Introducing myself

[Whitten]

Hello everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself. I am a newbie to these cars in comparison to most of ya'll, and am really excited to be able to learn from all of ya'll. My father (mike2) and I share a common love for cars, and have several friends that are on this board and recommened it to us as a great source of info. Anyway, I am very new to all of this like I said, as I am only 20 years old. I have been fortunate enough to be around several people with beautiful car collections, which has instilled in me a supreme love and respect for muscle cars old and new. I look forward to meeting you all, and learning alot.
--Michael--

[55chevy]

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[Mr70]

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[MrsBillyBobcat]

<font color="blue">Welcome Michael!!! </font>

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[Whitten]

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Call me slow on the up take, but I am completely lost.

Anyway, just alittle more background info on myself. A close family friend of my father and I's just bought a fathom green 1969 COPO Camaro. I don't have the number of it as I have not yet seen the car since I have been gone to college. Also in his collection is the # 64 02 ZL-1 Garnet Red. He has been very good to us and seems to enjoy seeing how excited I get when he lets me help work on the cars. Over the summer I had a shoulder operation to repair damage done from a high school football injury, and he put me to work helping hand the mechanic tools, and keeping the cars clean. He has really been a great friend, as well as a mentor to me. He put me to work for the sole reason that I needed the money being a poor college kid, and also becuase he loves to see how much I am in awe of his collection. These cars make me feel as though I am 10 years old again and playing Star Wars in the back yard. On several occasions he has let my father and I drive his 68 Z-28 on the weekends, which gave my father and I some memories that will not be soon forgoton.

I imagine that for most of you the very same reason that I love these cars is the very same reason why you do to. That is why I am so excited to be on this site with a group of people that not only love the cars, but know every thing there is to know about them. You, that were of the age to have lived during the age of real muscle cars are a lucky group, and there are times when I find myself saying that I was born many years too late.

A little more info about my father and I, we had been tipped off to this site by a neighbor of ours who also owns a few nice cars...super awesome, undiscribable, rare cars. I had also heard about it through several others, but it was our neighbor that really coerced us to get on and check it out because this site is so full of good info.

So now that I have written an edict...anyone still want to talk or have I just made all of you fall asleep with my little heart felt Muscle car story?

[mhassett]

Michael, WELCOME--YOUNG ONE!!! Have a good time with this Special Web Site. ALOT of Great People here and some of the BEST CARS!! Mark /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Charley Lillard]

"A little more info about my father and I, we had been tipped off to this site by a neighbor of ours who also owns a few nice cars...super awesome, undiscribable, rare cars.".....So who is your Neighbor ? And do we hate him ? And can we steal his stuff ? Just kidding....

[mhassett]

Michael, I forgot to say also it is good to see a Young Man interested in the old Muscle Cars. Alot of young people like the Honda's,etc. We need some Young Blood to keep this Hobby Going Strong!! Us old guys /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif do All we can. Mark <font color="blue"> </font>

[olredalert]

----Sounds like you live in a great neighborhood.Lots of great cars and car-nuts close by.That can really help feed your hunger for knowledge.You probably have some good cruises in the local area as well.Your age may seem like some what of a hinderance to you,but those of us who are age challenged will tell you that all these years arent what theyre cracked up to be sometimes!As most of us on here have learned,just have fun.Thats the most important thing............Bill S

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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif UmÖFirst of all, Michael, this had nothing to do with you. Ed (55chevy) missed the ìlî in ìwelcomeî, and then Rick (mr70) read it as two separate words /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

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Itís nice to know we will have a future generation to take care of our cars.

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[55chevy]

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[Whitten]

Mr. Lillard, my neighbor wishes to remain anonmous as he thinks that it would be a detriment to his investment if everyone knew that he was training a protoge. Haha, no I am just kidding my neighbor is Jude Heddick. Man I hope that I spelled his last name right, and sorry if I didn't.

Anyway, I wanted to tell all of you that believe it or not, there are alot of guys and gals out there that are my age or younger that love these cars. Further more, I believe it was Car and Driver that did a survey asking highschool kids if they could have any car to drive what would it be. The results were fairly surprising, since you had around 12% saying that they would want an import or import type car, 10% wanting a truck, 2 % wanting the pontiac vibe, 20 % wanting to drive some type of luxery car, and a resounding 56 % wanting a 60's muscle car! If there is one thing that I want to pass on to all of you is that I can not stress enough is DRIVE YOUR CARS!!!!. I know that alot of you have cars that are very rare, but a vehicle does need to be driven on occasion, and what better thing to do than drive it around to neighborhood for all of the little kids to see. The one thing that I will never get tired of all of the thumbs up and the yells of excitement from all of the kids in my neighbor hood and my local cruise spots when I get to drive the 68' Z-28. The kids today are what will ensure the value of your investment will continue to rise.

