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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #25 on: March 26, 2014, 01:34:33 am »
This was my first car! Bought it from a neighbor for $125 while I was still in H.S. Didn't look like this when I got it but it did when I left her!

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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #26 on: March 26, 2014, 01:38:17 am »
Quote from: Bigun on March 26, 2014, 01:31:38 am
Still married to the first girl who got in it! LOL!

Ah....that's what I wanted to hear....
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #27 on: March 26, 2014, 01:41:26 am »
Quote from: mystery-ak on March 26, 2014, 01:38:17 am
Ah....that's what I wanted to hear....

46 years now as of March 2nd and if I had it all to do over again I would change a thing!
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #28 on: March 26, 2014, 01:42:44 am »
Not to make everyone jealous or anything, but my first car was one of these beauties.



LOL, no joke. The most cookie cutter, boring car of 1991. They even put a Z24 badge on it to make it seem special. The sad part was how cool I thought it was.
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2014, 01:43:12 am »
Quote from: Bigun on March 26, 2014, 01:26:19 am
Yep! 1968, 4 speed, big block 440 with two 4 barrel carter AFBs

Geez!  How fast would it eat the clutch?  I had another neighbor who had a white dart GT convertible of similar vintage, but not with that big a block (I believe it had the 225 slant six); it was impeccably restored and he kept it cleaner than most kitchen countertops.
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #30 on: March 26, 2014, 01:43:32 am »
Quote from: Bigun on March 26, 2014, 01:41:26 am
46 years now as of March 2nd and if I had it all to do over again I would change a thing!
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44 years for us in July....where has the time gone.... **nononono*
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2014, 01:44:12 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on March 26, 2014, 01:42:44 am
Not to make everyone jealous or anything, but my first car was one of these beauties.



LOL, no joke. The most cookie cutter, boring car of 1991. They even put a Z24 badge on it to make it seem special. The sad part was how cool I thought it was.

cool is a state of mind.  if you felt cool, then you were cool.
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #32 on: March 26, 2014, 01:46:37 am »
Quote from: Oceander on March 26, 2014, 01:44:12 am
cool is a state of mind.  if you felt cool, then you were cool.

I thought I was cool, in reality, I was a geek and completely uncool. 
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« Reply #33 on: March 26, 2014, 01:48:06 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on March 26, 2014, 01:46:37 am
I thought I was cool, in reality, I was a geek and completely uncool. 

then you and I would have been partners in crime back then.  even I shudder when I look at pix of myself from back then.
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #34 on: March 26, 2014, 01:48:19 am »
This was my hubby's first car and the one we dated in...of course it didn't look as good as this and it seemed him and his dad were always working on it..lol

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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #35 on: March 26, 2014, 01:54:57 am »
Myst, here is another one from the show this weekend you'll like (immaculate paint that is very similar, doesn't have the white on the side)


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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #37 on: March 26, 2014, 02:15:12 am »
My first Baby!!  1968 Camaro



Could write a few paragraphs on the work I did, got it used in 1975, re-built the engine and trans from the ground up, first real car project, learned all I needed to know from Chilton manuals and picking the brains of the guys at the speed shops!! 
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #38 on: March 26, 2014, 02:21:12 am »
Ab was that green a standard Chevy green?....
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #39 on: March 26, 2014, 03:04:03 am »
My first car I got with money I saved up when I was 16 was a wrecked and rebuilt lime green AMC Hornet. 

BUT when I was 21 I got this car:



A brand new fully loaded 1977 Pontiac Trans Am - only mine was chocolate brown metallic.  It was HOT - baby!  And I was HOT in it!
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #40 on: March 26, 2014, 03:13:31 am »




LOL!  I remember placing my infant daughter (now 32) in her plastic Fisher-Price carrier behind the passenger seat....over the battery compartment.  No such thing as a seat belt in a 66 Corvette.

My wife was not exactly happy at the time..... :laugh:
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #41 on: March 26, 2014, 03:19:12 am »
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LOL!  I remember placing my infant daughter (now 32) in her plastic Fisher-Price carrier behind the passenger seat....over the battery compartment.  No such thing as a seat belt in a 66 Corvette.

My wife was not exactly happy at the time..... :laugh:

That's a beauty DC!  My husband had several Corvettes over the years - they were pretty tight inside - not exactly a family car!  I remember several times when we were out in his and would go to the grocery store - we'd come out with all the groceries and go, "Oh man, forgot we were in the Vette!"
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #42 on: March 26, 2014, 03:28:23 am »
Quote from: Oceander on March 26, 2014, 01:43:12 am
Geez!  How fast would it eat the clutch?  I had another neighbor who had a white dart GT convertible of similar vintage, but not with that big a block (I believe it had the 225 slant six); it was impeccably restored and he kept it cleaner than most kitchen countertops.

Wasn't as bad as you might think in that department but you had to be careful about not coming off the line at anything over 2000 RPM or the clutch was history damn quick like!
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #43 on: March 26, 2014, 03:36:17 am »
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LOL!  I remember placing my infant daughter (now 32) in her plastic Fisher-Price carrier behind the passenger seat....over the battery compartment.  No such thing as a seat belt in a 66 Corvette.

My wife was not exactly happy at the time..... :laugh:

My best friends older brother had a 63 split window that I thought was cool! Probably the best looking vette ever built in fact!


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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #44 on: March 26, 2014, 03:38:09 am »
Quote from: alicewonders on March 26, 2014, 03:04:03 am
My first car I got with money I saved up when I was 16 was a wrecked and rebuilt lime green AMC Hornet. 

BUT when I was 21 I got this car:



A brand new fully loaded 1977 Pontiac Trans Am - only mine was chocolate brown metallic.  It was HOT - baby!  And I was HOT in it!

LOL! I'll bet that's true!
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #45 on: March 26, 2014, 03:40:56 am »
Quote from: alicewonders on March 26, 2014, 03:04:03 am
My first car I got with money I saved up when I was 16 was a wrecked and rebuilt lime green AMC Hornet. 

BUT when I was 21 I got this car:



A brand new fully loaded 1977 Pontiac Trans Am - only mine was chocolate brown metallic.  It was HOT - baby!  And I was HOT in it!

Love those cars, and still somewhat affordable. (not the Bandit but other TAs)

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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #46 on: March 26, 2014, 03:49:35 am »
those were the days of automotive glory, in a certain way.  There are lots of things about today's cars I'd rather not give up, but there certainly was a whole lot about yesteryears' cars that I'm sad to see go.

Just imagine, if you will, putting the mechanicals of some of today's cars under those gorgeous skins.
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #47 on: March 26, 2014, 03:49:51 am »
Quote from: Bigun on March 26, 2014, 03:36:17 am
My best friends older brother had a 63 split window that I thought was cool! Probably the best looking vette ever built in fact!



The split-window Vette was my husband's favorite Corvette.  He never got one though. 
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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #48 on: March 26, 2014, 03:54:22 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on March 26, 2014, 03:40:56 am
Love those cars, and still somewhat affordable. (not the Bandit but other TAs)




I loved them too.  I also had a 1979 chocolate brown Trans Am after I...uh...er...totaled the '77.  Those cars were just made to kill yourself in, if you weren't careful.   8888crybaby

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Re: Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust
« Reply #49 on: March 26, 2014, 04:04:19 am »
Quote from: alicewonders on March 26, 2014, 03:54:22 am

I loved them too.  I also had a 1979 chocolate brown Trans Am after I...uh...er...totaled the '77.  Those cars were just made to kill yourself in, if you weren't careful.   8888crybaby



yeah, but what a way to go!
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