[Steve Barcak]

Already have one of these but,...



....would like to have one of these (with Pontiac engine)

[Steve Barcak]

ahhh, the 70's street scene


Mach 3 Hot Rod

[goatless]

Not quite sure how this happened?

[Brian Baker]

Originally Posted by goatless

Not quite sure how this happened?

Can anyone provide info on this? My father lived in Clinton, MD with his sister from 1950-1954 before joining the Navy for 4 years...her house was in the flight path of one of the runways at Andrews. I remember him telling me when I was a kid about an air force "cargo" plane crashing on a public highway near Andrews sometime in the 1950's...I wonder if this is it?

[Brian Baker]

I see Steve posted an old railroad pic, here is one from "my backyard" of the B&O Royal Blue traversing the Thomas Viaduct in 1937. This bridge crosses the Potapsco River valley near Elkridge, MD (not far from my home) and was the first stone/mason bridge of its type built in America on a curve...it was finished in 1835 and for its time was considered an engineering marvel. It is still in constant use today.



Read more about the bridge here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Viaduct

[Me Notyou]

Originally Posted by Brian Baker

I see Steve posted an old railroad pic, here is one from "my backyard" of the B&O Royal Blue traversing the Thomas Viaduct in 1937. This bridge crosses the Potapsco River valley near Elkridge, MD (not far from my home) and was the first stone/mason bridge of its type built in America on a curve...it was finished in 1835 and for its time was considered an engineering marvel. It is still in constant use today.



Read more about the bridge here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Viaduct

They don't make em like that nowadays......

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by Steve Barcak

ahhh, the 70's street scene

And the same guys that did this in the '70s talk about the donks nowadays...lol

[Old Man Taylor]

Originally Posted by Greg Reid

And the same guys that did this in the '70s talk about the donks nowadays...lol

Most of us thought they were donks then.

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by Old Man Taylor

Most of us thought they were donks then.

Well, that's good to know at least...lol

Originally Posted by gtos4ever

January. The "Royalty" reign all year though and appear in many area parades throughout the year.

You mean to tell me that that picture was taken in January...In St. Paul?
EDIT- It just occurred to me that the lady in the car would hold her Winter Carnival title for the entire year..including the summer, when that pic was obviously taken.

[242177P]

Originally Posted by Steve Barcak

ahhh, the 70's street scene

Here's another...

[JackF]

One is a pic of the running gear from my 66 GTO transplanted into the frame of my 34 3 window ford. Circa 1968. My brother totaled the GTO some months before and I bought it back from the insurance co. for $300. Two are of my 1st hot rod circa 1961. Last is a pic of my cousins 1st hot rod, a plymouth with a studie engine circa 1959.

Jack.

[Rack776]

Originally Posted by 242177P

Here's another...

The only thing that 55 chevy is missing is a huge blower & rat fink busting through the roof!
Cool!

Edit - Doh I quoted a quote and no photo OOPS!

[GT182]

Originally Posted by Rack776

The only thing that 55 chevy is missing is a huge blower & rat fink busting through the roof!
Cool!

Edit - Doh I quoted a quote and no photo OOPS!

Could work for the GTO too.

[Steve Barcak]

Originally Posted by Rack776

The only thing that 55 chevy is missing is a huge blower & rat fink busting through the roof!
Cool!

Edit - Doh I quoted a quote and no photo OOPS!

They are both cool. the 55 of course is much more extreme. The 67 is fairly typical of what was around in the 70s. It was very popular to have a raised muscle car until the very late 70s when the handling thing came about and the trend started to lower them. Up until then, nobody wanted a lowered car except the low rider types. Most everyone had a raised car, maybe not that much but, lift kits sold very well for many years..

[GT182]

Where I'm from in NY we never raise em like that GTO. We did use Gabriel airshocks for the rear tho. When the rage hit for raising a vehicle it was in the 80s for pickups and the SUVs like Bronos and Blazers and vans. I never go into that. For me, I sat high enough in an 18-wheeler. LOL

[Dick Boneske]

Here are a few of my '64 GTO. In 1965 at Union Grove Drag Strip in Wisconsin. Car ran a best of 13.29 @109.75 with the original 389. With the 4 barrel AFB, it ran a best of 13.65.

The next pic is after a couple of paint jobs in Don Miller Pontiac during a Pontiac Car show in 1984 or '85. The last picture was taken traveling to the POCI show in Denver, 1985. One year later, the car was destroyed when my house burned down. But, the engine and trans are going in my current '64 GTO restoration.