What was your first tire burner?
 

The first car I had that I would consider a hot rod was a 79 Gran Prix that I got in high school. I dropped in a 389 (total pain in the ass) hooked to a TH400 and would buy snow tires from the junk yard for $10 a piece and do burnouts until the steel belts were all that was left. The starter would always get hot and wherever I took it I would have to stay there until it cooled so it would start again. I beat the piss out of that car and eventually sold it for $500 to some arab guy who crashed it about a month later.

What was your first tire burner?

Silver and black Nissan Pulsar w/ T tops.

1983 Z28 Camaro

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...0C4/camaro.jpg

84 Z28 Camaro! :D

He said tire burner Wendy, not tire turner. :lolsmile:
Mine was a '72 Monte Carlo. Built 327 raped from a crashed '67 vette, bored .30 over. Crane fireball cam, aluminum bowtie port/polished 2.02 heads, forged TRW flat top pistons, forged TRW crank and rods, Edelbrock Torquer intake, 750 Holley, Hooker headers leading into Cherry Bomb glass packs (can you say LOUD), TH350 tranny with B&M shift kit, mated to a 12 bolt rear.(3.23's for the street, and 4.11's for the strip)
Dad and I spent the winter I was 15 building the motor, completely balancing everything down to the last headbolt.
I redid the entire interior, taking it from stock and adding center console with U-handle shift, tilt steering, swivel buckets, and stereo upgrade. I had it all done in a nice diamond tuck pattern in chocolate brown.
Stripped the paint down to the metal, and sprayed it with Imron copper-gold metallic. Added a set of 15X8 Corvette Ralleys with BFG Radial TA for street use, and a set of Mickey Thompson slicks for the strip.
That car was a beast! I dusted so many stangs, camaros and vettes it wasn't even funny. They'd look at my big heavy boat and laugh. 'Til I left em sitting scratching their heads. :D
Of course, I got waxed plenty too, but there's always someone faster. :leaving:

Don't laugh too hard I had to cut grass all summer and sell my drum set to get the money to buy it but I got before I got my drivers license.
Chevy Monza mine was blue
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...ve36/monza.jpg

<sigh> :slap:

Awesome louvers on the back!

That sounds bad ass, loved those swivel seats!

The Monza has it's place in history, great for putting big motors in! I knew someone who had a Monza Spyder!

I always liked the Monza. :thumbs:

1970 Mercury Cougar.... I wish I still had it...

1975 El Camino, I got it from my Dad, I beat the crap out of it and it always came back for more.

72 Chevy Nova like the one in the picture ... Except mine started out as gold with tan? bench seats... Ended up gunmetal gray with black stripes with black leather bucket seats front/back 350/4spd ... Have no clue what happened to it :( ... Whenever I run into someone I went to school with the conversation always starts out with ... Remember that car you had... LoL

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/8954/72nova.jpg

1960 Impala Convertible
 

1960 Impala convertible with 283 power pack heads and two Carter WCFB four barrel carbs...and a 2-speed Powerglide. The car had both a radio- and a heater-delete option. The color was puke green times three (exterior, interior, and vinyl top). Use to run it on Atlanta's perimeter highway (now I-285) when it was under construction back in the early 60's while in high school. Honest Charlie's out of Tennessee supplied the hot rod parts mail order (typically Mallory dual point distributor, "racing" ignition points, and Packard spark plug wires). When I look back at the lack of maintenance we tolerated on our vehicles (all four shocks usually started bouncing at difference speeds) and the cheap $5 junkyard tires we used, I'm amazed that we didn't have more wrecks or accidents for all the flying miles we ran back then! :willy:

1982 Mustang GT

My early cars were severely weak, so I'd say my first tire burner was my 1999 Suzuki SV-650. :D

I must hve been lucky. My first car was a Mustang GT, then a 1990 Mustang 5.0 LX, then a '77 Formula I bought in 1993 that only had 30K miles on it, then a Corvette. I have had a few grocery getters in between all that including a 1990 Honda CBR600F.

My first car when I got my drivers license, a yellow 86 Vette that I still own.

First car was a '95 Probe GT w/ a 5-speed.... pretty peppy for a first car. Next up was a '97 Mustang Cobra vert... fun car... glad I didn't kill myself growing up with it.

65 Ford Mustanghttp://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...s/55425421.gif

Is that where the forum name originated?

Mine was a black 1988 Pontiac Fiero. Loved that car!!

Still got it........
http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c5/30s...rnouts___1.jpg

http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c5/30s...elkey_0002.jpg

:drivingskid:

Sweet ride

I had a silver 76 Monza with a 305. That thing could BOIL rubber.

My first was a 1973 Nova that was 50% sheet metal and 50% rust. I built a 350 engine and swapped it in. Was pretty quick back in the day.

First car at 16. 1966 SS 396 Chevelle:o_o::o_o:

65 GTO, Raced it at Lions Raceway the last year they were open, and at time every CHP between LA and San Diego. Those were the days my freind.

