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Deadhead 04-30-2011 06:07 PM

Who else is cruisin'?
 
Seems like it has been all business here on the '62-66 big car forum for a long time.

Anybody else been out ridin' around? I have put a couple hundred on in the '63 in the last week. Y'all should hear this thing whining like a log truck when it is holding back through the turns in 1st & 2nd. I'm gettin' dirty driving on gravel roads, & I don't give a crap. I have been taking the attitude that if driving is going to be a 'thing', may as well enjoy it. He!! I don't own a vehicle that gets better than 16, so I might as well be puttin' gas in a big Pontiac. Pick up kids in an old car, run to the store etc. Par-tey.

Eyeballin' my next projects and contemplating selling a car or two to get the other big projects done. I only have so many arms & legs I can drive with. I think I might drive more with less cars!

What kind of fun is everyone having with their cars during this beautiful spring?

God Bless America - the needles are off the pegs! Can you hear the 068 runnin'?

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stevep 04-30-2011 06:53 PM

Just put the 65 Bonneville conv back on the road Thursday and was cruising it today.
I have cruised the 60 Bonneville and the 67 GP last week. I even drove the Metropolitan a few times already.

62 bv 04-30-2011 07:24 PM

i have been out in the 66cat all week end and to golf course when i can

65WJ 04-30-2011 07:34 PM

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my luck I would be involved in another rear end collision. :(
So to be safe my cars are parked. :mad::mad::mad:

patrick

stevep 04-30-2011 08:52 PM

Patrick, as long as you are OK, that is all that matters!

gentile3 04-30-2011 08:58 PM

ive had
 
my 65 coupe out for 2 months already...

65WJ 04-30-2011 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevep (Post 4306935)
Patrick, as long as you are OK, that is all that matters!

Thanks Steve
I saw this one coming, I was slowing for traffic to clear the intersection, looked in my mirror and pow. The ambulance ride was fun. I see the nuerosurgeon on Monday just to be sure all is ok. The x rays did not show any damage to the plate and screws but it hurts.
Back to the topic. :)

patrick

mike nixon 05-01-2011 01:17 AM

Been driving my 69 for a month or two.It has a cracked flexplate that's gotten alarmingly loud lately so It's parked until I change that.

Txbobcat 05-01-2011 08:50 AM

I have had my 65 Convertible out quite a bit when I am home. It was out yesterday put the top down and cruised then looked up at the sky and took it home.

64catalina 05-01-2011 09:19 AM

you guys are killing me, i'm so close to being done with my motor work I can taste it.

The only thing worse for a good pontiac is dust from the garage and a empty gas tank...

stevep 05-01-2011 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by mike nixon (Post 4307106)
Been driving my 69 for a month or two.It has a cracked flexplate that's gotten alarmingly loud lately so It's parked until I change that.

I have an extra flexplate if you need it.

mike nixon 05-01-2011 04:42 PM

Steve I have about 50 of them. One's hanging on the the wall waiting on me. If that one breaks it's getting an SFI rated one.

Mike

one70gt37 05-01-2011 05:44 PM

Had my GT out about 2 weeks now,went to a small local show in a nearby town about 25 miles away today. I'm always explaning to people about my GT-37 they have never heard of one, we like rolling in about 1- 2 hrs. before the show is over [can't sit still that long]then cruise back home with them,, trying to put a few miles on the new trans, motor combo before heading out on the hot rod power tour in early june.

redbeard 05-01-2011 11:33 PM

I don't know if its a really a cruise, or a mad thrash. I drove my 62 Bonneville from Pueblo, CO to Austin TX for the Lonestar Round Up car show back the first week of April. I put 1900 l miles on her in 5 days. No problems except 13mpg and it needs some air shocks to deal with 700 lbs of passengers, plus trunk full of tools, spare, cooler, suitcases, etc.

Txbobcat 05-02-2011 07:57 AM

Sounds like a cool Roadtrip Redbeard

PJPONTIAC 05-02-2011 09:28 AM

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I put a little over 300 miles a couple weeks back on my 66. These cars were built to drive..

ve3wireless 05-02-2011 11:49 AM

Is It Cruising Weather Yet...?!
 
Hi All,

Greetings from sunless, coolish, windy, & WET southern Ontario, Canada, where we had MORE rain in one single April day this year, than we had ALL MONTH in 2010...!!!

Here it is May already---and it's yet raining, again (sigh!).

Oh well. We had to take the 1964 Pontiac Parisienne sedan out of its rented winter habitat last Saturday, and---you guessed it---it would NOT start after its 6 month hibernation. The solution...? A boost of its already pre-charged battery for extra cranking capacity, AND a jigger, or two, of gasoline manually poured down the open mono-jet carb of its straight 6 engine.

What a treat driving that land barge: young kids actually crane their necks in passing cars, straining for a good long look at it---they can't, I'm sure, believe that anything that big is not a truck! Older folks in their walkers on the side of the street literally stop dead in their tracks staring at the thing.

Obviously these cars have been away from the Canadian mainstream for far too long---I hope I can rectify that dismal situation in more ways than one this year---IF the weather ever improves for us, that is!

Eddy
Newcastle, Ontario, CANADA

hurryinhoosier62 05-02-2011 04:24 PM

It was a BEAUTIFUL here yesterday,but my Cat is STILL in pieces and STILL in Kentucky! Maybe next year??

Txbobcat 05-02-2011 06:20 PM

Forgot to mention Deadhead that is one nice looking wagon

pontiak 05-02-2011 08:57 PM

66 Bonne has been out several times! Seems like I have to wait a couple weeks between trips due to snow or rain tho. -This week looks promising up to the weekend.


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