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Dream on....
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Still dreamin....
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Jim, I am more drawn to that Mustang behind the Riviera. I like light nimble cars with large engines. My Mustang is getting a royal make over with a shark shaped fiberglass nose and a new set of rear lights but the important part is the 350+hp engine and 4 speed gear box.
And a new dashboard. The white gauge is a water pressure gauge.
The pictures were taken a while ago. The car is stripped with the front suspension cut off awaiting a new rack and pinion after market suspension. I built a new glove box and slowly rebuilding the car to handle the new engine. The engine is a pure street engine with 9.5:1 compression, roller cam with 214 SAE duration advanced 4 degrees for low end torque. The maximum torque is 425 at 3200 RPM with a HP redline at 5200 rpm. I have sub-frame connectors on it and a reinforced rear sub-frame to accept a tow bar. The top speed is only 130 mph but the 0 to 60 time is under 4 seconds (if I can hold traction).
And a new dashboard. The white gauge is a water pressure gauge.
The pictures were taken a while ago. The car is stripped with the front suspension cut off awaiting a new rack and pinion after market suspension. I built a new glove box and slowly rebuilding the car to handle the new engine. The engine is a pure street engine with 9.5:1 compression, roller cam with 214 SAE duration advanced 4 degrees for low end torque. The maximum torque is 425 at 3200 RPM with a HP redline at 5200 rpm. I have sub-frame connectors on it and a reinforced rear sub-frame to accept a tow bar. The top speed is only 130 mph but the 0 to 60 time is under 4 seconds (if I can hold traction).
Nice to see a "real" car and not just Glamour-Shots of some 'trailer queens'
.Love the clutch pedal! Don't change it.
And if you weren't drag-racing on the streets in the 70's, spend some quality time seeing how much fun we had
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No, no drag racing, Especially on the streets. I was involved with SCCA and if you got a ticket for street racing you were done!
I did some closed course racing but never street racing. Racing is dangerous enough without a bunch of idiots testing their hormone levels.
I did work for some drag racers but that was my only involvement. I did distributors, carbs and auto transmissions. I built Ford C4s for guys running 1500 HP. They almost never break!
I did some closed course racing but never street racing. Racing is dangerous enough without a bunch of idiots testing their hormone levels.
I did work for some drag racers but that was my only involvement. I did distributors, carbs and auto transmissions. I built Ford C4s for guys running 1500 HP. They almost never break!
When we had something to prove.
We had designated , secluded , areas we went to exchange a buck or 2.
Run many times in the early 70s , goota say I only paid out one time to really , money built , ,427 Corvette.
FUN..
expensive tho...
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We had designated , secluded , areas we went to exchange a buck or 2.
Run many times in the early 70s , goota say I only paid out one time to really , money built , ,427 Corvette.
FUN..
expensive tho...
Jim
Chick machine back in the day, my best friend had a blue one.. 389 , 3 deuces , 4 spd..unhunh.
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We called them panty droppers. When a guy at work called his Toyota yaris that I laughed so hard my belly hurt.
Back in the day ..
Not uncommon to see a hot car cruising with 2 guys and a gal in front seat.
And, 3-4 gals in back seat..
Radio blasting , AM radio only.
No drugs ,
Smokes and a beer.
Jim
Not uncommon to see a hot car cruising with 2 guys and a gal in front seat.
And, 3-4 gals in back seat..
Radio blasting , AM radio only.
No drugs ,
Smokes and a beer.
Jim
Cruising machine...
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That was my first car, '65 Impala. My dad helped me buy it from a young guy he worked with. I had to do it in two payments. The young guy had built himself a hot rod, got married, had a kid then had to sell his car.
It was a metallic forest green/2-door w/black interior. It had a small block 400, had been bored and stroked, had special racing heads, Holly 4 barrel, headers... That car would run, extremely quick!!! The only real problem the guy hadn't got around to was keeping the rubber on the ground despite being a heavy car.
I drove it about 3 years... I went to trade school in the big town. There was another guy in town who had red '65, a metallic candy apple red, beautiful paint job. The big difference... he had a 283 cu in engine w/4barrel holley, headers etc.
Every time we ended up side by side at a traffic light he'd always want to race to the next one. He never won but that didn't stop him from trying.
Edit to add... This car broke me from ever wanting another hotrod. It was the finicky Holly carb... Different set up from winter to summer... Spring and fall were the worst, I'd have to adjust the carb before I went anywhere. You know the drill, come home from work, trying to get ready for a date... have to stop and adjust the carb or drive it running like crap.
My next car was a '77 Thunderbird, more my style. I sold the Impala to a 17yrold starting his senior year in highschool. Pass the torch, let someone else have the fastest car in school.
Much later I heard he totaled it after 3 months... Shame.
It was too heavy for the strip but it was a lot of fun to drive!
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I had a '67 Impala in my teens. I built it from 2 junk cars. From the doors forward, it was blue, everything else was gold.That was my first car, '65 Impala.
It was a metallic forest green/2-door w/black interior. It had a small block 400, had been bored and stroked, had special racing heads, Holly 4 barrel, headers... That car would run, extremely quick!!! The only real problem the guy hadn't got around to was keeping the rubber on the ground despite being a heavy car.
It had the same 'one-wheel-peel' problem. It was not one that we raced.
It had another mission
.I modified the rear seat so the seat-back and the panel behind it lifted out. The huge trunk allowed a mattress to slide forward and 2 people could lay there and gaze up thru the huge rear windshield at the stars:
With the music playing softly on the 8-track, it performed outstanding... parked
.None of today's cars can do that
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Green, green, green. Beautiful cars.
Maybe I spent too many hours on one, but when I see green, all I see is this
(Actually owned a model A like this one when I was young)
SuperV we had an old 1951 ? Massy Fergason sold it for %500 to an older farmer who put it in the tractor show.
5 yr old grandkid said " Poppa ,that thing is dust old".
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Correction, hubby said he sold it for $1000.
Worked on a lot of those back in the day.
You'd go out with jumper cables to jump it off, open the hood, see the 3 filler caps on the 6-volt battery, and head back in for the crank handle:
(yeah, it's off topic
. But been there, cranked that)
