It we were in the years of 85-87............

[Nord]

What kind of rig would you want to have realistically with out getting too out of control.............

I would be sporting a Chevy Van Conversion (brown) towing a Daytona with some sort of a aqua and teal gel with the "basic cable" sized motor. Inside the van would be those pillows that opened up and extended into long square pillows for the back seat/bed in the back. ......and a little hole in the middle of the carpet where the table goes I would listen to tapes on my Kraco tape player head unit...........but be pissed because most of my albums are on eight track......

What about you guys have...............or did I already take all of the good stuff

~NORD~

 

[Guest]

What kind of rig would you want to have realistically with out getting too out of control.............

I would be sporting a Chevy Van Conversion (brown) towing a Daytona with some sort of a aqua and teal gel with the "basic cable" sized motor. Inside the van would be those pillows that opened up and extended into long square pillows for the back seat/bed in the back. ......and a little hole in the middle of the carpet where the table goes I would listen to tapes on my Kraco tape player head unit...........but be pissed because most of my albums are on eight track......

What about you guys have...............or did I already take all of the good stuff

~NORD~

With the obligatory bumper sticker...If this vans rockin.......:beer

good times!

 

[RitcheyRch]

Most likely a Dodge van conversion as well. Not sure about the boat.

 

[Devilman]

I would like to have a 67-72 Ford shortbed pickup. Not a stepside though. Kinda clapped out, flat black, with slot mags on it. And if this is the mid 80s it would at least have a cassette deck in it, lol. With speakers in it just good enough so I can hear the Creedence down by the water where I'm beached, without bein a treble rebel.

Far as the boat goes, I'd be completely satisfied with the boat I have now, but a little more blasting powder in the engine compartment wouldn't be a problem either. If it was going to be a different boat, it would be something a little lower profile, a Southwind perhaps. So I could reach over the side & put my hand in the water, while I was cruising up-river if I wanted to.

:beer

 

[RiverDave]

Slammed Chevy Dually, Crew Cab short bet, with a flat bottom (with the wing) behind it.. Or if I was rich a Schiada..

RD

 

[Ratso]

87 Chevy with the 350, and my 87 HydroStream behind it...

 

[Angry Inch]

lamborghini countach

 

[spectras only]

Back into the past , I had what I wanted at that time . 64 Linc & 76 Spectra >

 

[spectras only]

lamborghini countach

My buddy has one . Pretty uncomfortable car . I like his ACR Viper better !

 

[Ratso]

lamborghini countach

Can you tow a boat with that?:hmm

 

[YoPengo]

1969 El Camino pulling my 1978 Southwind BBC Jet.

<<<<< misses his jet boats

 

[572Daytona]

I had a 76 Caddy Coupe Deville with a 500ci that I towed my Tahiti with. Would have prefered an Eldo convertible though.

 

[TPC]

I was doing Air Conditioning and refrig for the LAPD those years.
Interesting Auto Truck years.

I drove a new LAPD truck from each model year through the mid 80's and got a real sample of what was happening in the performance dept.
From 1984 on they just got more power each model year.

More horsepower appeared on the market, and the vehicles ran better and usually cooler.
Vaccum control lines were starting to give way to reliable wireing harness' then fuel injection finally made it's debut in a primative, but good version.

The coolest vehicle I had was a 1976 LAPD plains cloths Impalla car with real low mileage.
Some LAPD official used it then retired,, and the other officials wanted new Crown Vics or Suburbans. Not an old Earl Scheib carribean blue Impalla that ran like crap.
So they gave it to me to use.
I got a spool of rubber vaccum line, and replaced all the lines under the hood. It then ran super.
Had great air conditioning too.

It had dashboard mounted safety air bags. A 1976 mod!!
GM offered them that year in about 15.000 vehicles, then dropped the program the next year.

I mounted some stainless steel panels inside some Crown Vic and Suburban doors that also had bullet resisting lexan side windows.
I think LAPD eventually went to a ballistics Kelvar kinda material, but these early versions would stop a 9mm or 10 mm at close range.

Stainless is a great bullet catcher.

 

[Racey]

Slammed Chevy Dually, Crew Cab short bet, with a flat bottom (with the wing) behind it.. Or if I was rich a Schiada..

RD

You stole the words right from my mouth!

I'd go for the long bed, California Style Paint, slammmmmmed

 

[Sleek-Jet]

85 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4 with a built 396 and a cab over camper... of course the A/C was taken off when the rat was stuffed in side, so just the two windows down and blown out turbo exhuast for traveling tunes. No A/C on the camper either, when you went to Powell, you spent all the time outside, even sleeping at night. The only time you retreat inside is during a T-storm...

Pulling either an open-bow Concord w/200 Black Max Merc or my current 21 foot Eliminator day cruiser.



(I actually own that pick-up now... but the motor is out of it... )

 

[Miss Perfect]

If it were really 1985 the only thing I would be driving is a Big Wheel.

 

[TBI]

If it were really 1985 the only thing I would be driving is a Big Wheel.

