How true is this,, good memories
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It's what I did, although that car came out after I was a teenager.
SGT FURY
Senior Member
That generation still had video games
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
I used a tree limb many times. My dad whined about the grass alot.
stubs300
Senior Member
I was doing this kind of stuff, and this was before I got into cars! So yeah!
3175375
Senior Member
That’s me circled in the center and my brother circled on the right.
We built a tank. Lots of nails.
Unfortunately, my brother passed at age 19, right up the street from home. 8^(
He fell asleep and hit a parked truck. No alcohol involved.
rapidtrans
Senior Member
We were wrenching on our bikes, dad’s mower or mom’s car as soon we got off the school bus.
stubs300
Senior Member
Bikes before cars!
Great post! Seems like I did this a lot as a teenager, early to mid 70s.
This was my 340 T/A, going in my 68 Dart.
An LT-1 for a friend's '71 Z-28.
And a 289 for my high school pal's 67 Mustang. We're still tight pals to this day, being as we went to the gym today for a nice chest and back workout.
Then I moved up to more serious stuff at 20....no longer a teen working on street smallblocks, but still getting greasy.
This was my 340 T/A, going in my 68 Dart.
An LT-1 for a friend's '71 Z-28.
And a 289 for my high school pal's 67 Mustang. We're still tight pals to this day, being as we went to the gym today for a nice chest and back workout.
Then I moved up to more serious stuff at 20....no longer a teen working on street smallblocks, but still getting greasy.
I remember walking into a bar when I was 19 or 20 (drinking age was 18 then) and there was a Pong video game. My buddies said "you ought to try it" and I played one game, said "This is really stupid" and figured it would never catch on.
I will admit to playing on the pin ball machines once in a while though.
Amazing that you have that same red arrow on all your shirts.Great post! Seems like I did this a lot as a teenager, early to mid 70s.
This was my 340 T/A, going in my 68 Dart.
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An LT-1 for a friend's '71 Z-28.
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And a 289 for my high school pal's 67 Mustang. We're still tight pals to this day, being as we went to the gym today for a nice chest and back workout.
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Then I moved up to more serious stuff at 20....no longer a teen working on street smallblocks, but still getting greasy.
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rapidtrans
Senior Member
In eighth grade a couple of us kids assembled a 4cyl from the teacher’s Ford Cortina for extra credit. He raced the car up at Waterford Hills during the summer. Later in H.S. the same teacher was my driver’s ed. instructor. The other kid and I were driving I-696 end of the first day. Last day of the course he brought his 4 spd vette in so we could drive a stick! I had driven manuals for two years prior to Drivers Ed. Good times!
rapidtrans
Senior Member
Yeah. Pong sucked but PacMac and pin ball machines were addicting on a winter’s night and $5 pitchers!
I did play Pac Man once or twice when I was dating my first wife. She liked to play it, but I wasn't a fan. I think she played the Asteroid game once in a while too.
SGT FURY
Senior Member
I remember as a kid we hack sawed some forks and hammer wedged them on another set and made a chopper. Then the kid popped a wheely and when he landed forks broke off and flew over handle bars and lost his front teeth! Good times!
Dsertdog
Old man with an old guitar, and a blue note.
The photographer's name is David McWilliams. That's his Plymouth Arrow in the background, one of many Mopars he owned back in the day. If you're on any Mopar pages on Farcebook, you'll see other examples of his work. The photos usually include scantily clad ladies as well, not posed, just walking about at the Nationals and other Mopar/open events.
I only mention this because he's not been in the best of health lately, and I'm sure he'll smile when I tell him the "tree photo" has made it in FCBO.
In 6th grade dad hired us out with our “new” swather to cut the neighbors heavy barley crop. I made enough to buy a new bicycle.
My next job was short lived when in 8th grade. My brother and I were hired by another neighbor that owned a buy sell trade business. We stripped washers and dryer for parts and scrap at night after school for a couple of weeks. He asked us if we wanted money or something from the store. We picked some junky walki-talkies. Mom wasn’t too happy and wouldn’t let us go back. The summer of 8th grade my brother (a year older than I) got the Polara running so we had an extra vehicle to run around the farm. Some time in high school I learned that a 318 engine is pretty forgiving. We had a ‘59 Dodge truck we used to haul water. We dropped a valve through the piston. We happened to have another set of heads and a used block on the shelf. Dropped the oil pan reamed the ridge and pushed the piston out the top. We took a spare piston and dropped it in with the others I don’t recall if we also borrowed a valve or just put the spare heads on. I think that odd piston is still in there. It ran fine.
Then there was the MonteCarlo and the wrecked Bonneville engine swap. Who knew a super duty 455 Pontiac engine would drop into a 73 MonteCarlo. We did have to move one motor mount. That car would go.
I didn’t have time for video games.
Here is My brother and I. It must have been the summer /fall of ‘85. He is in the right picture he had to take my Polara to college for a while as he blew up the 455 in his MonteCarlo (had over 120k on the engine) spinning cookies.
I am the one with the 80’s perm. I thought I was styling.
My next job was short lived when in 8th grade. My brother and I were hired by another neighbor that owned a buy sell trade business. We stripped washers and dryer for parts and scrap at night after school for a couple of weeks. He asked us if we wanted money or something from the store. We picked some junky walki-talkies. Mom wasn’t too happy and wouldn’t let us go back. The summer of 8th grade my brother (a year older than I) got the Polara running so we had an extra vehicle to run around the farm. Some time in high school I learned that a 318 engine is pretty forgiving. We had a ‘59 Dodge truck we used to haul water. We dropped a valve through the piston. We happened to have another set of heads and a used block on the shelf. Dropped the oil pan reamed the ridge and pushed the piston out the top. We took a spare piston and dropped it in with the others I don’t recall if we also borrowed a valve or just put the spare heads on. I think that odd piston is still in there. It ran fine.
Then there was the MonteCarlo and the wrecked Bonneville engine swap. Who knew a super duty 455 Pontiac engine would drop into a 73 MonteCarlo. We did have to move one motor mount. That car would go.
I didn’t have time for video games.
Here is My brother and I. It must have been the summer /fall of ‘85. He is in the right picture he had to take my Polara to college for a while as he blew up the 455 in his MonteCarlo (had over 120k on the engine) spinning cookies.
I am the one with the 80’s perm. I thought I was styling.
REAL shade tree mechanics. Those were the days!
mrfury68
Senior Member
Been there done that too! They were simpler, happier times for sure. I can remember swapping out transmissions in the street in front of a friends house, using a come-along and telephone pole to straighten out a rad support and using a swing set and pulley to pull a motor. Nobody died and nearly 40 years later we still laugh about our escapades.
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