Favorite motorized things you have owned

[JCM 9,130]

As we get older and not necessarily grown up do you sometimes wish you could open the garage or barn door and hop in or on something that you seriously would like to enjoy again , but maybe not feasible ? Post up some pictures if you have them or a description of it. Here are a few from my past.

 

[wallfish 16,994]

Have had plenty of stuff over the years but no pics.

VW engine powered dune buggys were a lot of fun. I used to tow one with my VW bug and if the buggy broke down then take the bug into woods and beat on that for a while.

250R Honda ATVs and misc dirt bikes.

Boats

[SylvanLakeWH 25,525]

1972 Fabuglass with a 60 Johnson. Pic of me and Dad who passed 1 year ago at 95.

We had the boat 49 years...

[Ed Kennell 38,128]

A few of my many rides that I moved on down the road.

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,297]

1963 Chevrolet Impala SS ,327 ,4 on the floor.  I was 18. Back in the stone age.

[lynnmor 7,304]

It was hard parting with this pair, they were ridden in nearly all snow states across the country.  Old age with bad knees, salted roads and less and less trails pushed me to the decision to give it up after 40+ years.

 

[Evguy 556]

Boy that’s making me think, after 63 cars, 20 motorcycles it’s difficult to pick a favorite.

 I did have a lot of fun in my 69 Baja bug and some of the bikes. I’m revisiting the vw thing with a dune buggy I am working on.

[JAinVA 4,619]

This old Ford has always been my favorite. I guess that is why I still own it. Lots of family history in it. And yes the dozer too.

 

 

[Achto 27,563]

Miss my 1970 Impala and my 1978 H.D. Super Glide. No digital pictures of either one. 

[Evguy 556]

4 minutes ago, Achto said:

Miss my 1970 Impala and my 1978 H.D. Super Glide. No digital pictures of either one. 

I was partial to my Dynaglide that was stage 4 modded 

[Achto 27,563]

4 minutes ago, Evguy said:

I was partial to my Dynaglide that was stage 4 modded

 

I took the Shovel Head engine on my Super Glide from 74ci to 93ci. Ended up at 89hp with 96 ft lbs of torque. Was a really fun ride. 

[Evguy 556]

18 minutes ago, Achto said:

 

I took the Shovel Head engine on my Super Glide from 74ci to 93ci. Ended up at 89hp with 96 ft lbs of torque. Was a really fun ride. 

More power makes more fun, I was at 103 hp and 106 torque, and still 41 mpg

 

 

[WHX?? 48,814]

Would have to be a mini bike I had around '75 - '76. A five horse horizontal Briggs with a custom exhaust. Rebuilt the motor in HS power mechanics shop. What a blast! Close second would be a 1980 Ford F-150 step side I bought brand new when I made petty officer third 1979.

11,000 Washington's in the day. 

May have pics of that will have to dig out.

Good thread Plunge 👌 

[JCM 9,130]

Nice to hear from you Jim @JAinVA    

[WHX?? 48,814]

59 minutes ago, Achto said:

 my 1978 H.D. Super Glide. 

You get yer head out of tractors, pullers and pu$$% and put a bike together we could round up some bros and have a nice scoot... 

[JoeM 7,873]

D160 lacked power and kind of problematic but was a survivor, tossed it up on the bay and it went out West.

 

 

My Rhino was a real beast was chipped and would get. Trail rode a lot.

Arthritis set in and couldn't take the beating anymore.  

Sold it to some kid up North. He was tickled to death. 

 

SRT8 Magnum 1 of 256 Wife took it out one day, she came back and the car didn't 13000 miles on it.

I remember me and the boy was on the interstate, Christmas morning, dry cool out, going to see a relative in the hospital. He was driving and there was no traffic. I told him let her stretch her legs. He let off at 149 and I told him you had one more gear. He looked at me and said, "but I am out of nuts" good memory. 

