LIP RIPPER
371 posts
Jan 21, 2011
9:28 AM
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I've been wondering how many MBH members have a classic car or truck. Adam's recent video got me thinking about this. Todd made a comment about a Posi in Adam's truck and I just read Greg's comments referring to seat belts and the judging of a show car. Of all the people I know that own a classic I can't think of one that is a musician too. Well, outside of Adam.
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nacoran
3684 posts
Jan 21, 2011
10:45 AM
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Old is not the same as classic. I'm zipping around in a '87 Nissan 200SX. :)
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sydeman
22 posts
Jan 21, 2011
11:09 AM
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Shes real fine my 409..but shes not really mine.
Mine is a '71 355 Chevelle
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Old Dog
98 posts
Jan 21, 2011
11:21 AM
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My pride 'n' joy... 1959 Triumph TR3A, fresh Signal Red paint, wire wheels. Not a 100-point show car, but gets a lot of waves and smiles. Makes me smile, too!
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waltertore
951 posts
Jan 21, 2011
11:47 AM
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Classic cars were a big part of my musicial life. I use to own a mint 63 cadillac park ave (in photo) and a near mint 1959 black cadillac limo. The 63 was featured in dwight yokums video -guitar cadillacs song and did many coast to coast tours with a trailer on the back. I decided in 1992 to go to college and sold them both. I don't really miss them much because they were such a commitment. While I owned them it was a joy! Life changes and now they would cause me too much stress. Nobody just drives a classic. They put a ton of hours into keeping it roadworthy. I changed engines, transmissions, did electrical work, and just about all the repairs. On those cars you didn't need a computer and metric tools to work on them. Just good old elbow grease and the knowledge I learned in HS auto shop and hanging around gear heads! Walter
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528hemi
168 posts
Jan 21, 2011
12:17 PM
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I own a 1966 Dodge Charger (426 hemi 2x4 carbs) bored and stroked to 528CI dynoed 625 HP and I drive it all over and runs on 93 octane pump gas....
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nacoran
3686 posts
Jan 21, 2011
12:24 PM
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I once came a short misunderstanding away from owning a fully loaded '65 Lincoln Continental.
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bluemoose
454 posts
Jan 21, 2011
12:42 PM
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92 Rover Mini 1300 cc - fuel injected, right hand drive :)
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didjcripey
26 posts
Jan 21, 2011
12:51 PM
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!977 Holden Hz one tonner ute (that's a pickup to you guys).
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Miles Dewar
639 posts
Jan 21, 2011
1:57 PM
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If I did, it would be a 1974 Lincoln Continental.
The Yacht.
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MP
1291 posts
Jan 21, 2011
2:32 PM
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i have a 1957 girlfriend in near mint condition.
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OzarkRich
355 posts
Jan 21, 2011
4:00 PM
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86 Jaguar XJ-S V-12.
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genesis
83 posts
Jan 22, 2011
1:03 PM
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Got me thinking about my first car now. 64 1/2 Mustang 2X2 fastback. Bought it for $800, sold it for $1500. Thought I had made out like a bandit at the time. Sure wish I still had it.
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Firehouse
15 posts
Jan 22, 2011
7:17 PM
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1966 chevelle, my first car and i stil have it.
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Greg Heumann
1008 posts
Jan 22, 2011
9:13 PM
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The oldest vehicles in my care are my '92 Dodge RAM 2500 and my '92 BMW K100S motorcycle.
Some day I hope to find the time to restore an old car. But people keep buying microphones! I ain't got no time...... In my dreams.... I'd love to do a Porsche 356, a Pantera, a 427 Shelby Cobra, a '63 Corvette, a Dino......
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boris_plotnikov
421 posts
Jan 22, 2011
9:36 PM
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My first, only and current harp is white VAZ 2109 '88 made in USSR just like this one.Anyway it's front wheel drive.
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harpcrab
59 posts
Jan 23, 2011
6:08 AM
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'50 chevy pickup-........... named Ernest. I drive him a couple of times a month.
