Dave's Pic o' the Day

David Conwill · **Posted:** Jan 13 2010 8:08 AM

Thought I'd try a regular feature using my Photobucket collection:

-Dave

Rich1028 · **Posted:** Jan 13 2010 6:34 PM

nice
I'd guess about '75-76?
amc javlin
amx

David Conwill · **Posted:** Jan 13 2010 6:50 PM

1973 Javelin. My mom's first car, purchased new. 258/auto.

-Dave

David Conwill · **Posted:** Jan 14 2010 11:24 PM

-Dave

Rich1028 · **Posted:** Jan 15 2010 12:57 AM

'64-'65 GTO?

David Conwill · **Posted:** Jan 15 2010 7:57 AM

'65. My grandparents bought it new to Dad's specs: tripower, 4-speed, 4.11 limited slip. At the time, Dad was driving this:

-Dave

Rich1028 · **Posted:** Jan 15 2010 6:37 PM

thats some awsome GTO!
^^^^
above is a '64 fury?

ta76ken · **Posted:** Jan 18 2010 12:12 AM

My first ride in a real muscle car was a 1965 GTO hardtop. 389 tri power, four speed, rear end posi, gears? It would spin those g70 wide ovals as far as you wanted. You sure don't see very many 65's anymore.

David Conwill · **Posted:** Jan 18 2010 2:03 PM

Rich1028 wrote:

thats some awsome GTO![/quote

It was a very cool GTO. Kind of a sad story as to the car’s ultimate fate: My dad ended up owning the car when my grandparents bought a new Charger in 1968. He had been driving it a lot anyway. He had done a lot of hot rodding with it - Crane Fireball camshaft, single Holley four-barrel for ease of tuning, etc. Dad joined the Air Force in 1968, and was in for four years. When he got out in 1972, he decided he wanted a new car and sold the GTO to a local kid (he bought a Mach 1 Mustang).

The kid had it only a matter of weeks and rolled it in a street race. The GTO sat, engineless, in an Alpena junkyard until the 1980s at least. It’s gone now, which is probably for the best, as I would want to drag it home no matter the condition.

I like to think the 389 is still out there in a Deuce highboy or something. Knowing Alpena, though, it probably ended its life in a pulling tractor.

Rich1028 wrote:

above is a '64 fury?

The Plymouth is indeed a ‘64 Sport Fury. It had a 426 Max Wedge engine that my dad bought off a Super Stock racer, I believe in Louisiana, and a four-speed. Not in this picture, but the car also eventually sported acid-dipped front sheetmetal.

Here’s today’s picture:

-Dave

Rich1028 · **Posted:** Jan 18 2010 8:28 PM

'75 amx Javelin
and a
'68 camaro

David Conwill · **Posted:** Jan 19 2010 6:53 PM

Rich1028 wrote:

'75 amx Javelin

1973 (last year for Javelins was '74, AMXs went along with them until they reemerged on the Hornet platform in '77). My mom's second Javelin (not an AMX). This one has the Pierre Cardin trim and interior, the Go-Pack, a hot 360, and another TF.

Quote:

'68 camaro

Yep, mine before we changed the color and top, back when it was a 2bbl/PG car.

-Dave

Rich1028 · **Posted:** Jan 19 2010 7:44 PM

Thanks for straighting me out on the years of them.
I sure seem to want to cll them '75-'76...lol

Rich1028 · **Posted:** Jan 19 2010 7:57 PM

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

my brothers first car was a '68
straight 6
car was cool!
this is not a pic of my brothers...it's just one that I found on the net.

David Conwill · **Posted:** Jan 24 2010 10:28 AM

Whoops, I've been slacking!

An easy one today:

-Dave

David Conwill · **Posted:** Jan 24 2010 10:52 AM

Rich1028 wrote:

my brothers first car was a '68
straight 6
car was cool!
this is not a pic of my brothers...it's just one that I found on the net.

Very cool. My mom sold her original shortly after she married my dad, and started driving his Mustang. Her father had purchased it for her new at an AMC dealer in Saginaw, so she started to regret it. She always said that if she found another purple Javelin, she'd buy it. Dad agreed, thinking such a liklihood remote. Then the Pierre Cardin Javelin showed up in the Auto & RV, and you know the rest of the story...

-Dave

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