Friday, March 06, 2026

just sitting there on a side street looking like the owner gave up on it... it looks like it's never had a rich owner, no one even put on some Cragars, and it's beginning to show the decades of neglect

Why this neighborhood insists on such hideous rims, on so MANY cool old cars, I do not know






it was sitting there 2 months ago with a flat front tire


I almost bought a Mustang like this, but fastback, in 1988, when I was in high school. The only problem that the seller, the mom of a co-worker knew of, was a busted timing chain. 500 bucks. 

I STILL regret that my asshole step dad didn't step up, back my chance at that Mustang, as I had the money. I didn't have the tools, or know how, to do an engine rebuild... but hell, it was a 289, that's not a jigsaw puzzle. 

Anyway, that was the one chance I recall nearly having at a fixer upper, cheap, and cool
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2 comments:

  1. Volksrob5:10 AM

    Mate,I think most of us car guys have a story like yours. My dad helped,with business interest of course,to buy a '62 Holden panel van...surfing for me,furniture delivery for the business. It was good,I didn't "have love in the back of a Dodge" if you get my drift,but I had some awsome times roaming the country in that panel...Geez,wished I still had it! FB & EK Holdens were based around '56-'57 Chevy's I reckon but on a smaller scale a la Falcon.

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  2. Volksrob5:12 AM

    PS. I think those are "trims",but I hear what you're sayin'.

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