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<blockquote data-quote="ElGato" data-source="post: 15796392" data-attributes="member: 35683"><p>How did ElGato become ElGato?</p><p></p><p>We all grew up with that one friend we looked up to. Usually, older, always cooler... ElGato had such a friend, his name was True.</p><p></p><p>In elementary school through high school, True was always getting into fights, getting suspended, challenging the system... a general badass by 80s standards. He dropped out of highschool at 16, and moved in with his 26 year old stripper girlfriend. Like many of you he bought and sold cars as frequently as you go out to lunch.</p><p></p><p>At the time he had a '69 Dodge Dart with the slant six. He would drive around the trailer park, doing burnouts, challenging the rest of us to drag races... which winning is easy if no one is racing you. (lesson learned Road Kill section)</p><p></p><p>One day the radiator exploded, and he was on the hunt for another car. At the time 7-11 had the Autolist, a newsprint 'magazine' for all the cars for sale in the area....</p><p></p><p>...$500 bought him a 1970 Mercury Cougar with the infamous 351Cleveland... XR7, with the houndstooth interior. Primer grey. It had been in a flood. The frame was mostly gone. Exhaust leaks that would make Christine proud. Every weekend, and evening afterschool, I'd be at the trailer park, wrenching on the Cougar.</p><p></p><p>To pass inspection it needed brakes, so we took her to the local Midas Muffler shop. The mechanic was bitching about what an absolute disaster the car was. He was flicking a rusted brakeline talking about how the car was unsafe and should be scrapped when the line he was flicking ruptured spraying him in the face with brake fluid. He never worked again, and we never got the car inspected.</p><p></p><p>We put on a set of mismatched wheels. Crager SS "widebodys" on the back 15x7, and AR61s upfront. We "repainted" her primer red. 27 rattlecans of Krylon later, I had to have one.</p><p></p><p>It had a ballpoint pen jammed in the vacuum headlight switch to keep the headlight doors open so he could see to drive at night. The motor had a bad vacuum leak too. You'd start her up and thick white smoke would pour out of the leaky exhaust for 10 minutes. The huge cloud would blanket the neighborhood, obscuring the sodium vapor streetlights. Mothers would shake their fists. Old men would quietly nod. Children would run screaming home.</p><p></p><p>It was glorious. The car was evil, and apparently it runs with the brand. But more on that later...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ElGato, post: 15796392, member: 35683"] How did ElGato become ElGato? We all grew up with that one friend we looked up to. Usually, older, always cooler... ElGato had such a friend, his name was True. In elementary school through high school, True was always getting into fights, getting suspended, challenging the system... a general badass by 80s standards. He dropped out of highschool at 16, and moved in with his 26 year old stripper girlfriend. Like many of you he bought and sold cars as frequently as you go out to lunch. At the time he had a '69 Dodge Dart with the slant six. He would drive around the trailer park, doing burnouts, challenging the rest of us to drag races... which winning is easy if no one is racing you. (lesson learned Road Kill section) One day the radiator exploded, and he was on the hunt for another car. At the time 7-11 had the Autolist, a newsprint 'magazine' for all the cars for sale in the area.... ...$500 bought him a 1970 Mercury Cougar with the infamous 351Cleveland... XR7, with the houndstooth interior. Primer grey. It had been in a flood. The frame was mostly gone. Exhaust leaks that would make Christine proud. Every weekend, and evening afterschool, I'd be at the trailer park, wrenching on the Cougar. To pass inspection it needed brakes, so we took her to the local Midas Muffler shop. The mechanic was bitching about what an absolute disaster the car was. He was flicking a rusted brakeline talking about how the car was unsafe and should be scrapped when the line he was flicking ruptured spraying him in the face with brake fluid. He never worked again, and we never got the car inspected. We put on a set of mismatched wheels. Crager SS "widebodys" on the back 15x7, and AR61s upfront. We "repainted" her primer red. 27 rattlecans of Krylon later, I had to have one. It had a ballpoint pen jammed in the vacuum headlight switch to keep the headlight doors open so he could see to drive at night. The motor had a bad vacuum leak too. You'd start her up and thick white smoke would pour out of the leaky exhaust for 10 minutes. The huge cloud would blanket the neighborhood, obscuring the sodium vapor streetlights. Mothers would shake their fists. Old men would quietly nod. Children would run screaming home. It was glorious. The car was evil, and apparently it runs with the brand. But more on that later... [/QUOTE]
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