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LOL I still like them, just would never own one !Ouch !!!
Wish I’d kept my 73 that I dropped an LS5 from a 70 Vette built to 467 around 525-550 maybe more? HP, built T-350 high stall conv, rust & ding free but I owed $800ish to a Harley shop for a custom engine rebuild and chrome stuff so away went the Elky, had a solid lifter cam and stock VC didn’t fit but I didn’t build the engine and don’t remember specs, it was a real Hoot
kmakar
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I'd have worked extra hours to pay for the custom engine rebuild and kept the Elky.
I was just in the middle of finding out my wife was Fucking around, moving into a garage apt, and had 5 Harleys all apart to move into where I’d be living, making $11 an hour and hadnt much time to get everything done, I was way more into riding at the time but the Elky was my only car at that time too
kmakar
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Yep, BTDT.
I left her the custom 76 T/A since she was keeping my 10 yr old daughter, reliable transportation
kmakar
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I left her the custom 76 T/A since she was keeping my 10 yr old daughter, reliable transportation
I got nothing but the clothes on my back and a Buick Special with a bad trans. She came in while I was at work and emptied the house (including all the appliances).
I did put a new trans in the Buick and drove that for like 3 years and then gave it to my brother when he got out of the Navy.
I ended up doing something really stupid and went to jail and I got word to the owner of the buck shop to let him know, she knowing I was in jail went to that shop not thinking the owner knew we were split up and tried to get my bike out of there, he told her he’d already talked to me and she could pay the balance but the bikes Not going anywhere 
she actually paid $200 of the outstanding bill just to save face, shop was owned by a member of the local 1% club and she was screwing around with one of them
she actually paid $200 of the outstanding bill just to save face, shop was owned by a member of the local 1% club and she was screwing around with one of them
Shit mine was going to move out into an apt but our daughter grew up in that house, I said I’ll move out Edit it got Crazier when she asked me to move back in about 5-6 months later Oh and she still had a Bfriend and I had a Gfriend but she had her own place
kmakar
Janitor
Holy sheep shit. That's wacked. I'd have told her to hit the bricks and don't come back, ever, but then again, I got screwed out of everything, so I'm not one to talk, but in my defense I was only 22 at the time and got much wiser after I got burned.
Richard150MPH
Veteran Member
Um, will I get thrown off this site if I let it slip that I really only like El Camino's?
And mine will never see a dragstrip, but might get around a road course or two.
And mine will never see a dragstrip, but might get around a road course or two.
Richard150MPH
Veteran Member
S'okay, just a joke.
Had to respond to the "I don't like El Camino's" posters.
Had to respond to the "I don't like El Camino's" posters.
To be clear, I said "I'm not a fan"
I like them but I would never buy one.
What's strange is I like 66-67 Chevelles more than 1970 Chevelles.
But with El Caminos it's reversed. 1970 El Caminos look better than 66-67's to me.
Richard150MPH
Veteran Member
And every Sunday I kick myself in the AZZ twice for selling my '59 back in the 80's.
It had all the good stuff, except a posi.
348x3-2's, Muncie, but was hard to drive without getting an "Exhibition of power" ticket with that peg-leg rear.
That, a 64 Goat, and a 70 Firebird Formula 400 4-Spd pretty much cover my prior American hot-rod experience.
The Formula actually handled well for an American car, this 68 El Camino will be much better.
The 65 Corvair was more a sports car than hot-rod, ask the Porsche 356/912 guys I beat up.
It had all the good stuff, except a posi.
348x3-2's, Muncie, but was hard to drive without getting an "Exhibition of power" ticket with that peg-leg rear.
That, a 64 Goat, and a 70 Firebird Formula 400 4-Spd pretty much cover my prior American hot-rod experience.
The Formula actually handled well for an American car, this 68 El Camino will be much better.
The 65 Corvair was more a sports car than hot-rod, ask the Porsche 356/912 guys I beat up.
I really get a kick out my '67 Elky, and only because it's a beater, and laying tools on the fender, tossing bikes in the bed, and driving the piss out of it even on gravel roads, makes me grin. I couldn't do that to a real chevelle.
I was 28 and we had been together 12 yrs, married for about 10 of those, we had an easy divorce and shared 50% joint custody but she met another guy at the strip club and ended up moving to Mi. WO saying anything and lost the house, yrs later bought the house back and the one next to it, lives in I think the same one we lived in, my daughter did live in the other one but not now and the other one comes up in my Gsons name that’s in the Marines, Crazy
I had a 57 Ranchero in the mid 70’s, I’ve always liked Almost all Elkys & Rancheros, I never cared for the Falcon version of a Ranchero though
I don't think I've ever seen a 57 Ranchero. Definitely cool because it's so rare.
Probably a 292 Tbird engine ?
