[Gator67]

Me getting ready to play some ball in 1971 (I think)

[Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by goatman65

Looks like the GTO is wearing Impala SS hubcaps.

The same ones on the '59 Impala. 1963 vintage.

[MikeNoun]

This vintage photo makes you wonder how they actually DID wash cars back then. I thought this was one of the most bizarre photos I've ever seen. Bet they got a lot of stalled cars in this tub, considering the automotive electrical systems back then were quite exposed.

[arbys]

That's a good way to tighten up the artillery (wooden) wheels.

[69 DAYTONA]

pix 1...early parking garage

pix 2...no explanation, but this pix fascinates me every time i see it

[6704gto]

yea i dunno why the gto had hubcaps from the start,the impala i dunno what it oringaly had,my dad bought the car from his brother when he went to vietnam and my uncle got it from a guy in florida that were in boot camp togther

[70Steve]

Originally Posted by 69 DAYTONA

pix 1...early parking garage

pix 2...no explanation, but this pix fascinates me every time i see it

In regards to that shot of the GP car going down the road...i saw that on the HAMB site and many pages later read the story behind it. 1960 (?) US GP...apparently the pits were not completed, or up to scratch, so the GP teams rented workshops in the nearby town and had the O.K. from the local Police Department to drive the race cars to the track!! Fact or fiction? I don't know, but it is a top photo.

I'm upto about page 260 out of 600+ pages on that HAMB site...so many great shots there.

Here is one of mine... 1938 Australian Pontiac "Sloper" ad.

[FBird69]

Highschool yearbook from Detroit suburb. Cars range from 1974 through 1977.




My car in front of the Orlando, Florida dealership that delivered it back in December, 1968.

[muscle_collector]

Originally Posted by 70Steve

In regards to that shot of the GP car going down the road...i saw that on the HAMB site and many pages later read the story behind it. 1960 (?) US GP...apparently the pits were not completed, or up to scratch, so the GP teams rented workshops in the nearby town and had the O.K. from the local Police Department to drive the race cars to the track!! Fact or fiction? I don't know, but it is a top photo.

I'm upto about page 260 out of 600+ pages on that HAMB site...so many great shots there.

Here is one of mine... 1938 Australian Pontiac "Sloper" ad.

i got a new computer and lost my link to that site. do you mind posting the link here? thanks in advance.

[70Steve]

Originally Posted by muscle_collector

i got a new computer and lost my link to that site. do you mind posting the link here? thanks in advance.

No probs.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=428585

I showed my Dad the shot of the GP car going down the highway and he recalled watching the GP cars out here for the Albert Park GP in the mid 50's driving on the street from a workshop in Carrum (which was way out in the sticks back then) to the track at Albert Park (an inner suburb of Melbourne). He saw Moss, Fangio etc. driving their GP cars on the street...that's pretty cool and I might not ever have heard it if it wasn't for this thread!

[real61ss]

This picture isn't real old, taken in '03 but Smokey's place is gone now. I had just finished the restoration on my GTO and couldn't resist taking a picture under the old sign out front of his place.

[71GP76TA]

Originally Posted by Wareagle

December 1964 - Rollout of the USS Enterprise - almost 2 years before STAR TREK Aired - Cool - one of my fav pics .

The guy on the left(bald guy) was a customer of mine when I worked at Big-O tires in Reno during the mid 90's. He's the one that built the spaceship..... I always thought he was BSing me until I saw this pic.

[se428bandit]

Here are some photo's taken in Savannah in 1974.This building is the Hamilton-Turner house, now it's bed and breakfast and the rooms cost around $250 to $500 a night.

[69 DAYTONA]

...I owned this car about 25 years ago...my guess, the girl is probably someones grandma by now

[69 DAYTONA]

...my nearly new 78 Dodge Magnum GT...car ran like crap and rusted to death in my driveway

[69 DAYTONA]

...my first MOPAR...new 1973 CUDA, 340 AT...a true Christine

...arrived at the dealership, the roof was damaged in transit/fixed

...rear ended the same day my wife picked it up at the dealership(a few hours after the pix was taken)...it was repaired again...in the body shop for repairs 2 times before it had 80 miles on it

...we moved to San Antonio and it never ran right at all (long stories)
and it was hit in a parking lot, minor damage/repaired

...moved back to Indiana...tree fell across the roof in an ice storm/repaired and whole car repainted...sold it



...next owner...car was side swiped the first night he owned it sitting in front of his house

...a few days later it was hit hard head on by his ex-wife on purpose

...a few weeks later it was put thru a barbed wire fence backwards...all was repaired again

...a couple months later the car was drowned in about 12 feet of water, passengers had to swim out of the car...repaired again, car was filled with mud and sewage and started to rust immediately...he sold it

...a few years later I saw the car for the last time, it was being driven by a kid, it was rusty all the way up past the side marker lights and the interior was rotten, it stunk...

all this before the car was 4 years old...................it surely did die a horribly rusty death, I HOPE SO !!!

[69 DAYTONA]

...the 71 CUDA on the previous calendar shot...before it was restored...it was drug out of a river bank

[69 DAYTONA]

'61 Corvette, my first classic car...purchased in 1975....it didn't have an engine...had a 350 built for it and it always overheated and had clutch problems...sold it and made $1,000. on it...now I had the bug...bought the most beautifully restored correct 62 Vette I have ever seen for $4800.

...the Vette was wrecked in California (around 1977) by the guy I sold it to, it was torn in half on a highway after hitting a guard rail broadside and the driver was relatively unscathed

[69 DAYTONA]

...my son and my 71 CUDA about 25 years ago, he is now 6'5" and the CUDA is restored and living in Nevada...it is now Plum Crazy/wh/wh/wh, it's original color combo

[6804gto]

Originally Posted by 69 DAYTONA

...my first MOPAR...new 1973 CUDA, 340 AT...a true Christine

...arrived at the dealership, the roof was damaged in transit/fixed

...rear ended the same day my wife picked it up at the dealership(a few hours after the pix was taken)...it was repaired again...in the body shop for repairs 2 times before it had 80 miles on it

...we moved to San Antonio and it never ran right at all (long stories)
and it was hit in a parking lot, minor damage/repaired

...moved back to Indiana...tree fell across the roof in an ice storm/repaired and whole car repainted...sold it



...next owner...car was side swiped the first night he owned it sitting in front of his house

...a few days later it was hit hard head on by his ex-wife on purpose

...a few weeks later it was put thru a barbed wire fence backwards...all was repaired again

...a couple months later the car was drowned in about 12 feet of water, passengers had to swim out of the car...repaired again, car was filled with mud and sewage and started to rust immediately...he sold it

...a few years later I saw the car for the last time, it was being driven by a kid, it was rusty all the way up past the side marker lights and the interior was rotten, it stunk...

all this before the car was 4 years old...................it surely did die a horribly rusty death, I HOPE SO !!!

Wow! That Cuda was like a cat with nine lives!!