 

[Nord]

If it were really 1985 the only thing I would be driving is a Big Wheel.

Thats hott.....

 

[Sportin' Wood]

You fuckers musta been ballers back then too. I would(was) be cruising a 69 VW cal style with a styrofoam ice chest, some boonsfarm and standing on the dock trying to bribe a ride with some dirtweed, California coolers, and a home made cassette with the 2live crew.


Now If I was dreaming, (back then) I would be rolling an 85 sr5 toyota 4x4 extra cab and if I was really lucky I'd have a jet ski hanging outta the back of the camper shell and carpet kit. Jeeze an 85 dually in the weeds. That only happened in Truckin magazine.

 

[Nord]

I was hoping people would be realistic with the spending part

 

[OCMerrill]

When I was 20 (1987) I had a 71 454 SS El Camino and towed my 1967 Spico flat to the river. 7 mpg.

I later sold that car for $3500 (yeah who knew it would be worth like $30k) and bought a brand new 1987 Ford Ranger. What a joke that was.

But if I had to do it over again I like the Lowered Dually deal RD describes.
Those were the bomb.

 

[H4Poohbah]

Tryin' to find pics, but WAS rollin' in a 84 Black Crew Cab Chevy Dually (slammed with orange truckers lights) on Alcoas towing a 1978 Kona 20ft. jet. Good times; coolers and racks of Coors all throughout the bed and the boat. We were from San Jac Esse, that Dually was the Limo for ALL the weddings and quincereas (sp?) unless we brought the Coors; and then they wouldn't let us into the parties.

 

[DeltaSigBoater]

If it was '85 - '87 then that would make me 4-6 years old.

But had I've been of age...

Tow Rig: Early to mid-80's Ford Econoline Custom Van, White, 7 passenger, 6 windows, 4" lake pipes, sliding cargo door, Cassette Deck, CB Radio, Moon Roof

Boat: 20' - 23' Day Cruiser, BBF or BBC (Jet/V-drive) White w/ Blue Trim... either a Bahner, Campbell, Daytona, Dana, Eliminator, Hallett, Hondo, Howard, Kona, Mandella, Miller, Sanger, Schiada, Spectra, Targa, Tarva, or Taylor (I know I might be foregetting a few builders be whatever!)

:beer

 

[Miss Perfect]

Thats hott.....

I had the best looking Barbie Big Wheel on the block!

 

[Maddog355]

It was not exactly 85-87, But shortly there after.

75 Chevy K30 3+3 shortened with 5" lift in front and 3" in the rear, Big block, auto, and 4:56 gears.

 

[Nord]

It was not exactly 85-87, But shortly there after.

75 Chevy K30 3+3 shortened with 5" lift in front and 3" in the rear, Big block, auto, and 4:56 gears.

Bitchen!!!

 

[kgt]

In 87 i was 16 and had my first car...at 77 lt camaro..great car, smoke shows in the school parking lot...good times..lol...

 

[Havasu Doug]

This is not exactly answering the question of what I WOULD want, but this is what I had back in those days.

Towing uphill was a bitch with that riceburner.

 

[Guest]

In 1985, my daily driver was a 1965 Nassau blue Corvette roadster...

 

[OCMerrill]

In 1985, my daily driver was a 1965 Nassau blue Corvette roadster...

One of the nicest years of Vette made. Very cool Jbb.

 

[Flyinbowtie]

In 1985 Cindy was driving a 1980 Pontiac Trans Am, which she still is pissed at me for trading in in early 1986 for a SUV. I still owe her another second gen T/A someday.
I was driving a 1978 Ford F-250 long bed 4x4 standard cab truck, and we were starting to feel the pinch trying to squeeze our then 2-yr old son's car seat in between us trying to tie it down so I could still shift the granny-gear four-speed.
No boat; we were deep into the buggy thing, and I had sold my second VW powered rail and was finishing my third car, having stuffed a 2300cc Pinto into a rear engine "Station One" knock-down chassis kit.
Cindy and I had been married 5 years.
Those were good times for us; simple and uncluttered, and although we were broke as hell, we were having a ball.

 

[Mandelon]

Those years were busy for me. Alternatively I rode my Suzuki GS 550E. A cutting edge sportbike back then...like a GPZ, then came the Ninjas...

I had a 62 VW window bus, that had been cut out to run big Baja style tires.

Or, a 63 Impala convertible.....black with red interior, 327 and hydroglide (?)tranny..

or a 64 Dodge dart 4 door that my grandma gave me. It had 28,000 miles on it. Back in the days of Miami Vice... I painted the bumpers and surf rack pepto pink..... :lamo

Boatwise.....I had no clue. We almost bought a 36' wooden yacht to live on.....but when we went to check it out I was able to stick a screwdriver all the way through the transom.....:smackhead

 

[Riverbound]

In 85-87 I was riding to the river in a slammed crew cab dually long bed. with a camper shell and a big wing on the back. towing a (7 shades of brown) sleek craft open bow. In that time period we ditched the dually and got a lifted f-350 crew cab long bed (single wheel) Built 460 with a stick shift. And AC in the camper shell area for us Kids.
________
Jaguar Mark 2 Picture

 

[Nord]

I remember watching tv in our van that was hooked up to a cheesy little antana. It was a black and white little cube that barely picked up tv stations when we were near home. Then..................blank

 

[DeltaSigBoater]

If it was '85 - '87 then that would make me 4-6 years old.

