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mustang1 · 01-11-2008, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Volt

I grew up watching Smokey and a Bandit so A 75' - 76' Black and gold TA or any 65' to 69 Goat. I feel bad for the young uns today. No style or class to all the round buble cars being sold today.

Uhhh...excuse me sir! My Mustangs (90' 5.0 and 03' GT) and Corvette (96') have style and class. Maybe not "classic" yet but millions obviously enjoy their looks as well as performance.

As far as "classic muscle cars" (my03' GT has a blown 4.6 that when I'm done will be pushing 550RWHP, hows that for muscle) I always fancied a 49' Merc, chopped and lowered hot rod style, and my all time fave classic, a 68' Plymouth RoadRunner w/ the 426 Hemi of course.

bazookajoe · 01-11-2008, 06:58 PM

Unfortunately, I'll have to part with this shortly. If things turn around for us I'll be looking for a '55 or '56 Nomad.

TideRoll · 01-11-2008, 08:54 PM

I had a '68 and '69 Camaro, though the '68 was the only one I did anything with or drove. It was an RS, originally a 327/Powerglide. It ended up with a thoroughly worked over 350 with nitrous. It was pretty quick and scary, really. Manual brakes, it didn't even have seat belts when I first got it. It was a sweet, sweet car and I regret getting rid of it now. I once ran in the 6.90s with it, with the largest plate/solinoids I had (borrowed, actually the whole NOS setup was an extended loaner from a pal) and with slicks (1/8th mile obviously). I don't remember now what I ran on it with street tires and my regular bottle setup. It was fast enough I usually didn't need the nitrous unless I ran up against someone crazy fast like my brother, Svillekid, in his '68 '427 SS Chevelle. I could often get him in the eight due to his traction difficulties in the short distance, but the quarter was his forte.

Since it was white with red stripes it was pretty much a good color scheme while I was at Alabama. For some reason I seemed to get a lot of interest from law enforcement in that car.

01-11-2008, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by TideRoll

I had a '68 and '69 Camaro, though the '68 was the only one I did anything with or drove. It was an RS, originally a 327/Powerglide. It ended up with a thoroughly worked over 350 with nitrous. It was pretty quick and scary, really. Manual brakes, it didn't even have seat belts when I first got it. It was a sweet, sweet car and I regret getting rid of it now. I once ran in the 6.90s with it, with the largest plate/solenoids I had (borrowed, actually the whole NOS setup was an extended loaner from a pal) and with slicks (1/8th mile obviously). I don't remember now what I ran on it with street tires and my regular bottle setup. It was fast enough I usually didn't need the nitrous unless I ran up against someone crazy fast like my brother, Svillekid, in his '68 '427 SS Chevelle. I could often get him in the eight due to his traction difficulties in the short distance, but the quarter was his forte.

Since it was white with red stripes it was pretty much a good color scheme while I was at Alabama. For some reason I seemed to get a lot of interest from law enforcement in that car.

Tim could take me on a regular basis when I went to a tame 396 with a Turbo 400 automatic (no traction at take-off, and automatic shifted out way too low RPMs). The Chevelle was a 69SS, painted very much the same blue as the one previous in this thread, except that the hood and trunk were solid blue, no white on the "humps". Very "low-key" car to keep cops at bay, but 427 with steel crank, forged pistons, 750 dual pumper, some ungodly high compression ratio, cam specs were LS7 spec, 250 HP NOS, Muncie 4 speed (occasionally used a speed shifting Borg-Warner 4 speed, but liked the Muncie better). Fast car, probably pushed 550+ hp without the nitros. Way to fast for the street, but it was a daily driver for several years. Speedometer did not work, since it was originally an automatic car, and no hook-up on 4-speeds, so, 2500 rpm on the interstate in 4th was about "double nickel". Any faster, and the normal 8 mpg dropped quickly to 5 mpg. Running at track with nitros fogger plate, usually no better than 2 mpg. Passed most things on the road but a gas station, and I was well known at the private aviation hanger where I often purchased higher octane (I think it was 10

to keep down detonation.

Did not have to sell the car, but made a blunder, quoted a high (at least I thought it was high) price when asked, to a local fellow I outran a week before. He brought me cash the following day! The next month, he brought me a couple grand and walked away with my 427, which was in pieces in boxes at that time. $500 later, he had my dis-assembled T-10! Sold the Muncie to the local UPS guy for several hundred, in a box, with a broken input shaft! This was all 20 years ago. Ninja Vanish was only a tot, and he still holds a grudge that I got rid of the car.

For the record, the Chevelle was really street fast, but wasn't even in the top 20 of B'ham's fast street rods. Too much money required to break that bubble.

czartim · 01-12-2008, 11:45 PM

Here's one I built a few months ago. '63 bug with a few modifications. With the motor and tranny I had in it, the front end would pull about two feet off the ground. My wife rode in it once....just once.

czartim · 01-12-2008, 11:51 PM

Here are a couple more. That was a fun car, but now it's time to start a surprise project for my dad.

Papichulo · 01-12-2008, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by czartim

Here are a couple more. That was a fun car, but now it's time to start a surprise project for my dad.

What are you packing in that engine compartment?

Lumpold · 01-13-2008, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by czartim

Here are a couple more. That was a fun car, but now it's time to start a surprise project for my dad.

AWESOME vehicle! My thang is splitties, but bugs rock, and that one is amazing!

simon81 · 01-13-2008, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by czartim

Here are a couple more. That was a fun car, but now it's time to start a surprise project for my dad.

very nice but y is there a iron cross in your back window

roscoe · 01-13-2008, 01:31 PM

Here's my toy

Roscoe

czartim · 01-13-2008, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Papichulo

What are you packing in that engine compartment?

Just a hot little 1776 with dual carbs. The secret weapon was the tranny. It was somewhere between a freeway flyer and a drag tranny with a Quife differential. I let that car go too cheap.