Let's See Your Other Toys (Brag Board!)

Jonesy wrote:

My current car is a 98 Pontiac Trans Am WS6. Putting out around 425-450 HP. My previous car was a 1979 Trans Am W72. Sold the car got the 98 and a boat.

And here I wondered why your username was black98transam. LOL
Nice toys guys!!
Ive got nothing really. ATV, Boat, but nothing fun like posted.
If only I had 1/4 of the sweet vintage rides my old man had over the years. 67 Chevelle SS, 69 Camaro SS, 55 Bel Air, 64 GTO, on and on and on.
Most were before my time, but I still have my heart on a 69 Camaro since I remember that one I was only 10 or so when he sold that.

CaptainMusky wrote:

If only I had 1/4 of the sweet vintage rides my old man had over the years. 67 Chevelle SS, 69 Camaro SS, 55 Bel Air, 64 GTO, on and on and on.
Most were before my time, but I still have my heart on a 69 Camaro since I remember that one I was only 10 or so when he sold that.

That’s a sweet lineup…all of them but the 64 Goat…special!
Yes, if we could only go back and post what we used to have.
My first car in high school was 69 Plymouth Roadrunner 383 4spd. Went on to have 68 Roadrunner, 2 different 1970 Roadrunners, 69 Dodge Super Bee, 72 Charger as well as some other’s that sadly got beaten to the bone yard. The two 70 RR’s I restored nicely but have long since been sold.

I did buy Dave Koonce’s hovercraft https://www.in-depthoutdoors.com/community/forums/topic/2014-universal-hovercraft-for-sale/
I have been trying it out over land and it is a lot of fun

Jeremy wrote:

I did buy Dave Koonce’s hovercraft https://www.in-depthoutdoors.com/community/forums/topic/2014-universal-hovercraft-for-sale/
I have been trying it out over land and it is a lot of fun

That is pretty cool. I watched an ice fishing episode from 2015 I think when James was up on LOW early ice and they used a hovercraft.
Could extend your ice season!

Walleyestudent Andy Cox wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>CaptainMusky wrote:</div>
If only I had 1/4 of the sweet vintage rides my old man had over the years. 67 Chevelle SS, 69 Camaro SS, 55 Bel Air, 64 GTO, on and on and on.
Most were before my time, but I still have my heart on a 69 Camaro since I remember that one I was only 10 or so when he sold that.

That’s a sweet lineup…all of them but the 64 Goat…special!
Yes, if we could only go back and post what we used to have.
My first car in high school was 69 Plymouth Roadrunner 383 4spd. Went on to have 68 Roadrunner, 2 different 1970 Roadrunners, 69 Dodge Super Bee, 72 Charger as well as some other’s that sadly got beaten to the bone yard. The two 70 RR’s I restored nicely but have long since been sold.

The reason we bought the 69 Firebird was because my dad had a 69 Camaro. We couldn’t find one that was in the price range for a restoration and happened upon the Firebird. My Dad knows where his Camaro is and had tried to buy it from the guy a few times but no dice.

Andy, what’s up with not liking the 64 GTO? Must be a Mopar guy after seeing the list of cars you’ve had. By the way, my brother has 71 Challenger RT that is plum crazy purple. It’s a sweet ride.

Matt Moen wrote:

Andy, what’s up with not liking the 64 GTO? Must be a Mopar guy after seeing the list of cars you’ve had. By the way, my brother has 71 Challenger RT that is plum crazy purple. It’s a sweet ride.

Oh…sorry, I phrased that misleading. Let me try again, “That’s a sweet lineup…especially the 64 Goat.” The Chevelle, Camaro SS were cool and somewhat rare but the 64 GTO was even more rare and unique. Introduced just about the same time as Mustang. Remember they had the dual horizontal headlamp, starting in 65 through 67 they went to the vertical headlamps before returning to the horizontal again in 68 which first offered hideaways. So cool…we’ll never see cars like those ever again.

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I agree – I wasn’t around during the actual muscle car era but it seems like the GTO and Mustang really started it. Even though I have a Pontiac I’m a fan of all the brands.

The other day as I was traveling for work there was a 70 AMC AMX painted in the original red, white, and blue paint scheme parked at the airport. You don’t see too many of those around anymore. There were just so many unique cars back then.

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Walleyestudent Andy Cox wrote:

Oh…sorry, I phrased that misleading. Let me try again, “That’s a sweet lineup…especially the 64 Goat.” The Chevelle, Camaro SS were cool and somewhat rare but the 64 GTO was even more rare and unique. Introduced just about the same time as Mustang. Remember they had the dual horizontal headlamp, starting in 65 through 67 they went to the vertical headlamps before returning to the horizontal again in 68 which first offered hideaways. So cool…we’ll never see cars like those ever again.

