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Frank is LOADED with pure AWESOMENESS !!!! I can't believe there are so few of us that were mega cool in high school and had bad ass cars :3gears:

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Frank is LOADED with pure AWESOMENESS !!!! I can't believe there are so few of us that were mega cool in high school and had bad ass cars :3gears:

Who needs an awesome car to be cool, when you're supporting a 70's porn mustache, ah VictorPosted Image:facepalm:

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Frank is LOADED with pure AWESOMENESS !!!! I can't believe there are so few of us that were mega cool in high school and had bad ass cars :3gears:

Who needs an awesome car to be cool, when you're supporting a 70's porn mustache, ah VictorPosted Image:facepalm:

Hey, I had to measure up and fit the look to be a boyfriend of some of the big hair, 80's porn star look hotties I was rolling with :smilelol

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LOL Vic .. when I was younger I thought I was invulnerable.

The fact I am still here proves it.

-very evil grin-

I very much missed the whole car scene from early 90's to the present due to workin in a career that required moving a lot and apartment living.

No place to play or keep a toy.

I did manage to have a bit of fun here an there tho.

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8000' AGL over the Naval Weapons training center, Florida in 'Crazy Horse' . . Lee Lauderback as CFI in type

.. 1944 P-51D converted by Cavalier to TF-51D specs .. my first ever loop .. cuban eight, split-ess, barrel roll, etc :)

A lifetime dream come true .. a true Lady of the Sky that loves to dance in the clouds.

Drove a bran-spankin new Forest Green Z-28 off the show room floor in 1996.

(*that* was a day of days . . wife says 'if they will finance it you can drive it home'

..she figured no way .. *cough* .. we were doin 'ok' and it completely caught her off guard when they handed me the keys)

Was a beautiful car .. wife blew up first time she drove it across town in the snow/ice .. it was unmanageable LOL.

Traded it for a Durango ..first year they came out .. 2 years later we got a 2k Durango with all the toys I wanted on it.

360, 3.91's, alla bells an whistles except the sunroof ..first thing I did was have a flowmaster muffler put on, it sounded *good* :)

Second thing I did was blow the doors off some Mustang 5.0 geek off a stoplight (Mustangs have improved significantly since then)

I traded that Durango on the '98 Z-51 Vette ..my first ..when we got back to Phoenix and settled a bit.

I still remember the feelin when I got in and started it up. The car shook a little and it felt like it had some balls.

It had been awhile. It was an education :)

I originally went down to CnV to get their '68 Roadster .. however with the top up, gettin into and out of it was far more of a physical challenge than I remembered !!

I didn't bend and snap near as well as I useda :)

So we went over to a beautiful red '96 .. I looked at the frame rail, the door pillar spacing, the roofline

..man you gotta get *small* to get into one of those!

The C-5 .. all better. So easy to get into and out of I can wear my hat doin it.

Even has a handrest in the door jamb for us old folks :)

Owned a few bikes over the years .. from ridin motocross at Cycle Park right here in Phx when I was 20-21 ('70 - '71)

..started in 125 class ..stepped up to 250 CZ at the last.

Difference was I crashed for much longer, farther, faster on the CZ :)

Those reflexes served me very well years later when I got into street bikes for a bit

.. 1976 Z Kawasaki was my first 'street bike' in late '70's.

.. quite a bit of fun runnin Hiway 2 across the San Bernadino mountains.

Later came a Gold Wing and 1100 Shadow .. both excellent cruisers.

Put 180k miles split pretty evenly tween the Wing and the Shadow in the years I rode them.. '88 - '95.

I better stop.. been playin 'Hearts of Iron 3' ..a wargame based on history beginning in 1936.

I am runnin Germany .. not joinin with Italy or Japan, just plain declaring war on the world .. fun stuff :)

Uber Alles, Ja!

-Frank

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Finally got around to digging up some of my old photos. 1982 Trans AM (my first stick) 1981 Eldorado (The typical ride for many of us in a NY Italian neighborhood) 1980 Z28

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More F-bodies! :thumbs I actually "learned" to drive in my dad's pampered Eldo Biarritz...and mere months later wrapped it around a telephone pole. He was devastated, and thus I've never let my boys drive the vette! :lol

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Yanno .. lookin back I have no idea where the years went. I start thinkin of that last summer at LACR with the Duster, all the sheer fun of it .. .. dayumm that was 1991!! *twenty* frikkin years ago .. I feel as if gremlins came an stole years while I wasn't lookin, yanno? I love the hugger orange RS Camaro .. would have enjoyed listenin to that DZ motor wind out thru the gears .. they were screamers. Wonderful thread .. heres to makin new memories at Speedworld an such in the years ahead :D -Frank

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Finally got around to digging up some of my old photos.

1982 Trans AM (my first stick)

1981 Eldorado (The typical ride for many of us in a NY Italian neighborhood)

1980 Z28

Mike swingin' the f-bodies too......but, really....how can you top an 81 Eldorado :clap

We need a high school pic of you and the Mrs. cruising the N.Y. street scene in the Caddi :yesnod

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Awww, man....the link wouldn't work for me.

