Another time....

[shady]

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.

[WConley]

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! 



This is me around the same time.  Just getting ready to move to California.



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 



Here's the car pretty much done, before stripes.  It was Highland Green:



Edit:  We always had Fords growing up.  Here I am (left) with my dad and little brother around 1970.

[gdaddy01]

like the old pictures, thanks to you folks

[Heo]

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 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......

[Heo]

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 . 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