@BakerzDozen You've had some awesome cars! Drag racer!! Ford man myself, but I've had and loved them all, none as awesome as those. First car I ever had I bought off a younger friend of my parents, remember him driving it when I was a kid. He bought it new, '80 T-top Camaro with 6 and stick. Yrs later I saw him driving it, had just put a 350 4 barrel and auto with shift kit in it to resurrect it in '95. I bought it for $500, loved that car, drove it for yrs. After that I had a '84 t-top 5.0 GT mustang bored .60 over, 750 holly double pumper 4 barrel, msd ignition, spark plug wires bigger than my fingers, big cams, 5 speed stick, posi, only paid $1,200 for it, car scared the bejuses out of me, if you stomped and dropped it was super squirlley even at 60. When I lost second, first to third I still had a hard time keeping it straight, liked looking back and forth at the guard rails...
I love the old cars, so much easier to work on. Favorite truck, '78 chevy 3/4 with one ton front and rears, full time 4x4, 350 4 barrel out of a '85 suburban. I would put a two ton pallet of bluestone on it and it cruised up Bearspring mountain in Downsville at 60, and could 4x4 anywhere. I didn't want to but I sold a '78 Catalina a couple yrs ago that I loved, one owner 50,000 miles garage kept hadn't been drove for eight yrs when I bought it for $1,200. It was cherry, interior everything like new, oldest kid hated it, called it the brown turd...told her I was going to give it to her for her first car and paint it yellow Lol! Remembering a old 'Who's the Boss' episode. I still have a truck I used in the quarry for hauling water, '73 GMC Jimmy convertible, super rare, made into a truck. Top comes off to the windshield, no door pillars, like a full size jeep. Has double stacked leafs in it, I would haul a 375 gallon fuel tank full of water with it up an down the hill, stack 6,000 pounds of bluestone on it and it didn't even bother the springs. Still solid, and I debate restoring it, just know it takes a lot of $ and I still want something older...
