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FE Power Forums => Non-FE Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Heo on June 19, 2024, 01:16:24 PM
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There was a time when Heo had hair on his head. And fastback Mustangs was cheap :'( ;D i would guess Late april early May 77
just taken it out for the summer, no tax tag on the licence plate. Took about a week to get it. You was not allowed to drive before you
got it. But sunny and the chicks flocking who could stop you ;D ;D
(https://i.postimg.cc/W4HN5RT4/448524389-2665221660323204-1248479119471796051-n.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Cougar taillights, Cragar SS, Formula 1 Superstocks, Paintsceme like an overipe banana, electric antenna in the rearfender,
RogersCustom sticker in the rearwindow. Probably where he bought the Cragars. Maybe he added some calcustom valvecovers
and crome aircleaner with El Toro wingnut, Headers and a daggerhandle for the dipstick on the order
I bet he was considered cool in his town
I se now the flag is up, so probably last of April when we light big bonfires and celebrate the winter is over. So i suspect the trunk is loaded
with beers to last to the early morning May 1st;D ;D
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Looks like a rattle can paint job on the effects ;D
I used to hate Cragar SS wheels because everyone ran them. I liked the slotted mags better. Now I don't mind the SS for the nostalgia look. And one thing is for sure, Sweden has no shortage of beautiful girls. :)
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Looks like a rattle can paint job on the effects ;D
I used to hate Cragar SS wheels because everyone ran them. I liked the slotted mags better. Now I don't mind the SS for the nostalgia look. And one thing is for sure, Sweden has no shortage of beautiful girls. :)
Yes, Probably spraybombed, the masking lines dont look that professional either. Bottom of rearfenders fixed cheaply and wrong
a cheap paintjob and it found a happy new (young) owner. Then you could get a realy nice 65-66 fastback for 13-16 000 Swedish crowns
This i guess was probably 8-10 000 before the rims and other custom trix ;)
A Dollar was about 5 Crowns a new Mercedes Diesel was 35 0000 a Volvo about 20 000 a big blockCharger was 30 000 and with a Hemi 35 000
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Annnnd for some reason I was instantly transported back to this commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqIrzkPDtrk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqIrzkPDtrk)
0:30 - "Hey good lookin'. We'll be back to pick you up later!"
Hopefully you guys were cooler over there.
Pat
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How cool is that ;D ;D
Great picture Heo! Now we need some more pictures of skinny Jay with long hair. There are rumors that he has a great shot of a really nice looking girl sitting on the roll bar of his '68 GT-500 convertible...
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Annnnd for some reason I was instantly transported back to this commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqIrzkPDtrk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqIrzkPDtrk)
0:30 - "Hey good lookin'. We'll be back to pick you up later!"
Hopefully you guys were cooler over there.
Pat
Yes i think so, those guys in the SL Mercedes would have been considered .....Dorks here
Probably had easily ended up with black eyes and nose out of shape. Just shouting that
to some lokal girls could have resulted in them getting hunted down and beat up
It was harder times then :o ;D
I remember the first punkrocker (and only) in town. He was some kind of problemchild from Stockholm
who was sent here to fosterparents. I think i was in 8th grade, he was to.
Anyway, he tried to be tuff big city punkrocker first day at school.
So he ended up getting beat up
He left school and got down town where the carguys saw him and they to beat him up.
Pulled the safetypinout of his ear without opening it
The people was not that..."including" here then ;D ;D
Nex day at school he had a more ...hmmmmm... normal look .If anyone looked normal in the 70s ???
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How cool is that ;D ;D
Great picture Heo! Now we need some more pictures of skinny Jay with long hair. There are rumors that he has a great shot of a really nice looking girl sitting on the roll bar of his '68 GT-500 convertible...
Thats something i regret i dont took more pictures of that time.
