Wann'a know what I really miss?

[BJCHEV396]

The good old days when a car was just a car.You raced it,blew it up or smashed it and just turned around and bought another one!Never worried about numbers matching or even thought much about it.I bought a '65 Corvette,327/365 in January 1973,installed a block heater and put on a set of snow tires and drove it during college..it was just transportation!

[olredalert]

Originally Posted by BJCHEV396

The good old days when a car was just a car.You raced it,blew it up or smashed it and just turned around and bought another one!Never worried about numbers matching or even thought much about it.I bought a '65 Corvette,327/365 in January 1973,installed a block heater and put on a set of snow tires and drove it during college..it was just transportation!

----My great friend and partner in Red Alert, Terry Carney, (RIP) bought a 65 Corvette roadster back about 1980 out of Chicago. He came by my house with it and I immediately saw that the rear fenders were all chewed up all the way around on both sides. The owner had put chains on it for winter driving. Was a nice 350 horse Vette other than that..…..Bill S

[Big Block Bill]

Originally Posted by BJCHEV396

The good old days when a car was just a car.You raced it,blew it up or smashed it and just turned around and bought another one!Never worried about numbers matching or even thought much about it.I bought a '65 Corvette,327/365 in January 1973,installed a block heater and put on a set of snow tires and drove it during college..it was just transportation!

I had studded snow tires on my 1969 Hemi Roadrunner in 1974. Drove it to High school every day and Great Lakes Drag-A-Way in Union Grove Wisconsin during the summer. It went 11:57 @ 125 MPH and got 4 miles to the gallon (but I did work at a gas station which I own now) with the Teter Automotive Rat Roaster dual Quad intake. Then sold it for $1500.00 in 1975 to buy a boat to pitch Beer Cans out of on Lake Geneva Wisconsin! Those were the days that memories were made out of!

RM21J was the begining of the VIN as I remember. I told my insurance company it was RM21H (318) it took them 12 months to catch me that's why I had to sell it at any cost. Insurance was $360.00 for 318 B-body, but $900.00 for a 426 Hemi insuring a 17 year old Kid. The Trading Times was a BIG DEAL in our area back in the day. It was started by a good friends brother, Jay Owen.

Bill