Blast from the past!

[Bill Howell]

How about a new thread. Here is a picture that a friend found of me as a Junior in High School with my car of the day. 71 Plymouth Satellite, 318, thrust mufflers, soon after this picture it had ET mags. woohoo! Notice the front tag..haha, this is about 1975.
Post a picture of you and your car from back in the day.

[JEFFTATE]

That's pretty cool Bill .
I like the tag.
That picture screams Macon , Ga all the way !! LOL

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

HAAA!!!

thats a great photo of you Bill!.. you actually look like an evil salesman.

well.. this thread got me reminiscing..

heres a photo of me and my pops.. circa 1979

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/4596754487_6340f8e591_b-1.jpg
68 camaro ralley sport.. and 62 galaxie vert(i think)

damn if me and pops didnt have the same taste in cars...
67 ralley sport.. and 66 bonnie vert..


AINT I CUTE!!!!

[Bow Tie 67]

How about a new thread. Here is a picture that a friend found of me as a Junior in High School with my car of the day. 71 Plymouth Satellite, 318, thrust mufflers, soon after this picture it had ET mags. woohoo! Notice the front tag..haha, this is about 1975.
Post a picture of you and your car from back in the day.

Hey you were a skinny F#C#er. Lets see if I can dig any up.

[mpozzi]

Yeah, right ... there's no way in Hell!!

Cheers and nice try,
Mary Pozzi

[Kenova]

Yeah, right ... there's no way in Hell!!

Cheers and nice try,
Mary Pozzi

:lmao: AWW, come on Mary, they can't be that bad.

Me, well, I just don't have any. I've looked around, asked friends and family, but I just can't find any.


:guilty: It kinda sucks.

Ken

[Roger M]

Nice shoes Bill.

I couldn't find any old pics of me with cars, but this is one of my favorite pics of my Pops and my Uncle.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[wicked68]

How about a new thread. Here is a picture that a friend found of me as a Junior in High School with my car of the day. 71 Plymouth Satellite, 318, thrust mufflers, soon after this picture it had ET mags. woohoo! Notice the front tag..haha, this is about 1975.
Post a picture of you and your car from back in the day.


love the rebel flag front plate - I need to get one :D

[wicked68]

this is 1983 in panama city beach florida

it was my first car - a 1978 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ with some upgraded heads and a 4 bbl.

[MrQuick]

haa haaa billy thats cool.

vince

[protouring70]

Pretty neat!! Cool seeing old photos.

[Bigblue73]

Love the speakers in the back window. A trend setter from way back!

[Toadman]

I've gotta dig up a pic of me and my '84 Trans Am.

But for now:

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Circa 1973. I'm the one on the roof.

[Fast68back]

My dad unloading my current car in '83 after we moved to FL https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[John Wright]

me as a Junior in High School with my car of the day. 71 Plymouth Satellite,
Looking kinda dapper there Bill.

[1offwizard]

Not quite as old as some, but this is me and my first car in 1987.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/100_1099-1.jpg

[406 Q-ship]

Yeah, right ... there's no way in Hell!!

Cheers and nice try,
Mary Pozzi

Even for a bribe of chocolate?

[Young Gun]

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My cousins and I about 15 years ago, my grandpa is the one who got me into cars, the mustang went to my uncle after my grandpa passed, been trying to buy the car from him for a while

[YancyJohns]

There are some great pics on here! :rotfl: My first car, 89' RS Camaro on 21st Birthday. I saved every thing I had to get the down payment on that car. Those rims were the sh*t back in the day.... Sorry no B/W's Bill, but that picture of you might of been the southern muscle in the original Rat Pack.....lol
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[JEFFTATE]

Cool wheels Yancy ..

[OLDFLM]

Centerline Champ 500s! FTW

[406 Q-ship]

Centerline Champ 500s! FTW

I wanted Champ 500's on my Chevelle so bad.

[David Sloan]

OK here's one for Jeff Tate
I dont have a pix with him with it but i think this was his 1st car.
This is shortly after i got it from him. 1985 i think!

[454bug]

I had a couple old pictures at work...

When's the last time you've seen 3 GT500's (one '68 and two '67's) filling up at the gas station at the same time?? No, it wasn't during a car show... This was a picture of three of my buddies with their "DAILY DRIVERS" at Texas A&M, circa 1980...

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/SKMBT_C25210051211420-1.jpg

Here's a picture of a car show we had on campus in 1980. That's my Nassau Blue '65 Corvette convertible. Check out all the PLAID shirts!! :)

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/SKMBT_C25210051211431-1.jpg

[Charley Lillard]

Here is me in 84 putting a 68 Z28 302 in my 56 Chevy

[Charley Lillard]

Me working on my 69 RS Z28 in 1988. Garage was alot smaller back then..

[454bug]

Here is me in 84 putting a 68 Z28 302 in my 56 Chevy

Haha! I had Kelly Springfield "Super Charger" L60-15 tires on my Corvette also!

[class67]

I've gotta dig up a pic of me and my '84 Trans Am.

But for now:

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Circa 1973. I'm the one on the roof.

Holy shackles, Batman....

