Classic/Unique/strange vehicles

The name pretty much explains itself, if you want to talk about cars or shows or whatever, here you are. I'll go first...

So we went to the Andrews Cruise Night yesterday. It goes from 10 to 10, but not many show up till around 3 or 4. We brought the Eagle and got the first spot in our row. Then went on the cruise and watched the burnouts. It's apparently the one of the biggest car shows in the area. Here's some of the turnout...

This was my favorite. And it has the exact side pipes I'll be putting on the Murray!


This is one of our friends. I think he's on his 3rd or 4th engine. Or is it the 5th? I dunno. But he's got 1 or 2 more spare engines sittin' around so he'll be on his 5th or 6th here real soon LOL!









Another one of my favorites. Notice that awesome blower under the hood?...


This one had some real good patina.




I really liked this Mustang...


And our Eagle...



Then the 30min Cruise...



And then the burnouts. The 2000's Mustangs and the like just plain sucked. A Grand Marque, base model F-250, and our Eagle did better burnouts than the newer muscle cars. But the older ones killed it last night. Not too many pics because I was mostly videoing it.






And for the rest of the midnight hours, the whole town was covered in a thick fog... The end. LOL.

I may be acquiring a truck that is nearly show worthy. That will certainly be one of the goals.

Its got a big block!

That first one is a Ford Econoline truck, I've always liked those a lot!

That '54 Chevy 3100 is cool, those are kinda rare I believe. Only year for that style.

You say that '79 F100 had a blower on the engine? Kinda hard to tell, it just looks like a carb with a scoop on it. Either way, pretty cool truck!

Me and my Papa went to a local show yesterday. Some beautiful cars there, a whole lot of Mopar stuff. Got a picture of this cool slant 6 in a Valiant:



My favorite was a '66 bubble-back Barracuda with the 273 Commando and a 4-speed. White with red stripes and white wheels with red centre caps. It was a real beauty!

Wow, a Valiant with a slant 6, that brings back some horrid memories, LOL. Car shows are a job thing with what I do, I'll see if I can come up with some pics for this topic, but haven't been to a car show in ages though. Kinda boring when you have to go yourself. I think I can come up with some links for this topic though, the shops that do the custom parts usually have their own car builds and call up where I work for tech advise. I surely would have a cool story that goes with the link, LOL.

AllisKidD21 wrote:

You say that '79 F100 had a blower on the engine? Kinda hard to tell, it just looks like a carb with a scoop on it. Either way, pretty cool truck!

Yeah it's not exactly a blower, but it's not exactly a scoop. Either way it's pretty cool!

I think it's a 74 Nova. 4 doors. Been fixed up real nice. Saw it at the post office the other day.

Went through an old memory card and found a bunch of nice photos...

This one sat in our old neighborhood for 16 years and apparently fired up. If i can only get my hands on this one...



This guy had some nice cars. Funny story about this Mustang, the guy tells us not to touch it and then turns around and says "That draver door laags so when yuns shut it, make sure ya pull it up." Huh...?




This is the guy we bought the Eagle from. I think he had 30 + cars. Unfortunately, 85% of these cars got scrapped...
This one survived. It had a 429 big block in it, leather interior, a 1969 Ford XL. Not Galaxie XL, an XL. Just under 6000 were made. We almost bought this one, but someone beat us to it.


This one probably died.


This one made it.


These Cougars probably died (most of these cars worked, but some stupid collage kids came and sabotaged most of them. Including these Cougars).



These all survived. The Mustang's new owner blew that V8 up in under a month. Too much power it was. LOL!






All these most likely died by the crusher sadly.












This one is pretty much a rusted rolling chassis. The only one that did need to be scrapped. Figures that it's the only one he's got left.

All but the Mustang made it in this pic.

Not sure what happened to this guy. Either way it's just an old truck.


I figure that's enough for today. LOL!

Not sure what to call this... Not really a car, not really a motorcycle.... Not really sure Whatever it is, it's pretty cool!

Is that the rear end from a bug? Pretty cool.

Yep! It looks like a Harley in front and a bug in the rear.

Spotted this old thing today. Once you look past the fact that it's a Chevy it's a pretty sweet ride.

Those early 60's C-10's are actually beautiful trucks.

We see a lot of those 60s chevys here. I like those smoke stacks.

Oh boy, what have we here.......




What was that??? Blue 78? Long bed 2 door? Sadly doesn't look to have 4WD.

Story on this guy is it was his grandpa's truck. The guy swore up, down, sideways, and across that his grandpa couldn't drive worth a **** and hit everything in sight with it... That's why it looks like it was hit by a tornado. Paint is almost gone, the mildew on it looks like the sun melted it in and'll never wash out. Tailgate is just battered, bed is dented everywhere, grille is shot, mirrors are bent, all the good stuff. BUT........ I was told it has a MODIFIED 351 WINDSOR and a 4 ON THE FLOOR!!!! He said that that thing puts some power out. As for the frame, interior, and inside of the bed, I have no idea what condition those are in because there's chicken's living underneath it, and as you can see it is their storage unit right now so I can't tell what's goin' on in that thing. I have no idea if he'll sell it, or when the last time it moved was.