 

 

[953 nut 55,176]

I have no photos of this but when I was about nine or ten years old my father bought a new rotary mower and let me play around with the engine from the old reel mower. I built my first ride!  I took an old chicken coop door, a couple of 20" bicycle tires and wheels for the rear, a couple of wheelbarrow wheels and tires on the front axle and an old chair with no legs for a seat. The front axle was a 2 X 4 with some steel round stock nailed to it and a bolt in the middle connecting it to the chicken coop door. For steering I had a piece of clothesline nailed to the 2 X 4 at each end. There was no clutch, just a direct chain drive from the engine to the drive wheel.  I just propped the rear end up off the ground and once the engine was started I would sit down, pull on the wire attached to the throttle, rock MY FIRST CAR forward until it fell off the block under the rear and off I would go. I have no idea how fast (or slow) I was going but it seemed like I was on a race track. I never put any brakes on it, just let of on the throttle wire and the engine would stall. It wasn't the fanciest car I've ever owned or the best one but it was without a doubt the most memorable.

[WHX?? 48,814]

I dunno Richard but now we do  know where Pullstart got it from!

[sscotsman 148]

My first car, my beloved '81 Mustang. Bought for $1,500 in 1987 when I was 18 years old. Drove it all through college and a few years after. Sadly it did not survive 15 years of upstate NY winters and road salt.

 

 

[squonk 41,064]

69 Caprice. It was a "Grandma car" 327 2bbl and single exhaust. Back end was caved in when I got it. fixed the body, painted it. Put 4 factory rally wheels on it and a complete 4bbl set up from a Chevelle SS. Added dual exhaust. Looked factory. Won a couple of plaques at All Chevy Sunday in Syracuse a couple of years in a row.

 

 

[Streetrodchev 798]

This picture was back in 1995, I was a Junior in high school, I still have the car. 

[rjg854 11,359]

When I first bought this house, this is what I used to plow the circle and 1/4 mile driveway.

1947 Bolens Huski Gardener, the thing was a beast and worked great.

 

Just sold it a couple of years ago because it just sat after getting into the Wheel Horse addiction.

I won't mention that I still miss the 66 GTO I had.

[Ed Kennell 38,128]

Sorry, no pics, but a '48 Merc,'55 Ford, and '57 Dodge have to be up near the top of my wildest ride list.   All back in the days of smokin tires, US 30 Dragaway and the Old Reliable Chevy.

[davem1111 2,030]

54 minutes ago, rjg854 said:

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I won't mention that I still miss the 66 GTO I had.

 

Yet... you did 

 

I remember several friends in High School (early 1970's) who had GTO's  (Goats) and I was very envious. I could never understand how they could afford cars like that, but maybe if I had spent more time working for money than doing sports and spending time with girlfriends I could have... but I don't regret that.  Didn't buy my first car until I was in college. It was a puke green 1970 Chevelle with a straight six, which I don't really miss (but could have had some fun modifying if I'd had the money). Paid $125 for it and that was a stretch for me at the time.

 

During college I worked a variety of part time jobs and had some "extra" money after college costs, and bought my 1965 Mustang from my brother-in-law at the time. He was more excited about Corvettes and had 2, and needed to downsize.  He had had some front end work done on the car, and even though it had the straight six, for some reason they put front springs in that were probably meant to support a V-8, and it was "nose high" which I hated.  I bought a proper pair of springs and replaced them. Compressing coil springs is a bit nerve-wracking....  

Did a lot of other work on the car over several years. It was a lot of fun to drive. Sold it a while after marrying my first wife. No more Mustang, and not too long before no more wife either.   Should have kept the car....

 

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[wh500special 2,168]

I had a Wheel Horse 418-C that I’ve missed from time to time.  It was a great snow plowing tractor with the hydraulic lift and faster ground speed than other hydro tractors. 
 

I also had an orange and white John Deere 110 Custom Color (Patio) tractor.  I had no special love for it, but when I sold

it the eager buyer drove overnight from 800 miles away.  He saw my online listing, sent an email immediately asking me to verify the serial number, and then tried to wire me money to hold it so he could come after work the next day.  I knew there was a chance i had something special at that point and I’d probably sold it too cheaply, but that’s the way it goes. 
 

when he got to my house the next day he hurriedly paid me and got the thing loaded in his pickup before sheepishly telling me that the 1968 serial number on my/his tractor might have made this one the first (or at a minimum one of the very first) Patio tractors made.  Deere didn’t officially put these out until the 1969 model year but mine was a late ‘68.  And it was an original factory paint job on the thing complete with the special textured stamped seat bucket.  
 

I think it went to a great home, but that one might have been neat to have kept. 
 

Steve