When i se this pick im transported back. I can sense the smell in that mustang
Sunwarm vinylseats, American vinylseats have a smell of it own, Little tree, a wiff of gas,
VHT headerspaint slowly burning off, Beer, Cigaretsmoke, slightly damp carpet
ATF,Armorall Thurtlewax The rumble of the 289 idling through glasspacks.
I bet The girl have strawberry lippgloss and peash scented shampoo ;D
Heyyy i posted pics on a blond girl on the roof of my Fairlane here. That did NOT come out well
Are you suposed to have a convertible to post ;D ;D
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Heo---
You bring it back. My then-new '65 1/2 Mustang GT was a burgundy color with the 'K' engine and 4-speed and a 'pony' interior. I gave it a pretty complete GT 350 work-over including a rear-seat delete and 'glas hood, etc. Put on a Paxton blower. My then-wife was a mostly-Swede blonde. That could almost be her standing by the car in your picture. Good times!
KS
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My first Cougar got a bomb can stripe job done to it back in about 1977. It was done in oat to hide the parking lot chips.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53803209981_0ab75c0bdb_z.jpg)
Junita area of Kirkland WA 1978
But moved on to include the hood and trunk.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53802278002_a8d01d5b9e_z.jpg)
Bellevue WA, Overlake area 1978.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53803539714_7ffb7a5c5c_z.jpg)
Whidbey Island WA 1978
It did get some young ladys attention, but it also got the attention of the boys in Blue...
It was not all that fast, but could keep up wit most Small Block Camaros, Firebirds and Mopars. Not as cool as a K code early fast back. But the dark Brown Leather interior ws impresive.
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A guy in town had a 68 cougar XR7 with a 460, 10 inch Cromereverse wheels, Kelly supercharger N50 15 tires, jacked up in the rear,
sidepipes, black mirra paint, black interior black vinyl top, it was fast but a real tiresmoker. Unthinkabel someone do that to a 10 year
old car today
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Oh man, does that send me back!
My Mustang morphed 3 times! Fade paint job with sidepipes, Shelby mags and Posi-Traction Torque Twister tires. High School 1977.
Mini Tubb, midnight blue paint, 454 Hi Riser with squeeeze for LA Streetracing. 1985
Alston Pro Gas Chassis, 454 with Edelbrock heads and 8-71 "lung" for fairgrounds cruising. 1992
Had tons of fun with all versions...although the street racing gig turned into work after a few years.
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Those were the days. Long as we're sharing, this was my first car, given to me by my Dad for high school graduation. It was straight Poppy Red when I got it, but I repainted it the summer of 1976 and put the stripes on it. Pictures from the winter of 1977:
(https://fepower.net/Photos/Posts/67 Fast1.JPG)
(https://fepower.net/Photos/Posts/67 Fast 2.JPG)
(https://fepower.net/Photos/Posts/67 Fast 3.JPG)
I sold that car to get the money I needed to buy my 68 Shelby. I was much more popular in the Shelby convertible ;D
(https://fepower.net/Photos/Posts/Shelbybabe.jpg)
By the way, she is holding a can of King Cobra beer! Never knew there was such a thing until I found it in a St. Louis liquor store...
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I keep telling my kid, "Take pictures with you and your friends in the picture....in 30 years you will be happy you did."
My three favorite things in the thread, so far, come from Heo and Jay.
Heo: Here we have an image of the fun car......and in the background is a Volvo PV544.
Those things were almost everywhere, from my perspective....Not quite VW Beetle everywhere, but they certainly were around....and almost always parked somewhere too. Rarely did I ever actually see one driving down the road.
Jay: In Jay's description is says these are photos from the summer.....with snow everywhere.
I guess you are not too far off Jay, afterall it is Minnesota.
Heo and Jay: The common link between the, literally half a world apart, photos is they focus on two highly important subjects.....fun cars and fun girls.
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These are a few of my favorites. Still have a couple of Mustangs. Joe-JDC
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And who is she Jay. You just skimmed over that.
