What was your daily driver in the mid 1960's
 

My boss just told me I can't quit so I'm killin a few minutes on the computor. Just curious about what your daily driver was in say 1966. Cool stuff that we all took for granted because bad *** cars were everywhere. I worked for Bendall Pontiac in the 60's as a line mechanic specializing in all the performance stuff, all the old guys hated them and I had em stacked up like cordwood. Motors, transmissions, rear ends and theft jobs. Every Monday I would get a fresh batch with shoe polish on the windows. ------------My daily driver was a 66 442 W30 black post sedan rubber floor mat (widowmaker) My wife----Red on black 64 Catalina 2+2 421 tripower 4speed. My Mom--- 66 Bonneville 4 dr. 421 tripower auto loaded. My Pop ----37 Packard Conv. with rumble seat 322 buick V8 two AFB's Packard box and 4.30 rear. Ok all you old farts , stick a beach boys tape in hit the reverb switch and jog that memory. I'm fixin another Vodka and Cranberry juice.

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1st car was a 1959 impala 2-dr hardtop
283 w/ 3 speed floor shift ,(hooked up backwards)
Got it when i was 14 and blowed it up riding around in the back yard.
60's model Simca 4-dr (painted it Ralley Green) 1st car w/ drivers license
since then til now i have probably owned over 800 cars .(not counting the cars i sold on my car lot )

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In 1966 I had a black Schwinn one-speed that could out-accelerate my brother's Renault Dauphin.

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Dammmn Danny!!!!! -----800 cars!!!!!

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Tony-----That's funny as hell. Your brother could have raced Danny's Simca.

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NYC subway system, and transit buses

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My driver was 1962 Corvette 327 / 340 HP (Still have that car)

Wifes driver 1965 Corvette Coupe 327 / 350 HP (don't have that wife or car either)

Had a new 1967 GMC C-2500 on order.

Bob

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I'm serious. I'll try to write them down as i can remember them. (may take a while) lol
54,55,56,58,59,60,61and 62 bubbletops at the same time,63,64,65,2-66's,67,68,2-69's,70 ,72 , all full size chevies ,just for starters....

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My ride back then was my Mother`s womb. Born in `65.

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1961 Falcon, oh yea, I turned that into an L/Stock, a1963 Falcon Sprint, that I ran in J/Stock, a 1966 Falcon, oops G/SA, I think I see a trend emerging. Because of car payments (gave the finance companies fits) I drove first a 54 Buick Special ($75) and a 56 Buick Century Wagon, I sold that to Tony Janes and finally a 1969 Chev 4 x 4 pickup. I guess my priorities were racing, now that I think about it. Fred

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1949 Ford flathead, amazingly it could hold it's own with the new Mustangs with 6's. When I started college I got a new 67 SS396/325 Chevelle. Nice car then followed by Dart 340 Swinger and then a 68 Charger...that's it for the sixties! Nice thread!

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1958 pontiac bonneville 3x2
untell 1970 when i bought a 1970 mercury cyclone 429 scj

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1966 my uncle bought a '67 Le mans.He gave me his '60 four door Catalina 389/2bbl auto.I put dual exh. with pipes under the rear out the back and 8:25 thin whitewalls with baby moons.Put all sorts of racing decals on the rear door glass.It was stock engine wise but it sure left from a stop light with the Turbo Hydramatic trans.I parked this car,and a '55
Chevy,'56 Chevy 2 dr S/W and '57 Chevy Nomad with a straight axle (red and white paint and red and white r&p interior) on the streets of Greenwich Village in Manhattan back then.Try that now.

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Hey I was trying! This was factory stock in 66. I don't know where the transistor radio was in this photo, but it was tuned to "Little Deuce Coupe" I'm sure!

