What cars have been in your garage?

Crappy kit Cobra? What brand?

My Garage?
Great kit Cobra
Great Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe replica
Soon to be 348

 

Masda RX-7 GSL street racer: original 12A, no rats nest, Racing Beat headers to tail, RB suspension. Smooth as glass to 10k rpm. Leather GT wheel, & knob. Just sold it.

 

A 1992 supercharged Acura NSX with 44k. Showroom new in everyway. Total showcar thats been featured in Honda Tuning.

 

1980 VW Scirocco (red - stock)
1980 VW Scirocco (black - with a badass 2.0 16V ported, cams, etc.etc.)
1987 VW Scirocco 16V
2005 VW Touareg V8
1974 MGB
1982 Alfa Romeo Spider
1984 Ferrari 308 GTSi

AND I don't even have a garage. Just a carport. The Alfa and the Ferrari go there with covers. The rest in the driveway with covers (not much room left in the driveway.)

 

Moved to the appropriate sub-forum.

 

going back in time......
Porsche 928 Turbo
BMW 633 Turbo
Land Rover S2 Dormobile
Land Rover Santana
928S4 GT
944 Turbo
911 Turbo Cab
911S
911T
356 Cab
356 Notchback
356 Convertible D
Porsche 914-6
Alfa GTA Stradale
Alfa Giulia Sprint Speciale
Mustang Boss 302
Olds Vista Cruiser wagon/455/4spd.
Austin 11
62 Corvette Fuelie
Lotus Elan autocrosser
Citroen DS 21 Pallas
5 Speedsters (1 Carrera racecar)
Fiat 600 Abarth
Fiat 600 Abarth clone
2 356 Super 90's
62 409/425 AFX (shoulda kept that one! (BJ 2006))
60 Impala 409/409
55 Chevy 'C gasser'
53 Ford sled
50 Olds convertible sled
40 Ford Coupe/Olds V8
32 Ford/Olds V8
37 Chev Coupe
(I'll stop now; this is too embarassing....)

James

 

Wow!
You have the Zagato in CA?
I saw one in 1992/1993 in LA Brentwood area, forgot whether it was on a tourist plate or not. Is yours on a 'show & display' plate?
Awesome looking car.
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Different era cars I think Taffy.....
Maybe George will post a pic of his car now..........

James

 

Well these are all the cars my family has owned:

First navigator from 1998 (navi) (bought our second in 2001 and still have it)

Ford explorer eddie bauer edition 1995 (nickname:eddie)

Ford Thunderbird turbo (this thing really kicked ass-black on black super fast! I loved it as a kid-called it the bat mobile lol)

And we had a trans am when I was little also. Gunmetal grey. Pretty sweet also. It was an 80s car but I dont remember the exact year etc (I was small!)

Thats it actually. My family hasn't owned many cars in the last 17yrs as you can see.

 

Seeing as my garage is the same one my dad had as a kid, this goes:
1963 Austin Healey 3000
1970 Ford Thunderbird
1985 Porsche 944
About 10 Motorcycles
Assorted sports cars that I can't for the life of me remember.

 

1997 Ford Explorer XLT (named The Exploder) 190K on the clock and still running! Never has had a single problem, great in the snow and what I use to go snowboarding with or bring a bunch of friends somewhere. Daily Driver through out High School..and its for Sale.

2000 Ford F-250 SuperDuty Diesel (named The Truck) Mainly for towing a boat or throwing the dirt bikes in the back. Unreliable piecer becuase of the crank shaft positioning sensor goes out alteast once or twice a year. And the autolocking hubs fried in a year!

2001 Audi TT Quattro (named Titty) Favorite out of the bunch, ladies love it. Not bad on gas, could do with a little more power. But always a pleasure to drive. The road holding it has is awesome...Really have to push it for the tires to start screaming.

All sitting at home waiting for me to come back
No exotic yet, but still in college.

Not bad for a guy who is just about to turn 20!

 

I don't have a garage.

 

amazing car...lucky man...

 

A 60 Chev 409? How did I miss that. I thought the 409 was not available until 1961. Yea, shoulda kept the 62 409 A/FX.

