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For the love of a Classic muscle car

34 messages,  Last post on Feb 22, 2009 at 10:11 PM

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#15 of 34 For the love of them by papasam1

Nov 06, 2008 (9:46 am)

I think the love of a car comes from the sweat and tears and time that are put into it from the repair, the fixing,, the driving. It took one summer of working on my mustang for them to be hooked and mustang lovers for ever. Then came the driving of what they had worked on and there was no going back, so to love something like a car is having that car in your system as well as you understand the systems in the car. Just ask a car lover why he or she love that or any car. They must talk about how they became part of car. This sounds like double talk but if you understand then there nothing else to say and if you don't then theres nothing else I can tell you.

#16 of 34 Them by papasam1

Nov 06, 2008 (9:00 pm)

Them are my kids that are now girl 33 and boy 30 and still classic car lovers from the heart. Sam

#17 of 34 Re: For the love of them [papasam1] by euphonium

Nov 25, 2008 (9:27 pm)

Replying to: papasam1 (Nov 06, 2008 9:46 am)
Tell us more about your Stang & what you've done to & with it.
 
6RO7A169929 has been with me for over 40 years. (66 GT Cpe)

#18 of 34 for the love of them by papasam1

Nov 26, 2008 (2:43 pm)

I am a retired Marine that have loved the mustang from the early 70's and owned my first one in 1974 a 1965 cpe and since then there have been many as my kids were going up.
    I have only has two that were close to my heart a 1968 California Special which in Hawaii in 1983 which took me a year to complete but god what a car, Between then and now again there have been many but the 1970 fastback in the one that got under my skin and has been there every since.
    The car is not for shows or has matching numbers it's my car not only by ownership but "FOR THE LOVE OF IT". In 1993 I saw the car sitting in back of a machine shop where it had been pawned by a worker at the place to the owner of the business. Well after some intense talk about the cost of the car I took it home where my 18yr old dau and 15 yr old son said dad what is that, was a good question do to the looks of the car that was missing many exter.parts as well as inter. parts.
     The 1968 C/S was the first contact that my two kids had with a car of this kind. There first ride was one they would never forget, a 6000 RPM 50 foot burnout from a 350 HP 302 mousetrap if you know the term. By the way my wife did not speak to me for a week and would never ride in the car. At this point the kids were hooked for life at 8 and 5 years old. So when the 70 Mustang came along they were there for the motor building, stero, tranny change (auto to manual) rearend change 8 inch to 9 inch, the gear change to 325 from 280, dis brake change, power brakes. GT interior placement, rack and pin steering and the body work was done by us alone with the spectramaster base coat clear coat Red RM235K.
    Dawn and Brian were there every step of the way and are now mustang lover from the heart because they have there blood, sweat, and tears invested. So we are in it for for the love of them "THE MUSTANG"
 
USMC RETIRED THANKS EUPHONIUM

#20 of 34 For the love of them by papasam1

Nov 26, 2008 (9:28 pm)

Thats hot, let us know how you are doing with the car when you get it.

#22 of 34 For the love of them by papasam1

Nov 27, 2008 (1:53 am)

I think that would depend on what you want to do with the car. If it's going to be your car to drive daily then the crate motor is the way to go but if you want to show the car then stay with the 283. You can put the 283 and the tranny up some where just in case you want to make it a show car later in life. I tend to want to satisfy my own desires when it comes to my cars. My car came with the 302 in it but I had the need for the 351W so thats what I put in the mustang. As I said to each his own.

#23 of 34 For the love of them by papasam1

Nov 27, 2008 (1:54 am)

I think that would depend on what you want to do with the car. If it's going to be your car to drive daily then the crate motor is the way to go but if you want to show the car then stay with the 283. You can put the 283 and the tranny up some where just in case you want to make it a show car latelr in life. I tend to want to satisfy my own desires when it comes to my cars. My car came with the 302 in it but I had the need for the 351W so thats what I put in the mustang. As I said to each his own.

#24 of 34 Re: For the love of a Classic muscle car [garv214] by papasam1

Nov 27, 2008 (6:53 pm)

Replying to: garv214 (Nov 04, 2008 10:54 am)
It seems that I'm missing the point here, we were talking muscle cars then some how toyota, lexus, camry and mazda became the topic. So where's the classic car talk whats with the import talk , how does that go along with what we are talking about or did I just miss something in the translation.

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