One great classic car..........

[Molalla1]

^^^ Where I was at it was not much worse than today on a holiday at a busy intersection off the freeway. Maybe 3 or 4 cars deep. I always knew the gas shortage was a gimmick to get higher prices. The earth was running out of oil in the 70s. Yeah, right.

Well Duck they ran out for several months back then . . . :laughing:

 

[jmc]

I got caught during the 1979 gas shortage on a cross country motorcycle trip. (Western USA, 4 gallon tank) In cities, stations closed about 4PM. Way out in the sticks, thankfully it was business as usual. We tried to stay on secondary roads, and back then, it was just paper maps. We found out pretty quick that just because there is a town mapped in eastern Oregon, for example, doesn't mean it has a gas station- or anything else. One "town" was just a 90 degree jog in the unmarked road and a corral. But at least if you found a gas station in time, it was open.

 

[dieselcrawler]

I missed all that chaos solely because of where I live. I've never been denied gasoline. I've never sat in line to buy gasoline. I've never, one single time in my life, waited to access a gas pump. I love my little piece of paradise. I'm so glad all the other people don't want to live here.

I wouldn't mind living there, as you describe it, it really does sound like paradise... I think you'd be a good neighbor to have... a respectful distance away, mile or 3, of course! I think we both like our space, but know the value of good neighbors!

Back on topic, I've never been a big mustang fan, but let a 1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme convertible go years ago... miss that car.

 

[goeduck]

I wouldn't mind living there, as you describe it, it really does sound like paradise... I think you'd be a good neighbor to have... a respectful distance away, mile or 3, of course! I think we both like our space, but know the value of good neighbors!

Back on topic, I've never been a big mustang fan, but let a 1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme convertible go years ago... miss that car.

There is lots of opportunity in Missouri as big as it is

 

[ultrarunner]

I missed all that chaos solely because of where I live. I've never been denied gasoline. I've never sat in line to buy gasoline. I've never, one single time in my life, waited to access a gas pump. I love my little piece of paradise. I'm so glad all the other people don't want to live here.

Yep... peek oil, coming ice age, famine and gas lines 30 cars + deep were the norm.

People would track with CB radios tanker trucks leaving the Richmond/Martinez refineries... gas doubled to 70 cents a gallon the and most sought after car accessory was the little anti syphon spring or locking gas cap...

A lot of people where having fuel syphoned... and a black market for 5 gallon cans of gas flourished...

My old car group had planned a wine country weekend with reservations made almost a year in advance... the club called to cancel citing fuel uncertainty yet the weekend was less than 300 miles... the hotel had a brother in law with the only station in town who agreed to fuel the Model A's provided it was done early AM Sunday morning in the dark... see, buying fuel became a clandestine pursuit... for me, I drove everything on a Honda 175 and a gallon of gas a week had me covered... unlike one of my teachers with her 1970 Olds 455 98 series...

It was also a time of natural gas conversions... a guy my Dad knew converted his 1968 pick-up to natural gas and filled it from his home with a special compressor hooked up to his home natural gas meter... the idea of never having to go to a station to fill up was almost unbelievable... just like plug in electric was the stuff of science fiction or home solar...

 

[ultrarunner]

I wouldn't mind living there, as you describe it, it really does sound like paradise... I think you'd be a good neighbor to have... a respectful distance away, mile or 3, of course! I think we both like our space, but know the value of good neighbors!

Back on topic, I've never been a big mustang fan, but let a 1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme convertible go years ago... miss that car.

Always had a soft spot for Cutlass Supreme... and 70-72 vintage... and I still do including the Vista Cruiser... friends folks had a 72 Vista Cruiser with a 455...

One of Dad's Navy friends was deployed and his wife was tired of driving a pinto... she hated it and her parents were coming to California for a visit... I'm guessing 1985... She asked me to find her a car...

Just happened that one of my friends said his grandmother stopped driving and had a nice 69 Olds 4 door cutlass they didn't need... I picked up the commander's wife and she bought the Olds for $1000

Commander didn't take kindly to that for a long time... but over the years he said it proved to be a very good car... they had for 10 years and sold it for $1000 and it was always the car of choice when company visited... I mean 1968 El Camino or 1974 Pinto or 1969 4 door Olds Cutlass with a 350???

 

[Gem99ultra]

My oh my... how many of us have had and sold what is now deemed 'classic' cars. Back in the day, they were simply USED cars. If we had only kept them.

I recall having bought in 1960 a 1955 Chevrolet Belaire convertible. Red & white, naturally. V8, fender skirts, continental kit, big hubcaps and whitewall tires. Bought it for much less than a grand, and got rid of it because it rattled. Ha! yep - the Good Ole' Days.

