Thread: My First Hot Rod

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I ran into this photo when going through an old photo album over the weekend. When I got this car back in the summer of 1966, I was 16 years old and itching to work on cars. It was white with red interior. During the next two years it became a different car and wound up GTO Verdoro green with black interior. I moved the chrome from the front fender to the door and bought additional door trim pieces from a salvage yard so I could have the same matching pieces all the way back to the tail lights. I also radiused the rear wheel wells mainly due to rust and added chrome reversed wheels. Of course the 283/Powerglide was not acceptable so I changed it over to a manual transmission and rebuilt the 283 with Power-Pac heads, Corvette cam and solid lifters, and 4 bbl carb. I worked in a factory on Saturdays and during the summer so I had a job that paid for all of my parts. It was no show car, but it was a great learning experience. Thankfully, my skills have grown and my cars have become more sophisticated over the years.

I don't know, I think your skills were pretty good back then..........nice looking Chevy. It's fun to look back at old pictures and remember the times we had with certain cars.

Don

well i lost all my pics.3 divorces will do away with a lot of things!! hahaha. thats a nice ole chevy.man,wouldnt it be nice if we could have kept a few of em.

Hold on Lynn,
I thought your first Hot Ron was a 29 roadster. Looks like you need a repost in my "1st Hot Rod" thread.

Jack.

Originally Posted by Jack F

Hold on Lynn,
I thought your first Hot Ron was a 29 roadster. Looks like you need a repost in my "1st Hot Rod" thread.

Jack.

Just for clarification purposes, the '29 was my first street rod, my '59 was my first hot rod. lol!

When we moved to California in the late 70's the moving company lost a lot of our stuff, among it was all the pictures I had of cars I owned, like our 68 Mustang drag car, my 32 Bantam, my 32 rpu,etc. They paid us for some of the lost stuff, but those can never be replaced. Wish I had those pictures now.

Don