The Vehicle I wish I still had
 

Loved my ol 78 FJ40 Landcruiser (the BEAST we called it). Owned it 15 years and I only used it for hunting. I had the same tires on it for 15 years. I only put 15000 miles on it and never did a thing but change the oil. What a great strong truck. It went places That I still can't believe. I also pulled out a dozen new trucks out of mud, snow and even two trucks sunk in a creek. lol I would get calls at 4 in the morning, Hey Mazz can you bring the Beast out the woods I'm stuck in a ditch. I always keep tow chains and tow straps in it. I miss that truck and so do all my bonehead friends that need to get towed. I sold it because the body was shot but still ran great. Here is last I seen it as was towed away.:( Now I see a company re-makes these beauties at a hefty price. http://www.icon4x4.com/overview/fj/models

What is your??????

73 Olds Cutlass Police interceptor. W30 455, Th400 3:23 gear. Comfy 4 dr Hotrod.

68 r\t 440 charger one tough drivetrain !

72 Gran Torino Sport 351C. Same color as Clint Eastwood had in Gran Torino except mine had the formal top.

Two 57 Belairs, both black, both power packs and power steering.
!969 Chrysler three-hundred, 440. POS but I wouldn't mind having it today.

70 Cutlass ragtop.

Got to agree with ya there.
I had a 70 Cutlass SX. Factory 455, 4 bbl,400 auto, console, floor shift, buckets. Olds didn't make a lot of em.
The SX was Olds way of flying under the radar of the insurance companys.
Sold it to buy a Vette...aargh !!!

Bill

'69 Mustang fastback. 302 3 speed 4:11 rear. Sold it for $1500 in 1983. It cost me my license for a while when I got pulled decelerating from 110 along with other complicating items the State Trooper saw ejected from the passenger side window after I lit it up in all gears and rolled past him while he was doing some paper work in a church parking lot. Must have taken a while for the beam to power up back then since he only got me for 85 after about 2 miles. You can be very happy with a ticket for 85 in certain circumstances. Wouldn't mind being 16 again.

At least I still have the black one.

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This is one of several mint looking ones @ the latest MECUM Houston 2013 Auction

http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_de...&entryRow=1014

I recall the two- tone Red & White was very common Toyo color combo when I was in High School...was a guy who was VERY PROUD of his IIRC. Nice inline 6cly engines.

73 Brewster Green T/A, 4sp, A/C, 455(non SD) small bird on the nose, honeycomb rims. 1
owner. Bought from a Navy pilot in Orange Park Florida for 2500 in 1979. Traded in 82 for
a Nissan to drive back and forth to work. I'm still kickin my own ass about it.

70 R/T Challenger.

69 Dodge SuperBee 383 4 speed. It would run a 150 bone stock

'76 Cosworth Vega 5-speed. Black and gold.

'69 Plymouth GTX.

70 GTO convertible, 455, 4spd. and 71 TA 455HO 4spd.

Escort, yep, swear on a stack of bibles....

Any of the ones that were paid off....

These two.

1962 Ford Falcon Futura 2-dr hdtp,black with red bucket seat interior. And, any of the Many Pontiacs I have owned since the early 70s with the exception of the 83 T-1000.

69 Mercury Cyclone 428CJ, factory Drag Pack car, Ram Air, oil cooler, heavy duty rear springs, and 9 inch with 31 spine axles, N-third member, 4.30 gears with Detroit Locker.

74 formula 455
66 GTO project, perfect body with nice options, and I sold it......dummy!

Car(s) I wish I still had.
 

1955 Chev conv
Black on black
Red interior
Powerpack
Overdrive
Low mileage
55's w/standard trans and powerpack had solid lifters
I loved that car

Also, several Sunbeam Tigers. Jon

'71 Chevelle SS454 4speed
'59 Ford Skyliner, hardtop convertible if you don't know what a Skyliner is.

Lucy Blue / black gut '72 LeMans GT. 400 2V, TH400, bench/column. Nothin special, but a real looker and LOADS of fun with the 455HO and 4.10 I put in it!

