Thread: Funny things we did with our hotrods in early 60's

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Been a while don't register most of the members names that I am seeing, but I enjoy the threads . especially this one as I can relate. Pretty much out of the hands on any more as I sold the coupe ,tools , etc. and moved in a cracker box. Brings back fond memories keep e'm coming.

Hey, good to see your name pop up Don! You likely don't recognize my name, but I surely recognize yours! I enjoyed your involvement when I first started frequenting these parts! Great to see you back!

Jack F, I was stationed on Fort Ord where I went thru Sniper school.
I would often go to San Jose or mostly Santa Cruz on weekends they were always good for car shows.
Of course this was in the late 70's and early 80's we had a friend that was a waitress at a local restaurant
and we would crash at her place on the weekends, when we were off duty. Those were good times walking around the board walk
and trying to pick up girls. Good friends and good times for sure, Santa Cruz just enhanced everything when it came to fun.
Kurt

Hi Kurt, good to hear from you. I moved from the south bay area in Jan. 76 and have been in the Puget Sound area ever since. Will be moving to Caldwell Id. hopefully early spring 2014. How far is Pahrump Nv. from the Boise area?

Jack.

P.S. Maybe should have sent this as a PM.

Going there to haul onions?????????????




And I think Pahrump is down by Las Vegas-----about as far away as you can get from Idaho----


Have a Brother in law up there just south of Riggins---retired forest ranger

Jack it's 691 miles or 10 hrs. 35 minutes as the crow fly's. HE! HE! HE!
I like Boise, ID. And it seems to like me too, The wife and I had a dedicated route that went thru there.
We drove from Atlanta GA. to Kent, Wash. when we drove over the road for Kennesaw Tranportation out of Cartersville GA.
Carried Carpet out to Shaw Carpet in Kent, WA. and frozen french fries back to Atlanta, GA.
Blew my first trany in a semi there then a year later blew my first motor when one of Cats bad designed motors blew.
They had a two piece piston in their 500 Cats, that were coming apart. 3 sister trucks in the company blew their motors at the same time within
about 200 miles of each other and almost the same miles on all the trucks. Sat for 2 weeks in Boise waiting on a new motor to arrive.
Loved the town people there were very nice and polite. We live on the far side of Vegas or about a hour west of Vegas.
Lots of older folks here or more of a retirement type community, Property is cheap right now and there is lots of open space out here.
I thought about buying in Vegas But I would only get about 1/3 the property that I got out here for the same price.
You can get a acre of land for about $1,800 bucks right now with no well or septic tank. We got a 2500 foot home on a acre
all fenced in with a pool and 3 car garage that was only about 4 years old for $154,000. Then bought a acre next door to us and then bought a acre 2 streets over.
We will sit on it for a while and see if we can't buy the other 2 empty lots behind us now. Plus we still own our Florida home.
But we won't move back there, it's getting to ruff and there were home invasion almost every day down in Tampa on the news.
Fill free to stop by we have room for motor homes or semi's. HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

I am another one who experienced the ignition off - back fire phenomenon, though quite by accident. Back when young and stupid we used to harass one another when driving. I reached over and shut my buddies key off in his 61 Bonneville, when he turned it back on the resultant BOOM occurred. And I ended up having to buy a new muffler for him. I also remember sneaking over to our buddies girlfriends house when he was there visiting. Of course we TPd the place and also popped the hood of his 55 Chevy and crossed a bunch of plug wires. We hid in the bushes when they came out and watched them clean up all the paper. Finally when he started, or tried to start his car it back fired all over the place. I think it was a week or more before he got it right. I guess this falls into the category of "With friends like this..."

Pat

That reminds me of an upperclassman prank some guys played on a buddy of mine. They switched a couple plug wires on his 64 Impala. As soon as it backfired we popped the hood & traced the plug wires, suspecting they had messed with something. Then we cruised awhile & they met us on the street laughing like they had us baffled. They told Larry to rev it up. When it ran fine they stopped laughing & had a "what the heck" look on their face. I just yelled out 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 & we took off. That moment was soooo priceless I still remember it like it was yesterday.

When my Charger was down one time with the engine getting a fresh rebuild I had a buddy Rocky Ungaro lone me his WWII Weapons carrier Jeep.
This thing had the big stock wheels on it and was built like a tank, if you know what I mean.
Anyway I had a buddy that had this sleeper VW station wagon, I think it was 60's.
It has a 2300cc motor in it and would pull the front wheels up and beat most small block V8's. Dual port with dual holley webbers.
Anyway he comes in to the parking lot where I worked showing off, hit the gas pulls the wheels up then tries to turn in to the spot next to the ol' willy's Jeep,
Starts sliding strait even though he has his wheels cranked all the way to the left, Yep you guessed it strait in to the willy's.
Lucky for me he ran strait in to the tire and barley rocked the willy's but crushed his whole front end in.
He looked at me and I was just shaking my head, Like if you want to mess up your own stuff that's ok with me.
Needless to say he needed a new hood and right fender, I was just relieved he didn't mess up my buddies Jeep
who was nice enough to loan it to me so I didn't have to walk 20 miles to work, While I was building my new motor.