Car History thread
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From: Ansonia/NYC CT
Car History thread
Not sure if we have one, I looked, but didn't find one. If not, great, here it is, and if so, sorry, delete this post...
Anyway, I was just thinking it might be cool for some of us to share the history, so far as we know it, of our cars.
Mine is a '76, don't know who the first owner is, but they bought it in FL. They then sold the car to my great uncle, who lives on the Air Force base in Panama. He bought the car in 84. Drag raced it hard for a few years, then let it sit. We took a vacation down to FL in 94, where my dad saw it, drove it, and made my uncle an offer on it, as he at the time wanted to buy a boat. The deal was done, and my dad walked away with the 76 for 4 grand. Had 100,000 miles on it, and he drove it back up to his home in SC. Tranny gave out no sooner than he got it into the driveway.
My dad has always been into road racing, ever since I can remember. He used to drive an old VW bug, which he modified the seats in to accomodate tall folks. Car had something like 120hp, weighted less than a moped, and ran like a raped ape. I used to go with him to several tracks and autocross events around SC, and when I got older, he let me ride shotgun with him, and even drive from time to time. The car he ALWAYS wanted, though, was a corvette. I don't think he even cared what year (obviously, cuz he bought a 76, lol). He always talked about racing in a vette, and how that was real racing, compared to the bug, which he called old number 3. He finally got his car, but he never, ever got it onto a track. Once he finally got the tranny fixed, the brakes failed a couple weeks later. First it was the MC. Then it was something else. Long story short, my mom pulled the plug on project vette, due to money concerns. And so, from about 96 on, the car sat in his garage. And sat. And sat. I left for college, in FL, and only came home for the summers, and Christmas. Then I graduated, got a job, etc, you know the drill. Met my future wife. Moved to CT. Long story short, got settled in, and got to thinking about that car, forsaken but not forgotten, in my dad's garage. So I called him up one day, seeing if he had any plans for it, or if he wanted to let me have it for a real good price, like, just the cost of shipping it up to CT. It was late 2007. The car had sat for almost 12 years. He said hell yeah, I paid 700 bucks to have it shipped up here, and it's been hard work ever since. And now, old number 4, as I call her, is running autocross on the weekends (when it runs!), and one day, will be running on Lime Rock and the Glen.
Anyway, I was just thinking it might be cool for some of us to share the history, so far as we know it, of our cars.
Mine is a '76, don't know who the first owner is, but they bought it in FL. They then sold the car to my great uncle, who lives on the Air Force base in Panama. He bought the car in 84. Drag raced it hard for a few years, then let it sit. We took a vacation down to FL in 94, where my dad saw it, drove it, and made my uncle an offer on it, as he at the time wanted to buy a boat. The deal was done, and my dad walked away with the 76 for 4 grand. Had 100,000 miles on it, and he drove it back up to his home in SC. Tranny gave out no sooner than he got it into the driveway.
My dad has always been into road racing, ever since I can remember. He used to drive an old VW bug, which he modified the seats in to accomodate tall folks. Car had something like 120hp, weighted less than a moped, and ran like a raped ape. I used to go with him to several tracks and autocross events around SC, and when I got older, he let me ride shotgun with him, and even drive from time to time. The car he ALWAYS wanted, though, was a corvette. I don't think he even cared what year (obviously, cuz he bought a 76, lol). He always talked about racing in a vette, and how that was real racing, compared to the bug, which he called old number 3. He finally got his car, but he never, ever got it onto a track. Once he finally got the tranny fixed, the brakes failed a couple weeks later. First it was the MC. Then it was something else. Long story short, my mom pulled the plug on project vette, due to money concerns. And so, from about 96 on, the car sat in his garage. And sat. And sat. I left for college, in FL, and only came home for the summers, and Christmas. Then I graduated, got a job, etc, you know the drill. Met my future wife. Moved to CT. Long story short, got settled in, and got to thinking about that car, forsaken but not forgotten, in my dad's garage. So I called him up one day, seeing if he had any plans for it, or if he wanted to let me have it for a real good price, like, just the cost of shipping it up to CT. It was late 2007. The car had sat for almost 12 years. He said hell yeah, I paid 700 bucks to have it shipped up here, and it's been hard work ever since. And now, old number 4, as I call her, is running autocross on the weekends (when it runs!), and one day, will be running on Lime Rock and the Glen.
