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Originally Posted by DD goat
Hey L78....you had some rare stuff!!! Those boss 9's are huge bucks now!! I had a close friend of mine in high school that had a 69 Mach 1 with a 351 cleveland. That was one of my favorite body styles. I got the muscle car bug when I was just a youngster in the 60's!)....dad worked for Pontiac motors and used to bring home GTO's from the plant all the time! Just the sound...I was hooked!! LOL Growing up in metro Detroit, all the kids dads worked for the big 3. We all had pretty cool cars I wish I still had mine! You too I'm sure!
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I could fill a barn with cars that I wish I would have kept. I got into muscle cars by hanging out in my cousin's shop from the time I was a toddler on up thru my teens. When dad got transferred to Houston in '76, the gods must have been smiling on me. We moved from the country to a fairly ritzy subdivision/school system. I was an immediate high school hero with my L78 Chevelle! The kids in my new school mostly drove new Trans-Ams or Camaros. My soon to be new best buddy had a '76 Camaro with a 305 and thought it was fast lol! We met when he challenged me to a drag race. Needless to say I completely destroyed him! Turns out he loved cars but didn't know a thing about working on them, the best part was that his dad owned an oil tool company, they made swivels, mud pumps and such. With his dads backing, we started buying, fixing, and flipping cars. We continued all thru my college career, which was in large part the reason it took me 5 years to get my bachelors! We had a lot of neat cars, including several Vettes, best was a '70LT1 convertible, a De Tomaso Pantera, a '71 440-6 Cuda, just about every interesting '69/'70 mustang including a few CJ's, SCJ's & Boss 302's. The only car I kept long term was the '69 Boss 429. We had an Acapulco blue '69 428 CJ auto/air car that I wish I would have kept rather than the Boss. It was just as fast, more comfortable, and not so valuable that I would be afraid to drive it.
If I could pick two, and wasn't worried about which was worth more, I would take the '66 Chevelle and '69 mach1.