I remember when Datsun 240 and 260Z's were all over the place......the Japanese "Jag E-Type" :thumbs

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Okay, I dug through my pics, couldn't find all the ones I wanted but here's a few:

1957 Corvette Roadster (customized retired show car)

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1967 Triumph 650 Bonneville (chopper, my first bike, what a piece of junk)

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1968 Corvette Roadster

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1964 Harley 74 panhead (chopped, had an 18" over springer)

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1976 Corvette T top

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1996 Honda Shadow (the only new bike I've ever owned)

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1982 Corvette T top

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1999 Honda CBR1100xx Blackbird

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Pete with an ungoverned 425 Cat and a 15 speed

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Awww, man....the link wouldn't work for me.

I remember when Datsun 240 and 260Z's were all over the place......the Japanese "Jag E-Type" :thumbs

Fixed it, pretty cool! :thumbs
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Okay, I dug through my pics, couldn't find all the ones I wanted but here's a few:

1957 Corvette Roadster (customized retired show car)

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1967 Triumph 650 Bonneville (chopper, my first bike, what a piece of junk)

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1968 Corvette Roadster

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1964 Harley 74 panhead (chopped, had an 18" over springer)

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1976 Corvette T top

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1996 Honda Shadow (the only new bike I've ever owned)

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1982 Corvette T top

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1999 Honda CBR1100xx Blackbird

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Pete with an ungoverned 425 Cat and a 15 speed

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AWESOME Donna! I dig the C3s (82) :) and the Panhead. :thumbs

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TTT......who else was full of "winning" back in your early car days ???? :popcorn:

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I had: First car: 1968 Ford LTD XL Convertible, red with black top and interior. It sat 6 comfortably and had 5 ashtrays. It was a 302 2bbl and had glasspack mufflers. Sounded great but hardly got out of it's own way. I have pictures somewhere in a box. This was my 16 birthday present. Second car: For graduation I got a 1966 Chevelle Malibu convertible, red with a white top. It came with a 230 straight six that I swapped out for a 350 one summer with my friends. It had about 300 hp and was big time back in Iowa during the late 1980's. Third car: In college I got a 1986 Dodge something or other convertible. I also had a 1971 Charger that my Dad got rear ended in and totaled. That thing was fun. For a while, I also drove my Dad's 1976 Dodge pickup with a 440-4bbl. It got about 10 mpg.

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I had:

First car:

1968 Ford LTD XL Convertible, red with black top and interior. It sat 6 comfortably and had 5 ashtrays. It was a 302 2bbl and had glasspack mufflers. Sounded great but hardly got out of it's own way. I have pictures somewhere in a box. This was my 16 birthday present.

Second car:

For graduation I got a 1966 Chevelle Malibu convertible, red with a white top. It came with a 230 straight six that I swapped out for a 350 one summer with my friends. It had about 300 hp and was big time back in Iowa during the late 1980's.

Third car: In college I got a 1986 Dodge something or other convertible. I also had a 1971 Charger that my Dad got rear ended in and totaled. That thing was fun.

For a while, I also drove my Dad's 1976 Dodge pickup with a 440-4bbl. It got about 10 mpg.

WOW....both the LTD XL and Malibu in vert form....very cool !!!!

Probably not a lot of 68 LTD XL's were made I'm guessing :popcorn:

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I had:

First car:

1968 Ford LTD XL Convertible, red with black top and interior. It sat 6 comfortably and had 5 ashtrays. It was a 302 2bbl and had glasspack mufflers. Sounded great but hardly got out of it's own way. I have pictures somewhere in a box. This was my 16 birthday present.

Second car:

For graduation I got a 1966 Chevelle Malibu convertible, red with a white top. It came with a 230 straight six that I swapped out for a 350 one summer with my friends. It had about 300 hp and was big time back in Iowa during the late 1980's.

Third car: In college I got a 1986 Dodge something or other convertible. I also had a 1971 Charger that my Dad got rear ended in and totaled. That thing was fun.

For a while, I also drove my Dad's 1976 Dodge pickup with a 440-4bbl. It got about 10 mpg.

WOW....both the LTD XL and Malibu in vert form....very cool !!!!

Probably not a lot of 68 LTD XL's were made I'm guessing :popcorn:

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That's it! I even had the half moon caps on chrome steel rims. The headlight covers were vacuum operated and took a cool 10 seconds to open. It had a console shifter shaped like a horseshoe.
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Even Arthur C. Clarke would be envious. That '86 Dodge something or other convertible has to be rare as well.

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Even Arthur C. Clarke would be envious.

That '86 Dodge something or other convertible has to be rare as well.

After a little research, it was actually an ' 84 Dodge 600 ES and had a little turbo 4 cylinder. 1 of 1786 and had a digital dash.
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