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Small world! I had a ’65 GTO with the 389 Tri-Power. It was a dark metallic blue with a white interior. I loved that car. When I sold it for three times what I paid for it, I thought it could get no better than that. But then I look at what I could sell it for today…and want to bang my head against a wall.
BTW Shrapnel, it would be a pretty sad and sorry Corvette that couldn’t leave my old TR in the dust — I couldn’t even keep up with the Datsun 240Z back in the day! But it is such fun to motor along with the top down. In fact, I haven’t even had the top up in more than a decade. It only comes out on those (few) perfect Montana days.
BRP
Blue Ridge Parson said
Small world! I had a ’65 GTO with the 389 Tri-Power. It was a dark metallic blue with a white interior. I loved that car. When I sold it for three times what I paid for it, I thought it could get no better than that. But then I look at what I could sell it for today…and want to bang my head against a wall.BTW Shrapnel, it would be a pretty sad and sorry Corvette that couldn’t leave my old TR in the dust — I couldn’t even keep up with the Datsun 240Z back in the day! But it is such fun to motor along with the top down. In fact, I haven’t even had the top up in more than a decade. It only comes out on those (few) perfect Montana days.
BRP
I also owned 17 British sports cars in the past, one of my favorites was a 1962 TR3. It didn’t have to be fast to be cool…
Shrapnel said
I’ve also had this 1965 GTO for 54 years…
Very Nice 
My first “true” muscle car was my 1968 Dodge Charger R/T. With the 383 CID HP Magnum power plant, and it could pass everything in sight … except the gas station! The 900 cfm Carter AFB sitting on top of the Offenhauser 360 Tunnel Ram intake, Iskenderian (ISKY) race cam (solid lifters), and Hooker headers (bolted directly to the side pipes) helped it make Gobs of horsepower. On two (separate) occasions, I put the needle past the 150 mph mark. On one of them, I was clocked at 163 mph by the local Sherriff’s department (on the beach between Gearhart OR and the beach ramp at Fort Stevens OR. It scared the crap out of me, but I was a just an 18-year old kid with no fear or sense! Flying low on the hard pack sand @ 160+ mph was a thrill I will never forget
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My friend and I took out his 383 Super Bee after changing out his intake manifold and got pulled over for going 150+. Highway patrol eventually caught up with us after we slowed down. He got a ticket for going 80 in a 70 zone. My 440 Six Pack had 4:10 gears so couldn’t run those speeds but was very quick.
It’s not like I didn’t admire and envy those muscle cars back then, but the call of the antique and vintage lever rifles was just stronger 
Nice Vette! Saw a few over there when we were in your country in Sept/Nov.
Love all the car pictures guys, keep em coming!
Here is my toy. Just finished it after 12 years of working on it with my dad. He is a specialist on these cars and he is still setting up 9” diffs for people and is nearly 70.
He built the solid lifter 351 Cleveland for me, it flies! Took that picture yesterday.
Happy New Year fellas!
Chris
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Wife and I were on a cruise and stopped at one of the ports in Australia where the ship was met by the local car club. Was really surprised that they had a lot of old Fords.
Chris D said
Nice Vette! Saw a few over there when we were in your country in Sept/Nov.Love all the car pictures guys, keep em coming!
Here is my toy. Just finished it after 12 years of working on it with my dad. He is a specialist on these cars and he is still setting up 9” diffs for people and is nearly 70.
He built the solid lifter 351 Cleveland for me, it flies! Took that picture yesterday.
Happy New Year fellas!
Chris
Chris,
I always liked the looks of the Fastback Fords… a good friend of mine in high school owned a 1971 Grand Torino GT Fast back with the 351 Cleavland power plant… but he could not keep up with my ’68 Charger R/T.
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I never realized so many old gun collectors are also old car collectors. Maybe it’s because we’re old.
Mike
TXGunNut said
I never realized so many old gun collectors are also old car collectors. Maybe it’s because we’re old.
