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> Porsche content, not 914, Dad was cooler than me
jeffdon
post Apr 29 2011, 08:31 AM
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Anyone else have evidence that your dad was way cooler than you?

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Taken between 1959 and 1961. Cannot see it in the pic, but he ran around with a straight stinger pipe, no muffler. The guy kneeling down is my mom's cousin, and he had a 356 also. They used to race up on skyline in Oakland.
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post Apr 29 2011, 08:33 AM
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Anyone else have evidence that your dad was way cooler than you?

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Taken between 1959 and 1961. Cannot see it in the pic, but he ran around with a straight stinger pipe, no muffler. The guy kneeling down is my mom's cousin, and he had a 356 also. They used to race up on skyline in Oakland.


Your dad looks a bit like Hunter Thompson. That makes him cooler than my dad by itself.
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post Apr 29 2011, 08:35 AM
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Your dad looks a bit like Hunter Thompson. That makes him cooler than my dad by itself.


I thought the same thing! Sadly, I think he looked like the good doctor for but a fleeting moment.
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post Apr 29 2011, 09:18 AM
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post Apr 29 2011, 09:55 AM
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Great thread!
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It's yours truely with my dad's mother about 1961 or 1962.... little did I know at the time that it would become my first car in late 1964. Dad had blown the clutch in '63 and purchased a new Corvair Spyder and stuck the 356 on blocks under a tarp. After I turned 16 he said if I fixed it and paid the insurance I could have it....
I was on fire about Porsches and racing. Dad had gotten this car from Joe Buzzetta after it had been raced extensively on the east coast. It was a '56 with right hand drive and had been the first Porsche to go to Hong Kong. On the way home, the factory blueprinted the engine, they called it "hand polished" and gave Joe a different 3rd gear. In 1957 it won many races on the east coast.
Yeah, Dad was cool....
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post Apr 29 2011, 09:58 AM
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Awesome!
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post Apr 29 2011, 10:05 AM
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Actually, there IS a 914 connection to the picture. I got my 914 from my mom's cousin in 1984!
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post Apr 29 2011, 10:05 AM
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Actually, there IS a 914 connection to the picture. I got my 914 from my mom's cousin in 1984!
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post Apr 29 2011, 10:08 AM
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I don't have a picture of it, but my Dad had a 69' DZ302 Z28 brand new. My Mom made him sell later due to much-mass tickets.

By the time I was married, I had a 70' 911E (in between 914's at the time).

Not sure which is cooler, the DZ302 or the 911? Both are these days very rare.
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post Apr 29 2011, 10:27 AM
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Geez. Dad's cars. So many cool ones. Pics are hard to find, but my favorite was his two-tone brown '50 merc with fender skirts, slammed and chopped. By the time I came along, he was a very busy heavy equipment contractor, and relegated to an endless stream of Ford Pick ups. At least he always got the Big Block.
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post Apr 29 2011, 11:28 AM
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Well, both my parents were way cool...
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post Apr 29 2011, 11:28 AM
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My Dad was cool because he was my Dad. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Apr 29 2011, 11:33 AM
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My dad is cool too.
Eniac Computer...
Arpa Net
Conference calling
Digital Cell phone

Tons of classified stuff that I am not allowed to hear.

All his patents and projects...

Far from a car guy though....

Rich
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post Apr 29 2011, 11:34 AM
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My mom was cool.

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Unfortunately, she was also the photographer of the family, so I have no pictures of her with her Swallow Doretti.
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post Apr 29 2011, 11:36 AM
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Yeah, I think my dad was way cooler than I. He had a 56 Chevy painted candy apple red, then after he sold it to a friend for $100 bucks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (yeah that’s what I thought). He moved on to a Pontiac GTO, teal/blue sold that for next to nothing, and then bought a 68 Buick GS California, bright yellow. I don’t have any pictures of them and can only remember the GS as a kid. He now has a1930 model A 5 window coupe. It was my grandfathers and is all original gun metal paint and all. He is torn because he is a hot rod muscle car guy and he wants to turn it into a full hot rod, but then again there aren’t that many fully original steel body 5 window coupes still around this area, salt got to most of them.
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post Apr 29 2011, 11:48 AM
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Well, both my parents were way cool...
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Byron.
And you mom was smokin' hot. Your Dad is (was) a lucky man!
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post Apr 29 2011, 11:48 AM
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I almost forgot!

I guess both my parents purchased VW Type 1's after the last of the kids were born. Dad had a black 60' vert and mom had a 63'??? coupe, that light blue color. I've seen pics of both.

So in 73', dad "surpised" mom by trading in both bugs for two brand new Vegas.

That.....was not so cool. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Mom still talks (complains) about that one almost 40 years later. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Apr 29 2011, 12:53 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) he sold his speedster for 2650 to buy the -6 for 3200


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post Apr 29 2011, 01:38 PM
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back in the early sixties I had a AC Aceca Bristol stage two coupe. I wish I still had the car but kept having kids and it got to small. sold it for $3600.00. I havent seen one since. Have a brother who raced in the 50's he had a xj120,MGtd, Glocker speedester, 550 spyder, MG special He drove a Morette in the 6 hour at Torry Pines and won the index of performance.
he also published the programs for Cal Club backi then He was cool
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post Apr 29 2011, 03:31 PM
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QUOTE(RFoulds @ Apr 29 2011, 09:48 AM) *

QUOTE(racerbvd @ Apr 29 2011, 10:28 AM) *

Well, both my parents were way cool...
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Byron.
And you mom was smokin' hot. Your Dad is (was) a lucky man!

Thanks, he has passed though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
That was their race car, both raced SCCA BITD....
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