Yes I just quoted myself

Up untill 1987 we had a 1979 Ford Econoline Custom w/ a 351, that was post-it-note yellow!

Then we switched to a 1985 Chevy Dually w/ a twin-turbo diesel, that was slightly Lowered... No wing

 

[Nord]

I still have the same car sittin in the shop that I had back then..... 70 Pontiac rag top with a 454(canadian made)

Does it run?

 

[Sportin' Wood]

Just checked in with MMSW.
Her parents where rollin a Brand spankin new 85 C20 cargo van with a home made conversion. Dragin a 18 foot seaswirl from Johnson Marine out to Kathrine landing and boat camping most all summer. Next time we go to the inlaws I'll raid the photo album. Pops always has great stories about how nice it was up at the basin with never a boat in site.

 

[LowRiver2]

Since I graduated in 87, the dually would be my choice. I had a kid who's dad owned a local hot rod dealer (Street Rods) and he got a brand new slammed from Traders 87 red dually for graduation. He towed either two new red 550 stand ups behind it or his dad's 25 ft. Warlock Cat. He had the set up and the only thing better was his custom 67 Mini Cooper with a supercharger, that thing kicked butt.

I remember "Trader Tim", the owner of Traders kept his 89 dually for a long time in storage, I never heard if he sold it. It was never touched by water and the windows were never rolled down. Those of you Parker old schools probbably remember his two boats: All read Connelly ski racer and red/white schiada named Finally. Top notch rides.

 

[Bad*Nan]

Some sort of stroller. Preferrably one with little hangy toys or something attached to keep my 2 year old attention for more than a few minutes

 

[spectras only]

towed the Spectra with my POS 1980 Vette too . After 3 years it had to go before the newly designed aluminum rear end would fall apart.
the harmonic balancer separated from the hub too

 

[Lue]

I would like to have a 67-72 Ford shortbed pickup. Not a stepside though. Kinda clapped out, flat black, with slot mags on it. And if this is the mid 80s it would at least have a cassette deck in it, lol. With speakers in it just good enough so I can hear the Creedence down by the water where I'm beached, without bein a treble rebel.

Far as the boat goes, I'd be completely satisfied with the boat I have now, but a little more blasting powder in the engine compartment wouldn't be a problem either. If it was going to be a different boat, it would be something a little lower profile, a Southwind perhaps. So I could reach over the side & put my hand in the water, while I was cruising up-river if I wanted to.

:beer

Your paint job would have been a little closer to its era, that's for sure.

I'd have a Raised Chevy towing one of the Campbells cruisers.

 

[Waterjunky]

I have to say that I was not allowed to drive on the street at that time. Something to do with being too young. I did drive quite a bit on the farm but tractors were not the best for style. For me at that time, my dream ride was a 1986 250R three wheeler. Anybody who remembers those things also remembers how fast they were. If I could only get my hands on a clean one now...... Still dangerously fast by todays standards.

 

[RogerThat99]

I like to bump these old threads every now and then. Taking it back almost 10 years. :thumbsup

 

[getreal]

I was working at Vandenberg AFB on the Shuttle project as a welder (Pipefitter Local 114). All of '85 and 1/2 of '86 we worked 7-12's.

 

[Ziggy]

Slammed Chevy Dually, Crew Cab short bet, with a flat bottom (with the wing) behind it.. Or if I was rich a Schiada..

RD

Here's some evolutionary proof of rdp's owner........................................................and the dream Schiada that came true

 

[Rajobigguy]

There is the boat.

The f250 highboy with the camper on it is the truck.

 

[rvrrun]

Here's some evolutionary proof of rdp's owner........................................................and the dream Schiada that came true

...but they never made a CC dually short "bet".

That being said, it would have been my first choice for tow vehicle as well .....or a dually 'burb.

 

[sgtskidmark]

I have to say that I was not allowed to drive on the street at that time. Something to do with being too young. I did drive quite a bit on the farm but tractors were not the best for style. For me at that time, my dream ride was a 1986 250R three wheeler. Anybody who remembers those things also remembers how fast they were. If I could only get my hands on a clean one now...... Still dangerously fast by todays standards.

Had one, all white maier plastic's,270 kit with a roost boost,...scary fast, got hurt a few times on that beast, wish I still had it today.

 

[Your ad here]

El Camino and a jet boat with as much chrome as I could get on it. I'de also rock a mullet and blasting 80's hair metal on the cassette.

 

[2FORCEFULL]

I was working at Vandenberg AFB on the Shuttle project as a welder (Pipefitter Local 114). All of '85 and 1/2 of '86 we worked 7-12's.

I worked the same shift in 1970