Anyway, the +'s:

-Modified 351 Windsor
-4 on the floor
-Blue
-Long bed 2 door

The -:

-Trashed tailgate, grille, paint, possibly bed, frame and interior
-Flat tires
-No 4WD (I think)

So whataya think? I'm considering buying it... Whatever the price, I don't have the money, but I'm still looking at it. If I could get a better look at it, knew he'd sell it, and the body and paint was in better condition then it'd be no brainer, but this one looks a little rough... Do you think it'd be a good buy?

Looks like it could be a fun project, I’d personally leave the body alone minus the tailgate really. I just like that weathered style

Depends on how well she'll clean up. I wanted a "weathered" one since It'll be a work truck more less, but this one looks like it's been to Hell and back. So I'd have to definitely replace the tailgate, the grille is too far gone for me so I'd have to replace that, the mirrors will probably bend back out, but that big dent in the side of the bed... I don't like that one little bit.

So I do tech calls when the sales people are stumped at work. This cat calls and they forward the info to me (they gave me a postit with a number) and asked if I would call, LOL. I call on my lunch break. The truck is an S10 modded. The guy I am talking to built it. Has an LS3 with some European (I think) 5 speed Mendeola transaxle in it. Yup, transaxle. Which means the engine is behind the cab. This guy builds show cars/trucks to show off his suspension, which is what he does. C5 and C6 suspension upgrades for other vehicles. Anywho, to get this truck to work, under the hood is the vacuum pump to run the vacuum system. Regular gas pedal I think, powered brakes, and powered clutch. So the vacuum pump/system runs the power boosters for the brakes and clutch. Which is out of the ordinary because clutch setups, even the hydraulic one's, are never power assisted on passenger vehicles. He modded one of our booster/master cylinder combo's to work the clutch in the truck. I would not of thought of that, LOL. He said it was really hard to use the clutch manually so he power assisted it. He said it worked great for a short time and would loose the power assist after a while. Figured out that the booster, where the master cylinder bolts to, well between the 2 is a seal that kept popping out of place and would kill the booster through a vacuum leak. He said he was going to change the setup when he gets a chance. Don't know if he did or just got the vacuum setup working. Did something to it I guess to get it working right. Awesome truck though. See if I can find a pic.





I get some cool perks with my job, LOL. The sales guys come to me, be like, "I got this guy, he has a 572 big block in a Vega", I be like "I would drive the wheels off of that" LOL.
Or, the sales guy says "I got a weird one for ya", I go "I answer the weird ones" with a straight face. He be like "I bet you do", LOL.

Man, I'll bet that thing'll lay an eighth mile strip of rubber down no problemo!

I've always liked S10's, for racing of course. Was that the Extreme version or the normal S10 when he started?

Oh, forgot the link, LOL.
https://rick486.wixsite.com/dobbertinperformance/blank-ct6pi

Link will take you to the slideshow page of the truck. Might be an Extreme, but dought it.

AK would like his job, LOL.

He is building a Corvette go cart now. Looky on his home page.

prancstaman wrote:

Oh, forgot the link, LOL.
https://rick486.wixsite.com/dobbertinperformance/blank-ct6pi

Link will take you to the slideshow page of the truck. Might be an Extreme, but dought it.

AK would like his job, LOL.

He is building a Corvette go cart now. Looky on his home page.

He said it wanted to wheelie if it hooked, LOL. The truck that is.

Here's some videos of the burnout competition at that car show we took the Eagle to...

Ford Hot Rod
Chevy Malibu
Grand Marque
F250 Diesel
Foxbody Mustang
Malibu Round 1

Saw this on the road today... Just had to post it:




One nice ride there!

A Javalin, LOL. Wouldn't mind having one of those to put one of my spare 360's in. Could even make it 4 wheel drive with 4 on the floor, LOL.

prancstaman wrote:

A Javalin, LOL. Wouldn't mind having one of those to put one of my spare 360's in. Could even make it 4 wheel drive with 4 on the floor, LOL.

Actually an AMX. It probably has a 360 in it already.... I'd bet on it. I can tell from the body style that it's a '69. I'm sure it'll lay a strip of rubber no problemo!

Yah, AMX, LOL. Been a while. Growing up, the people who had them would always have the 4 banger one's and be like" when I blow the 4 banger, then I'll put the 8 cylinder in" They would be beating the piss out of it and never blew the 4 bangers, LOL. I knew 2 guys who said that.