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muscle_collector · 01-04-2009, 12:53 PM

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it happened exactly as i posted. it is a true ra 4 i have the phs. and yes it was traded for a ford truck. thanks alot steve. i owe you one.

now that i think about it for a bit, i think i will go get on my cat loader and smash that 68 gto that you want.

dr-doug · 01-04-2009, 12:57 PM

I thought you two were buddy's......DW

Baron Von Zeppelin · 01-04-2009, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by dr-doug

I thought you two were buddy's......DW

That might be right, lol. Past tense.

Really though, Steve has never mentioned being previous owner of an IV Judge.
But he has posted about that old Elroy IV before.

Is he hiding his past from us ?
Who is this person we call Steve ?
my my my, the web we weave... lol

The Boss · 01-04-2009, 04:40 PM

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now that i think about it for a bit, i think i will go get on my cat loader and smash that 68 gto that you want.

That ratty old 68 he talks about all the time? The way he talks about that car you would think it had long legs, blond hair and worked at Houlihan's.

muscle_collector · 01-04-2009, 05:21 PM

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I thought you two were buddy's......DW

we are friends, that is why i am ripping him.

chris, as for the 68 gto that he wants, it is a turd with a really nice 12 bolt posi that was put under it. he wants to build a drag car out of it, but since he is a friend, i cant let him do it. it would either tear into pieces going down the strip or he would rip his legs off when they fell thru the partial floor boards.

ps- he knows he screwed up letting this guy know about the car. the car got taken completely apart and i mean completely apart. the guy trashed the original frame. supposedly the numbers left the body also (but that is hear say). from what i hear it will never be a car again.

Steve Hoog · 01-04-2009, 11:03 PM

That frame isn't trashed, it's still sitting up against Bill's fence with posion ivy all over it. I checked last time I was down there; but that has been a few months.

That 68 would be the bomb going down the track; and it ain't going to rip nobodys leg off, but I will admit a few parts will come off on the first passes. haha

I would never in my wildest dreams imagined Eddie would make some deal with Elroy; but look at it this way, I saved you the mess of another shell.

BVZ

That silver car is straight up no bull and just a few feet from it was a 65 or 66 2+2 428 HO Tripower 4SP car, complete and not wrecked as well. I didn't buy the motor for $40 because I didn't know how I would get it home; no bull either, this was back before we all had easy access to trucks.

muscle_collector · 01-04-2009, 11:34 PM

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That frame isn't trashed, it's still sitting up against Bill's fence with posion ivy all over it. I checked last time I was down there; but that has been a few months.

That 68 would be the bomb going down the track; and it ain't going to rip nobodys leg off, but I will admit a few parts will come off on the first passes. haha

I would never in my wildest dreams imagined Eddie would make some deal with Elroy; but look at it this way, I saved you the mess of another shell.

BVZ

That silver car is straight up no bull and just a few feet from it was a 65 or 66 2+2 428 HO Tripower 4SP car, complete and not wrecked as well. I didn't buy the motor for $40 because I didn't know how I would get it home; no bull either, this was back before we all had easy access to trucks.

i did buy the engine, it was a 66 421 ho tripower and very complete, it is sitting where it has for almost 30 years now. i think i paid a whopping 100 for it, but that was from air cleaners to exhaust manifolds.

goatman65 · 01-05-2009, 12:09 AM

A quick story.In 69 my cousin,now in his late '60's,traded his yellow 68 GTO in on a new Judge.Yes RAIV and 4 speed.He says it was the one of the worst running cars he ever drove,he still claims that.My Dad always beat it with his stock 66 tripower GTO.After having it about 3 months,one night the Judge was stolen from a bar parking lot.It was never recovered.Supposedly it was 'stolen'for a price and was pushed into the local river.My cousin just smiles when asked if that's where it went.

Steve Hoog · 01-05-2009, 10:29 AM

Yeah I'm a dummy; I knew it was a 421 and wasn't thinking clearly.

Wasn't it a rag top? And didn't Mitch buy the tripower off it seperate?

The engine just blew me away; I had no clue what the long header like manifolds were for, what an idiot I was for not buying that. And why of all the pictures I took out there I never got that one, I have no clue.

johnta1 · 01-05-2009, 10:39 AM

goatman65, you ever do any scuba diving?

Tell your uncle that car would pay for his retirement now. Maybe he 'might' know where it is?

Steve Hoog · 11:21 AM

Another grand screw up was the IV orange 69 Judge in Paris Texas that I didn't buy for nothing. A guy wrecked it with minor damage on the one of the loop exits; it sat in that junkyard on N Main for at least 5 years, all it had was minor left lower rear qtr damage.

Here is a post I made on this car back in 2004 on this thread:

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...ht=judge+paris

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LOL, no personal slurs intended. These are my favorite type pics to find, your car is in my treasured picture folder. I've always preferred the rough untouched look, to the restored look.

Bye the way, here is that salvage info:

Williams Brothers Auto Salvage, 2255 N. Main Paris Tx 75460, 800-964-0388,

I just called down there and talked to them about it, the guy that answered remembered the car. I couldn't believe it, but he was at a loss as to when or what they did with it. I know they sold the motor and trans the very next day to some one in Dallas.

X marks the spot of about where this one was, there was also a regular 69 with power everything (windows/seats/and more) a few cars west and south. Curious if Gary remembers this; I think he said that he saw it there too.

Steve Hoog · 01-05-2009, 11:43 AM

Gary

There used to be a heapin load of GTO's in this one on the west side; Mitch and myself spent an amount of time at these two.

Steve Hoog · 01-05-2009, 02:56 PM

Interesting story while looking for wrecked Judges, I think you'll like it even though it's not a Judge.

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Back in the mid-70s Steve’s dad shipped his ‘67 GTO over to Cyprus (an island near Greece). Then, while driving back home from a wedding with three friends, his father lost control of the car on a treacherous mountain road and pitched over a steep cliff. One of his father’s friends was killed, and of course, the car was destroyed. Flash forward thirty-five years. Steve, who had heard the story from his father, who had seen the faded photos of the GTO in scrapbooks, who had searched for the car on several trips out to Cyprus, was finally able to locate the wrecked GTO after a fire burned away all the surrounding brush on the hillside. He even got a photo of himself standing on the wrecked car, just like the photo of his dad thirty five years ago. You can see all the pics and read the full story on Mike’s ‘67 GTO ride page.

1969 Ram Air · 01-05-2009, 03:11 PM

It's hard to believe that anyone lived from that accident.

OVERULD · 01-05-2009, 06:48 PM

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Interesting story while looking for wrecked Judges, I think you'll like it even though it's not a Judge.

There is also a link to the whole story and many more "Before and After" photos on TUGTOPS. Very cool story.

BJ

muscle_collector · 01-05-2009, 07:07 PM

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Yeah I'm a dummy; I knew it was a 421 and wasn't thinking clearly.

Wasn't it a rag top? And didn't Mitch buy the tripower off it seperate?

The engine just blew me away; I had no clue what the long header like manifolds were for, what an idiot I was for not buying that. And why of all the pictures I took out there I never got that one, I have no clue.

he didnt get the tripower off of it (however, he probably said he did, just like he knew of every car in the world), like i said, it is in my building and complete from the air cleaners to the long branch manifolds.

Steve Hoog · 01-05-2009, 07:15 PM

I tell you that my memory is dang near that it was bare intake or no intake; I am fairly certain it it would have been a full tripower I would have blown a slurpee on the spot and porbably passed out dead before leaving without it.

I think you were the one that told me he got the tripower and lid/spoiler the same day, and mabye the 4sp as well?