Car from Childhood
 

Every one here has that one Car that made a Lasting impression-almost like a "1st Kiss" thing-It's something that you always remeber-When i was a little kid, my Father(who had MANY muscle cars)had a 1967 Firebird it was a very "attention" getting car,with custom paint job(Kandy pearl white with Black panel type accents very late '60's early "70's type paint-but what made the car Really Stand out was that it had 2 Big Marijauna leafs painted on the side's rite near the roof valance's&a Chain steering wheel)this Car Attracted A lot of attention +&-,But it did command respect on the street-the car was a Real Beast here is what it had when my Father"built it in the '70's"-Full built Chevy BBC"454" -high compression-Square port's-Solid Cam-single 4 barrel-M22"rockcrusher"-4.88 gears-12 bolt posi&with very cool "HUSH TRUSH" muffler's-funny thing was that i rember the car still being LOUD!The car& how it made me feel,always stuck with me,the noise the tranny made-the mufflers sounded like music,My father sold the car off in the '80s to one of his close freinds-funny thing was is that they&me-all have the same name-"Hector"-that was how that car was known-"Hector's Car"-I tried to get that car back-but that is a LONG story 4 a different time,Can any 1 here relate to this story?Or provide any info on a 1967 pontiac firebird white&black with weed leafs&chain steering wheel in Western newyork from back in the day.....

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I can relate. When I was 12 years old, my cousins boyfriend had a brand new 67 Camaro. RS/SS, 350, 4 speed, Gold with a black vinyl top, buckets seats. I sat in it one night, playing with the shifter, pretending I was driving. It was parked next to the barn, with the yard light shining down on it. I fell in love with that car. I bought that very car 4 years later. It was prety well beat up, but I made it decent again.

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I tried to get firebird back-long story short-it Vanished in the '80's&then in 1994 showed up all restored to how it was,Everything was NEW on car&perfect-fastforward to 2008 car show's back up&it was for sale(his family didnt want it&wanted $15-20G's&it didnt have a Motor or tranny&was shitting in storage unit for YEARS!)I looked for car&it was too late a Guy-Chet low balled(STOLE!!)the car for $5,500-(backrent was owed for storage&owner wanted it out!!)When Chet got car home-He"Popped" Trunk&M22-Scattershield,Hurst shifter was all inside!So all Chet did Was "Throw" a 454 &Clean the car up Really good-THATS IT!I never found car,let alone "see it"but i always new it was "MINT"anyways I found out who has the car&offer to "Buy" it&he say's sure but He says he ("Put a lot $$ in car almost$16,000 in receipts")So i ask how much&he say's $35,000& it will go $50,000-That was a SLAP IN MY FACE,All that he did was throw a motor in it&wash it that!Nothing else-so its his now

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Here is a lifetime lasting impression for me.

Back in October of 1962 (I was 12) I was watching the Chevrolet sponsored Bonaza. They ran the show commerial free and at the end they showcased the new 1963 models to be unveiled at the dealerships the next day. I remember the screen going black and thinking there was something wrong with the TV. Suddenly, spotlights came on the rear view of a split window coupe Corvette. The car was on a turntable and appeared to be white. It was a black and white TV set BTW. The entire background was black and the turntable bagan to turn slowly showing the side of the car as the announcer was tauting the new car. When it got to the 3/4 view of the front they rolled the hidden headlights up. I had goosepimples. I said outload, "when I am old enough to drive I am going to buy one of those!!" It was love at first sight.

Years later I have owned MANY mid year Corvettes but never a 63 spit window. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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My first car memory was of my dad's 1956 Dodge Coronet Lancer. It was a three-tone with a cream top, charcoal hood and trunk, and coral along the sides. The interior was black and white with a push-button transmission. I used to think that push-button trans was so cool. What impressed me the most though was the engine. I can remember going into the garage and lifting the hood to just gaze at the most beautiful sight I had ever seen (I hadn't started noticing girls yet). It was a big red engine with Red Ram spelled out on the valve covers and a big, black air cleaner sitting on top. I knew then what an awesome sight a V-8 engine was. I never got to drive it as before I reached driving age my dad had traded it in on a new 1965 Dodge Coronet. It was a shade of light (ice) blue with a blue interior. It was the car I first drove, and it also had a red engine (no script on the valve covers though) with a black air cleaner. It didn't have the magic or sheer attraction as the 1956 did to my young mind though.

