Your first uncorked trip, to the muffler shop...

Yup. LOL. My first and pretty much only was summer of 1970, I traded my 63 Chev which I didn't have very long (drove it on leave from N Idaho to San Diego) I traded it to a father of a troubled son who the father didn't want to let loose (anymore) with a Road Runner. so I ended up with a 69 383 4 speed RR.

I don't remember where the shop was from NAS Miramar, but the air station "was a ways" from just about everything. Anyhow, I sawed off the head pipes, wired them up out of the way, and literally roared over Miramar road to I-5 and headed S a ways.

I had called ahead to this muffler shop and made sure they could do it that afternoon. I don't remember what they charged, but it seemed reasonable at the time, 'specially as that was before I knew how to gas weld, LOL

After I got a part time job at the station Auto Hobby shop, a friendly Navy E-6 machinist taught me how to gas weld. After that, I had little need for muffler shops, at least for simple stuff like header collectors and mufflers.

I have no photos of the 69 except on jacks at the shop.

My old 63 before I got rid of it, and a day off at the shop with friends. From left, one of our 60's Chev shop trucks, a "Plum Crazy" Cuda who I don't remember, a Poncho ?Ventura? (Nova) of one of our RADAR guys, my black '64 426, a friend's 68 RR, and my 70 440-6

This is all gone now, the Marines have paved it over. Our shop was about 6000 ft down the runway beside the "high speed taxiway" and off the rear of the "bore site range." One of the big hangers over near the tower is behind the flag behind the '63, looking NE or so