{"id":775738,"date":"2019-07-15T04:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/?p=775738"},"modified":"2019-07-15T04:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:07:15","slug":"2019-als-cruising-for-a-cure-show-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/bangshiftapex\/2019-als-cruising-for-a-cure-show-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 ALS Cruising For A Cure Show Photos: More Hot Rods, Trucks, Street\/Strip Killers, Vans, Stuff!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>This gallery is pretty much a hodge-podge of stuff I didn\u2019t know where else to put which is a recurring theme for me this year.\u00a0 Mostly it\u2019s hair-band-era stuff and there is a bit of everything.\u00a0 A Dodge Shadow and Honda CRX are not normally something you\u2019d expect, but for nostalgic reasons I\u2019ve included them.\u00a0 The kinds of events I attend do not traditionally attract such mundane offerings from my youth.\u00a0 Plymouth Prowlers are a rare sight and a clean DSM 3000GT is practically like seeing a unicorn.\u00a0 A convertible McLaren Capri is something I had never seen in person before though I have seen a few hatchbacks in the past 20 years.\u00a0 The van, dually flatbed thing is not something I\u2019ve witnessed since crossing paths with a Dodge Dreamer Van almost 30 years ago at a track in Alabama.\u00a0If nothing else it appears to be useful.\u00a0I know a Ford Pinto in near stock form isn\u2019t really a performance car, but they could be a lot of fun.\u00a0 It was in one of these I performed my first e-brake slide.\u00a0 Examples as nice as this one are few and far between.<\/p>\n

I never did ask the people with the light blue Gremlin X why mogwai were all over the car.\u00a0 I mean I get the reference, but it\u2019s not an AMC \u2018Mogwai\u2019 and certainly a Gremlin X isn\u2019t cute and cuddly.\u00a0 This beautiful Buick Riviera drop top is an often-forgot luxury car from a bygone era.\u00a0 I knew a guy back in Nebraska that daily drove one of these and tuned it to run 14s with the 3.8 turbo.\u00a0 Another rarity is a Pontiac Pheonix.\u00a0 Think disco Nova except it\u2019s a poncho.\u00a0 Previously these were the \u2018Ventura\u2019 and later the name was given to the Pontiac variant of the Chevy Citation.\u00a0 A couple blocks away from the Pontiac we spotted this Oldmobile Ninety Eight\u2026..Diesel.\u00a0It was a car like this that brought my career at a local service station (remember those\u2026?) to a screeching halt after I filled one up with regular unleaded.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t know there were diesel cars running around.\u00a0I\u2019d filled up many before that fateful event.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t hear this car pull up.\u00a0 I\u2019d only heard the bell ring from someone driving over (or stepping on) the full service cable.\u00a0 The car was about half covered in dirt road silt and that stuff was caked all around and in the fuel door.\u00a0 There was no way for me to see the \u2018diesel fuel only\u2019 decal.\u00a0 I felt bad that I lost my job and that I\u2019d messed up the car.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t too bad though.\u00a0 The thing reportedly ran fine after the tank and fuel system were flushed.\u00a0 More proof that 17yr-olds are not the sharpest knife in the drawer.\u00a0 BTW \u2013 those Olds diesel 350 blocks make for a strong non-diesel performance build.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got some old Super Stock & Drag Illustrated rags that detail a build.<\/p>\n

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