 

[dodge man]

I was in the hobby, mostly Mopars in the mid 1980's to the late 1990's. I passed on cars, most of them in the late 80's and early 90's that were more money than I could afford at the time. I once passed on a 1970 Cuda, 440 six pack, hemi orange in color, and I probably could have bought it for less than $500. It was really rough, needed everything, original engine gone, but even a rough shell is worth several thousand dollars today. I also passed on a 70 Lime Green Hemi Cuda. I can't remember the asking price, it seemed like a lot at the time, I think it was around 25k, but worth several times that today.

 

[ovrszd]

Here's my last Classic Car. We call it the Family Truckster.

 

[dodge man]

Pretty clean, electric seat and buzz windows to.

 

[Rebeldad1]

I can remember in high school (early to mid 60's) coming home and looking in our driveway. My dad owned a car lot that specialized in hot rods. A 1961 white Pontiac Catalina with metalic turquoise buckets. 389 tri-power 4 speed. next to it a 1962 Pontiac Catalina
Black on black. 428 Super Duty 4 speed. This was a special order car. The factory cast iron headers were massive. The dual quads made a very impressive sound.
Love to have them in my barn now.

 

[sd455dan]

I can remember in high school (early to mid 60's) coming home and looking in our driveway. My dad owned a car lot that specialized in hot rods. A 1961 white Pontiac Catalina with metalic turquoise buckets. 389 tri-power 4 speed. next to it a 1962 Pontiac Catalina
Black on black. 428 Super Duty 4 speed. This was a special order car. The factory cast iron headers were massive. The dual quads made a very impressive sound.
Love to have them in my barn now.

Sure it was a 428???

AFAIK the early SD's were all 389's and 421's unless that was a factory experimental before the production 428's were introduced in 1967

 

[Fuddy1952]

I can remember in high school (early to mid 60's) coming home and looking in our driveway. My dad owned a car lot that specialized in hot rods. A 1961 white Pontiac Catalina with metalic turquoise buckets. 389 tri-power 4 speed. next to it a 1962 Pontiac Catalina
Black on black. 428 Super Duty 4 speed. This was a special order car. The factory cast iron headers were massive. The dual quads made a very impressive sound.
Love to have them in my barn now.

I believe you're thinking 421 instead of 428.

 

[coobie]

Had 3 mustangs over the years 1971,1973,1976 all mach 1,s.Bought this in 2018 SRT challenger for the wife and I.

 

[coobie]

When I was 17 a friend of my Brother's bought this car new. He was 19. He paid just over $10K. A farm boy that had saved every dime he made. He went to town to buy a Corvette. Wearing overalls and a T shirt. Said the Vette dealer salesmen wouldn't even talk to him. Walked out of the Chevy dealership, across the street to the Ford dealership and bought this car.

He absolutely trashed it. I saw it wreck once on main street of our little town. It was way more car than Eddie could handle.

Anyway, a good friend of mine collects cars and several years ago tried to buy it from Eddie. It was in pieces at the time. Eddie wouldn't sell it to him and instead sold it to a collector in Kansas City. That man owned it for a few years and did nothing to restore it.

My friend contacted that collector and inquired about buying it? Was able to do so. Brought it home in pieces. As a part of his business's he owns a Speed Shop. They restored this car. It's a "match" car. Even has matching tires and battery from the era, just as it had when sold new. The stitching in the seats is even the right "count".

It's a marvel to look at. Brings back great memories for a lot of people in this community that knew the car when it was new. My friend hauls it to large car shows and on this occasion brought it out for a local Parade.

After he got it finished he talked to Eddie about coming and looking at it, even offered to let him drive it. Said Eddie would barely talk to him and acted mad that he had it. How sad. I told my friend if he ever found my '69 Mustang and restored it I'd be eternally grateful!!!

I have no idea of the value of this car. I'm sure it's not in my budget!!!!



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NICE,always wanted a 1969 mustang..

 

[ovrszd]

Trivia fact. '69 is the only year Mustangs have been built with four headlights.

 

[Molalla1]

Trivia fact. '69 is the only year Mustangs have been built with four headlights.

I believe so??? :confused3: . . . I was gone then . . . Tell me I'm right.

 

[om21braz]

The best was a bone stock 32,000 miles factory 1968 Z28... red with white stripes... even had the original E78 tires.

IMHO, that is the cream of the crop. I like the Mustang too, but a 1969 Z/28 is the muscle car even if it didn't have the most muscle.

 

[ovrszd]

I believe so??? :confused3: . . . I was gone then . . . Tell me I'm right.

Yep. I was gone in '72.

 

[Molalla1]

Yep. I was gone in '72.

Thank you sir . . .