'55 Studebaker

In 9th grade I would ride my bike to my uncle's shop and help work on hot rods. Originally my uncle bought this truck for $500, then my brother bought it from him and rodded it out. I bought it from my brother, this was my official first car.
I put a bigger cam and a tunnel ram on it. I tubbed the rear and added ladder bars. Then I put fats (15 in. wide) in the back and skinnies (3.5 in. wide) in the front. It had a 327 Chevy small block and a turbo 350 transmission with a 3500 stall. Narrowed 9 in. rear with 488:1 gears.
I used to go to Firebird Raceway almost every weekend doing the Friday night drags. The best time I had was 12.9 seconds in the 1/4 mile. On Saturday nights we would do street drags the old fashioned way. We'd choose a different location each week, this helped us dodge the POlice. Sometimes we'd go looking for 5.0L Mustangs because they thought they were fast. We called it giving them their medicine! I used to get pulled over all the time, even when I was going the speed limit. One cop told me it just "sounded" like I was going fast. Another time the cop just wanted to look at it. I ended up going to traffic survival school only once.
I sold it when I got married, but my '55 Studebaker will always have a special place in my heart! I now have a '46 flatbed Studebaker sitting in my backyard. Someday..............