I only saw one, at the old Marcus Dairy cruise night in Danbury, CT many years ago. And I've yet to see an actual Mark Donohue Javelin.
Posted on 06/15/2016 5:30:44 PM PDT by mdittmar
So,what rust bucket car should I buy?
It's gotta be cheap,it's gotta be running.
I need a truck,love El Caminos,then again I could buy a cheap truck that runs and get a 68 Camaro,then I watched the original "Gone In 60 Seconds" from 1974 and I like the fake Mach 1.
It has to be a manual not automatic.
Agree.... mine was blasted, frame off, spider coated. line-x interior of passenger compartment before upholstery . Had a 69 Lemans when stations in Tuscon AZ.... zero rust of course due location I suspect ..... great cars, Malibu was a cheap and great little sleeper with a triple nickel crate engine shoehorned into it. New parts, trim etc , replaced the dash..... great grocery getter.
Good luck finding a Vega that hasn’t already turned into a pile of iron oxide!
Ran like a scalded dog.
U joint broke pulling into a gas station, Not at 120 mph
wow.
how is real rust repaired? some of those side panels, roofs, and hoods are unavailable or fiberglass knockoffs.
In 1974, Bobby Allison drove a Javelin in NASCAR....
Want something I can tinker with when I retire,a little ways away yet.
It’s a little surprising how few 914s we see these days, given that Porsche built around 120,000 of them. I know of a guy who races one with my SCCA region; he swapped in a Subaru turbo flat-four.
If I were to get a 914, though, I’d prefer to go the (expensive) all-Porsche route and swap in a flat six out of a 911. Depending on which one, though, I’d possibly have to upgrade the timing chain tensioners; ‘84 and later engines have tensioners fed by oil pressure and are less prone to catastrophic failure.
When I came home From Vietnam, I had the opportunity to buy 21 acres along the shore of Norris Lake in Tennessee.....or a 1970 Hemi Cuda....
The property is today worth several million.....
I really had fun with that car.....*sigh*
“I recall when I bought our Honda Odyssey van 10 years ago I read a review where they compared it to a 1968 Porsche Turbo Carrera.”
Are you sure you don’t mean a 1986 Turbo Carrera? Porsche didn’t introduce a turbo 911 until 1976 if memory serves.
There was an article many years back in Grassroots Motorsports - don’t remember which issue, unfortunately - where they put a number of classic sports cars up against an Odyssey. It outperformed all of them.
I’ve never seen a Mark Donohue Javelin, but thanks to having attended many vintage auto races I have seen a Javelin that Mark Donohue drove in the Trans Am series. And for that matter, last year at the Porsche Rennsport Reunion at Laguna Seca one of the cars in attendance was the 917/30 he drove in Can-Am.
Drive by a old house on my way to walmart every week,guy has 2 AMXs sitting there,cant tell which one he working on,saw him drive by in one of them once,another house has a Grand National parked in front,looks nice just sits there.
My brother had a Grenada with a 302, 3 in the floor.
Black top on black with a black leather interior.
You'll never find one of those again.
“In 1974, Bobby Allison drove a Javelin in NASCAR....”
I could have sworn he drove a Matador.
Just fabricated some parts but mine was clean except for a few places, did not say my “”rust”” was repaired, blasted down to bare metal , one place was suspect so cut it out and patched the hole. .....
You could be creative if you want a powerhouse that’s retro.
Back about 1992, my dad, always a big GM luxury sedan fan, bought an 85 Olds ninety-eight with the pathetic diesel engine, with the plan of converting it to a gas. He wasn’t particular about whether it be a small or big block.
He spotted a classified ad for an irrigation pump engine. A 455 Olds converted to LP gas. He had a friend install it, and convert it to gas.
Well, turned out that it had to burn premium because of it’s high compression. What a sleeper! That thing was just amazing. I borrowed it a few times, and must admit that I baited a few hotrodders while commuting to work. It was fun.
It was a cheap muscle car (well, not so cheap on gas though)
I want a project that runs and drives,I learn how to do the work as I go.
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