It looked like a baby blue...
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This photo made me think of @Maggie3fan
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It does, @Jacqui too. We have a couple ex truckers. I think Jacqui is an ex?
Really? I would remember that...circa 1990...new car...no bra on it yet...
Great pic. I take it you love red?Really? I would remember that...circa 1990...new car...no bra on it yet...
I think Jacqui's hubby was/is the truck driver but I think Jacqui would go with. I'm not sure if she ever drove or just was a passenger. Maybe neither, I may be remembering wrong. It may have just been her hubby.
All CR England trucks are red...and my new IROC...were not my color of choice...I love purple
See that bump on my waist? Remember pagers? No cell then...I wore Tony Lama cowboy boots...Really? I would remember that...circa 1990...new car...no bra on it yet...
mojo_1
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Then you'll probably like this. I found a picture of my 65 Impala. Purple is not my favorite color.
Such a pretty car!!! It's gone now?
mojo_1
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No I still have it. It's in storage in South Dakota. I don't have room for it. Here.
Aw, but Purple IS Maggie's favorite color. No wonder she thinks it's pretty.
It came with a 302 or a 327? Not a big block 454???
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327. It has a 350 in it now. It was that way when I bought it. A 350 with a turbo 350 transmission. I was going to put the 409 in it. But I haven't got to it.
I have an LT1 in the IROC now, with all kinds of speed equipment, I have hand crank windows, and no electric seats or the like. This was made as a stripped down serious hot rod, and I have always treated it as such...
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Nice! We grew up in most oldsmobiles or Pontiac. My dad worked at a gm dealership for years and ordered the base model cars with inline 6's in them then threw hopped up v8's in them right after delivery. The one car he ordered with a V8 was before he worked at gm. It was a 1966 chevy II Nova with the 350hp 350. It didn't last long in there either. The week or so after he got it he put a built 409 in it and a lower set of gears. According to him and a few other relatives of the same age the car had enough power and torque to pick the front of the car off the ground with no hesitation. It was turned into a drag car. This is the only picture I have of it before the sub frame got twisted out of it.
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Can honestly say I've never heard of them. But I'm not a motorcycle guy. And my dad loves Nortons so I know a little about them.
Matchless is British Iron, like Norton, made in London. Britain had hundreds of motorcycle companies pre and post World War 2 until the 1960s. I think Matchless still exists today, making scooters in India.
Oh no, me lady. I'll argue this one to the death. They no longer made phaetons in the '40s. The black phaeton most certainly was a '36!
And I wasn't that inventive with hair supplies. . . I nicked my dad's keys while he was napping and had a couple ignition keys made. I THINK all his happened prior to my having a driving license. I was trying to remember what car I took the license test in, We only had the two phaetons and a big boat of a forty something Buick. I doubt it was the Buick. Can you picture a 16 year old teenager taking her driving test in a restored '36 Ford phaeton?
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