I replaced the factory 4 wheel drive shifter handle on my '86 4x4 Suburban with a Hurst handle just like that. Improved the look (not the function) 100%. Loved that truck man, only reason I sold it was parts in 2002 began getting scarce and a trip to mechanic was costing me a lot of time just to find the parts to install. A steering stabilizer took a month and a half, due to part having three different models and the 1st one was incorrect part.
It was a beast, a thirsty beast, getting about 12 mph average. I could live out of that thing when camping and would have kept it if I only had a good place to park it and my daily driver.
Had an '86 too. Dark grey, blue seats. $17,800 w/ rear heater, bench front seat, "rubber" flooring. Only bad thing about it was the fixed front axle, making it a rough ride off road.
I missed eight tracks as I was just a bit too young, some of the kids who were just a bit older than I was had them but by the time I got my first car we had cassette players. I had Boston's first two albums on a cassette tape, I used to listen loudly in my work van. I used to visit factories in Boston, Lincolnshire and I found it amusing to listen to Boston on route.
Memories. Driving back home late on a autumn night with a full moon illuminating the Wisconsin country landscape, with AM station KAAY playing Stairway to Heaven.
Good memories but I always liked the ball. I could speed shift fastest with the ball. I had the T and I had a pistol grip stock on a Hi Pro Cuda'. The pistol grip was the worst for slammin gears.
Friend had a Buick Skylark convertible with some silly (great) engine in it. We were a bit older so playing late 60's rock LOUD while cruising on Coleman white gas from Circle K (gas rationing of 72.) Carried a few old cowboy 8-tracks to play while passing through more red necky burg down the valley where a few long hairs in a convertible were considered very suspicious. But a bit of old Waylon blaring and they would just wave and do the fist pump. Great times.
mine was in a '62 plymouth valiant push button transmission [yeah i spelled transmission out]. had a pair of coaxial mind blower speakers with it. aerosmith's 'nobody's fault' sounded real good.
Bliss
ReplyDeleteMan, the times we got drunk at the power lines to Boston and Molly Hatchet...
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When shit made sense.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days.
Except for Boston.
ReplyDeleteWow! Made me smile. Made me remember those were great times>
ReplyDeleteI replaced the factory 4 wheel drive shifter handle on my '86 4x4 Suburban with a Hurst handle just like that. Improved the look (not the function) 100%. Loved that truck man, only reason I sold it was parts in 2002 began getting scarce and a trip to mechanic was costing me a lot of time just to find the parts to install. A steering stabilizer took a month and a half, due to part having three different models and the 1st one was incorrect part.
ReplyDeleteIt was a beast, a thirsty beast, getting about 12 mph average. I could live out of that thing when camping and would have kept it if I only had a good place to park it and my daily driver.
We had a 1973 Suburban, 454 engine with 4:10 rear end, 8 miles per gallon uphill, downhill, towing, it didn't matter.
DeleteHad an '86 too. Dark grey, blue seats. $17,800 w/ rear heater, bench front seat, "rubber" flooring. Only bad thing about it was the fixed front axle, making it a rough ride off road.
DeleteI had an FM tuner in my glovebox. Listened to WMMS 101 FM. Home of the Buzzard. Those were the days! Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteI missed eight tracks as I was just a bit too young, some of the kids who were just a bit older than I was had them but by the time I got my first car we had cassette players. I had Boston's first two albums on a cassette tape, I used to listen loudly in my work van. I used to visit factories in Boston, Lincolnshire and I found it amusing to listen to Boston on route.
ReplyDeleteIndeed it does.
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Memories. Driving back home late on a autumn night with a full moon illuminating the Wisconsin country landscape, with AM station KAAY playing Stairway to Heaven.
ReplyDeleteStarker here,
ReplyDeleteMy friend had that same Pioneer Stereo in his 72 Gremlin.
Wow, does that bring back memories!
Thanks.
I still have the gas pedal, good times in metal shop.
ReplyDeleteGood memories but I always liked the ball. I could speed shift fastest with the ball. I had the T and I had a pistol grip stock on a Hi Pro Cuda'. The pistol grip was the worst for slammin gears.
ReplyDeleteAt a concert in Hutchinson Ks Boston opened for the Grass Roots
ReplyDelete66- 67 Chevelle??
ReplyDeleteyes, the console is either a 66 or 67 Chevelle. Have a 67, was my first car, yes the same exact car, 40 years later!
DeleteFriend had a Buick Skylark convertible with some silly (great) engine in it. We were a bit older so playing late 60's rock LOUD while cruising on Coleman white gas from Circle K (gas rationing of 72.) Carried a few old cowboy 8-tracks to play while passing through more red necky burg down the valley where a few long hairs in a convertible were considered very suspicious. But a bit of old Waylon blaring and they would just wave and do the fist pump. Great times.
ReplyDeleteDrove Cal to Fla with Cream and CCR only.
ReplyDeleteDrove from FL to Toronto w/ a single Rolling Stones cassette... and radio...
Deletemine was in a '62 plymouth valiant push button transmission [yeah i spelled transmission out]. had a pair of coaxial mind blower speakers with it. aerosmith's 'nobody's fault' sounded real good.
ReplyDeleteAs an old fogey, I love that pic. A pistol grip from a '70 Cuda woulda been better though.
ReplyDeleteOnly thing missing in that otherwise perfect photo is the dog-eared JC Whitney catalog he bought those things from.
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