Anyway, like I promised I will post pics as soon as I get them sized down. And once I begin to post pics.....it never stops.

[NCGuy68]

Howdy Mike....and welcome to the board.



Glad to see that you and other young guys that I know have a interest in the Supercars, both vintage as well as late model.

I note that you're in the Atlanta/Marietta, GA area which puts you in close contact with GMMG who built the 02 ZL1 cars. If you don't know already, I'am sure Matt Murphy will enjoy talking to you.

[Stuart Adams]

Mr. Lillard!! Wow, manners, welcome. By the way the Charley Sucks sign is Mr. Lillard!!

[Charley Lillard]

"Mr Lillard"...I like that. Maybe the rest of you Yahoos should call me that also instead of things Like Idiot, Bozo and Charley Sucks........ /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/Charley.gif....Yeah, starten to feel like an Adult......

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Oh yeah, regarding the "young ones" not to worry. I working on the toddler age group as we speak. My 3 year old can spot a set of rally wheels from a mile a way. I should have had Bill Wildt interview him at Vettefest. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

[Whitten]

Now that is what I call an education.

My roomies and I all crowd around the computer when ever we are on really cool sites, and this is one of them. I frequent www.svtperformance.com (http://www.svtperformance.com), and also my local site www.auburnextremeracing.com. (http://www.auburnextremeracing.com.) Both are great sites for new muscle cars, but I was really hoping to find a site that catered to mine and my roomates old car obsession. My roomie Jason drives a 67 nothch back Mustang, and so you can imagine he loves stuff like this. And after finding this little oasis of car knowledge I think that I have hit the mark. I really just enjoy reading and not saying much, but on a few rare occasions I have spoken up.

As for the 02 Zl-1s my good friend that I go to school with down here got to talking about the #64 Garnett Red car and in talking we found out we had a whole lot more in common than we thought. He told me that his cousin was buying some really awsome new Camaro that was painted some kind of yellow, and had a 427. I light up like a Christmas tree, and blurted out "is it a Daytona yellow phase three ZL-1 Super car built by GMMG!?" To which his jaw dropped on the floor cause he never expected anyone else especially his own age to know what the heck he was talking about. So his Cousin owns # 46...what a small world.

Another small world is when I ran into one of the guys that works at GMMG while I was out at out local cruise spot. I had been out galavanting around just checking out some cars when I met this guy with a very plain Z-28. After walking around the car twice and taking note that it had stickers on the hood much like the GMMG cars, I decided to ask the owner about his car. Before I could open my mouth I saw his hat that read GMMG, and I knew that his cars was the meanest thing out there. After oooing over his car for a while we carried on a convo and ended up becomming friends.

This hobby is like nothing else, you some of the coolest people. And see some really impessive cars.

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Whitten, I think I've traded e-mails with the owner of #46. I lost all those e-mails, etc. when my Toshiba crashed a couple months ago. Ask him if he remembers #51. Wasn't that Dick Butkus's number?? (Youngsters - don't even try to figure this one out!) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[J_D]

Isn't #46 David Watt's '02 ZL1? As I remember David lives in Gulf Shores, Alamaba.

I believe it is. If so, he, his wife and his parents are really nice folks. We had the opportunity to meet them at the Fred Gibb show in La Harpe, Illinois this past summer.

[Whitten]

He sure does live down there, and there has been another addition to the family. He just had a new baby boy if I remember correctly. His cousin Greg is one of my good friends, and after the Super Chevy Show at MMP we drove Davids car back to Auburn, where Mike and Ron (GMMG) picked it up to do some work on it. We had a blast driving it into and through downtown Auburn. What was the absolute best was when we loped through the sorority dorms with the cutout open. I have never had so many chicks complent a car that had me in it before. My girlfriend even ooh and ahhed over it, as did her roomates. Cops smiled and gave the thumbs up, while ricers trembled in their fart cannons. Life is good in a muscle car, and one of these days I hope to own the #69 Grumpy's Toy Car that is sitting over there at the shop....might have to beat up Mike to get the keys though.

Pic of Davids car and my girl posing for the photo op.

[Whitten]

Well I thought that I got that pic attached, but I will have to try again in a few. Here is my father's friends car collection that I worked on alittle this summer.