.....;Posted on 05/31/2014 7:27:43 AM PDT by virgil283
My first car was a Belair, four door with the big six. It might have been rusty but I waxed and polished it just the same......
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1966 Porsche 911. British racing green. Bought it in 1980 drove it from San Diego to Edmonton AB in 30hrs. Had a pal that shared the driving.
yep, and see post 72…...
That is such a nice story, especially about driving it to church if it rain. Blessings from Arizona...
First time, long time.
Mine was a ‘68 Buick Electra 225 Limited, coupe (2dr hardtop). 430 w/ 4bbl. Power everything (including trunk). Inherited it for $1 from my father. He stepped up to the ‘73 deuce-and-a-quarter, 455! I had mine airborne once. I would attach a picture but I don’t know how.
1974 Mustang 2. $1700.
I could write a novel about everything that happened in that car over the following 5 years.
Wire wheels need to be "tuned" on a regular basis.
My dream car is the Defender 90 land Rover. My wife says it looks like a garden shed and if I buy it we have to move so no one who knows us will see me drive it.
Fiat Topolino 500 - 1936 (I purchased it in 1961, for my 125 cc Gilera motorbike + 10,000 lire)
You forgot the " mark before the url address and forgot to close with a >
Well, while in HS I learned to drive in my dad's 403 which looked like a sort of 1950's American sedan at a time when Henry J's and Studebaker's and Fords were still on the road. It wasn't too bad until I was asked "what make is that?". I'd sort of mumble and point to the speedometer and let them read the name out loud. Nine times out of ten they said "Jaguar, huh". The printed word was Jaeger, the instrument mfr. The guy taking German blew my cover, damn him.
I'm guessing the 404 had the same weird three lug nut arrangement on the wheels as the 403, Citroen CV, and Renaults. Must have been French government standards mandate.
Though being French, maybe they taxed lug nuts the same way they taxed horse power, the more lug nuts the more tax.
They lived about four blocks from their church and were as frugal as every other German farmer so they walked. Blessing back to you from Texas.
Though being French, maybe they taxed lug nuts the same way they taxed horse power, the more lug nuts the more tax.
It did. Same arrangement of putting the studs such that the holes in the wheel were on the top of a ridge, so they would self-misalign if you didn't have the wheel perfectly aligned (blind!) when you tried to put it on in the dark and rain.
In Hell, the French are the engineers.
A 403? Did they call you Columbo?
Their plastics engineers of that era were equally bad. The sheet goods covering the thin urethane foam padding on the dash lasted three seasons before becoming brittle enough to crack. The hardened foam didn't last that long. Good old naugahyde and foam was an easy fix that lasted until at 120k+ miles when the 403 expired.
Also for a nation that produced so many artists and artisans, they completely missed the boat with automotive paint. Every French car had badly sun faded chalking finish after 3 years. Explains why most of the Renaults sold were white of off white; didn't show as much.
LOL!
No Columbo was in the future and a convertible to boot. By that time I had different wheels, though my dad's 403 was looking just as tattered as Columbo's.
My buddy has one with the Lotus engine. He paid a lot for it 15 yrs ago, now it’s supposed to be worth a small fortune.
I'll bet your '68 still had the 10.1:1 compression ratio, too, like my 1970 Electra did. After 1970 the compression ratio got whittled down to 8.5:1 a whole 15% less power per cylinder travel stroke in spite of the 455 cu in. (or in Cadillacs the 472 or 500 cu. in.)
My company cars are all 1970 Cadillacs of one sort or another now. They are all 10.1's
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