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williegoat
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JAN 10, 03:44 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
Is this real? I've never seen a Charger that looks like this before! Was this a limited run / body style? Or someone did this as custom? |
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Kids these days...
That was the first Charger '66-'67.
edit: All of the chrome has been blacked out, which gives it a different look. Also, although I am not a Mopar guy, the center caps are wrong. The whole wheel might be wrong, but it is close.[This message has been edited by williegoat (edited 01-10-2022).]
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82-T/A [At Work]
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JAN 10, 04:48 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
Kids these days...
That was the first Charger '66-'67.
edit: All of the chrome has been blacked out, which gives it a different look. Also, although I am not a Mopar guy, the center caps are wrong. The whole wheel might be wrong, but it is close.
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Hahah, well, I was born more than a decade after that car was built!
Those wheels look like PMDs from the late 60s / early 70s... but what do I know.
I do really like the look of that. It's distinctly different than the Chargers I grew up watching on Dukes of Hazzard!
You know... when I was much younger... I would have killed for a car like this, or some other classic muscle car. I'd spend tons of money buying **** cars... like an 82 TransAm w/ 150k miles on it, or a 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme that was stuffed in the rear, and then tons of work hours having someone fixing the body / frame... or any number of stuff. I wanted something like this bad... something with a huge motor, and an open element air cleaner... with all original interior... that I could just drop the hammer and lots of noise and tire burn.
I'm at the age now and point in my career where I could literally write a check for something like that above, and park it in my driveway tomorrow... but I'm more reluctant now at this age to buy anything like that because of wanting to be financially responsible... and it sucks.
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williegoat
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JAN 10, 05:03 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
Those wheels look like PMDs from the late 60s / early 70s... but what do I know.
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You are thinking of the Pontiac Rally II wheels. I have them on both my Goat and my GP.
These are 14x7 but aren't correct. The car came with 14x6, gray with black center caps, but I think they look much better with the red.
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maryjane
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JAN 10, 07:10 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I'm at the age now and point in my career where I could literally write a check for something like that above, and park it in my driveway tomorrow... but I'm more reluctant now at this age to buy anything like that because of wanting to be financially responsible... and it sucks. |
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You will outgrow that. Buy it, enjoy the crap out of it. Put it away for a few years and sell it for way more than you paid for it.[This message has been edited by maryjane (edited 01-10-2022).]
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MidEngineManiac
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JAN 10, 07:31 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I'm at the age now and point in my career where I could literally write a check for something like that above, and park it in my driveway tomorrow... but I'm more reluctant now at this age to buy anything like that because of wanting to be financially responsible... and it sucks. |
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Your being smart dude...be even smarter and tuck away some (a lot) nobody (not even family) knows about. Wish I had.
You never know when sickness or life are going to kick the sheet out of you, and "responsibilities" that nobody else will shoulder will drain away everything.
2010 I was living on a gated property, running the biggest "fair food" tech department in eastern Canada, driving a Cooper and a truck, eating take-out 6 days a week, not worrying about the cost of Makers Mark and basically having a good old time any way I wanted.
By '13 most of that was drained by dads cancer, and by early '16 I was on the streets. Unlike my ******* siblings, when 'duty calls" I show up...but sometimes the costs are a beach, and you NEVER know when its going to start....or who is going to show up to help when REALLY needed and you end up paying a lot more than you had planned on in the 1st place, because nobody else will.[This message has been edited by MidEngineManiac (edited 01-10-2022).]
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82-T/A [At Work]
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JAN 10, 07:48 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
You are thinking of the Pontiac Rally II wheels. I have them on both my Goat and my GP.
These are 14x7 but aren't correct. The car came with 14x6, gray with black center caps, but I think they look much better with the red. |
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GP?! What year GP do you have? I LOVE classic Grand Prixs.
I know most will scoff at this, but for me, one of my favorite years is the 1976-1977 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ with the 455 big block. Total turd, I know... but you can always re-do a 455 Pontiac to scream... and imagine such a beast with the two-tone, powered sunroof, and the "pillow top" seats. Oh man...
| quote | Originally posted by maryjane:
You will outgrow that. Buy it, enjoy the crap out of it. Put it away for a few years and sell it for way more than you paid for it.
