Hot Rod Ability Tour 2013 Tries To Kill Junkyard Life Guys!
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| Hot Rod Power Tour highlights. Finally! Someone appreciates a greenish Vista Cruiser Wagon! This 1 may outrun mine though. |
It was Hot Rod overload. Oh, it tried. With thousands of cool rods landing at the Birmingham halt of the Hot Rod Power Tour, automotive attending deficit disorder guys, similar us, didn’t stand upward a chance. But nosotros fought dorsum amongst a practiced duet of shoes, a large floppy chapeau too a camera. There is no agency that nosotros could get to embrace all the cars nosotros loved there. So, on to the highlights.
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| Keith Lively's tricked-out 1966 Chevy Impala was transformed into a luxury brute via an AWD 2004 GMC Denali. The LS engine too parent a/c brand this 1 cool ride. |
All-Wheel-Drive 1966 Impala
The absolute highlight of the entire calendar week was my invitation to ride along with, immature homo Junkyard Life brother, Keith Lively, inwards his innovative 1966 Impala on the autocross. Lively, a Birmingham-native, built the unassuming delineate solid unit of measurement car. It looks similar a ’66 Impala, but has the guts of a 6.0 liter LS engine, all-wheel stimulate 2004 GMC Denali. Thanks, Keith! That was awesome! Check out the video here.
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| 1955 Chevys caught my optic all over the HRPT. |
Hey, Mr. Postman!
Since nosotros are edifice a Tri-Five at this real minute, I had to accept enough of pictures of them. You know, for query purposes. You may besides abide by I prefer the sedans over the hardtops. I know, hardtops are worth more. I but similar the post cars.
Ron Kidd
— Junkyard Life
Tell us nigh your Hot Rod Power Tour experience! Send emails to Ron at Kidd403@bellsouth.net or Jody at junkyardbull@gmail.com.
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| Check out this double nickel Chevy gasser. |
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| Jody too I establish a agency to combine our honey for Tri-Five Chevy’s too wagons. We recollect a ’55 Nomad inwards a barn that begs for a trip on the HRPT. |
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| Wagons examine to live on popular, handy too agency cool on Power Tour. This ’57 Chevy 210 was packing patina. |
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| These 1955 Ford Ranch Wagons were Long Haulers, boasting vintage luggage too the same retro cooler that I possess got inwards my Vista Cruiser wagon! |
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| Proven fact: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 vintage H2O ice breast gives your machine 10 extra horsepower. |
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| This 1963 Impala carriage carried a bicycle on the roof rack amongst a one-of-a-kind matching pigment job. Let's telephone telephone it rust. |
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| What would Ron create right away inwards this dilema? I possess got no idea. Two dream cars, a 1971 Cutlass too a 1971 Buick Grand Sport, both my favorite GM colors other than green. Help! |
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| A 1971 Buick GS convertible inwards Bittersweet Mist. |
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| This early on seventies Suburban barely caught our optic until nosotros saw nether the hood (photo below). Good black alive! I tin alone imagine the torque too horsepower figures this twin turbo LS was making. Hats off. |
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| Twin turbo LS engine inwards a 1972 Chevy Suburban. |
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| Not a rigid showing of our Colonnade kiddies from 1973-1977. Here is a 1973 Pontiac Grand Am inwards red, white too blue. |
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| 1977 Cutlass Supreme reminding us of Nanny Dean. Where are the Grand Prixs inwards between? |
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| Buick GNX clone or the existent deal? |
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| A Buick GNX was the ultimate street fighter of the belatedly 1980s. I am a T-Type guy myself. Check out this two-tone Turbo! |
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| Check out this super imposed photography of the ghost of Jody Potter inwards the turbo Buick! I noticed the bench spot too the column shifter earlier I noticed him. Hey, Jody! Get your ghost out of my T-Type amongst a bench spot too a sneaky column shifter! |
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| A 1987 Buick Grand National is on my turbo dream list. |
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| Hot Rod Power Tour Long Haulers loaded upward too left Birmingham for their side past times side halt inwards Chattanooga. Know of a junkyard I postulate to view or desire to shipping me photos too information nigh a machine or junkyard? Send emails to Ron at Kidd403@bellsouth.net or Jody at junkyardbull@gmail.com. |