I loved all my old rods, and still enjoy tweaking to some extent. With businesses to manage, a full time job and family, time is now a luxury that I don’t have much of. Building race engines and hot street/strip engines is a passion of mine, but again, time……just can’t do it anymore. So for the last several years I’ve been buying new and leaving the restorations/modifying on the back burner. I have a straight rust free 62 vette without drive train that one of these days, I plan to built a stainless frame and retrofit a C-4 suspension and aluminum 542 CID big block into…..but that won’t happen for a few years.
In order of when owned.
71 Chevy short bed pickup ( mid 12 second with a blown 327 )
65 ½ mustang - fastback ( happy 289, restored to primer with new drive train and interior, then had to sell it )
65 GTO ( roll cage, 428 CID – low altitude flyer )
69 nova ( low 9 second, tube chassis, caged, 800 hp 468 CID )
77 Z28 ( Built Lt-1 with a 300 hp shot of nitrous and an M-22, ran low 10’s )
78 vette - silver anniversary special ( left this one alone for re-sale…boring )
81 Trans am ( retro fitted a LS-7 based big block and Doug Nash 5 speed ) not quick but fast as hell )
70 Chevy Blazer ( 4” lift and 34’s, built 400 small block )
78 Chevy Silverado short bed 4X4 ( 4” lift, 33’s, built 350 )
85 Saab 900 Turbo ( boring mistake….)
85 Ford Escort GT ( 200 hp nitrous….scary quick )
88 Ford F-150 lariat short bed 4X4 – first new vehicle, left it alone.
90 camaro berlinetta ( for wife # 1, POS )
91 Acura – forgot what model, but expensive little bugger ( for wife # 2 )
93 Ford Eddie Bauer Bronco ( for wife # 2 )
85 Chevy SB Silverado ( frame off restoration, 6” lift, 35’s, nicely built 383 ) – loved that truck
96 GMC Yukon SLT ( wife # 2 )
99 GMC Sierra SLT ( wife # 2 )
02 Chevy Avalanche LT ( 6” lift, 35’s, headers into duals, re-programmed PCM )
03 Dodge Ram Q-cab 4X4 Laramie with the 5.7 hemi ( lifted front end, 34’s, headers with duals, programmer tweaks )
03 Volvo S60R AWD ( loved those seats, X-wife # 2 )
05 GMC Sierra Denali pickup ( soon to be supercharged with headers, duals and custom PCM )
I’m saving my pennies for either an 07 Z06 vette or 07 Shelby GT 500 mustang.