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First car was a '63 VW. Sold it after three months and bought and built a '31 Model A Ford with a 331 Desoto HEMI. Drove that all through High School. I then ordered my '71 Dodge Demon 340. Still own that car. Ran it in AHRA Stock Option and eventually NHRA Stock and Super Stock. I still have the Demon and it has 15,003 miles on the odometer. Jim

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In 1965 I bought a 63 Plymouth Belvedere 2ht and replaced the 318 with a 62 300H 413 380hp. Never replaced the 2.76 gear and it was awsome from 30 to 70mph.Cruise the streets at 30mph looking for a race...I'll never forget the 2x4 sound echo off the buildings on Lake st!

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My daily driver in 1966 was a real nice '58 Pontiac Chieftain. Was re-painted by a local shop known for doing nice work. White with blue coves and roof. I raced it a few times and started hopping it up and ran in the 14's a few times. Won G/SA class and ran Jr Stock once or twice....

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I learned to drive in a 1960 Chevy Impala 4 dr 348/4 BBL/3 speed auto
Black with red benchseat interior. It had been my grandfathers but he
died about 6 months after buying it so my mom got it next. The year
was 1964. Oh also got to drive a early corvair 4 speed convert back
then too.

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In 1965 I ordered a new1965 426 w/auto street wedge Belvedere 2 Plymouth. What a dog ! Ran at Aquasco, and Capitol mostly. Won several class trophies after changing the rear, added M/T headers and slicks I bought from JC Penny. In 1966-67 I spent a lot of time in a Huey UH 1 for Uncle Sam. Came back and bought a 66 Vette 327/350 HP and ran E/SP at Ohio Valley and US 60 in Kentucky. Won a few times there also.
P.S. Danny.....I remeber lots of good times in 1965 running with Sam Samuels, Bob Maxey, Joe Perzan, Mike Miatico, Gene Calhoon, Rocky Martin, "Pop" Kennedy, Gene Collins, Sonny Freeman, but of course they always beat me in the eliminator.....LOL.

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Cushman scooter, then a 1946 Dodge business Cpe W/warmed up 327 4 speed then 1967 Vette w/427/400 3x2's 4 speed. The Vette became a race car and then a 1969 440 RT as a daily driver got me out of the 60's. Man did my buddies liked that RT. Lots of room, went pretty fast and had one hell of an trunk to ice down with our favorite brew!! Oh! Almost forgot dear old Dad bought a 1968 383 GTS Dart in 1968.

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Bought my first car, a '53 Ford Victoria in 1964 for $25.00. Went through a few other Ford's and Mopar's (as well as a 1960 Hillman Minx) during High School. My 1950 Ford Sedan scared my parents so much they refused to let me park it at home (think scenes from "Christine"!) They finally helped me purchase a 1966 360 HP SS396 Chevelle, which I kept until boot camp in 1967, when it was sold. I always wished I had grown up in the country so I could've kept more of the "collection"!

Lew

Now down to just five!:D

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First ride was a Black 1960 Biscayne 348/335 hp 4-speed, wish I had that back. Next ride was a 1969 Dart Swinger 340 4-speed, had it 3 years and sold it with 9600 miles on it.

Hammer

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M113 - Armored Personnel Carrier........

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I didn't get one of those until the early 70's - along with an M88 Recovery Vehicle.

Lew

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In 1967 I received my draft notice.....I was already married and my wife was pregnant. I was given a 4a classification by the local draft board. I consider myself lucky.......I was never called to serve......

Those of you that did serve in that era are owed a lot of gratitude for your service. Looking back it was not a good time for many young men our age......

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I started off with a '57 Ford 2dr sedan 292 auto, which I converted to stick. Then onto a '62 Chev Impala 327/340 3 speed, After that came a '55 Chev 2dr sedan with 396/425 4spd Corvette motor/trans. The stock rears lasted about 2 weeks each.

