Where were you in '85?

[njsteve]

LOL!

Great pics and story Steve!

Rita

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I have to top your Playboy Playmate miniskirt pose somehow! -NJSteve

[Jeff H]

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.

[SamLBInj]

Pedro Say "Cold today Hotomali" Only 150 more miles to South of the Border...LOL.. Nice job on the restore!
Sam

[njsteve]

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....

[SamLBInj]

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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 It definatly need a restore..
Sam

[69LM1]

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!

[SamLBInj]

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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...
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
Sam

[njsteve]

So I'm a little "dated" looking 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.

[MrsBillyBobcat]

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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...

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Sam,

You forgot to look at the bottom of his jeans (no "bell bottoms")


Here's a pic of my husband Bill from 1985 (which was before I met him). That was when he was restoring his '69 Royal Bobcat. By the way, he only paid $700 for it in 1979

Rita

[MrsBillyBobcat]

And here's my husband's "Playboy" shot from that time


I asked him to tell me the story behind this photo (since it was before I met him) and this is what he told me:

He was at a car event, and being the president of a car club, he was approached by the event coordinator looking for convertibles to pick up "some people" and bring them to the show. Well, the "people" were "Playboy Bunnies" . So he went to the members and asked if anyone would be willing to use their car to pick up "some people" from the hotel. No one was interested at first, as they were all having too much fun at the show and did not want to leave. Well, when he told them that the "people" were "Playboy Bunnies" , they all changed their minds! He even had guys volunteering to go home and get their cars!

The picture was taken at the end of an exhausting day of escorting "bunnies" around.

Rita