This Weekend's Question: Your First Street Car  

My first car was a 1964 Chevy II, I paid $350 from a private seller. 194 CI with 3 on the tree! I installed a Hurst shifter while working at my cousin’s Sunoco station in Emerson, NJ. I was only 17 and he trusted me to run the station on Sundays. Once I attempted to adjust the valves in my back yard and destroyed a few lifters. He said you should’ve asked me how to do that before attempting. There was no You Tube back then only Chilton’s manuals! I had my one barrel carb rebuilt at a local shop and on a trip to Pennsylvania I got 60 MPG! My goal was to drop in a 283 or 327 and see how’d i do at Raceway Park in Englishtown. That never happened because my younger cousin accidently backed in  his parents 1966 Chevy Caprice into the front end of my Chevy II. The car was totaled!