Mine?
56 Plymouth 4 door
1955 Chev (265V8)
56 Chev (283)
1947 Ford Sedan (Flathead V8)
41 Willys (Original hemi)
58 Ford Starliner
64 Chevy Nova (327)
68 Olds 442 --shoulda been kept--Crower roller cam, Jahns pistons, 750 cfm Holley, Tarantula High-rise, Dougs headers, 4:56 gears, Hurst Competition Plus spring loaded shifter. Loads of fun. Similar cars now selling for upwards of $25K.
70 Grand Prix
72 Malibu SS
many more in between then and now
Oh, most fun---'23 Ford T-bucket altered. Full tube chasis with 454 Chev big block. Ran A/EA because I ran just a single 4 bbl. Best of 8.96, 168 mph.
Most scary---31 Bantam Altered with supercharged big block hemi. Was a total handful to keep on the track. Best, low 7's, 185 mph. Should have been quicker and faster but I guess I was not the right driver for it. Like to swap ends............

Many BMW's over the years
two M/B
Lincoln Mk v
Dodge Grand Caravan AWD

Time to move on

Wait, I just saw it on your list. The car I want now. 62 Corvette 327 Fuelie. Only 947 built and you had one? Cool...........Frame off restos with matching numbers are now going for about $50K and up. Another I bet you wish you had kept.....

 

1992 Stealth ES (got a ticket for 102 in a 30 and was unable to drive to my high school graduation due to the 30 day suspension)
1993 Grand Cherokee
2001 Acura CLS
1999 Mercedes E320 4 matic
1999 Land Cruiser*
1999 Jag XJR*

*current

all were bought used exect the CL and I feel I have been pretty fortunate, vertually no problems with any of the cars.

 

Tritone,

I just did some research and found out that I was correct about the year that Chevrolet introduced the 409. It was 1961. The largest engine available for a Chevrolet in 1960 was the 348. NOw just where did you acquire a 1960 model with the 409? If you really did have one, that is the one you should have held onto. It would be the only one in existance. Can you supply some evidence of this car existing?

Also, the 1962 409 was a S/S class car, not an A/FX. There was not an A/FX class in 1962 that the Chevrolet competed in. Don Nicholson and Dave Strickler were the most famous of the 409 crusaders and won many S/S class championships. And the 425 hp engine came out in 1963 as a 409 and mid year as a 427 with 430 hp ( although many say that it actually produced closer to 500 hp). The A/FX car came out in 1963 and Dave Strickler won the national championship in 12.17 seconds with it. I can probably give you a little more information about the cars you say you owned if you would like. Please help me understand how you owned these cars before the factory even built them.

I competed in drag racing for many, many years, starting in 1961 and competed up until the middle 90's. And I still follow it closely now. I am considering going back in and driving an altered again but we will see if that pans out. Having owned some of these cars, as you say you did, where did you compete and when? I just might have seen you somewhere!!!!!!

If you would like to see my 23 Ford Altered, you can click on my profile and go to "threads started by Audiguy". About half way down there is a thread of , McLaren, Altered and M/X or something like that. Click on it and you can see a couple of views of the '23, a couple of my friends McLaren that I got to keep for three day and drive and a picture of me at the 1973 Lake Whitney 250 Nationals when I raced M/X for Kawasaki.....

I would love to see some of the cars you say you had at one time. These two seem to have a rather dubious existance. Any pictures of either one of them?????????

 

The McLaren F1 should be at the top of that list!

 

Nothing too special here, but:

98 Plymouth Voyager (moms)
98 Dodge Neon (dads)
00 Dodge Durango (moms)
01 Pontiac Grand Am GT (moms)
03 Mitsubishi Evo (moms)
04 Acura RSX (moms)
00 Dodge Intrepid (dads)
73 Chevy Nova (family project)
87 Jeep Cherokee (mine)
89 Nissan 240sx (brothers)
86 Dodge Ram Charger (brothers)
94 Subaru Impreza L with a 2.5L swapped in (brothers)
93 Nissan 240sx (brothers)
99 BMW M3 (brothers)
98 Pontiac Trans Am WS6, with about 600hp (friends)
91 Acura NSX with about 800whp (brother's former boss)
71 Chevy Impala (took motor out and junked it)
99 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (friend)
04 Mustang Cobra (friend)
91 Nissan 240sx (friends)
71 Chevy Chevelle - supercharged with ~1100hp (old friend)

I think that about covers it... If you were wondering, my brother who has had that many cars is 19. He gets bored with cars.