[454bug]

Well... not too many posting on this thread so I thought I'd post a few more... They're not exactly all of me and my cars but I thought you all may be amused to show some of our old antics 30 years ago...

Here I am running the start/stop timing button for an autocross in 1980 (the timer was ran off the battery of the Camaro!):
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan1-1.jpg

Here we are overhauling my Corvette engine in the spare bedroom of my duplex on a cut-down shopping cart
(check out those COOL Milidon splayed 4-bolt mains on my hotrod 327!):
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan-1.jpg

Here I am with my 1938 Ford Standard Coupe (514 ci Big Block Ford):
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan12-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan9-1.jpg

Here I am the day I picked up my '65 Corvette (365hp-327/4-speed/4.11 gears) in 1980 (for a WHOPPING $2,500!!):
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan19-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan24-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan28-1.jpg

and here it is fixed up 3 months later at college in 1980 (there was no such thing as a 3-year build back then...):
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan23-1.jpg

Here I am the day I purchased my '67 Chevy II (454/TH400/3.90) in 1987:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan7-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan18-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan3-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Image7-1.jpg

[70TWO NOVA]

man you guys are old!!! lol jk

[454bug]

And here's a few "VINTAGE" shots of our shennanigans from 30 years ago...:

Here I am making a "quick" repair at the weekend Autocross on my '65 Corvette:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan8-1.jpg

Here's one of our Autocrossers from 30 years ago... A gutted-out, rollcaged Honda Civic with a 100 hp motor (on bias-ply racing slicks)... It usually stomped the times of our old worn out Musclecars... no fancy pro-touring suspensions in 1980... (and he was on racing tires versus our street tires... especially us "poor boys" who only had bias-ply tires and couldn't afford radial tires...)
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan14-1.jpg

More 1980 autocross fun with my buddy Mike:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Image-1.jpg

Here's a few of our typical participants in the Sunday Autocrosses in 1980:
1) An original 1965 GT350 Mustang (Hipo 289/4-speed/3.89)
2) An original 1970-1/2 Z28 Camaro (LT-1 350/Auto/3.73)
3) An original 1967 GT500 (with homemade front valance)(Tunnel-Port 427/4-speed/3.89)
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan16-1.jpg

A few more pictures of my best buddy's (J. Bittle) GT500:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan22-1.jpg

At Texas World Speedway during our Bi-Annual "Aggiecross":
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan5-1.jpg

Racing with J. Bittle's GT1 Mustang at a SCCA race at Texas World Speedway in 1982 (351 Cleveland/4-speed):
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan17-1.jpg

[GT500KR_Vert]

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/26752530001_large-1.jpg

My first new car - 1992 Mustang Special Edition and my race jet ski - went out practing that day - and yes I used to back it down the boat ramp.

[454bug]

Here's a few more...

Here's my buddy, J. Bittle, and myself at the LAST Nascar race at Riverside Road Course in 1987
(with J's brand new 1987 Saleen Mustang. He got #29 - just like his race cars):
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan21-1.jpg

Does anyone remember this guy?? :drive:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Image1-1.jpg

Me and my Ford buddies were messin' with the Chevy guys... The bumper sticker said, "Friends don't let friends drive CHEVYS!!" playing off the old ad campaign back then, "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" (we stuck them on the back of the cars when no one was lookin'...) :)
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan11-1.jpg

the brand new 1987 IROC-Z:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Scan13-1.jpg

[Chad-1stGen]

Lots of way cool pics Ray

[JEFFTATE]

OK here's one for Jeff Tate
I dont have a pix with him with it but i think this was his 1st car.
This is shortly after i got it from him. 1985 i think!

Wow , That's cool David .
I've got some more of the old Rally Sport somewhere.
I'll post 'em up if I can find them..

[cobraguy65]

My first car in 1982.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/thekid-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/punks-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/rubbin-1.jpg

[twosaturns]

thank GOD shorts aren't as short anymore (on guys at least...)
Ray, you look like a '70s porn star.

[rockytopper]

My first year out of college in 1983. I'm still wearing a work badge every day. I sure miss her :crying:
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/Picture023-1.jpg

[Norm Peterson]

Somewhere in northeast North Carolina, circa 1977. We had put together and were working an SCCA National TSD rallye that featured a two mile stretch of dirt road where the unstated purpose was to give folks a place to play a bit if they were sharp enough to have figured out what was up. Naturally, we took turns at it ourselves. Any other time, I'd have been navigating for the other guy in his '71 Camaro, but in that pic he was sitting passenger side.



https://www.pro-touring.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=37335&d=1270724420


(Can't seem to make it display . . .)

Norm

[Bill Howell]

My first car in 1982.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/thekid-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/punks-1.jpg

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/rubbin-1.jpg
The cutlass in the last picture looks just like the one I bought new in 76. Three days after graduation from HS, I bought a Cutlass Supreme Brougham for $6063.01 brand new. I will never forget that number...haha

[454bug]

thank GOD shorts aren't as short anymore (on guys at least...)
Ray, you look like a '70s porn star.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/stars-1.jpg

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Haha!!! Man, I don't think I could pass the "audition"... :guilty:


Yeah, I'm happy about the shorts fashions changing too!!