Yeah, of the cars the GTO is the one I most wish I had seen. The Camaro was my favorite because he completely restored it and I “helped”. Well, as much as someone around 10 could anyway.
Regarding the GTO, he “settled” for that after graduating HS. He had his heart on a Vette, but being 6’8″ tall and sitting behind the wheel only to have your head stick through the T Tops realized that wasn’t a viable option, so he went with the GTO.
To this day my favorite year. They along with the mustang were ahead of their time.
I have always said I would love to have a classic car, but have modern drivetrain so I could drive it daily. I don’t want a garage queen. They are incredible cars, basically anything from that era.
It breaks my heart an old family friend was a HUGE MOPAR guy and he was forced to part with nearly everything.
He had Cudas, Superbirds, Daytonas, etc etc. Super sweet cars. The Superbird was ultra rare with at that time less than 50 built (to its spec) and only a dozen or so still operational. He was offered 500K for it (so I am told, but he was a salesman so who knows LOL) and turned it down. Then the market dropped.

I have a wd 45 almost identical to yours!

Other than my boat, shotgun and bow this is my favorite toy

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Love the tractors….I currently work for an agtech firm so spend quite a bit of time with farmers. The vintage stuff is awesome.

Here’s another toy – my triathlon bike. Specialized Shiv, full carbon fiber frame, wheels, and aero bar setup.

It looks fast until I get on it…..

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CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Jeremy wrote:</div>
I did buy Dave Koonce’s hovercraft https://www.in-depthoutdoors.com/community/forums/topic/2014-universal-hovercraft-for-sale/
I have been trying it out over land and it is a lot of fun

That is pretty cool. I watched an ice fishing episode from 2015 I think when James was up on LOW early ice and they used a hovercraft.
Could extend your ice season!

But I haven’t ice fished in 10 years

ptc
My dad has a 1976 or 77 AC 185 and he did have an old C model until he sold it this year. I remember riding on a lot of AC tractors, D15, D17, 190 Series 3, and a 7045..he still cusses about the hydraulic pump in the 7045

Matt no way the muscle cars started with mustangs, Vetts and goats. The speed started with Dodge Bros. Plymouth. It all started with the need to outrun the law in the prohibition years. I owed a 65 Plymouth sport fury with the police intercepter 383 cu. in. magnum 4 gear factory Hurst with bucket seats. Nothin like running that car up to 95-100 mph in third gear and then darn near get scratch throwing it in 4th gear. Speedometer went up to 160 mph for a reason. Man I wished I had that car now. The only car that I raced in a 1/4 mile that beat me was a Dodge Challenger with a 426 Hemi all souped up. Indeed Mopar started it all. 440 GTX’s were a great challenge also. Vetts, Cameros, GTO’s, Mustangs, AMC’s, Chevelle’s were suckin up my dust.

Matt Moen wrote:

Love the WS6 – I know some people don’t like the hoods but I think they look great. They are a great platform to create a ton of power on.

I enjoy the car a lot but I feel like our days together are getting low. When I bought my boat I rediscovered my passion for fishing. I keep getting this idea in my head to sell my car and current boat and step into a used 18′ aluminum boat.

I had big plans for the car when I got it. Trans/Stall, heads,cam,intake,ETC.
I did the intake, headers, off road y, cat back, lid, and ported throttle body. It’s a fun car. Wife and I just took it to duluth had fun. But I have a serious case of bigger boatitus.

Mike Stephens wrote:

Matt no way the muscle cars started with mustangs, Vetts and goats. The speed started with Dodge Bros. Plymouth. It all started with the need to outrun the law in the prohibition years. I owed a 65 Plymouth sport fury with the police intercepter 383 cu. in. magnum 4 gear factory Hurst with bucket seats. Nothin like running that car up to 95-100 mph in third gear and then darn near get scratch throwing it in 4th gear. Speedometer went up to 160 mph for a reason. Man I wished I had that car now. The only car that I raced in a 1/4 mile that beat me was a Dodge Challenger with a 426 Hemi all souped up. Indeed Mopar started it all. 440 GTX’s were a great challenge also. Vetts, Cameros, GTO’s, Mustangs, AMC’s, Chevelle’s were suckin up my dust.

To be fair. The Vette is a sports car. The Mustang, Trans Am, Firebird, and Camaro are pony cars.

The 1964 GTO was the first Muscle Car. This is undisputed and claims to the contrary are not correct. The cars during prohibition are the original hot rods.

@Black98TransAm – if you ever get interested in selling that thing drop me a PM.