I had a '79 GP, but with the 301 it just went with very little squealing of the tires. My first car that would smoke the tires would be a 1976 50TH anniversary Grand Prix with the 455 and Hurst Hatch T-Tops. Looked like this.

http://image.highperformancepontiac....and-prix-1.jpg

I got my first car in 1963. It was a 59 Chevy 283 power pack with a 4spd.
I did not know much about cars and did not realize how rare a 4spd was. Car could burn rubber ok and I had a lot of fun with it till I wrapped it around a tree!:o

1987 Camaro LT

'68 Charger R/T

1967 chevelle ss 396 4 speed, had it 2 yrs ,sold it when i went to boot camp. once i was stationed in va i bought a 69 hemi roadrunner from a sailer who had just started a family.

My first one was a 72 Ford F100 custom with a 302.

1987 5.0l lx

1970 Buick Grand Sport. :cheers:

My First car, I got her back in November of 2006, Sold her in may of 2010

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...e/1f8e7ca9.jpg

'79 Camaro the little 305 had a little bit burn and squeal...

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/RedRS001.jpg

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/RedRS003.jpg

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/RedRS005.jpg

1990 Camaro RS. Picked it up in 97. Sold it in 01. Wish I had kept it, loved that car.

'76 Trans Am, 400/4-spd.

Damn I miss that car!

Not mine, but looked just like this!
http://www.vicarimotorsports.com/1976TransAm.jpg

Never had a tire burner before the Vette but the most fun car I had previously was a 1973 BMW 2002. Wish I still had that one

Truth be told, it was my mom's 69 Cutlass. Got a ticket for layin it down on the way to the beach. My 67 427 L88 Camaro was to follow.

Yeah, I thought they were pretty cool looking, and different then the standard louvers most people had on their Camaros & Firebirds.

These were nice because the side openings were large enough to squeeze smaller hands in to clean the rear window, and the back section was hinged so it flipped up to be able to clean the window

Back in high school 1970 I had a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner 383 that was a holy terror on the Mustangs and Camaros.

I bought the twin of that car brand new. 5.0 with a 5 spd and t-tops. Loved it too- never should have sold it.

I had a 1983 Firebird in those same colors.

That was the year Firebirds had body-colored bowling-ball wheel covers. I discovered it was advisable to silicone glue those onto the wheel, and mine actually survived the life of the car. I think those were removed and/or fell off every other such car I knew about that year.

My car was no tire-burner, but it kept-up OK.

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edit... looked sorta like this... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3221/...f19e4a7996.jpg

:cheers:


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Wow, lots of F-Bodies! My first car was an '86 Cavalier 2.0L 4 speed stick. It was my dad's beater and I bought it from him pretty cheap. It was piss yellow with NO options. After I fixed it up, I quickly grew bored with how slow it was.

I found an 86 IROC in great shape except the people I bought it from thought it needed a motor. Long story short, it didn't but by the time I realized that I already had a worked 350 ready to go in. Still too slow, so I got a different cam, headers and 3" to the back with a cut-out and 3:73s. Had to have a custom stereo too, so after that I was pretty much out of money.:rofl: At 17, that car got me in trouble! It was worth it in the end though.:dance:

First car. Mine was white.

http://www.auctionsamerica.com/image...11_r224_01.jpg


Had a '69 SE with a 383 4 bbl. Stomp on the pedal at about 50-55 mph, it'd downshift and go sideways on I-5. Can't imagine what a 440 would have been like in that car. Power drum brakes, btw. Stopping was an adventure.

Had one too. Fun (but fragile) car.

This one was unique. '70 Olds Toronado GT. Ram Air 455 with front wheel drive. I nicknamed the car "snowplow." Was my ski bus for one season. Could light up the front tires if you sneezed though.

http://www.cars-on-line.com/40400/70olds40428-1.jpg

Mine was a 1971 Plymouth 'Cuda 340/275 that I picked up new ($3800 cash) when I returned from Vietnam. The picture shows a black one with a shaker hood and a spoiler which mine did not have and the color was medium autumn bronze instead of black.

Not my video but this was the first car I bought -

Went from a 100 hp ford ranger 2.3l to a 69 Camaro with a 350 4bbl with headers.

wrecked the truck, but hardly a scratch on the muscle car.

My first was a 1963 Chevy Stepside pick-up. Had a 350 with a Muncie 4 speed.

Came across this pic...seemed appropriate. :D

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...cture006-2.jpg

That was one beast for sure.

1962 Buick Special Aluminum Block & Heads V8 215 CI 4 Barrel 200 HP 4 Speed Manual Shift On The Floor Weighing In At 2,687 LBS .

SAME HERE. I had a 76, silver with red interior. Had a 305 V8 and would kill a tire in less than a minute. Boiling chunks of flying rubber...on one side. I held the record for the distance from the local Burger King drive thru window, straight out of the lot, right turn and to the next stop light...then POW, time for a spare.

I could hang with the Z28s of that era.