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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: GrayBeard on August 16, 2013, 04:12:38 pm
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I dearly loved this car...destroyed in a front end collision by a drunk old man!
I was 18 and cried like a baby....
My baby looked just like this!
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What kind was it GB? It looks like a Holden which is a General Motors. Was it your first car?
Marg
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Sorry...got so excited to find a pic of the same car with the same paint & custom work I forgot to give the details...
1955 Plymouth Belvedere "Sport Fury" Hard Top, candy apple red & pure white, black & red interior, red dome lights
V-8 Interceptor engine, Dual Exhausts, Thrush 'glaspak' mufflers ( emitted a very sexy 'growl')
All "Plymouth' and V-8 insignias removed so you didn't know if you were 'dragging' with a a straight 6 or a standard V-8...the engine was in excess of 400 HP.
I made a lot of other guys shake their heads after eating my exhaoust away from the traffic lights or the 'drop of the scarf'!
Great fun car...still love those wide bench seats!!!!
~~~GB~~~
p.s. EIEIO (Ray) has done a pattern for me which I will be cutting in a week or so and will post the pic.
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Fabulous, I love to look at the old cars. in a few a few days we are going to a car museum. It is a private collection of vintage Cadillac convertibles. Been there before and looking forward to going back. The guy has over 50 cars on display and all are road ready. He gets his cars from the southern states.
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I too love old cars Clyde, they had a lot of personality that the new cars don't have.
Marg
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Around 1956 We lived in Bulawayo Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe), we had a Ford Custom Saloon, the one you see in all the old Cop Movies with the big Chrome bullet in the front. My old Mum really loved that old car until we went on holiday in it to Cape Town (1,300M). Starting off on the second day we were at the beginning of the Kalahari Desert with a dead straight road for 75 miles to the next town, my old man put his foot down from the off but we only got 15 miles and it steamed to a halt. We later learned that the V Block was steel and the heads were alloy which meant they expanded at different rates and needed to be warmed up slowly. it turned out to be a bit of a miserable holiday as all the spending money went on fixing the car. But what a car. bench seat in the front, steering column change, all the knobs were trimmed with what looked like Ivory and at night the dash board lit up with that green glow like a Firefly. Bril.
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That is a great car Mr. Beard. I know the pain of losing a loved car. My first car was a 57 Chevy convertible, 3 speed on the floor with 327 engine. Well whats a kid to do but a little drag now and then down city. Well dad found out and I was then driving a 4 cylinder Pontiac tempest convertible. Just not the same. But the guy who bought the Chevy totaled it within 2 weekd of getting it. I did go to pay respects and cried like any funeral. Hard lessen learned.
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BUT I was in mine with my future bride when the S O B ran a red light and hit us head on!
~~~GB~~~
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Now I understand. Sorry if I seemed insensitive I was not understanding and was not wanting to seem that way.
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Hey...was not being unkind...but we were pulling out of a driveway and the guy ran a red light about 100 feet away...slammed into us and we both were OK but really shaken up as a couple of 19 yr. olds.
He got 90 days in county slammer and had to pay full restitution but car was totaled.
Replaced it with a Chrysler 300 'TANK'!
~~~GB~~~
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Such a beautiful car!
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"Mr Beard" I love it! LOLOLOL
Thankfully I didn't reveal my ignorance and ask what make it was, I was thinking a Desoto or a Mercury but the customization threw me off. Sure was PURDY though I hate to admit the very first car I bought was a junker 57 Plymouth Station wagon with the big tail fins, it was worn plumb out and Dad kept it for me till I got out of the Navy and I promptly traded it off and you know the rest of the story.
What a lead Sled!
Ugg.
"Mr Beard" ;D ;D ;D ;D
Gabby
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My very own first car was a $500 Chrysler Valiant. Used to have to sit in the driveway for about 10mins. warming it up to take the kids to school and we would get to the top of the estate and without fail every morning it would stall and it would take about 5 goes to start it again. :-[ >:( The boot/trunk had that much rush I was always frightened the the spare would fall out of the bottom. :D :D :D What a great car it was, because it was mine. :)
Marg
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My very own first car was a $500 Chrysler Valiant. Used to have to sit in the driveway for about 10mins. warming it up to take the kids to school and we would get to the top of the estate and without fail every morning it would stall and it would take about 5 goes to start it again. :-[ >:( The boot/trunk had that much rush I was always frightened the the spare would fall out of the bottom. :D :D :D What a great car it was, because it was mine. :)
Marg
I and wife #1 had a Plymouth Valient pale blue if I remember right sold it to a guy for demolition derby I think for $50, and didn't pay much more for it, sure liked the little slant 6 motor took a licking and kept on ticking!
G
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That Chrysler 225 cu in slant six was a trooper. Among the family we had 3 or 4 cars with that same engine in the late 1970s. It sounded like a sewing machine and we could swap parts to find a problem. Most of the work was trying to keep the fenders from falling off in the road.