Mike, I think that was a precursor to the muscle car era. The Dodge Bros cars, the swiss cheese pontiacs, 409 Impalas, etc set the stage for the era. Once you had the GTO and Mustang there was mass market adoption. At the very top end – ie, Hemi powered cars, 454/427 chevy powered cars, 455 powered Buick/Olds/Pontiacs, 427 powered Fords were all about a wash when it came to performance. I would agree that the Hemi motors were the best platforms to make big power at the time. There is a reason hemispherical heads are still run on the high powered drag cars.

Growing up in a Mopar family, there have been a lot of cool cars coming through the family over the years. My cousin has a 71 Challenger w/ 3 on the tree, that I’m hoping he wants to get rid of (in the family) once he is done with the 69 Super Bee he is working on right now. My dad will often say his biggest regrets are not hanging onto his baseball card collection, nor any of his old muscle cars. I agree! lol

That’s a sweet lineup…all of them but the 64 Goat…special!
Yes, if we could only go back and post what we used to have.
My first car in high school was 69 Plymouth Roadrunner 383 4spd. Went on to have 68 Roadrunner, 2 different 1970 Roadrunners, 69 Dodge Super Bee, 72 Charger as well as some other’s that sadly got beaten to the bone yard. The two 70 RR’s I restored nicely but have long since been sold.
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LOL – If we could mine was a Ford 1970 E350 van. Pretty much looked like a Cheech and Chong vehicle every time we got out of it.

71 Corvette. Hard and soft top. Ground up restoration. 1-up cam 350 4 BBL automatic.

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Nice – post 1972 the Vette went through some pretty lean years. I love the 68-72’s, especially the split rear bumpers. Sweet ride.

Matt Moen wrote:

Nice – post 1972 the Vette went through some pretty lean years. I love the 68-72’s, especially the split rear bumpers. Sweet ride.

Gotta add the ’73 to that list. The plastic front bumper added to the “Mako Shark” look it should have had all along, as well as the large open side vents behind the front wheels.

I wish I had my ’73 BB/AC/leather/power-everything coupe back,,,,,,,

HRG

Jonesy wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Mike Stephens wrote:</div>
Matt no way the muscle cars started with mustangs, Vetts and goats. The speed started with Dodge Bros. Plymouth. It all started with the need to outrun the law in the prohibition years. I owed a 65 Plymouth sport fury with the police intercepter 383 cu. in. magnum 4 gear factory Hurst with bucket seats. Nothin like running that car up to 95-100 mph in third gear and then darn near get scratch throwing it in 4th gear. Speedometer went up to 160 mph for a reason. Man I wished I had that car now. The only car that I raced in a 1/4 mile that beat me was a Dodge Challenger with a 426 Hemi all souped up. Indeed Mopar started it all. 440 GTX’s were a great challenge also. Vetts, Cameros, GTO’s, Mustangs, AMC’s, Chevelle’s were suckin up my dust.

To be fair. The Vette is a sports car. The Mustang, Trans Am, Firebird, and Camaro are pony cars.

The 1964 GTO was the first Muscle Car. This is undisputed and claims to the contrary are not correct. The cars during prohibition are the original hot rods.

Ok???? If Mopar didn’t put out the first hod rods There would be no muscle cars. Pretty much same difference in other words.

Mike Stephens wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Black98TransAm wrote:</div>

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Mike Stephens wrote:</div>
Matt no way the muscle cars started with mustangs, Vetts and goats. The speed started with Dodge Bros. Plymouth. It all started with the need to outrun the law in the prohibition years. I owed a 65 Plymouth sport fury with the police intercepter 383 cu. in. magnum 4 gear factory Hurst with bucket seats. Nothin like running that car up to 95-100 mph in third gear and then darn near get scratch throwing it in 4th gear. Speedometer went up to 160 mph for a reason. Man I wished I had that car now. The only car that I raced in a 1/4 mile that beat me was a Dodge Challenger with a 426 Hemi all souped up. Indeed Mopar started it all. 440 GTX’s were a great challenge also. Vetts, Cameros, GTO’s, Mustangs, AMC’s, Chevelle’s were suckin up my dust.

To be fair. The Vette is a sports car. The Mustang, Trans Am, Firebird, and Camaro are pony cars.

The 1964 GTO was the first Muscle Car. This is undisputed and claims to the contrary are not correct. The cars during prohibition are the original hot rods.

Ok???? If Mopar didn’t put out the first hod rods There would be no muscle cars. Pretty much same difference in other words.

Maybe it’s a distinction without a difference. Regardless, old cars with big V-8’s are awesome. I think we can all agree to that.

So we can’t post what we used to have?

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BK, you absolutely crack me up. And no, that wasn’t an invitation for you to post of pick of “yours” IE crack…

BK, you seem like a bright orange look at me kind of guy, show off.

Mine were light blue to match my eyes

We call that the ol’ jalapeno hammock.

Some people call it a banana hammock but we know they’re lying.