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In 1966 until I graduated high school I drove a 1956 Chevrolet Belair 2 dr hardtop with a 327/340 hp 4 muncie speed. It was fun, but the first time I went to the strip I think they wanted to put me in B/MP, no chance in that class.
Ernie
3400 SS

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In 1966 my daily driver was a blue metallic 1966 Pontiac Catalina coupe [389 2 bbl auto] that I had purchased with both quarter panels damaged & repaired. Drove it to Galveston Tx on vacation. My drag race driver was a 1966 GTO purchased as a theft recovery [no motor or trans] installed a 389 4 bbl & turbohydro for F-2 BS/A [N.A.D.S. rules] Only got to race it a couple of times at Tri-State Dragway, Kahoka, MO before I received the letter from Uncle Sam. Later that year my daily driver became a 5-ton dump truck around Long Binh, Saigon & the Iron Triangle at Xmas.

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my first a 1965 honda super 90 red. then a bridgestone super 90 red. then a 1957 chevy two dr red 245hp 4 spd.:) those were good times.

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In '66 my daily driver was the black '50 Olds that "Yac" has in his V/Stock pictures. It had a hopped up '56 324 Olds engine and good 4-speed Hydrostick. With 4.30 gears and 8.20 x 15 Atlas Bucron tires, I used to tell the '62 to '66 Muscle Car drivers to leave whenever they wished. The car wouldn't spin a tire and I'd be long gone before they ever found traction.

If I survive a couple of more years, it may be my Summer daily driver again, but updated a little.

Jerry

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In June 1965 I bought my first car, a '59 Ford Galaxie 292 3-speed. I soon added a 4-bl, dual exhaust with cutouts, and traction bars. In Jan 1966 I traded it on a '63 Galaxie 500 boxtop with a 406. The 406 later got replaced with a 427 LR. As my daily driver that '63 Galaxie saw lots of street racing and passes down a dragstrip.

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Wow! A lot of great cars and a great time for factory hot rods.-----What a great sense of humor you guys have, some of the posts were hillarous. Terry----- Our next big number is 70 . Where did it go? Most of the guys you mentioned are gone , I do see Gene Calhoun ocasionally and Rocky Martin's son Ricky is a painter here. Thanks again to all who have served and are serving to preserve our taken for granted way of life. And to my grandson Danny, a brand new Marine ( Semper Fi )-------Danny

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My was a Big Wheel peddle car.

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I was in the Army in '66 and bought a new Belair two door sedan, 283, 3 speed. It was Burgandy with Red interior and I immediately put a set of Fenton spoke wheels on it. I later made a stocker out of it and set the O/S record at the '71 Gainesville Divisional at 13.45 or so. The problem was I didn't know until I got my ND a couple of weeks later that Bruce Wilkerson also lowered the record on the same day at Bowling Green and was a couple hundreds faster than me so my "record" never hit ND.

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'66 plymouth satelite, 383 hp, 4 speed, vibrasonic radio, american mags, loved that car. Wife got it in the divorce.

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Hats off to those who served. For some reason i never got called (but would have served if called). I had one of those amphibius convertibles(bluish-grey ). never tried the water thing with it..4-67 ,3-68, 2-69 & 5 - 71-73 Camaros.... Still thinking......

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'67 TO '68, a 47 Chevy sedan with a '57 Caddie engine to drive up and down the driveway and the back alley from my Grandmoms to my uncles shop.
First car with a license , 1968, my '50 Olds convertable with a '57 J2 and a Hydro ,4.10 gears and Caddie Kelsey Hayes turbine fin rims.
It was the muscle car stomper in the High School parking lot!

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Danny -

I bet you wish you'd kept the Amphicar! Did you see what they're getting at Barrett-Jackson? Not quite Hemi-cuda money :eek:, but close!

BTW - good luck on Sunday!

Lew

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I wasn't driving yet in 1966. As a matter of fact I was still in grade school.
But, my 65 Mustang was a year old and being driven daily by it's original owner, my older brother.
I had the privlige of washing and waxing it every Saturday.

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In 66 it was a 53 studebaker with a cross ram 413 that I built or a 32 chevy coupe with a 322 buick and a 4spd. Still messing with 53 studes (2) and 30s coupes.