...I still own a 69 Daytona, but I wish I had never sold this F6 Green one...it was in many many books and magazines...it was a one owner car with 10K original miles when I purchased it in 1981...I put 15K miles on it over the next 7 years, lots of car shows, used it as a daily work vehicle and it also served duty as my "service truck" when I repaired Coke Fountains for Coke USA in the mid 1980s...440 4-spd

This one...

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Wish I could find my pictures of it - it was beautiful and scary fast.

BJ

And This One!

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BJ

This one wasn't quite that deluxe. It was a 350 2V, bench seat. Bought it in 79 for $100.00. Kind of a brown color, with a gold interior.

65 GP 421/356 4 sp loaded black white gut. Foundation on the house fell apart and the 65 turned into 12 inch blocks...GRRRRRR

1967 Buick GS 400 convertible. Purchased in 1982 in original condition, just turned 100k miles, and included the typical Michigan rust. Was not highly optioned but a great cruiser. Remember when I rebuilt the motor, I removed the "400" sticker off of one of the valve covers and what I believe a production worker wrote under the sticker "This is Ford Country". I did sell it for a 69 GTO convertible - no regrets!

I had one of those FJ40's when I was stationed on Kodiak Island in the mid nineties. Mine was in great shape, fresh paint on a solid body. I put auburn limited slip's in the front and rear. That thing would climb hills steep enough to scare passengers. The axles were as fat as baseball bats. Basically a 3/4 ton jeep in my opinion. Yours looked like the rest of the FJ40's on Kodiak, beat up rust buckets.

Coincidentally I saw one of these driving around yesterday. I was impressed... but more so by how rusty it was for a California car - had old plates on it so it likely wasn't a transplant.

63 GP 4spd,std steering,brakes,tach,light blueext,med.blue int.After I blew the orig.eng 376hp,421 with sd exhauts,4:10 gears(only parts remaining). The car sat a little higher than stk.

1971 Judge, white with a flat black spoiler, at the time I thought the guy replaced the spoiler, and he was to cheap to paint it. Even suspected weather or not its was real. Well, the car was real and the spoiler was a factory option. you guys can correct me, but I believe Polar white was the only color that could be ordered with a black spoiler. Other than a black car.

70 Chevelle SS454 and a 67 Olds 442.
James

The older we get, the better they were.........

These two; The 455 HO 4 speed trans am was bought in the early 90's sold in the late 90's. The 57 was sold in 2002 it had a 350 with 461 casting heads and a M-21.

It would have be my 1962 Super Duty Catalina with the aluminum front end & 12,000 original miles when I bought it in 1974. I paid a whopping $2,000.00 when I bought it. Sold it to buy a house.

61 Buick Invicta convertible. White with a black top red and white interior. 445 Wildcat V-8 automatic. Slow on the 1/4 but any high gear roll off you were mine.

1986 jeep cj7 Laredo.
1970 Norton Commando S
1996 Cagiva/Ducati "elefant" desert race bike

65 2+2 Black on Black, 421 tri-power I purchased in 67 after I got out of the navy.

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1986. I was 18 and in highschool. Original EVERYTHING. Yeah, I wish I had this one back.. Mike

My 59 Eldorado biarritz
70 olds 442 conv.
92 stealth R/T twin turbo
34 ford 2dr
67 firebird 400
68 ford XL 500 fastback
69 GTO
63 GP
74 sl mercedese
71 mercury capri
69 opel kadett
And the list goes on,,, I wish I had them all back along with a garage big enough to house them and the youth that went with them. Full list would be about 75 cars.:D

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WS6, TA6.6, 4 speed, PW, PDL, AC, Custom Int, P Trk, Tilt, Defrost, etc.... Black on flaming red int.

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The proverbial grandma car, unmolested 350 car, low option. Only blemish was needing paint on drivers side nose after minor repair to fiberglass, never got around to it before sold...