I don't have the cars on this page any longer - you can go to my garage and see my current cars by selecting my member id on the top left to see pages featuring my 1971 Buick Riviera.

I've been around old cars all my life the first car I got work by myself was a 64 comet

when I was around 12 my father took engine apart layed it all out and I was allowed to to clean everything while was away (he was independant trucker) we were to put back togethr when he got back, I had been in the garage helping for years before then and when he got home three weeks later the engine was toghether and ready to go back in the car, It ran ok for a few hours then started to smoke tear down revealed I had lined the rings real nice and straight - second time it ran great and it sold a few months later to an engine rebuild shop who I'm proud and so was my dad to say ran for at least ten years as thier courtesy vehicle.

I had alot cars since (picture quality not great on some but I cared more about the cars) - 69 corvair monza (another father son project, first car I bought myself for $10 complete with new paint and a ceased engine), next was 67 GTO tri carb conv what a beast bought it from the orignal owner who lived next door when he got it new (dad wanted one, but ended up with 68 Caprice conv the next year his first brand new until a drunk in 69 mach 1 wrecked it ,after going into to poor house going to school and working two to buy gas the GTO was sold and replaced by a 69 fairlane 500 red Starky and Hutch stripes not exactly like this torino but same style 

but only a 6 cyl 3 on tree it ran lousy but looked good . A fender modified bug became every day transportation for a bit because they where all the rage in 1976. Others that followed included 68 Newport, 67 charger (383 magnum)6 months and a whole lot of money into the paint work had it just about perfect then woudn't give up the race to a Z28 and corvette a race which ended with my charger up against the steel braces of the Brandon curling club also with my llicense gone for a year for racing and dangerous driving.

The day after getting back from a tour overseas I got my license back and restarted with a 76 Royal Monaco (ex police car)it got traded for the black beauty a month or so later.

My 78 K5 Cheyenne, The Blazer was traded for the 79 SR5 (trans am killer)which I got with 1800 km on it after being hounded by a guy who bought it new and then just had to have my Blazer(it would spin all 4 tires, had gotten a few local trophies and was someone of a magnet to the local girls afterall).

The deal gave me cash to do up the Toyota with the help of the boys at Precision and Team Toyota Racing

enough to run with my friends (by run I mean race - in front them of at times) they really didn't have nothing heavy duty just a bunch of single army guys who had be over seas and spent all they had earned on things like early to mid 70's Z28s SS&RS cameros, firebird formulas and the top gun the big blue Trans Am which by the way was no where near stock either, I know I helped build it.
I also ended up getting a 69 camero - 72 chevy van - 75 blazer parts donors for my next big project

a no expense spared 1948 chevy street rod

(sold the SR5 to pay for the chroming paint and drove a borrowed a beat up type 3 VW for a manitobia winter)before getting it done

. After selling the 48 for riduculas amount of money I bought the SR5 it had grown me on and my girl friend - soon to be my wife after a tour overseas didn't like driving in the 48 no heater (not a good thing in Manitobia in Jan) plus I had to park it outside her parents townhouse development it wouldn't fit in the parking spaces.
after getting married

I did buy a 53 chev but didn't get it home before the profit monster got the best of me.
Things slowed down car wise for a bit we had to buy furniture I transfered to the airforce and got posted east we were blessed with our two boys. The SR5 got demodified to make it more practicle an F150 was bought for the winter and in between births I a got great deal on trading the truck in for

a real nice 70 Estate Wagon something bigger since we where about to have have second baby - infact I was washing the engine when he decided to show up - a frantic hit with the air hose in the carb and distributor of the 455 and the wagon

fired up and got us to hospital in time. The wagon didn't need much other than gas so a while later

a 70 Toyota Crown wagon got added. It was in rough shape but it had 2600 inline 6

150 mph speedo and looked neat besides I needed something to work on my friends had a old porcshe and bubble top chevy and a 66 Calais Caddy and about to buy 63 suicide lincoln, I was looking for another Buick but couldn't pay what they wanted for the 51 Buick Roadmaster or 58 century I found (the century was next to lincoln).
The SR5 was all done the wagon was in great shape. The Crown went into the barn with the others that winter and came out transformed

the porcshe and bubble top went west the caddy got sold,(he got married, I didn't have the cash or would have bought it) and I think lincoln the may still be in that barn.
The SR5 and or the Estate Wagon had to be sold

when we next got posted just to many to take with us (the SR5 stayed behind). After a few years of saving my sea pay I picked up a 70 Pariesenne conv - the boss told to sell the Estate Wagon before plating and insuring the Pontiac so the next guy who came to the door got a deal of a live time. But I was driving my new toy, had been a long since I had drop top.

The Pontiac was with with us long time and did a lot of travelling around the maritimes.

during that time the regency was traded for 81 cutlass wagon which got traded in on a Toyota van and a 71 Olds Vista Cruiser was added since I couldn't find Buick Sport Wagon.
The whole time I had the Parisenne I looked for a proper set of ralley I rims for her (hard to find) the day after getting them finally installed and two days before leaving for our next posting.

I spotted a GS 400 conv in mall parking lot and was writing a note when the owner showed up - a few hours later the Buick was mine the Parasienne was his, both were in about the same condition but the GS needed new tires and the Pontiac's only had 40 miles on them. We traded even and the GS went on the moving van instead of the Parisenne, the Vista Cruiser went to the junk yard and we drove the Toyota to our new home.

Page two will tease you a bit with the start of my GS 400s restoration

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