[Steve Barcak]

Originally Posted by Drag Star Le Mans

Christmas 1968. It was a good time to be a little kid. Totally oblivious to the racial tensions and Vietnam, etc of the day. My first Hot Wheels, still have most of my toys from childhood.
At the time, I thought the '68 GTO was the most beautiful car ever made. Still love them too and it is still one of the best cars ever made.

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Hello Steve, Are you cool with me posting your Christmas Hot Wheels pictures on the Hot wheels web site? Those guys love to see old photos like that.

sure, thanks for asking. If that is something worth posting, go for it.

[pontiac1981]

Originally Posted by Steve Barcak

Looks like a 2dr sedan. Pretty rare car, even when new. Almost extinct today.


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Christmas 1968. It was a good time to be a little kid. Totally oblivious to the racial tensions and Vietnam, etc of the day. My first Hot Wheels, still have most of my toys from childhood.
At the time, I thought the '68 GTO was the most beautiful car ever made. Still love them too and it is still one of the best cars ever made.

I got the same red roadster for Christmas I think in 1967 and I still have it.

[uneasyrider]

Originally Posted by Steve Barcak

Looks like a 2dr sedan. Pretty rare car, even when new. Almost extinct today.


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Christmas 1968. It was a good time to be a little kid. Totally oblivious to the racial tensions and Vietnam, etc of the day. My first Hot Wheels, still have most of my toys from childhood.
At the time, I thought the '68 GTO was the most beautiful car ever made. Still love them too and it is still one of the best cars ever made.

Heck yah! I had that setup!

[FireJudge]

From my 1981 High School Memory Book.

[MikeNoun]

Cool pic, John! I have a whole bunch of ones similar to this where a celebrity or sports figure were being given the keys to a new Pontiac.

Here's a new one posted to the yearbook site. I cropped it to remove the dealer name, but it was Oakley Pontiac-Buick.



A new 1969 Firebird, but if you look closely, we can make out a few details:

- No hood scoops, but there's a short die cast emblem on the hood, so it's a Firebird 350.
- Looks like it has a vinyl top.
- Appears to have wheelwell trim and Deluxe Wheel Covers, probably was ordered with the Decor Group.
- Looks like the wider F70x14 white line Wide Ovals, which was an option on the Firebird 350 model.

[Old Man Taylor]

Broderick Crawford, who drove Buicks in the Highway Patrol TV series.

[Steve Barcak]

Originally Posted by Old Man Taylor

Broderick Crawford, who drove Buicks in the Highway Patrol TV series.

We have our first winner! You get a gold star by your name on the fridge. Remember that one Jim? he he good for you.

Here is a pic of Texan Eddie Hill with his lavender twin blown Pontiac slingshot. His mathing color '64 GTO is behind it. What a Life, huh?!

[Old Man Taylor]

Yours truly in about 1957 on a '55 650 cc BSA Road Rocket. Note the stylish helmet. The other one is my Dad on the same day riding his '57 Sportster.

[Old Man Taylor]

A dapper young man who sweet talked that pretty young girl into marrying him. I think they were taken in 1961 and 1962.

[69 DAYTONA]

...I owned this car about 25 years ago...my guess, the girl is probably someones grandma by now

[69 DAYTONA]

...my nearly new 78 Dodge Magnum GT...car ran like crap and rusted to death in my driveway

[69 DAYTONA]

...my first MOPAR...new 1973 CUDA, 340 AT...a true Christine

...arrived at the dealership, the roof was damaged in transit/fixed

...rear ended the same day my wife picked it up at the dealership(a few hours after the pix was taken)...it was repaired again...in the body shop for repairs 2 times before it had 80 miles on it

...we moved to San Antonio and it never ran right at all (long stories)
and it was hit in a parking lot, minor damage/repaired

...moved back to Indiana...tree fell across the roof in an ice storm/repaired and whole car repainted...sold it



...next owner...car was side swiped the first night he owned it sitting in front of his house

...a few days later it was hit hard head on by his ex-wife on purpose

...a few weeks later it was put thru a barbed wire fence backwards...all was repaired again

...a couple months later the car was drowned in about 12 feet of water, passengers had to swim out of the car...repaired again, car was filled with mud and sewage and started to rust immediately...he sold it

...a few years later I saw the car for the last time, it was being driven by a kid, it was rusty all the way up past the side marker lights and the interior was rotten, it stunk...

all this before the car was 4 years old...................it surely did die a horribly rusty death, I HOPE SO !!!

[69 DAYTONA]

...the 71 CUDA on the previous calendar shot...before it was restored...it was drug out of a river bank

[6804gto]

Originally Posted by 69 DAYTONA

...my first MOPAR...new 1973 CUDA, 340 AT...a true Christine

...arrived at the dealership, the roof was damaged in transit/fixed

...rear ended the same day my wife picked it up at the dealership(a few hours after the pix was taken)...it was repaired again...in the body shop for repairs 2 times before it had 80 miles on it

...we moved to San Antonio and it never ran right at all (long stories)
and it was hit in a parking lot, minor damage/repaired

...moved back to Indiana...tree fell across the roof in an ice storm/repaired and whole car repainted...sold it



...next owner...car was side swiped the first night he owned it sitting in front of his house

...a few days later it was hit hard head on by his ex-wife on purpose

...a few weeks later it was put thru a barbed wire fence backwards...all was repaired again

...a couple months later the car was drowned in about 12 feet of water, passengers had to swim out of the car...repaired again, car was filled with mud and sewage and started to rust immediately...he sold it

...a few years later I saw the car for the last time, it was being driven by a kid, it was rusty all the way up past the side marker lights and the interior was rotten, it stunk...

all this before the car was 4 years old...................it surely did die a horribly rusty death, I HOPE SO !!!

Wow! That Cuda was like a cat with nine lives!!

[Old Man Taylor]

Keeping my college car pool car running - about 1962.

[389]

Got to have the mighty bumper Jack.. I used to grab the jacks from Cadillacs and other big heavy cars..

[Old Man Taylor]

1969 - Art Linkletter sponsored dragster in front of the Pontiac Agency where I bought my '64 GTO.

[GTOnly70]

The original...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=428585

[70Steve]

Originally Posted by GTOnly70

The original...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=428585

Thanks..only 600 more pages to go!!!LOL.

I pinched a couple off there too...one shot looks like the same guy and rail as in Steve's first post , but it looks like the rear of the rail has his attention now.

[70Steve]

Steve, I remember reading a bit about your Ford..it's going to earn its keep when you finish it and move the yard!

That Ford you posted is an Australian one, and a Victorian one to boot. I'm just going off the rego, I can't read the name on the door.

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