The first car I lusted after was a 57 Old Starfire convertible. That was in the early sixties, and it had a whopping price tag of $450. Far more than I could pay.
A year later I bought a 34 Ford Tudor. It didn't have a drivetrain, but it came with a 1960 Poniac Nascar engine and dual range hydramatic.They were laying on the floor of the car where the seats should have been. I was only fifteen years old. i rounded up three or four of my buddies and we pushed it two miles from the garage where it was stored to may dad's garage. Took me two years to put it all together and get it running, but it eventually went112 mph in a quarter mile in 12.56 seconds. The front end lifted a bit at more than 100 mph, but I aligned the rear axle well enough (on its buggy spring) that I could keep the hammer down even when I couldn't steer. Lots of fun. Teenagers don't know fear. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think the first car I lusted after was a Yellow '49 > Roadmaster convertable that a lot near where I lived had. > The price was cheap as heck, but still beyond what I earned > mowing lawns. It BTW had a stick shift in it, very unusual > for a Buick. > > Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse) > Website: http://www.graywolfphoto. > Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Paul Sorenson wrote: > > Mine, too. My first car was a '48 Buick Roadmaster w/a straight 8 and a > > Dynaflow transmission. Not much acceleration w/the Dynaflow, but once > > you got it up to 95 it would loaf along like that all day!! > > > > -p > > > > Walter Hamler wrote: > >> Gawd Tom, you really are showing your (MINE) age talking about "straight > >> 8's > ! > >> > >> Walt (whose first car to drive was a Pontiac straight 8, which was a > >> flathead to boot!) > >> > >> On 1/5/08, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Gor, the indignity of it, a Buick with a generic V6, what ever > >>> happened to that wonderful Fireball Straight Eight? > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
