Let's try this in a new thread, I know you all have passion for the TTA like I do and have plenty of great memories and photos to share.
I am trying to remember the details of when I bought my car. I am pretty sure it was in the March of 1989, from Peter Levin Pontiac in Chicago Heights, IL. It had to be in March because me and my 3 buddies drove from Chicago to Daytona for spring break for our senior year of HS. My buddy's dad just bought a new White Toyota Celica a couple months before I bought my TTA. We got pulled over on I-65 just south of Indy because people were calling us in for driving crazy fast and weaving in and out of traffic. That was only 3.5 hours into the trip and we both had cases of beer in the hatches of the cars, but they let us off with a warning.
Being the idiot 18 year olds we were, my one buddy tried to throw me a tootsie pop as we were side by side going at least 65, I missed it and it hit my drivers door, leaving a nice big ding in the door and sounding like a huge rock hit us.
My buddy was driving through Georgia later that night and I awoke to the police lights behind us. He got a speeding ticket, I awoke and popped the hatch from in the car because I kept the registration/insurance in the rear locked compartment, then realized we had beer in there again. DAHHHH, he just wrote him a ticket and we drove away and pulled over to latch the hatch. Got lucky again.
Then driving the last two hours in FL in fog before sunrise to get there and blaring Bullet Boys/Smooth Up in Ya and Rob Base/It take's Two on the Daytona beach and main street.
I wonder if PHS can look up what number my old car was and if anyone has it here on the forum. I sold it in Somerville, Alabama for $11K before I got married and went to Boot camp for the Navy in May of 1991 with around 69K miles on it and knocking terrible after two blown turbo's, thank God for the warranty . Maybe the owner is on the forum????
I also remember getting the black collector box in the mail after buying the car and taking the car back in to get the Turbo emblems installed. I didn't put the decals on the doors right away, and then replaced them about a year after I did because they were peeling a bit. I know I had the box for a while because that is where I kept the decals, but I used the key chain right away, as well as the audio tape. I had the tape in my old cassette case that I used to keep in the car and had it until a few years ago when we cleaned the basement and threw it away because who listens to cassettes anymore. I have no idea what happened to the collector box, I probably threw it away after it was empty. Again, dumb 18 year old.
Below are a few pics of the car that I scanned from back in 1989 at Wampum Lake in Thornton, IL. I used to drag race all the mustang 5.0's and whoop them on the frontage road next to I-394 in Thornton too. Nobody knew what the car was back then. Notice in the pic the Turbo emblems and decals are not even on it yet.
There are a few more pics of me and my wife to be in Alabama in 1990/1991 too. The only mods I did back then were straight pipes with Ferrari Monza Tips, they sounded so cool, a performance chip, and the sweet black bra, I can remember having to slow down on the highway because the flip up light flaps would start flapping in the wind. My mother in law remembers the black bra and asked me if I was going to put one on #613 when I got it last spring. You can see in one of the pics below the flip light flaps are gone, I probably lost them too in the wind or took them off, they were only held on by velcro.
The fastest I went in the car was on I80/94 going eastbound at 140 on the gauge and then backing off because I was even a little scared back then, plus I didn't think it would go much faster then the speedometer, what did I know.
But by far my favorite driving memory was boosting around these two lady Harley riders while heading back to my buddies house in South Holland, IL. His street was on the right and coming up quick, so I had went to pass them on the left and they sped up and didn't like it. I floored it past them and whooped back over and made a hard turn right onto the street. The back end slid out and I was still giving it gas and the gatorbacks just grinded into the pavement and straitened out right down the street, probably doing 60 or more. I loved that sound of the tires grinding in the ground. The tires on the two TTA's now don't grind into the pavement like my original TTA. Again, stupid 18 year old, but I would of loved to see that on video. And again lucky I didn't kill those ladies or run the car right into someones house on the street.
My new with these cars are going to summer cruise nights and car shows with my 9 year old daughter. She has even helped me work on the car in those hard to get spots or with her smaller hands. She loves it, and I know it won't last long, so loving every minute of it. My wife and went to Third Gen Fest in Crete, IL last year over the Memorial Day weekend and plan to go each year. It is about 45 minutes from our house and we both drove a TTA. I highly recommend this event, all the people there share our passion for Third gens, TA's, GTA's, Forumla's, Camero's, Iroc's, and Z28's.
That is my passion, MY TTA, ALL TRUE, and I hope you could feel it and I can't wait to hear your stories and Pics too.
This was my buddie's Dad's car, a 1987 Buick GN which fueled my passion for the TTA or else I would have bought a Vette, the rest is History.
