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Yep-I remember these cars.

BTW-I am not saying I ever owned one of these or this one.I was just the Beach Boys song.


My first car was one of these:


Of course reading way to many Hot Rod magazines I couldn't leave well enough alone.Using Trans-adapt engine mounts and putting blocks between the front suspension and the frame and a 55 chevy rearend,we put in a 354 Hemi in this with a torqueflight tranny with a cut driveshaft.Man with that 800lb engine the frontend fell right on the ground. #-muhaha: Yeah part of a learning curve for sure. :-k :-k

Beautiful!

But I did own one like these when I was a kid.Mine wasn't a XL.:
Got this car towards the end of the 1964 model yr and had it for two yrs.

We used to beat these all the time.

Oddly enough I never got one ticket with the Ford.

Sold it and was driving a 57 Chevy with a 283 and lost my license with that for 6 months. #-o #-o


My boys still remember riding in this when they where babies.



A turbo vair at that too!!!.

Cool, where'd you take the pics?

Yet these had some the most Lux rides and some say it was one of the fastest production rides ever built.


Some say it was even faster than the Hemi's.

My ex-brother-in-law's brother owned one and man it sure was sweet.

BTW-I am not saying I ever owned one of these or this one.I was just the Beach Boys song.

The pics brought back a few memories from back in the day.

Here's a little more trivia to add along with your post. The Beach Boy's release of 409 was recorded in one of the guys garage around midnight, the neighbors were raising hell and it was a 348 and not a 409 you hear in the backgorund of the recording. Car was actually outside the garage for the recording and not added later. Now I'm sure knowing this has made everyones day.

I'll have to dig up some of pops' pics of the cars I grew up in and some of the ones I bought fixed up and foolishly sold like my 1966 thru 1972 chevelles and my 65 fastback stang.... Those are some sweet cars gar! and Larry thanks for the bit of trivia I'll have to take that to the car show on thursday night to stump some of the ole timmers!

Rebel wrote:

BTW-I am not saying I ever owned one of these or this one.I was just the Beach Boys song.

The pics brought back a few memories from back in the day.

Here's a little more trivia to add along with your post. The Beach Boy's release of 409 was recorded in one of the guys garage around midnight, the neighbors were raising hell and it was a 348 and not a 409 you hear in the backgorund of the recording. Car was actually outside the garage for the recording and not added later. Now I'm sure knowing this has made everyones day.

Hey Larry,

You remember these??.Sort of a rebel car.

I had one of these as a street/strip car that didn't have the hood scoops.I put in a purple cam and control box with a Edelbrock intake and a 650 holley and headman headers with a torqueflight tranny.The last yr I owned it I added a set of T/A heads.I ran it in street E.T.It became a car in the top three every wk at two tracks.LOL-a guy came up to me at the track and offered me all the money for the mods and enough to finsh off the payments.Yeah,I jumped all over that one.