.

And, because he was such a helpful little guy, the others let him drive the car at the strip...once. Turned out he had faster reaction times, and another slight advantage by being lighter.

So, smart kid became the regular driver at the drags, got to hang with the kool kids, and ended up married to the homecoming queen, and working at NASA.

There is probably the truth, right there. I was kind wondering how this guy fit in looking at that one picture.

Scott

[unclescott58]

Is that Joe Friday(Jack Webb) behind the wheel of that channeled roadster in the last pic?

Also, Im beginning to think your right too. That kind of does look like Joe Friday. And if you've ever seen the great movie Sunset Boulevard, and Jack Webb's character in that movie, you can see him driving something like that.

Scott

Edited October 22, 2014 by unclescott58

[Greg Myers]

[Jon Haigwood]

When I was about 14ish I got to see this make a pass down at Half Moon Bay. Smoked them all the way down.

I remember that trip very well , my little brother and I ran from the spectator area to the pits by running across the staging lanes. Almost got ran over by a Willys Gasser.

[Greg Myers]

Ah, the good old days,

[earlleecliffton]

My "Good Ol' Days" was in the mid '70's.

You could buy '68/69 Chevelles, Nova's, Camaro's, Road Runners', Impala SS, Chargers, 'Cuda's , ect...In prime condition...NOT pristine, but workable...$500- to $1200 bucks.

I bought a rock solid '68 Chevelle, SS, 396, for $500 bucks....because the engine had a "knock"? Perfect paint. Kidney Bean rims.

Not ONE flaw on the interior.

Dropped in a "Trade School" 427 that Chevy "contributed" to the local Trade School. ...For tear down/demonstration purposes.They could not sell it, unless it was scrap.

To scrap it, they had to make it "un-usable". Talked the teacher into knocking a hole into the rear water jacket. Bought it, welded up the hole, had a brand new 427.

'72 "Heavy Chevy" body. $400.

'67 Impala SS, 327...console, buckets, Powerglide...$500. Installed an 8 Track.

'56 Bel Air Hardtop. 30 over 327. Camaro buckets. M22 Rock Crusher. 50's on American 5 spoke aluminum. 10 on the back with 50's. Had a crapy, worn out Hurst shifter. Sometimes locked up, and I would have to slide under it...and break it loose.

Last one was a '38 Ford Coupe. Ex drag car.Some kind of Olds "Posi".rear end..350 Cop engine. Original front suspension. Edelbock high rise that you could change the top half to run 1 or 2 carbs. I ran 1 650 Holly. That was a "hoot" to drive.

Yep...wish I had have known what to keep!.

ditto