On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:43:52 -0500, "Eisboch"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:02:46 GMT, "Jack Goff" wrote:



They were nice. Back in the day, I was fortunate to have two - '70
440 GTX and a '70 Corvette. I sold the GTX a couple of years ago
because I wasn't using it and a collector had been after me for years
to sell it - the offer kept going up and eventually, I just gave in.

My Corvette is all original and only has 16K on it. It's the one car
that I couldn't part with - I sold all my other restorations (a '70
Duster, '54 Crown Vic, '50 International L-110 pickup, and four
International tractors) almost as soon as I finished them. :)

The 'Vette - that's my baby. Bought it when I came back after my
second tour and kept it ever since.

A couple of years ago a boating aquaintance was restoring a late sixties
Corvette and was running short of fund for the project. We were talking one
day and I ended up buying one of his collectables - a '66 Pontiac Catalina
2+2. I didn't realize what it was until several months later when a car nut
friend stopped by and freaked out. It had the rare, 8 lug wheels, a 421
c.i. racing engine with three, two barrel carbs set up with progressive
linkage. The tansmission was a factory installed Hurst "stonecrusher" 4
speed and the rear end was geared so high that at 60 miles per hour, the
engine was turning around 3000 rpm. Under full throttle, it would break
loose and leave rubber in all gears except 4th.

I had it for a little over a year, then sold it to make room in the garage.
I should have kept it, as it turns out these are relatively rare cars.

One of the neat things about the GTX was the twin 650 CFM Holleys.

I'm telling you, that car would grab rubber until I either ran out of
rubber or gave up. :)

Later,

Tom