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Termyn8or -> RE: Your first car? (7/10/2008 11:35:19 PM)
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OK SB, I am going to go through this for you.
One day Dad drove me to a car lot. He showed me a car and it had power everytrhing and all that which never impressed me. It was yellow with a black vinyl top. It was in the back.
This was at Luis Cruz Auto Sales on W25th at the Columbus road intersection. This car was hidden from sight because it was not perfect, it did not run right. But Dad took me to it so I checked out the accessories and tried to start it. Battery was not up too it. He said "Pull the hood latch and come here" and I complied.
I had no idea what I was looking at, and then he spoke " Do you have any idea what this is ?". I said no, and then he explained. He told me this was a 1970 Olds Toronado. and that it was a very special car. He explained that the tranny was just about under the engine, front wheel drive. This was in 1975, front wheel drive cars were not popular then.
This car had the sticker in the window, which said that it cost $9986 in 1970. Five years later with a hundred thousand miles on it, the price was cheap, $225. He asked me if I wanted it. What do you think I said ? LOL
We brought our own brand new battery to start it when we pocked it up a few days later, after throwing a back plate on it. I got to drive it home, at below legal driving age, we did not care back then. It was running on two cylinders, and being down to ten percent power approximately, it made it home.
Well we are no slouch when it comes to engines, the olman used to buy, sell rebuild and steal them. I mean we know what the fuck we are doing. In a short time the engine was running smoothly and it was very fast. Fast to the popint where it had a passing gear at 100MPH. And I am not kidding.
When I drove it home on two cylinders, another would fire once in a while and you would get a brief surge in power. I knew this this was bad to the bone and the first priority became getting it running right.
Now I know this car is not the most powerful thing in the world, but it had a few features. Because of the special suspension, you could be moving right along and whip the wheel. It would not break traction. I needed a tire and I couldn't find an LR78-15, so I used a JR, and even inflated to 60PSI it would not break traction, it would crush the tire.
I'll explain it this way, in a normal car let's say you are doing 40 MPH. As ytou do this, turn the steering wheel almost full left as if you werer turning into a driveway or such. In these shitcans, you spin out or something, in an SUV (DA) you flip over. Be very aware of this if you ever get one of these, in the Toro, you actually make the turn, If there is a wallto thelaft of you and you turn laft, I can guarabtee that you will hit the wall. The car WILL NOT GIVE UP.
I firmly believe that if you push this car too hard, that it would take two wheels off the ground, and being young I of course tried it but never quite did it. I loved stompin peoples' ass. Got your shiny new IROC Z28, well the rubber from my FRONT tires will be on your hood. By the time I was done with this, it needed two batteries just to start, and if it was hot I would have to put them in series. And one of the best car stereos in town, but that came later.
I beat ANYTHING with a small block, and the only Fords that could touch me were 460s and did not come from Ford, a fucking Pinto usually does not have a 460 in it. But I beat the Mustangs too, but if they had a bogblock it was a tossup.
Actually there was one guy in Cleveland, he had a small block but I never tried him. Quiglet road use to be the racetrack. Rhis guy I never ran across and maybe I am glad because I might have lost to a smallblock, and that was an anethma.
Problem with this particular guy, he had hi smallblock Chevy 350 ON HIS HARLEY. And I don't mean a trike, he balanced it somehow. I have seen it in person in frone of Demetri's on Lorain avenue plenty of times, eventually I talked to the guy briefly. He put that thing together himself. Of course who else would. But he had worked out everything, as far as getting to the controls and all that, and I watched it drive down the street.
Now that I would not want to fuck with that but everything else smallblock was easy meat.
I really have no business being alive after driving a car like that from age 15 - 18. I smashed it literally days beformy 18th birthday, and when I got sued for $353,000 they were dragged into it.
My certain ethic lawyer came and said "You say this". I complied. The $353,000 was settled for two grand. The olman would have pulled it out of his shoe but I think he wanted to teach me a lesson. I had to pay it.
Good enough for me. I will never forget alot of things that happened in that Toro. Pne car I never got to race was this Buick with a 430, I wanted his ass, but he lived in a suburb an was a bit paranoid. That car was fast, and I wanted a peice of it. I mean that.
But I never playrd with people, I had it off the line and in all ranges, I had 510 Ft lb. of torque at anout 1800 and peak HP around four grand, at 400, And I knew how to drive as well.
Thing is, sorry, but that is the way it was. Lay it on the line, I really was the baddest motherfucker in town. There is no ignoring that HP. Luckily I worked. Talk about a gas guzzler. I took the shroud off the carb and worked the throttle. The jets were squirting gas in so fast that it went all over the place. I am not kidding.
Here's the thing, 0 - 60 in about five or six seconds is not something to cause a revolution over, but when you take tyhis care's 0 - 100 speed, things change. Ay 65 this thing ain't even starting, wind it up to 80, and then floor it, and prepare. You will not laeve that seat unastonished.
That car was $225, the work we did to it, who cares. The last one I saw online was $31,000 and it is sold.
So everything is a shitcan to me.
T
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