 

Well since my dad has had about 40 cars and I have only been around for 20 years, there are plenty I can't remember but from what springs to mind there have been a few cars in there:

Current:
05 Mini Convertible
61 Norton Dominator Type 99 Motorbike
02 Nissan Micra

Previous Vehicles:
95 BMW 520i Touring
92 BMW 518i
87 BMW 525e 2.7 Auto
86 BMW 316 1.8
86 Renault 21 2.0
plus a few classics MGB, Ford Capri 3.0 (oh dear!)

No Fcars yet though!

 

Current:
94 Supra
02 Maserati Spyder (for-sale)

Past:
02 Honda S2000
95 Nissan 240SX
95 Supra TT 6spd

 

Audiguy -
Give the old guys a break, it's been a while since the day.
The '60 is on the top; looks like it ran C Gas that weekend (yes, and very cool that we drove our racers to the races and home back then.....)
Where they put a mod car for one event @ Bakersfield.
The FI Corvette is below, and the only shot of the 62 is behind it......
Shows nothing. OK, so not AF/X. What was the highest class in '62-63? I recall it was above S/S.....And for sure I was an also-ran to Don Nicholson - so much so that he was usually happy to tune my car before a run.
I'll keep looking for another pic of the 62.....
Anything else?

James
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James

Did not mean to sound too brash but there are so many people who come on here and make claims and cannot back them up that I have started to question.

Yep, looks like C/G to me. From every source I have, I have that the 348 was the largest engine available in 1960. It is just strange to me that a 60 model would have a pre-production engine in it. When some of the modifications were done to cars in the early days they would get stuck as a gasser because they did not fit into a perfect class.. Gene Snow and Art Chrisman had to run as C/FD with their early fuel injected, altered wheelbase funny cars because they did not have a class for them.

A/FX came out in 63. Chevrolet also started the early part of the year with the higher output 409 but came out with the Z11 427 mystery engine midyear. Junior Johnson set up a couple of cars to run Nascar and got banned. It had something to do with the way they brought air into the intake system. I used to have some pictures of the inside of the air cleaner with the top removed and it had some snaky looking tubes bringing air in.

The Ramchargers brought out supercharged altered wheelbase funny cars before the funny car class and created a new S/FX or supercharged factory experimental. It was just about a year or two later that Don NIcholson and Eddie Schartman came out with the first of the tube frame, fiberglass body, pop top funnies.

The 62 327 fuelie Vette has been one of my favorites since I first saw George Maharis on Route 66. About a $50k car now for one in excellent condition, mid $30's for a good driver.........I still want one, 40 years later......

I ran a lot of different cars over the years with my last one being the A/EA '23 Ford T-bucket altered. 454 Chevrolet engine produced a little over 650hp on the dyno as it went to the track the first time. Absolute blast to drive, scary but fun. 8.96, 168 mph. Fastest was the '31 Bantam with the supercharged 426 hemi. 7's, upper 180's. If I had had bigger kahoonas I probably could have gotten more out of it but it was just so unwiely on the track that it kept me off guard. Only ran it for a year and switched back to a stocker for a couple of years. Did not stay stock long. 68 Olds 442 that was quickly modified to Crower roller cam, Jahns pistons, ported and polished heads, Dougs headers, Tarantula high-rise with a 750 cfm Holley. Installed 4:56 gears. Left like crazy but had no top end with those gears. Could only get about 115 mph out of it at redline. But boy it could get to that 115 mph quickly.....Or at least in that day it did. I could only get it into the 12's.

Boy, times have really changed. Cars just get the power to the ground so much better than we did back then. Tires might have something to do with it also.

Sorry if you felt really attacked. Please accept my apologies. Just tell me how you got that 409 in 1960. It has me bumfuzzled........