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I hate to spoil the party but this is the only pic that I have of one of my cars. taken in 1976. After my first car, a 64 galaxie xl 390 4 speed, kept getting it's doors blown off, I went with the if you can't beat em join em theory. Some how with all the moving and money crunches over the years, I still have that car. Godam, where did the 50 years go to.
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(https://fepower.net/Photos/Posts/Shelbybabe.jpg)
See Heo - We have hats over here too!
Here's an old girlfriend from 25 years ago in my old Galaxie. The picture hides her impressive assets.. >:( I'm talking about that sweet 390 with low riser heads, CJ carb, and four-speed, of course! >:(
(https://i.ibb.co/PwCtq77/Galaxie.png)
This is me around the same time. Just getting ready to move to California.
(https://i.ibb.co/cr51qRR/Galaxie2.png)
Roll back another ten years and I'm in the small block Ford world. Restoring the first car I bought, a '68 GT 350. Man I wish I had kept that car :-[ :-[
(https://i.ibb.co/wdcKcGd/Shelby2.png)
Here's the car pretty much done, before stripes. It was Highland Green:
(https://i.ibb.co/kyKQNGy/Shelby.png)
Edit: We always had Fords growing up. Here I am (left) with my dad and little brother around 1970.
(https://i.ibb.co/ZhY2M93/Dad-Mustang.png)
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like the old pictures, thanks to you folks
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I keep telling my kid, "Take pictures with you and your friends in the picture....in 30 years you will be happy you did."
My three favorite things in the thread, so far, come from Heo and Jay.
Heo: Here we have an image of the fun car......and in the background is a Volvo PV544.
Those things were almost everywhere, from my perspective....Not quite VW Beetle everywhere, but they certainly were around....and almost always parked somewhere too. Rarely did I ever actually see one driving down the road.
Jay: In Jay's description is says these are photos from the summer.....with snow everywhere.
I guess you are not too far off Jay, afterall it is Minnesota.
Heo and Jay: The common link between the, literally half a world apart, photos is they focus on two highly important subjects.....fun cars and fun girls.
Cleandan,
So you recognice a 544 :), i had several and drove them down the road ;D Right now i working on a Volvo 210, Stationwagon version of the 544.
That i built in to a stepside pickup for my dad in the early 80s. 210 have separate frame, 544 unibody. I used the roof, top of cowl rockerpanels and doors from a 544.( lover roof more slanted windshield, longer doors)I Made a bed, and rearfenders out of four frontfenders
Dad rolled it when a brakelining got loose on a fronwheel and locked up the wheel he hit a pole and swerved around and a rearwheel cut down in the grass and
it rolled over in the ditch parked since then about 25 years so it needs some love and bodywork. Plans are orange paint American racing wheels with black center
after tec inspection i add twin SU carbs and another head shall give me about 140 hp with the cam thats in the engine. But i have a 289 with a C4 in the barn so with some trimming of the firewall and tunnel and a rearsump...... ??? ???
(https://i.postimg.cc/KcrpkLmJ/thumbnail-IMG-1508.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/5jySDXYC)
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I hate to spoil the party but this is the only pic that I have of one of my cars. taken in 1976. After my first car, a 64 galaxie xl 390 4 speed, kept getting it's doors blown off, I went with the if you can't beat em join em theory. Some how with all the moving and money crunches over the years, I still have that car. Godam, where did the 50 years go to.
Friend had a 70 396 SS Camino, Orange with Black SS stripes 12 inch Rocket fivespokes in the rear, 454 with tunnelram,
2 660s
One saturday night when we was leaving his apartment there was two girls walking and when i sat down in the car
I shouted over the street. You want a ride huh, they came running the first girl forced me and the seatback forward
and slamed her head in the backwindow two times trying to get in to the rearseat. Me and the friend laughed our asses of
They where not completly sober if i say so ;D ;D. Anyway they sat down on the bench seat one in my lap. when friend cranked
the 454 it backfired through both carbs with 2 foot flames, both jumped right up screaming ;D ;D