I grew up in a GM family, my father always had Buicks. That 1964 Wildcat of his with the Wildcat 445 motor was great! Too bad I was only 12 and he traded cars every 3 years. My mom still has his last one, a 2005 Century.

Since then I've had a 1968 Olds F85, 1970 Chevelle, 1986 Silverado, 2002 Silverado, and just traded that one in on a 2014 Silverado 1500 W/T.

(Also a 1966 Ford Fairlane, 1964 VW bus, and a 1971 VW bug somewhere in all that.)

My 1970 Chevelle is the best story. Two-door, started life as an old guys car with a 307, the kid, his next-door neighbor, who sold it to me in 1981 had somehow fit a 283 into it, which consternated every mechanic I ever let look at it. Mostly I just fixed it myself. It had 180,000 miles on it when I bought it in Queens, NYC. I drove it until 1995. By then I'd moved to Minnesota and put a 350 in it. When I sold it to a hotrodder working on a T-Bucket project, he just wanted the engine and transmission, but he sold the body to another guy in his club who intended to restore it as a muscle car clone. By then, I'd put another 100,000 on it.

I'd had my fun, now it was time to drive a truck... so I bought a used Silverado from a guy who had bought it at a state highway department auction. It had about 350,000 miles on it when I bought it... ran until 2002 when it blew the head gasket on the junkyard engine I'd put in...

The 2002 Silverado was the first new vehicle I'd ever owned!

Jeff

 

Welcome to the forum Jeff

 

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