What other makes do you collect?

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It seems lots of us have other brands or makes of vehicles in our collections. Let's post and share stories of ours. Let's set a limit of more than 20 years old. Motorcycles are welcome too!

I bought the car back around 2003 or so. I noticed the for sale sign on my way home from work asking $1400. I called and after meeting up with the girl who owned it we made a deal and I drove it home for $1000.

It had no front valance (Well actually the original plastic valance was in the trunk in 3 pieces.) The front turn signal lights were off a 70' vintage ford pickup and mounted on some 1 1/2 angle iron. It had a P4B manifold with a 750 Holley double pumper on top of a Pontiac 350. It ran so rich a black cloud followed me all the way home. It had a early Formula hood and only the drivers side door and front fender was still the original Lucerne Blue the rest of the car was gray primer. The girl said they ran out of paint and never got back to painting the last part.

Once I replaced the intake and carb with factory pieces the car ran great. It was my daily driver for a couple years and made trips to Tiger Run in Bend OR. Made a few passes at the strip where it ran 14.8's on the non posi rear end. We're pretty sure the engine had a cam and some head work done to it.

Then it got parked, and loaned out, and parts from it got loaned, then got disassembled, and now it's 2025. The engine got installed in a 68 Lemans that I bought with a cracked block and then I sold the Lemans. The photo is of the car from last summer.

The other one is my wife's 70 Javelin. The 401 currently has a lifter type knock that isn't a lifter problem. (I changed cam and lifers the noise is unchanged).