My ‘73 911T

Honestly I’d hafta say my very first ride really got me into truck’s pretty heavy. It was (and still is since its in my rides page under going a full resoration) a 1985 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe W/T. First year for the Vortec 4.3 which is what was in mine. The ole truck came from the factory with the coolest two tone paint sceme I have ever seen. Metalic Silver with a Midnight Black stripe. Theres really no rime or reason we do what we do. We’re just doing what we love and love what we’re doing.

@Nes,

It’s always nice to see stuff from the past and realize it’s still just as good as your remember.

@Leatherman,

The Little Red Wagon was an amazing truck! I love watching videos of that thing doing wheelstands on the drag strip. Do yourself a favor, drink a redbull and get the 944 back on the road. With almost perfect 50/50 weight ratio, they are a blast on and off the track.

@Mark,

Your probably warped from where you got your love of cars.

@Valek,

+1

@Maverick,

Can’t wait to see the completed project.

@oldscoob,

Did someone forget their lithium this morning?

Brand names. Give it up. Go for facts that do not exist and buy a triple overpriced fairy tale of what was a sign of heterosexual men, before they went extinct. I want a chevy chauvanist.

My Father always had hot rods, both domestic and foreign, and loved to wrench. When I was 10 or so I was looking through the garage and found his old 65 Ducati 100, it was in pieces, he was rebuilding it but passed away before he could finish it. I made a deal with my mother, that if I could get it running, I could have it. she never thought that would happen, but after a bunch of trips to the library on my bicycle, and a month or so, id not only put it completely back together, but had it running (not great, but it did run!) My mother kept her end of the deal, but wasn’t happy about it.. after that it was just a natural progression through bigger bikes, then into cars and building hot rods. Ive built high 12’s ford mavericks, tbirds and Olds’cutlasses, even pontiac trans ams, and now much later Porsches. I still have my first 924, bought it back in 95 and it was old then, now im on its second refurb, and also (re)building a road rally 924 turbo. , which is turning into the most aggressive build Ive ever done, and im loving every minute of it..be a bit better when i can drive at least one of them again though..soon…

ever since i was a little i was playing with toy car and customizing them. i was a but of a 911 nut at a very young age. i collected everything i could find, diecast models, magazines you name it.

at the age of 11 or 12 i wrote to the zuffenhausen factory once in my best german and got a nice letter back with brochures and everything

My dad would always let me watch any R rated movie that came across the television because it was the early 90’s and people weren’t whiney pussies like they are now, but anyway, one night the movie “Christine” came on. Seeing Dennis’ blue 68 Charger and Arnie’s 58 fury…cough…belvedere…cough, just flipped a switch in my brain. Been a Mopar fanatic ever since.

When I was 11 I came home from school, and my dad was already home, at the kitchen counter, looking at a magazine. He had an article on Bill Golden and the little red wagon (http://www.allpar.com/model/littleredwagon.html) open on the counter. He says to me, how would you like to own one of those? I looked at it, yeah that would be cool. To which he replied good, cause I just bought one. It’s yours when you turn 16. Of course, he just needed a reason to sell the idea to my mother. And the truck that I got was no where near wheelstander quality. 1966 Fargo (Dodge A-100, Dodge just didn’t want to use Dodge in Canada or the rest of the world at the time) with a 170 cubic inch slant 6 engine, it topped out at 60 mph, and it was screaming at that speed. Three in a tree column shifter, heater that barely worked, but I loved that truck. I had it until I was about 24, when I sold it for my first Porsche, a 1985.1 944, that I drove for a year, and then broke. Still trying to muster the energy to work on it.

when I was a kid there used to be Lowrider car shows on 3rd street in Tijuana. The car show was held right outside my door (literally.) Every year there was a light brown 1957 Chevy 3100 fully built with 4 pumps, 12 batteries, original interior, wood bed floor, 100 spoke 13″ wire wheels, matching lowride bike on the bed, and the loudest V8 I’ve heard to date. Later when moving to the States (some 7 years later) I saw the same truck in Long Beach, but I didn’t have a camera to take a picture of it, and the guy has it in the same conditions he had it back then!