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LIP RIPPER
375 posts
Jan 23, 2011
6:54 AM
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Boris your car reminds me of the earlier Subaru's, we've owned a few.
I tried to embed a photo of our Classics but wasn't sucessful. My wife has a 60's Dune Buggy with a Super Beetle engine and I have a 66 Cyclone Gt Conv. Pace Car. We need to have a MBH Blues Cruise.
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nacoran
3697 posts
Jan 23, 2011
3:22 PM
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Ripper, it was a free Lincoln Continental and I knew someone with a whole box of spare parts for it. My friend ended up selling it for $100. The guys on Pawn Stars bought one in worse shape for 10k to fix up and resell. :( I also missed out on learning to drive on a pretty old gold Catalina that my dad had. It's body was mint but my dad had it at the mechanics and they burned it up. I guess I'm destined to drive little cars.
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bluzlvr
413 posts
Jan 23, 2011
3:35 PM
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I have to win the lottery first, but if I do I want to get something like this:
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Airdale
21 posts
Jan 23, 2011
4:15 PM
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I've had a few. A '59 TR3, A '82 Volkswagen camper, and my most recent and incomplete... a '29 Ford street rod.
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TBone69
73 posts
Jan 24, 2011
10:07 AM
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I've owned a few thru the years.
In no particular order 55 Buick Special, 50 Dodge Meadowbrook, 73 Camaro, 70 Buick GS Stage 1, 66 Buick Skylark.
Current 1929 Mode A Father Son project.
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Stickman
628 posts
Jan 24, 2011
6:47 PM
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My first whip. She was a money pit but I do miss her.
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shanester
333 posts
Jan 24, 2011
6:58 PM
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I have possession of Jezebel, my Grandma's 1970 Galaxie 500.
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jbone
481 posts
Jan 25, 2011
4:15 AM
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when i could afford to spend the $$ on cool cars (now it's on cool harps, mics, amps), i had a '59 chevy apache pickup with bored 283 block and 327 double hump vette heads along with a cam. pearl white. '66 malibu bucket seats. still had the orig 3 speed and 411 rear gears. i called it the wall climber since nothing could touch it once the cam kicked in.
after that came a '67 mustang couple, powder blue. '85 302, cammed, balanced,blueprinted, headers, dual 4's. kitted c4 tranny that would just smoke the tires. i once held it in 1st to nearly 50 and 2nd to nearly 80. a total disaster off the line.
after that i became much more sedate. current midlife crisis ride is a fixer-upper '94 miata, bone stock. but a toally fun driver.
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toddlgreene
2554 posts
Jan 25, 2011
10:40 AM
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One of my biggest regrets was selling my '66 Mustang Coupe(289)when my dad's friend convinced me I'd put oo many miles on it with my commute years ago...
I also had a '72 Buick Skylark that was in near-mint condition when I bought it in 1986.
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528hemi
175 posts
Jan 31, 2011
4:23 PM
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Now that I figured out how to post some pictures.
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Albey
9 posts
Jan 31, 2011
4:44 PM
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Here is a picture of me and a friend of mine with 59 Caddy I used to own. Picture was taken in front of Blind Willies about 15 years ago.
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BlueDoc
31 posts
Jan 31, 2011
6:33 PM
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I used to have one of these:
(1964 Triumph Bonneville)
Mine was nowhere near as nice as this one. It was bone stock, however, and almost all original too. Riding it around (and repairing it en route with duct tape and baling wire on a routine basis) was my first obsessive hobby in my 20s. I kept the bike till I was in my 40s, when my son was born. My wife and I bought a house without a garage, so that there was no place to store the bike when it wasn't running (which was most of the time) and my wife really didn't like me riding it when it was running. She thought it would be a bad influence on my son. I sold it cheap to my best friend on the condition that he'd offer it to me first if he ever sold it. With luck, maybe he'll get tired of it in 10 or 15 years, and I can buy it back when my son is old enough to ride it. Soooo much fun, through the countryside on a summer afternoon...
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