Hope you enjoyed a walk down memory lane, this car is a real Time Machine for me, and still making new memories... I LOVE IT!! :toot:
I am trying to remember the details of when I bought my car. I am pretty sure it was in the March of 1989, from Peter Levin Pontiac in Chicago Heights, IL. It had to be in March because me and my 3 buddies drove from Chicago to Daytona for spring break for our senior year of HS. My buddy's dad just bought a new White Toyota Celica a couple months before I bought my TTA. We got pulled over on I-65 just south of Indy because people were calling us in for driving crazy fast and weaving in and out of traffic. That was only 3.5 hours into the trip and we both had cases of beer in the hatches of the cars, but they let us off with a warning.
Being the idiot 18 year olds we were, my one buddy tried to throw me a tootsie pop as we were side by side going at least 65, I missed it and it hit my drivers door, leaving a nice big ding in the door and sounding like a huge rock hit us.
My buddy was driving through Georgia later that night and I awoke to the police lights behind us. He got a speeding ticket, I awoke and popped the hatch from in the car because I kept the registration/insurance in the rear locked compartment, then realized we had beer in there again. DAHHHH, he just wrote him a ticket and we drove away and pulled over to latch the hatch. Got lucky again.
Then driving the last two hours in FL in fog before sunrise to get there and blaring Bullet Boys/Smooth Up in Ya and Rob Base/It take's Two on the Daytona beach and main street.
I wonder if PHS can look up what number my old car was and if anyone has it here on the forum. I sold it in Somerville, Alabama for $11K before I got married and went to Boot camp for the Navy in May of 1991 with around 69K miles on it and knocking terrible after two blown turbo's, thank God for the warranty . Maybe the owner is on the forum????
I also remember getting the black collector box in the mail after buying the car and taking the car back in to get the Turbo emblems installed. I didn't put the decals on the doors right away, and then replaced them about a year after I did because they were peeling a bit. I know I had the box for a while because that is where I kept the decals, but I used the key chain right away, as well as the audio tape. I had the tape in my old cassette case that I used to keep in the car and had it until a few years ago when we cleaned the basement and threw it away because who listens to cassettes anymore. I have no idea what happened to the collector box, I probably threw it away after it was empty. Again, dumb 18 year old.
Below are a few pics of the car that I scanned from back in 1989 at Wampum Lake in Thornton, IL. I used to drag race all the mustang 5.0's and whoop them on the frontage road next to I-394 in Thornton too. Nobody knew what the car was back then. Notice in the pic the Turbo emblems and decals are not even on it yet.
There are a few more pics of me and my wife to be in Alabama in 1990/1991 too. The only mods I did back then were straight pipes with Ferrari Monza Tips, they sounded so cool, a performance chip, and the sweet black bra, I can remember having to slow down on the highway because the flip up light flaps would start flapping in the wind. My mother in law remembers the black bra and asked me if I was going to put one on #613 when I got it last spring. You can see in one of the pics below the flip light flaps are gone, I probably lost them too in the wind or took them off, they were only held on by velcro.
The fastest I went in the car was on I80/94 going eastbound at 140 on the gauge and then backing off because I was even a little scared back then, plus I didn't think it would go much faster then the speedometer, what did I know.
But by far my favorite driving memory was boosting around these two lady Harley riders while heading back to my buddies house in South Holland, IL. His street was on the right and coming up quick, so I had went to pass them on the left and they sped up and didn't like it. I floored it past them and whooped back over and made a hard turn right onto the street. The back end slid out and I was still giving it gas and the gatorbacks just grinded into the pavement and straitened out right down the street, probably doing 60 or more. I loved that sound of the tires grinding in the ground. The tires on the two TTA's now don't grind into the pavement like my original TTA. Again, stupid 18 year old, but I would of loved to see that on video. And again lucky I didn't kill those ladies or run the car right into someones house on the street.
My new with these cars are going to summer cruise nights and car shows with my 9 year old daughter. She has even helped me work on the car in those hard to get spots or with her smaller hands. She loves it, and I know it won't last long, so loving every minute of it. My wife and went to Third Gen Fest in Crete, IL last year over the Memorial Day weekend and plan to go each year. It is about 45 minutes from our house and we both drove a TTA. I highly recommend this event, all the people there share our passion for Third gens, TA's, GTA's, Forumla's, Camero's, Iroc's, and Z28's.
That is my passion, MY TTA, ALL TRUE, and I hope you could feel it and I can't wait to hear your stories and Pics too.
This was my buddie's Dad's car, a 1987 Buick GN which fueled my passion for the TTA or else I would have bought a Vette, the rest is History.
Hope you enjoyed a walk down memory lane, this car is a real Time Machine for me, and still making new memories... I LOVE IT!! :toot:
And another memory of a local street racer who had a TTA new and watching that car blow away just about everything he came up against. Also I remember another guy who had one new and got it to run high 10's back in 89 or so at Atco. Amazing cars
