Originally Posted by
Firefly
unironically same. My late teens and early twenties with a sportscar.....ooh boy.
I had a '65 GTO real deal, 3 deuces and a four speed and a 389. The only thing stock in the last motor I put in it were the block and heads. I was a shop major in high school just because of that car, it also helped that my GF's father (future FIL) was one of the big dog late model stock builders in the area.
Once my mom wanted to drive it so I let her. She came home complaining about the heavy clutch and the Lincoln PD following her. I ended up sans DL and walked for a little over a year - fortunately most of that year was spent at schools in the Marine Corps.
I miss that car. Body and interior were perfect. I told my mom to go ahead and sell it for me while I was at engineering school. She did, for less than the tires and wheels were worth. There was a lesson there somewhere.
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