Retro pics, the good old days.

[hawkfn18]

I remember the feeling I'd get driving past this place with my dad when I was a kid!

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[jimynick]

sounds about right! "Give me three steps, give me three steps mister and you'll never see me no more! "   

[TobiasM]

@reply137: Great pic...and I vote for the lady on the far right 

[TobiasM]

@reply140: Roadman, if this is you and your buddies in that pic, it's not only a great photo but must be a great friendship connecting you guys for that long of time 

[TobiasM]

This is the car that started my fascination with Mopars,  my dad's 68 GTX.

and one of my dad helping my grandpa swap engines in his Galaxie.

@reply143: Scott, awesome pics and story what got your kar-krazy-ness started! Cool your pa and even grandpa were into hot rides, too! That header on the Ford looks very interesting, so close tube-routing, that I would gues its casted material...never saw casted headers before...was it a factory part or aftermarket?

[wldgtx]

This is the car that started my fascination with Mopars,  my dad's 68 GTX.

and one of my dad helping my grandpa swap engines in his Galaxie.

@reply143: Scott, awesome pics and story what got your kar-krazy-ness started! Cool your pa and even grandpa were into hot rides, too! That header on the Ford looks very interesting, so close tube-routing, that I would gues its casted material...never saw casted headers before...was it a factory part or aftermarket?

I am not sure about the headers, but they look casted.  I cannot ask either of them as they have both passed away.  However, I have stories that were passed down to me about them racing cars and ripping engines out quite often. 

Funny side note about the GTX:  My dad had often said that the 383 was one of he most underappreciated engines...  I believe in '72 he blew up the 440 while racing either on Woodward or at Detroit Dragway, he got a 383 which he had used many parts from the 440 into it and swore it was just as fast, so he ran the 383 in it until '77 when he sold the car to my uncle who raced it for a number of years.  The hood callouts still said 440 and according to them, no one ever questioned it.  Sadly that GTX would eventually be crushed after it met a big oak tree.

[Chryco Psycho]

Mopar had some of the wildest cast exhaust / headers ever used in the early -mid 60s

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[340challconvert]

New York Auto Show 1970
borrowed from Facebook

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