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During my childhood my parents owned 3 1967 Olds 98's.The high compression 425's all sounded so good.I could always tell when dad was home{usually with a nervous lump in my throat} by the blub blub of that bigblock.When he later replaced his 67 with a 1970 88 with a 350 in it I actually told him that it sounded like it had tin cans for pistons{pretty asute observation for a 10 year old}.He sold his dented up 98 for $25 and my moms much nicer one for $400 back in the 80's.When I first layed eyes on what would be my first car I just knew I had to have it.A 1967 Olds Cutlass 2 door.Man I wish dad had just kept the 425 out of that car he sold for $25,it ran so good.That car had his old pipe tobacco smell in it,rode like it was on a cushion of air and he would manuver it through parking lots with just the tip of one finger on the steering wheel.

Anybody remember the good old dayz when preparing for the family vacation started out with going down to the local parts store and picking up a few cans of freon and soaking them in hot water and charging up the AC so it would stay cold all week?No suprise they outlawed that stuff.Heck,who am I kidding,I was doing the same thing all summer long with my Trans Am and cans of that"freeze 12" replacement stuff.Some old habits die hard.

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4 on the floor,a loud car with MJ leafs painted on the side.Cop target?I got one better.When I was in high school a kid had a white Buick Skylark all jacked up and loud with the name "White Line Runner" painted on it.real smart huh?

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It was a Cop Target-Im pretty sure that's why my Father initially sold it,Because he would ALWAYS get pulled over by the COPS-Funny thing is that it still had the marijuana leaf's on it in 2008 but ,The Guy that has it now had them removed&he also took off the Chain steering wheel-I have a lot of pic's of this car but i cant seem to load them up here?I was told that it was a Autorama Show car(Winner) from back in the day...

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I was in High School.1978, my buddys brother came and picked us from school...driving a 70 SATURN YELLOW GSX STAGE 1 car....we smoked some mary jane, got some beer...did some burnouts a little street racing, he dumped me off, my mom was fricken' POd...3 days later he totaled the car....I have dreams about that car every so often...good times man...good times... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif

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Pic's>of mufflers that I just got for Nova,any1 chime in as to how they"Sound"?I had a Hard time finding them,But i got em on Ebay&Now i need a "FlyEye" air cleaner,But it seems like they are BIGBUCKS!I been trying to post pic's of Firebird&it just aint working!!But if Any1 Know's bout that car I will Gladly send pic's to you,Im still trying to track its origins......

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It started in the spring of 1967 while on my way to elementary school. I heard this car tearing down the back roads of suburban Philadelphia. The tone of that exhaust, the lope and sound of the solid lifter camshaft left quite an impression. It was a white with black stripe 1967 Camaro. I found out few years later that is was a friends cousin's 67 z28. The owner used to race it on front street in Philly, and was stolen in 1969.

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Experts say that the first memory children have is tied to the first acquistion of language - in other words if you don't have a method of classifying and storing the information in your brain, you wont have a way to retrieve it either.

I would disagree with that premise as my first car memory was when I was 6 months old (yes, that's right). I remember being held in the baby sitter's arms, opening my eyes, looking up, and seeing her "ample bosom" https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif and then hearing a large crashing noise. It was my dad driving our white, 1958 Oldsmobile station wagon loaded with lumber sticking out every open window and being chased by a gaggle of neighborhood kids. It looked like a scene from Moby Dick with a fleet of whaling boats following the harpooned white whale.

This was the day he was going to build the gaint A-framed tree house that would stand for 20+ years in our backyard in Orange, Connecticut.

My parents could never understand how I could recall that car at such a young age but after some research it turned out that they only had that car for one summer in 1963 and sold it shortly thereafter. There was no way I could have known about it without seeing it firsthand.

(They also thought I was autistic because I wouldn't talk to anyone til I was about 4 or 5 years old, but I could name any car that drove by from age 1, onward.)

So basically my first memories are of big breasted women and cars. Some things never change.
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WOW.... flash back to 1972.. my dad had a 67 GTX with a wild paint job by Juan Parker here in Columbus and a 426 wedge motor stuffed under the hood...that was not my wow factor car but this car was....my dad raced a guy named Karl Kirk who had a 70 red/white automatic Hemi Cuda after 2 races both my dad and Karl had to have each others cars so they traded...so the Hemi Cuda became my mental gateway to being car crazy...I actually cried the day my dad sold that car and i have tracked it ever since. It currently resides in Alabama.

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My father has always been a 50s custom guy, although he has had a bunch of early 60s musle cars. The first car I remember was his 1939 Ford custom conv. It had a 50s Olds engine with 2 4s, chopped with a carson top and a Nash grill. The guy who puchased the car has had it stored in a barn since the mid 70s. ( I plan to get it back if the guy will ever sell ) The first cool fast car was one of his many 64 Galaxie 500 XLs. All of them were black with red interior, but This one was a 4 spd. and had big and little cragers. It was a 390 with 2 4s. He would grab second gear whenever I asked! I always knew when he was coming home because I could hear him before he ever came over the hill.