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[Supervisor42]

Ah, the AMC Javelin 401! More memories for me!
When the Alabama State Troopers got fed-up being outrun by us rednecks driving home-built hotrods, they decided...
If ya' can't beat'em, join'em, and they put those incredibly fast *******s on our ***.
They could hit 140 without breaking a sweat and could corner much better than a Crown Vic.

A lot of my friends got nailed by them, me, only once.
a '71

You could tell they were not taking any prisoners....it was a 2-door.
It earned our respect as being "bad-***"...
a '72

Especially when driven by someone who would not be out a single dime if he wrecked it:bigeyes:.

What one looked like in 'hot-pursuit':
a '72 repro

Captain Robert Applin (ret.) states his Javelin was clocked at 153mph using a ‘Kustom’ radar unit which was considered more accurate than the ‘VASCAR’ type, which calculated his car at 148mph over a 500ft. stretch. Regarding his specific car, he tells the following-

“(I) also ran down a full house 71 Chevy 454 from Abbeville to Blue Springs. Caught him before we got to Blue Springs but finally forced him off the road at the top of the hill on the west side of Blue Springs, got him out of his car, stuffed him into the Javelin, then called in and told the station I had him in custody. The whole chase lasted 6 minutes. I turned around on him at the roadside tables just west of Abbeville. The distance was 13 miles. Dispatchers log shows the times of the call-ins.”

Just to cover 13 miles in the full 6 minutes, the car would have to be at over 125mph for the entire distance. Subtract his time turning around and radioing in, accelerating to catch up, then coming to a stop, exiting the Javelin, pulling the suspect from the Chevelle, cuffing him, patting him down and stuffing him in the Javelin…you can see that 150mph isn’t a stretch at all.

 

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Me before.

 

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Me now.

 

[Supervisor42]

You know, I never thought about the young people of today will never know the thrill of knocking off a piece in the back of a van.
It's so sad.
Most of us had a friend that had one like this that he'd loan you for an hour or so. We'd just toss our keys to each other.

We really had the best life growing up.

 

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^^^Now that is sweet!

 

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I never even knew that Mercury made pickup trucks until I saw one on TV:

 

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Hot Rod days.

 

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Hot Rod days.

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For some reason that pic reminds me of the movie dazed and confused. Lol

 

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It should be titled "Our first tunnel-ram intake!"

That pic is so us back in the day.
I hate we were so busy building, and racing, and chasing-tail, to take more pictures:bang Head:.

 

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