Rogue Hawk
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We always remember the corvettes, Ferrari's and so on. But what about those second and third tier cars? They where still desirable. I remember these cars and still lusted after them.
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Forgotten Cars from your youth
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Bob Denman
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I was always a fan of the Firebird Trans Am: preferably with the SD 455 engine! :bowdown:
Bob Denman
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But I also have an equally soft spot in my heart for the original Hemi "Cuda! :bowdown:
ARtraveler
R.I.P. Dwayne
I had one of the early Daytona's.
PrairieSpyder
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I don't know what this tier would be, but this was my first car. It was pink!
RinconRyder
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1965 Corvair Yenko Stinger
IdahoMtnSpyder
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In my teen years I drove my mother's '53 Plymouth, which had splash oiling and a soft crankshaft that flattened when the engine ran low on oil. I drove my brother's 1936 Chevrolet sedan with knee action front shocks that bottomed out so much we called the car "The Clunk"! Then we had a 57 Plymouth with the push button shift. It started knocking and had piston slap so we traded it in on a maroon 1960 Rambler similar to this one! That car lasted a long time. Mom drove it long after I went to college. It was so economically configured it didn't even have an oil filter! I put after market seat belts in it!
Bob Denman
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Bob Denman
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My Cousin had one of these:
A 1970 Chevelle SS with the scary LS-6, and a rock-crusher... :bowdown:
He took it to South Carolina, and street-raced for two years: only got beat once by a Camaro that came off of a trailer!
A 1970 Chevelle SS with the scary LS-6, and a rock-crusher... :bowdown:
He took it to South Carolina, and street-raced for two years: only got beat once by a Camaro that came off of a trailer!
Bob Denman
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BitSlayer
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Oops!
An even BETTER choice! :bowdown:
pps: Grabbed the wrong pic. Loved the Superbird as well but here is the roadrunner. 
blacklightning
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I am a Road Runner fan as well. Here is a photo of my 73 road runner that I restored. Started out with a 318, but redid things and placed in it a built 1969 440, putting out 500+ hp.
PrairieSpyder
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You don't happen to have a picture of it in PINK; do you?
That's one I found on internet. It was a 1962 Rambler Classic. 3 on the tree and a heater. Not even a radio. It was a metallic pink color, kind of mauve. When it was new it probably looked like this:
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ThreeWheels
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1967 Convertible Mustang.
I found this on the internet, but it's a dead ringer for my first car, right down to the hubcaps.
I found this on the internet, but it's a dead ringer for my first car, right down to the hubcaps.
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JerryB
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Hi Rogue Hawk,
Re: Forgotten Cars from your youth
I owned two of these; one white in '61 when I was stationed at Edwards AFB, California. The 2nd one, a black one, I bought when I got out of the service in Nov '63:
They were quite fun cars to drive. When I bought the 2nd one, it had been stolen and only had Park & Drive, no Low or Reverse. I bought all of the parts at a junkyard & converted it to a stick shift with overdrive. And, yes I converted to a 'three on the tree.' That was a fun car project.
Jerry Baumchen
PS) I was a recent copy of Street Rodder magazine where you can now buy all of the parts to build a brand new '57 Chevy 2-dr hardtop; SR is doing one as a project car.
Re: Forgotten Cars from your youth
I owned two of these; one white in '61 when I was stationed at Edwards AFB, California. The 2nd one, a black one, I bought when I got out of the service in Nov '63:
They were quite fun cars to drive. When I bought the 2nd one, it had been stolen and only had Park & Drive, no Low or Reverse. I bought all of the parts at a junkyard & converted it to a stick shift with overdrive. And, yes I converted to a 'three on the tree.' That was a fun car project.
Jerry Baumchen
PS) I was a recent copy of Street Rodder magazine where you can now buy all of the parts to build a brand new '57 Chevy 2-dr hardtop; SR is doing one as a project car.
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I saw one of these at Country Muffler in Montana last week. It didn't have the wing spoiler though. But sounded great!
retread
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I had some "interesting" cars, '39 Chevy with a 302 Wayne Jimmy, '40 Pontiac with a '56 Olds, '53 Merc with a '55 Buick, but I always liked the '53 and '54 Buick Skylarks, and found the '57 Rambler Rebel very interesting.....picture a Rambler with a 327 Chevy in it - from the factory!
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