Where were you in '85?
 

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From a 1985 "Car Review" magazine https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif

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I wonder what that guy's sportcoat would be worth today?

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Lets see 85, was in Spain from 83-87 anyways heres a pic of the #6 on that list which is within an arms-reach away. Tornio GT here in Hawaii.

https://www.yenko.net/attachments/67646-Tornio%20GT.JPG

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In 1985 I sold my '67 Camaro SS 350 clone for $2500 in order to finish college. Built 350 4-bolt with solids, '70 M-22 with Hurst Super Shifter III, 12-bolt 3:55 Posi. I miss that car. Check the attached photo from 1985. The photo shows the new 350 in the car breaking in. Sold it a few months later.

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Hey - I got those same shoes, I always wondered what type of shirt/jacket those shoes would match with.... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/blush.gif

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Cool Holloween costume idea!

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Guys,

You're suppose to be looking at the prices, not the salesman's clothes! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif


Rita https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif

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Was a Jr. in high School working at a gas station, but driving a 68 Biscayne 427/425 car to work. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/3gears.gif

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I think I was getting divorced in 85.....so I was walking...

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Funny I remember that article. I was a Junior in high school and working at a grocery store. Of course my Z was parked all the way across the lot. Can't trust those guys who bring in the grocery carts. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Wonder what we will be saying in 15 years when a supercar for sale listing from 2004 is posted? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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I was still in high school, couldn't even think of paying those prices for a car on that list!

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In the Fall season,we were watching the Chicago Bears assemble a Team that was actually going to win the Super Bowl.
And make that Corny,Campy "SuperBowl Shuffle" Video! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/shocked.gif

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Driving a brand new '84 Corvette with Crossfire Injection that I could not wait to get rid of. Driving the snot out of a 1967 red/red 435 horse Corvette roadster that made me want to get rid of the '84 Corvette.

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I was driving a blue 78 Trans Am, purchased my first Judge and started my freshman year of College. I paid $6,000 for that Judge and it was mint and all numbers matched. Would you buy a car from that guy in the pics? I also remember that article.

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I was about 2/3 of the way thru the restoration of my Hemi Challenger (last category on the list)....

I still have that magazine, too https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

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A 1966 GTO for under $3500 including Verts and Tri-Powers?
Too bad I was only 19, driving a 74 Caddy and only probably had $10 bucks to my name.

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I was a junior in High School - - driving my 1970 Dodge Charger 500 - 383 car (I still own it !). In fact, the title was in my dad's name to save on insurance. I should probably check to see if it still is !! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif Also had a 1972 Olds Vista Cruiser station wagon as my *winter beater*. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif

I also remember that article, and still have the magazine ! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Would you buy a car from that guy in the pics?

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At THOSE prices? Heck yeah! I'd buy 2 !!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

(two of those "Hemi" cars https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif)

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Here was me in 1985. I was 7 or 8. (it depends when durring the year that you asked me! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif) I was in first grade and as you can see by the picture I was preparing for the years to come. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif

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A true gasoline addict. Looks like a blown SB in the window.

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

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

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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

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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!

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And here was the finished project in late 1985.

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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

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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

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

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

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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.

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In 1985, I lived in England and owned two cars, a V12 Jaguar and a teeny Fiat.

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Yea I guess your right when you put that way!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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By the way, the guy on the left in the Musclecar Review photo was Mason Dixon, local Tampa, Florida radio personality and Mopar collector. The 70 Charger R/T 440 car was his. If I recall correctly, the guy on the right was Mike Mueller, former managing editor at Dobbs Publishing Group, the publishers of MCR, Mopar Muscle, Corvette Fever, Super Ford, Mustang Monthly, etc. (I took over as a tech editor and managing editor for MCR and Mopar Muscle in 1990 and worked there until 1994) It was a fun job at the time. Sure beat being a lawyer https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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Pedro Say "Cold today Hotomali" Only 150 more miles to South of the Border...LOL.. Nice job on the restore! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif
Sam

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Very good observation on that one. Yes like every other 80's tourist, we had to stop at South of the Border! Can you blame us after driving from Miami toward Connecticut in a 24 foot Uhaul with a trailer, speed governed to 55 mph down hill....

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Very good observation on that one. Yes like every other 80's tourist, we had to stop at South of the Border! Can you blame us after driving from Miami toward Connecticut in a 24 foot Uhaul with a trailer, speed governed to 55 mph down hill....

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You got the car but sitting in my backyard is that uhaul trailer https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smirk.gif It definatly need a restore..
Sam

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Had Just graduated H.S. and sold my 1969 Camaro, 307 3 speed(console) on the floor for 3,000.00. Of course, been kicking myself ever since. Firethorn red with keystone classic rims. Ahhhhh the memories!

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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!

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You sure this was taken in 1985? Looks more like 1975, I can just about hear Skynard playing Freebird in the background... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif
I had just moved back from Florida a little before that, there was a guy in the Keys who had a 70 or 71 Hemicuda Ragtop and 2 or 3 hemi Superbirds...does that ring a bell? Maybe it was that drug dealer guy https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/blush.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif
Sam https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif

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So I'm a little "dated" looking https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/tongue.gif Actually, it was Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band in the background. I bought the car from a collector in Miami. He saw the "before" photos and after results of 383 Cuda ragtop I restored that I pulled out of a wrecking yard in Colorado in 1982, (I traded a 4 cyl Vega someone abandoned on my property for it) I had the Cuda at the '84 Mopar Nationals (see attached) and he asked me if I would be interested in another major project. I was happy to oblige him when I saw the polaroid of the car and he recited the VIN to me. He was the one who filled me in on the cars interesting history.

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I was in high school here in the pittsburgh area. I had a 72 formula, w/TA add ons. & a 77 brown TA, w/low miles. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif