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Waver
03-19-2007, 01:02 AM
That thread that was posted about the good old days of cruising got me thinking...Who on here was around back then and what did they drive.....Well with the help of Wayne (proshowSS) I got some pics to start this thread off.....

Waynes Camaro:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o11/saleen_mustang2000/waynescamaro3.jpg

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o11/saleen_mustang2000/waynescamaro2.jpg

and for all of those who think that wayne never had this car.....look at the plate
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o11/saleen_mustang2000/waynescamaro1.jpg

Flicktitty
03-19-2007, 01:11 AM
Very Cool!

DynoTom
03-19-2007, 01:15 AM
I was out there a lot in the early to mid 80's......I have to dig out some pics of the cars I had....


My main car was a 66 Galaxie 500 XL....it was white with a black interior....nothing fast at all justa 352 C-6 car.....

Korndogg
03-19-2007, 01:16 AM
those pics by the oak creek library??

Waver
03-19-2007, 01:20 AM
post them up.....


No wayne told me that it was at the very first carshow at the waukesha epo center

GRAMPS SS
03-19-2007, 10:22 AM
those pics by the oak creek library??

that was at the All State Insurance Company, behind Brookfield Square...that was the very first outdoor car show by Waukesha Old Car Club....back then out door shows were just starting to come to be.....After the shows back then , the cops would be waiting for us to pull out....i would get it for the carbs sticking out of the hood, the tires extending the body line, back then the tire size had letters...those in the back were M50 X 15...the biggest you could get..and the number one ticket i would get every weekend....no front plate..the biggest ticket i got back then was for no cat...had headers.....450.00...back then , that was alot of cash to dish out.....those were fun days though....the hwy crusin, the falls crusin, racing on calumet when it was a good road, we didn't have tower yet....racing on hwy Q for the Men. Falls Summer Nationals....car clubs were popping up .CAR CRAFT STREET MACHINE NATIONALS in INDY was big, we would have like 20 cars caravan down there for 4 days of fun..wish i could go back in time and relive some of those days......

juicedimpss
03-19-2007, 10:28 AM
lol @ M50's

you could burn those forever,and not lose any tread

Prince Valiant
03-19-2007, 02:47 PM
cool car wayne...

Did you ever run that beast at the track? Remember any of the build details?

I remember the equivilant to "rice" of that day and age when you'd have someone with an otherwise stock 307 or 350 running with dual quads. Sometimes, they might have the huge tunnel rams, cam, exhaust...but then would use stock heads, stock stall speed torque converter, 3.08 gears, and huge tires...they were always the cars that claimed "she don't got much down low, but man, you hit 50mph and then WHAM, off you go...."

Heat Seeker WS6
03-19-2007, 03:03 PM
Very nice Wayne. When you go back- bring me with!

Korndogg
03-19-2007, 04:51 PM
nice. yeah that building looks exactly like the OC library lol. And yeah I know all about those tire sizes. When I worked at farm and fleet people would still come in and ask for those sizes.

GRAMPS SS
03-21-2007, 12:23 PM
come on as young as some of you are..you dads have to have pics of their rides from back then....post them up....

wikked
03-21-2007, 12:34 PM
come on as young as some of you are..you dads have to have pics of their rides from back then....post them up....

I have some old pix of my dad's Nova, one at GLD too :wow
I'll attempt to post them when I get home.

Waver
03-21-2007, 01:21 PM
come on as young as some of you are..you dads have to have pics of their rides from back then....post them up....


problem is, all the pics that my dad has with his imp, there is only a small part of the car in it.....very small....couldnt tell it was an ss or anything.....should find that window sticker though

wikked
03-21-2007, 08:05 PM
Here they are, my dad's '69 (I think) Nova...

http://www.wikked.com/images/nova1.jpg

http://www.wikked.com/images/nova2.jpg

@ GLD
http://www.wikked.com/images/nova3-gld.jpg

YENKO4ME
03-21-2007, 08:45 PM
Any One ?

77thor
03-22-2007, 05:06 PM
Any One ?

OMG... what is that??

nismodave
03-22-2007, 05:36 PM
Omg...Corvette Summer!!!!

Awesome car Wayne!!!!

GRAMPS SS
03-22-2007, 06:13 PM
thanks dave.....didn't always have ugly rides....time for a new one i think..seans 13 now..3 more years and he gets his drivers license he'll need something to play with....

scaleracer
03-22-2007, 10:38 PM
love the nova and the camaro:drool: :drool:

2SLOW
03-22-2007, 11:08 PM
love the nova and the camaro:drool: :drool:

Hell yeah!!!!:headbang :headbang :headbang

wikked
03-22-2007, 11:10 PM
In the rear shots of the Nova, what is that |__| thing that's hanging down by the driver side exhaust pipe?
That's always made me wonder.

GRAMPS SS
03-23-2007, 10:23 AM
the only thing i see is the leaf shackle....they did that back then...why i do not know when you could of had the springs re arched, but that way was cheaper to do...just didn't look right...hell you still see it today..... that's all i see back there..............you might be seeing something else though

YENKO4ME
03-23-2007, 06:46 PM
My Old Car

wikked
03-23-2007, 06:57 PM
the only thing i see is the leaf shackle....they did that back then...why i do not know when you could of had the springs re arched, but that way was cheaper to do...just didn't look right...hell you still see it today..... that's all i see back there..............you might be seeing something else though

yeaaaaa that's what that is... I replaced those on a trailor once, shoulda known!