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My daughter has high aspirations for going to a specific college, which I think is going to cost an arm and a leg, so I will make sure I can pay for that. My opinion, she's had straight-As every year for the past 4 years, so I have no problem paying for it. But once she's done with college... all her expenses are her own! My parents were the same way... spared no expense on opportunities for me as a kid, but once I was an adult... on my own. They paid for school at first, but I dropped out, and my dad basically said... "Sorry son, this will hurt me more than it hurts you." hahah...
But I really, really want to get my Fiero out of storage and fixed up. I'm almost done with it.
I also want to get my VW Bus out of storage, which was running and registered / insured when I put it away 11 years ago.
I have a fully built up Olds 455 big block from 1969 that I spent a ridiculous and irresponsible amount of money on... so I'm Good to Go with a powerplant. I've got a matching TH-400 w/ switch pitch stator and module as well... just needing to be rebuilt with the BOP bell housing as well... just need a rebuild kit and a weekend... and... a vehicle to drop it in.
I think what I'd really like... is to find some kind of luxo-barge that's in good original condition, no rust, good paint... maybe an Arizona car that just needs painting. I replace all the rubber / suspension bushings and hoses and such, and drop it in. It could be something like a 2-door Oldsmobile Delta-88 Deluxe, or a Pontiac Grand Prix, or something like that. I'll do it up as if original, but with the disgustingly powerful motor I have sitting on an engine stand right now. It'll be sick... something that glides smooth, unless I drop the hammer... and then it screams like a 500 pound female gorilla that just got raped by King Kong.
| quote | Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
Your being smart dude...be even smarter and tuck away some (a lot) nobody (not even family) knows about. Wish I had.
You never know when sickness or life are going to kick the sheet out of you, and "responsibilities" that nobody else will shoulder will drain away everything.
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I've been really lucky... knocks on wood, family has been really healthy. I need to keep it that way. I'm realizing now that I'm in my 40s, that I can no longer eat the way I did in my 20s or 30s. I don't really know what I'm saving for, other than retirement... I think I want a franchise, I don't know... small life crisis... but really, I'm being a baby about everything.[This message has been edited by 82-T/A [At Work] (edited 01-10-2022).]
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MidEngineManiac
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JAN 10, 08:04 PM
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LOL, you will learn, Grasshopper 
When the Trudeau voters....at work, at home, at the bar, start talking about "responsibility"....It REALLY means "I dont want to, so you do it/pay it, you OWE me just because."...and "I'lll be upset and angry and holler"
Not any more, THOSE days are gone !!!
Go ahead. Holler. Stomp the feet even. I'll just stomp right back.
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williegoat
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JAN 10, 08:24 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
GP?! What year GP do you have? I LOVE classic Grand Prixs.
I know most will scoff at this, but for me, one of my favorite years is the 1976-1977 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ with the 455 big block. Total turd, I know... but you can always re-do a 455 Pontiac to scream... and imagine such a beast with the two-tone, powered sunroof, and the "pillow top" seats. Oh man...
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'70 Model J
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Raydar
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JAN 10, 10:18 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I do really like the look of that. It's distinctly different than the Chargers I grew up watching on Dukes of Hazzard!
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In retrospect, it was a bit more uncommon than a lot of Mopars of that vintage.
Here is a "less modded" example.
Those were real "Magnum 500" wheels, but they didn't come with the spinners in the center. Just normal caps.[This message has been edited by Raydar (edited 01-10-2022).]
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MidEngineManiac
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JAN 11, 02:38 PM
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Fruckin car guys, man...
Somehow we went from best way to build a controlor box to cars that have the best back seat !!
(Psssttt, it's a 78 Pontiac Acadian, parked behind a church on highway 6 at 3:30 AM in 1982. Lay that backseat down, spread out a blanket out and you got all the room you need......until the cops flashlight knocks on the window and he says I'll be back in an hour, dont be here)
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