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#81
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goat time trial pics
from several tracks. --the first attempt at this is lost some where in cyber space i suppose. maybe i'll get the hang of it sooner or later.
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#82
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'73-'74 right off the streets
d-stock, 1969 gto ra3, 4-spd, 3.90 gears, 61,000 miles---its a winner!
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#83
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e/sa 1 year only -- 1975
started in primer, then got some paint & letters, then made a good street ride
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#84
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1976 -- not our best year
project ragtop, looks ok anyway. can't thrash all the time, gotta have a pit stop
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#85
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1976 not our best year
sorry, i lost the pics the 1st try, bear with me, maybe i'll get the hang of it. we tried a ragtop project, at least it looked ok, can't thrash all the time, gotta make a pit stop.
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#86
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a few of our tow vehicles
cad with tow bar, 2 car rig, '84 dually, ford ramp, dirt gooseneck
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#87
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racingjunk.com "junkers"
bought 2 & a 2 car rig to run 2010 but they didn't open the track all year. 1st is a '69 tempest
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#88
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more junkers
'74 ventura 2, 455, th400, best et 7.33 in 1/8 mile, best rts in 6 rounds is .510, .514.
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#89
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more junkers
sorry, this ain't workin to good. i'll try again
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#90
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This thread deserves another star since you added the pics. Great stuff!
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Greg Reid Palmetto, Georgia |
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can't wait for you t get the hang of pics!LOL this is some good pontiac Porn! Thanks!
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72 Luxury Lemans nicely optioned |
#92
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great stories, great pics. i'll be waiting for more
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68' Lemans conv. 69' GTO conv. |
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Thanks
Thanks for sharing your story and pictures. When I get to work now I come to the forum to read the next chapter. I enjoy your references to the Good Lord as well.
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part 56 before & after
here's a pic of me with my 1st street ride. i'm not sure but i think it was probably a pontiac. & here's T.J. before she got her drivers license. & the 3rd pic is me & T.J. as veterans of many bracket wars.
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#95
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one of the first threads i look for when i come here.
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72 Luxury Lemans nicely optioned |
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part 57 the thrill of victory
my b-ball days were a special time in my life. during my last 2 years i think we won close to 30 games each year & lost only about a dozen or so. our coach trained us well & would layout our plan of attack for each game. both our offensive & defensive plans depended on who we were playing. one night he had planned everything so perfectly that we beat a class 3a school by nearly 20 points. we were as small as you could get, class c. so nobody really gave us a chance before that game. it was just 1 of those special nites when everything just fell into place. it was 1 of my best games ever. i think i scored 22 points & didn't miss a single freethrow. i later experienced several nites like this while bracket racing. sometimes everything just falls into place, even if your not quite up to par that nite. maybe a couple of guys red lite, 1 breaks & you even get the bye run. you only have to make 1 decent pass to get the win. now that don't happen that often, but it has happened to us several times. but most wins you have to earn. the lessons i learned from competitive b-ball served me well in bracket racing & probably helped contribute to my success & enjoyment of the sport. i'll try to send a b-ball pic from my senior year.
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part 58 my 1st wheelie
i'm posting a pic of my 1st wheelie. as you can see i'm holding up the front end of a rear engine car. they were purty lite. the other boy in the pic helped me pick it up, then i held it up & posed for the pic. that boy was also a classmate & teammate on the b-ball team. he could jump higher than me so coach called him bunny rabbit, later shortened to just bunny. he was a preachers kid & smart. when he came, he bumped me down from 1st place to 2nd. but we were good friends & made some great memories playing b-ball together. now i want you to notice the car in the background. its a '66 coronet 500, 383, auto, 3.25 posi rear. when my dad talked about buying a new car to serve as part time family car, part time ride to college for my sister, i tried to give him my input on how it should be optioned. i suggested a 426 hemi, 4-speed, & at least 3.73 gears. but cooler heads prevailed, & i think it still turned out o.k. it made a real nice street car (for a non-pontiac) & served my sister well for many years. but my mom looked real out of place driving it. lookin back i can hardly believe my dad let me get away with those options. what we really needed was a 4-door family sedan. my dad was a purty cool old dude, god rest his soul!
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#98
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That look's like a Renault aircooled. My Grandfather had one when I was very young that he built from spare parts.
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Greg Reid Palmetto, Georgia |
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part 59 Gung Ho
this story is about how i came to name my goat " gung ho ". in 1970 the war in viet nam was still blazin. i was a senior in college, so my college deferment was just about up. some guys were geting there notices to sign up for the draft 6 months before graduation. viet nam was a war nobody liked or understood. so most of those sent to fight were draftees. it wasn't like ww2 when we were attacked by the japanese & hitler was trying to take over the world & exterminate all the jews. back then kids would even lie about their age so they could get to go to war & fight for this country. well, i decided that, rather than wait to get drafted, i'd just do what a lot of other guys were doing, & join the national guard. they didn't go to war back then like they do today. so i signed up & was soon sent to basic training. i was not prepared for what awaited me. that next 4 months was H???. to this day, that entire experience is still the worst & most miserable of my entire life. i was raised to be nice & treat people right. but from the very moment my foot stepped off the bus at fort polk, La , my life was changed. there were always drill sargents in your face, shouting orders & requiring many push-ups as payment for any screw-ups. many of you have no doubt experienced this or at least seen it depicted in movies. i was taken from a care free life of cruisin down the street in my gto & goin to see my honey, to this wild world of discipline, & both physical & mental training. i suppose the best word i could use to describe what i felt is shock. they talked(hollered) down to me & called me every kind of low life scum they could think of--lower than a worm in the dust. well, hey, i thought i was a purty nice guy. obviously, they didn't. i realize that its just all part of the training, but at the time it was a traumatic experience for me. lookin back now, i can recall some things about it that are humorous, but at the time, we didn't think it was funny. 1 such incident occurred rite after we arrived. they marched us down to a barber shop, & 1 by 1 we went through for our buzz cut. now picture this. its 1970 & most of these guys have hair shoulder lenght or longer. it was sorta like an automated factory where all the raw material go in 1 end & the finished product comes out the other end & they all look just alike. the barbers would ask each 1 how they wanted it cut, but they soon found out that it didn't matter, we all got the same style--real short. & to add insult to injury, they'd march us down to the barber shop every friday to get a fresh buzz cut, whether we needed it or not. & to top it off we had to pay the barber out of our meager pay checks. well, i see this is gonna take to long, so i'll finish it next time.
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part 59--pics
well i guess they're lost in space again, so i'll try again
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