Where were you in '85?

[TimG]

Driving a brand new '84 Corvette with Crossfire Injection that I could not wait to get rid of. Driving the snot out of a 1967 red/red 435 horse Corvette roadster that made me want to get rid of the '84 Corvette.

[DarrenX33]

Funny I remember that article. I was a Junior in high school and working at a grocery store. Of course my Z was parked all the way across the lot. Can't trust those guys who bring in the grocery carts.

Wonder what we will be saying in 15 years when a supercar for sale listing from 2004 is posted?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I was still in high school, couldn't even think of paying those prices for a car on that list!

[yellowjudge]

I was in high school here in the pittsburgh area. I had a 72 formula, w/TA add ons. & a 77 brown TA, w/low miles.

[jg95z28]

1985? I had just purchased my 1968 RS Camaro ($3900) to replace my first car, a 1967 Chevelle Malibu which I bought for $600 from a friend in the fall of 1983.



Of course it was out of both desire and neccessity. In the spring of 1985 my beautiful Chevelle was rearended by an uninsured driver and totalled!

[njsteve]

In January 1985 I was driving back up from Miami after finding this 1971 440 Six Barrel, 4 speed Cuda Convertible (1 of 5 produced). I paid $2500 for the project. It had been through a series of owners in Miami including a drug dealer who sold it, and then stole it back shortly thereafter and in a police chase launched it into the ocean! It had all of its original drivetrain (in the back of the U-Haul truck that is). The car needed new quarters, fenders, trunk, doors, upper cowl but the floors were perfect! -never buy a Florida car that spent any time near the beach: they rust from the top surfaces downward. I restored the car within a year and then sold it to buy my yellow 71 Hemicuda ragtop. The comical thing is that I hear rumors that the person who owns it now (after paying $350K for the car) is claiming that the sheetmetal is all original!

[njsteve]

And here was the finished project in late 1985.

[427TJ]

Why was Jim Croce sitting on your car? (Bad, bad LeRoy Brown?) Just kidding!!!

Man, you took a real roach and made a diamond out of it. Wanna' do my car?

[njsteve]

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Why was Jim Croce sitting on your car? (Bad, bad LeRoy Brown?) Just kidding!!!

Actually my wife refers to that photo as my "70's Porn Star Look." She's much too kind

[MrsBillyBobcat]

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Actually my wife refers to that photo as my "70's Porn Star Look." She's much too kind

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LOL!

Great pics and story Steve!

Rita