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<blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 2712664" data-attributes="member: 1535"><p>Ive had my turn with American hot rods. I was lucky, or maybe unlucky according to my wife, to get born into a house in San Diego with a big time car guy for a father, and I got the car bug at birth or soon after. My dad and uncle ran a body shop/service shop and a small chain of auto parts stores when they finished with the military. They played with building hot rods, T buckets, etc, and bikes on the side. I was drawing and airbrushing ratfink and flaming eyeball figures on the sides of my dads cars when I was a little kid. My uncle eventually left to build engines and bodies working with drag racers in his shop up north in Redding CA, and he even did a brief stint turning wrenches as a mechanic for Shirley Muldowney. My first car ever was a Mustang Mach 1 that I had bought when I was still in jr high school and worked on it at the shop when I wasnt working for my dad in the shop as the make ready/detailer, worked on that car for 4 years without being able to actually drive it on the street. A 43' Hudson my dad bought for me when I first got my license was supposed to be just a joke but it was really a cool ride. The Mach 1 eventually got traded for a Torino w/351 CL that got traded for a Cutlass 442, then there was a Monte Carlo, a GTO, a Firebird, a Camaro, and eventually worked my way up to a 79 Trans Am w/6.6l by my senior year. My mother bought me my K5 Blazer new for me in 87' for my HS graduation, I still have it. Sold the TransAm to fund art and mortuary schools. Drove that K5 semi-stock all over the mountains of northern CA before eventually getting into and learning about suspensions, lifts, engine/trans swaps, drivetrain, differentials, etc- and its now a beast thanx to the badazzes at Kyles 4x4 in Modesto CA who helped me with it in its current condition. It stays shacked up in Sonora CA at my other place.</p><p></p><p>After finishing school and getting starting in my own businesses I bought a Firebird, then a Camaro SS, a couple of Corvettes, then buying my very first foreign non V8 car started me on a totally new path- my very first change to a non V8 vehicle, as in inline 6s and V6s, and even an inline 4 when I bought a Triumph TR4. And my first love-hate-love introduction to turbos and superchargers, air induction, etc. Next came a Datsun 280ZX. 2 300ZXs. I had fell in love with Japanese, British and German GT cars. Got into a couple of Porsches for a bit but they were too much maintenance work so I bought my first Supra. Then another. And 3 more after that. I wasnt thru with American cars tho. Since I moved out here permanently 12 years ago I have had a couple of Z28s, an SS, 2 Mustang GTs and a Cobra, and 2 more Vettes within last 10 years. But the Japanese RWD hot rods are where Ive been at the last few years. Sold my twin turbo Supra frankenstein to fund other projects: a 350Z, an Infinity G35 n.a., now I have a G35 with turbo. </p><p></p><p>Not sure Im done with V8s and American cars yet tho, even though Im holding out to buy either a new Supra or a GT-R, those new Camaros are really catching my eye. Not interested at all in the new Mustang GTs, and even though Ive never been a big Dodge fan those Hellcats are pretty badass. I do and I dont miss that V8 rumble messing around with the inline and V6s and turbo'd 6s- but I still have my old K5 to poop around with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nofearfactor, post: 2712664, member: 1535"] Ive had my turn with American hot rods. I was lucky, or maybe unlucky according to my wife, to get born into a house in San Diego with a big time car guy for a father, and I got the car bug at birth or soon after. My dad and uncle ran a body shop/service shop and a small chain of auto parts stores when they finished with the military. They played with building hot rods, T buckets, etc, and bikes on the side. I was drawing and airbrushing ratfink and flaming eyeball figures on the sides of my dads cars when I was a little kid. My uncle eventually left to build engines and bodies working with drag racers in his shop up north in Redding CA, and he even did a brief stint turning wrenches as a mechanic for Shirley Muldowney. My first car ever was a Mustang Mach 1 that I had bought when I was still in jr high school and worked on it at the shop when I wasnt working for my dad in the shop as the make ready/detailer, worked on that car for 4 years without being able to actually drive it on the street. A 43' Hudson my dad bought for me when I first got my license was supposed to be just a joke but it was really a cool ride. The Mach 1 eventually got traded for a Torino w/351 CL that got traded for a Cutlass 442, then there was a Monte Carlo, a GTO, a Firebird, a Camaro, and eventually worked my way up to a 79 Trans Am w/6.6l by my senior year. My mother bought me my K5 Blazer new for me in 87' for my HS graduation, I still have it. Sold the TransAm to fund art and mortuary schools. Drove that K5 semi-stock all over the mountains of northern CA before eventually getting into and learning about suspensions, lifts, engine/trans swaps, drivetrain, differentials, etc- and its now a beast thanx to the badazzes at Kyles 4x4 in Modesto CA who helped me with it in its current condition. It stays shacked up in Sonora CA at my other place. After finishing school and getting starting in my own businesses I bought a Firebird, then a Camaro SS, a couple of Corvettes, then buying my very first foreign non V8 car started me on a totally new path- my very first change to a non V8 vehicle, as in inline 6s and V6s, and even an inline 4 when I bought a Triumph TR4. And my first love-hate-love introduction to turbos and superchargers, air induction, etc. Next came a Datsun 280ZX. 2 300ZXs. I had fell in love with Japanese, British and German GT cars. Got into a couple of Porsches for a bit but they were too much maintenance work so I bought my first Supra. Then another. And 3 more after that. I wasnt thru with American cars tho. Since I moved out here permanently 12 years ago I have had a couple of Z28s, an SS, 2 Mustang GTs and a Cobra, and 2 more Vettes within last 10 years. But the Japanese RWD hot rods are where Ive been at the last few years. Sold my twin turbo Supra frankenstein to fund other projects: a 350Z, an Infinity G35 n.a., now I have a G35 with turbo. Not sure Im done with V8s and American cars yet tho, even though Im holding out to buy either a new Supra or a GT-R, those new Camaros are really catching my eye. Not interested at all in the new Mustang GTs, and even though Ive never been a big Dodge fan those Hellcats are pretty badass. I do and I dont miss that V8 rumble messing around with the inline and V6s and turbo'd 6s- but I still have my old K5 to poop around with. [/QUOTE]
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