Man Loads Refrigerator on Challenger

[Jimmy N.]

How the hell did you get the Jet Ski up on the trunk?

Back the Trans Am down the launching ramp?

 

[Magnified]

I was looking up how the Challenger did in the Jet Ski and Refrigerator Carrying tests that Car and Driver conducts but they don't say how they get the jet ski on the trunk.

I suspect he did it with the power of a mullet and mustache.

 

[1971demon]

How the hell did you get the Jet Ski up on the trunk?

It took two of us...we lifted the front up on to the thick full size lounge cushion..(this was the old style stand on jet ski)...then one guy lifted the back..the other guy pulled the cushion from the front while turning it...I'm just surprised we never broke the back window in the process...the spoiler on the trans am kept it from sliding off the trunk...it really worked very well..back then i swore I would NEVER own a pickup truck...I've owned over 13 of them since...

 

[1971demon]

It took two of us...we lifted the front up on to the thick full size lounge cushion..(this was the old style stand on jet ski)...then one guy lifted the back..the other guy pulled the cushion from the front while turning it...I'm just surprised we never broke the back window in the process...the spoiler on the trans am kept it from sliding off the trunk...it really worked very well..back then i swore I would NEVER own a pickup truck...I've owned over 13 of them since...

Mind you...I was 24 back then...I had a habit of doing stupid things...

 

[B5Cat16]

Isn't it funny how those cars were treated back then? They got the shit beat out them from top to bottom, front to back. I commute to work in a 74 Firebird Formula 400 4 speed but only on sunny days. I treat it like it's a piece of gold. Funny how the mindset changes over time.

 

[BULL]

Isn't it funny how those cars were treated back then? They got the shit beat out them from top to bottom, front to back. I commute to work in a 74 Firebird Formula 400 4 speed but only on sunny days. I treat it like it's a piece of gold. Funny how the mindset changes over time.

Let me see if I can find the Superbird with a moose head tied to the top of the rear wing.

 

[BULL]

 

[BULL]

Daytona, sorry

 

[BULL]

This is much better

 

[1971demon]

Let me see if I can find the Superbird with a moose head tied to the top of the rear wing.

I think yer gonna find it the bottom of that Blantons bottle

 

[1971demon]

Isn't it funny how those cars were treated back then? They got the shit beat out them from top to bottom, front to back. I commute to work in a 74 Firebird Formula 400 4 speed but only on sunny days. I treat it like it's a piece of gold. Funny how the mindset changes over time.

In 76..the Trans AM 455...was the last car that had any vestige of cool..pitifully slow..but it was fun for what it was...(mopar had nothing to offer in 76)..the torque was respectable..with the stick...it would tow my jet boat (and jet ski) with ease....

 

[Magnified]

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If that's you, you got me beat 12 ways from sunday. three moose heads on the daytona wing is untouchable.

 

[Magnified]

Found me a 1973 SD Trans Am behind a gas station in Lubbock Texas when I was in college. Nuclear fireball orange. I came within spitting distance of buying. Wish I had now. Honey comb wheels.

 

[1971demon]

If that's you, you got me beat 12 ways from sunday. three moose heads on the daytona wing is untouchable.

I'll bet the farm that pic was taken south of the Mason Dixon line...

 

[1971demon]

Found me a 1973 SD Trans Am behind a gas station in Lubbock Texas when I was in college. Nuclear fireball orange. I came within spitting distance of buying. Wish I had now. Honey comb wheels.

Boy...thats one that got away...

 

[Magnified]

It was all original, 4 speed (you get what you get - like 128 or something manufactured that year), low miles. The managers car. Ah well.

lol, know how much of a stupid car guy I am? I remember clearly what that car looked like, and where it was the first time I saw it, all these decades later, but I can't remember things that arguably might be at least as important, like the face of my first death penalty client (who was also my first client out of law school).

 

[1971demon]

It was all original, 4 speed (you get what you get - like 128 or something manufactured that year), low miles. The managers car. Ah well.

lol, know how much of a stupid car guy I am? I remember clearly what that car looked like, and where it was the first time I saw it, all these decades later, but I can't remember things that arguably might be at least as important, like the face of my first death penalty client (who was also my first client out of law school).

Criminal law....how did you not opt for personal injury...now the rest of the story...where's the car...and where's the client..

 

[BULL]

If that's you, you got me beat 12 ways from sunday. three moose heads on the daytona wing is untouchable.

Nope, not me

 

[Jimmy N.]

Isn't it funny how those cars were treated back then? They got the shit beat out them from top to bottom, front to back.

Indeed. If someone did that today, there would be a thread about it.

 

[1971demon]

Indeed. If someone did that today, there would be a thread about it.

And quite possibly a lynch mob