Dad's '39 Ford Deluxe business coupe. A very cool ride for a "square" guy!

Various (very) early Wheeler wheels...

My first car, an ugly 2-tone green '52 Ford Customline V8.
(With girlfriend Carol, summer 1958.)

'57 Chevy Bel Air convert (blueprinted 270/283)
Photo taken at Ocean City, Maryland.

At "Ma" Lyon's house, Bangor, Maine. Summer of '62 (Mrs. Lyon was an elderly woman
who sort of "adopted" a bunch of us Air Force gearheads, and treated us better
than our own mothers. That's my pal Kirby's '59 Impala.)

'62 Chevy Impala SS (300/327 4-speed, 4.11 Positraction) I wanted a 409 Bel Air "bubble top"
but no 409's of any kind were found when I went shopping for a new set of wheels.
(Behind the chapel @ the former Dow Air Force Base, Maine - now Bangor Int'l Airport.)
Roy Wells photo

14.70 ETs @ 99 MPH in the 1/4-mile (using Bucron 8.50x14's and stock headers with cut-outs).
Roy Wells photo

'54 Chevy 210 rust bucket "beater" (1962/63) The front wheels
and tires are from the '62 Impala (in storage for the winter).

'64 Pontiac GTO 2-dr coupe. (348 HP 389 V8) Silver with red interior. A great car!!!
(One very much like it sold for $45K at the 2007 Barrett-Jackson winter auction!)
Roy Wells photo

13.54 ET @ 105+ in the quarter (Goodyear Butylairs, stock headers, etc.) 23-mpg on the open road, too!
Roy Wells photo

'67 Corvette Sting Ray (435/427 Big Block) It's not my car in the photo, but, except for the lack of a hardtop, it
looks nearly identical to the one I had. (I haven't any pictures of mine, not one!) Anyway, and coincidentally, I
took delivery of my 'Vette the day I purchased the first Wheeler Dealer dragster. Price paid for the Corvette?
$5500, the dragster; $7,000. (It ran a 13.10 @ 110 on its only 1/4-mile pass, with snow tires & closed exhaust!)

License plate from my Vette...if you don't know what it means, don't ask!

'67 Chevy Suburban, originally the push truck for the
Wheeler Dealer. After I quit racing, I turned it into a
camper, and took it to the Woodstock music fest
in '69. I also drove it across the western U.S. and
Canada for three months the following summer.

'68 VW 311 fastback, delivered brand new in Nice, France, and driven
across much of Western Europe for two months that summer.
(Photo taken on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia.)

My first "San Francisco" car, a '65 Volvo 544
(As seen from my apartment window, 1974)

After a drunk totaled the Volvo, I purchased this 1969 Toyota
Corona from noted rock 'n' roll photographer, Baron Wolman.
The PLUS ONE license plate relates to then-girlfriend Kolleen
always being my "plus one" on guests lists for concerts
we would attend together.

'78 Toyota Celica GT at Sears Point Raceway, Sonoma, Calif. This car came with
us to Maui in '83. We kept it until 1991 when we purchased a new Mazda van.

Funny story; this tag saved me from an expensive parking fine in
San Francisco. The bust was unfair, so when I went to the DMV
to protest it, the clerk told me the ticket wasn't valid because
in place of the tag number on the summons, there was only a
description of the car; BEIGE GT!  She tore the ticket up,
and I walked away with a very BIG grin on my face!

1986 Jeep CJ7, the very last new CJ7 sold on Maui. We had it for nearly
15 years before selling it to a farmer in Kula (who only wanted it to drive
around his onion fields). It was a very nice Jeep up 'til then!

1991 Mazda MPV minivan, purchased new as a delivery vehicle for our fledgling gift
basket business. 17-years later we still have it, with 232,000+ miles showing on the
odometer at the time this pic was taken. (I won the Street Bracket category in it at
Maui Raceway Park, in Oct. of '91 - with nearly perfect lights and no wheel spin!)

Without a much needed second car (after selling the CJ7), I bought this '86 Toyota MR2 on a
whim, from a friend who was desperate to sell it just before his moving back  to the Mainland.
I had the car for over four years, and paid through the nose to keep it running that long!

In serious need of a trustworthy (and air conditioned!) vehicle, we took this 2006 KIA
Spectra5 hatchback home with us at the end of October, 2006. The local boys in their
noisy tuner cars often give me strange looks while hoping for a little "street action."

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