Cars that cruised in the 70's and early 80's

**Waver** · 03-19-2007, 01:02 AM

That thread that was posted about the good old days of cruising got me thinking...Who on here was around back then and what did they drive.....Well with the help of Wayne (proshowSS) I got some pics to start this thread off.....

Waynes Camaro:

and for all of those who think that wayne never had this car.....look at the plate

**Flicktitty** · 03-19-2007, 01:11 AM

Very Cool!

**DynoTom** · 03-19-2007, 01:15 AM

I was out there a lot in the early to mid 80's......I have to dig out some pics of the cars I had....

My main car was a 66 Galaxie 500 XL....it was white with a black interior....nothing fast at all justa 352 C-6 car.....

**Korndogg** · 03-19-2007, 01:16 AM

those pics by the oak creek library??

**Waver** · 03-19-2007, 01:20 AM

post them up.....

No wayne told me that it was at the very first carshow at the waukesha epo center

**GRAMPS SS** · 03-19-2007, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Korndogg

those pics by the oak creek library??

that was at the All State Insurance Company, behind Brookfield Square...that was the very first outdoor car show by Waukesha Old Car Club....back then out door shows were just starting to come to be.....After the shows back then , the cops would be waiting for us to pull out....i would get it for the carbs sticking out of the hood, the tires extending the body line, back then the tire size had letters...those in the back were M50 X 15...the biggest you could get..and the number one ticket i would get every weekend....no front plate..the biggest ticket i got back then was for no cat...had headers.....450.00...back then , that was alot of cash to dish out.....those were fun days though....the hwy crusin, the falls crusin, racing on calumet when it was a good road, we didn't have tower yet....racing on hwy Q for the Men. Falls Summer Nationals....car clubs were popping up .CAR CRAFT STREET MACHINE NATIONALS in INDY was big, we would have like 20 cars caravan down there for 4 days of fun..wish i could go back in time and relive some of those days......

**juicedimpss** · 03-19-2007, 10:28 AM

lol @ M50's

you could burn those forever,and not lose any tread

**Prince Valiant** · 03-19-2007, 02:47 PM

cool car wayne...

Did you ever run that beast at the track? Remember any of the build details?

I remember the equivilant to "rice" of that day and age when you'd have someone with an otherwise stock 307 or 350 running with dual quads. Sometimes, they might have the huge tunnel rams, cam, exhaust...but then would use stock heads, stock stall speed torque converter, 3.08 gears, and huge tires...they were always the cars that claimed "she don't got much down low, but man, you hit 50mph and then WHAM, off you go...."

**Heat Seeker WS6** · 03-19-2007, 03:03 PM

Very nice Wayne. When you go back- bring me with!

**Korndogg** · 03-19-2007, 04:51 PM

nice. yeah that building looks exactly like the OC library lol. And yeah I know all about those tire sizes. When I worked at farm and fleet people would still come in and ask for those sizes.

**GRAMPS SS** · 03-21-2007, 12:23 PM

come on as young as some of you are..you dads have to have pics of their rides from back then....post them up....

**wikked** · 03-21-2007, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by PRO_SHOW_SS

come on as young as some of you are..you dads have to have pics of their rides from back then....post them up....

I have some old pix of my dad's Nova, one at GLD too

I'll attempt to post them when I get home.

**Waver** · 03-21-2007, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by PRO_SHOW_SS

come on as young as some of you are..you dads have to have pics of their rides from back then....post them up....

problem is, all the pics that my dad has with his imp, there is only a small part of the car in it.....very small....couldnt tell it was an ss or anything.....should find that window sticker though

**wikked** · 03-21-2007, 08:05 PM

Here they are, my dad's '69 (I think) Nova...

@ GLD

**YENKO4ME** · 03-21-2007, 08:45 PM

Any One ?

**77thor** · 03-22-2007, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by YENKO4ME

Any One ?

OMG... what is that??

**nismodave** · 03-22-2007, 05:36 PM

Omg...Corvette Summer!!!!

Awesome car Wayne!!!!

**GRAMPS SS** · 03-22-2007, 06:13 PM

thanks dave.....didn't always have ugly rides....time for a new one i think..seans 13 now..3 more years and he gets his drivers license he'll need something to play with....

**scaleracer** · 03-22-2007, 10:38 PM

love the nova and the camaro

**2SLOW** · 03-22-2007, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by scaleracer

love the nova and the camaro

Hell yeah!!!!

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