Re: Where were you in '85?
 

1985?????????????????????? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

Re: Where were you in '85?
 

Frank, Did you always have OIL for blood? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

Re: Where were you in '85?
 

1985? I had just purchased my 1968 RS Camaro ($3900) to replace my first car, a 1967 Chevelle Malibu which I bought for $600 from a friend in the fall of 1983.
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Of course it was out of both desire and neccessity. In the spring of 1985 my beautiful Chevelle was rearended by an uninsured driver and totalled! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif

Re: Where were you in '85?
 

In January 1985 I was driving back up from Miami after finding this 1971 440 Six Barrel, 4 speed Cuda Convertible (1 of 5 produced). I paid $2500 for the project. It had been through a series of owners in Miami including a drug dealer who sold it, and then stole it back shortly thereafter and in a police chase launched it into the ocean! It had all of its original drivetrain (in the back of the U-Haul truck that is). The car needed new quarters, fenders, trunk, doors, upper cowl but the floors were perfect! -never buy a Florida car that spent any time near the beach: they rust from the top surfaces downward. I restored the car within a year and then sold it to buy my yellow 71 Hemicuda ragtop. The comical thing is that I hear rumors that the person who owns it now (after paying $350K for the car) is claiming that the sheetmetal is all original!

Re: Where were you in '85?
 

And here was the finished project in late 1985.

Re: Where were you in '85?
 

Why was Jim Croce sitting on your car? (Bad, bad LeRoy Brown?) Just kidding!!!

Man, you took a real roach and made a diamond out of it. Wanna' do my car? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

Re: Where were you in '85?
 

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Why was Jim Croce sitting on your car? (Bad, bad LeRoy Brown?) Just kidding!!!

Actually my wife refers to that photo as my "70's Porn Star Look." She's much too kind https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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Actually my wife refers to that photo as my "70's Porn Star Look." She's much too kind https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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LOL! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Great pics and story Steve! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Re: Where were you in '85?
 

LOL! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Great pics and story Steve! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

Rita https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

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I have to top your Playboy Playmate miniskirt pose somehow! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif -NJSteve

Re: Where were you in '85?
 

I had just purchased my first Camaro, a 69 6 cyl conv for $2000. Drove the car for a year and the original top fell apart and some previous body repairs became evident so I handed the car off to the local vo-tech school and let them restore it for $950, cost of the parts and supplies.