First Car: 1963 Ford Fairlane 500 coupe. Mine was Pewter Gold with a black top. My brother stocked up the horses some on that little 260 V8 - but not enough to get me killed.
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My earlier favorite was a 1972 Gran Torino Sport, 351 Cleveland with the big 550 CFPM 2V Holley carb. Nasty suprise for any 350 4V Malibu's. Also Pewter Gold color with metallic tones. Guy I sold it to at about 110,00 miles, told me the last time I saw him that it had over 170,000 miles on it, burned no oil and the FMX tranmission was still tight
My old boys toy was a 1982 Dodge Ramcharger 4X4. Had a custom 360 Dodge police inteceptor block bored and stroked to about 380 CI, huge carburetion (Rochester 800 vacumn first than a 750 Holley 'double pumper'. Competition Cams 270 cam (low to midrange torque), oversize valves, variable duration lifters, all racing grade valve gear, electronic racing distributor with mechanical advance timing. Auburn limited slip rear with stainless steel clutches. Manual 4 speed tranny. Beefed springs, shocks, steering stabilizer. With the static timing advanced like for competition, it shocked a lot of people at how it accelerated for a 5000 lb vehicle. It really shined off road and in deep snow. Never stuck or failed to climb any hill I put it on, and it was put in some really bad conditions off road. Sadly, Hurricane Isabel dropped a tree on it and totaled it just when I was going to fix it up again. Only drawback was buying lots of octane improver or paying a lot for Sunoco racing gas (used by NASCAR). My son told me this afternoon before I read this thread that he still loved that truck - he drove it some in his college years and took it on a few trips after college. Guess he was secretly hoping that Dad would will it to him.
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