Mike
Or that maybe it is the fact that most of us grew up in an era when muscle cars were very sexy! I would gladly trade or sell off a few of my old Winchesters to own another 1968 Charger R/T… there is no downside to owning a classic American made muscle car!
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Chris, I love the “Stang” . This one I reluctantly sold recently. Original 29000 mi. car. It was a one of a kind, specially ordered for a celebrity, with Chrysler paint , so no paint code in the v.i.n.#. I sold it to buy More Winchesters and Colts.
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Chuck said
Wife and I were on a cruise and stopped at one of the ports in Australia where the ship was met by the local car club. Was really surprised that they had a lot of old Fords.
The hobby is pretty big here. We have our own muscle car scene from the 1960s and 1970s also. The Falcon GT, Dodge Charger, Holden Monaro/Torana are all very collectable. My father owned two XY GTHO Phase III Falcons – they cost more than the big daddy of Mustangs the Boss 429 and have tipped the scales at over 1 million Aussie dollars – the most valuable Australian car. Very limited production numbers at 300 cars (approx 125 left worldwide) The engine in my Mach 1 is a similar drivetrain/powerplant the 351 Cleveland 4 speed toploader and 9” diff.
Alan Moffat was the king of winning races in the GTHO, or own Canadian import racer. He still lives here in Melbourne. Here he is with his XY GTHO, my fathers second one was the same colour, vermillion fire.
Bert, any pics of your Charger? It sounds tough! Tunnel rams poking out of the bonnet haha love it! And yes, there is no downside to owning a muscle car!
And Mike, I am the exception to that ‘old’ rule! I’m not even 40 yet! I was born in the wrong era – the era of Marty Mcfly.
Henry, thats a nice clean GT- very unique colour, rare! I will not be selling my Mach 1, ever! It took me 6 years and looking at over 30 cars to find one I was happy with. That included travelling around the US and here in Aus looking at cars.
Shrapnel , sorry to side track your post! Your man cave looks great! I remember you telling us your daughter helped you design and build it. How are you finding getting in and out of the Corvette?
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Chris,
The only pictures I have are old Polaroids (paced away in a storage box) that were taken in the late 1970s (when I still owned the car). I bought the car in 1976 (while still in high school) and sold it in early 1980 when was transferred by the U.S. Navy from the west coast to New London, CT (for Submarine school training)… I could not afford to drive it the 3,000 plus miles to the east coast, and did not want to subject it to the salted roadways.
Bert
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Chuck said
Wife and I were on a cruise and stopped at one of the ports in Australia where the ship was met by the local car club. Was really surprised that they had a lot of old Fords.
I had an Australian client awhile back that converted American GM products to RH drive for his customers. Neville came to the states for a few weeks twice a year with a shopping list and filled a shipping container or two with his finds. I sold him obscure OE GM stuff and helped keep his diagnostic software up to date. He even bought an Amish wagon one year for one of his customers. Even after I quit managing the GM store he would call and we’d have dinner while he and his girlfriend were here. Those Australian Fords are pretty cool but some of those Australian car nuts had to have their “Chevs”.
Mike
I’m not a huge Ford guy, but as far as Aussie Fords go. I would love to get a hold of one these.
Of course I would want a full working version. They made up prop ones for the movies that were not actually functional.
Sincerely,
Maverick
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If I could find my old 1966 Buick Riviera GS with 465 Wildcat, Id be willing to sell off some guns to get it. Unfortunately had to sell in the 80’s, for pennies at that time and a fraction of what it would be worth these days. Was silver with black interior.
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I am a car guy and not hung up on a brand. I have had a lot of different cars over the last 58 years. I had a Dodge and a Chevy that are worth a lot of money today but I always had to sell one to get the next one. You would be surprised what some of the vintage 60’s motorcycles are worth today. Had a lot of these too. When I bought the car I have now I wanted something with some drag racing provenance, had a back seat and a trunk. My first choice was the 64 Fairlane with a 427. I would have bought a 65 GTO or a 64 Plymouth Sports Fury with the 426 Max wedge.
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