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A Chevy Impala that defines “Muscle car”
youtube ^ | 7/15/2016 | youtube

Posted on 07/15/2016 6:04:55 PM PDT by mdittmar

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To: doorgunner69

My Dad’s ‘70 Duce and a Quarter would quickly get to the maximum traction available from the tires upon heavy brake pedal force application. Though a little rough on balance, the drum brakes had a high gain and would lock-em up way quick.


41 posted on 07/15/2016 8:04:04 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Yardstick

Needed the last 2 inches in the back of that Monza wagon to fit the bowling ball leaving college for the first duty station.

Needed the back seat and ALL the space every else to move a wife, baby and all other stuff 13 months later back to Texas.


42 posted on 07/15/2016 8:06:40 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Paladin2

We rebuilt a 1932 (I think it was) Ford back in my teens.
The thing had mechanical brakes. My gawd, I don’t see how women drove cars before hydraulics came in.


43 posted on 07/15/2016 8:12:41 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Drove a 1977 Vega-Monza out of college .... Near-zero power.

Shoulda put the Cosworth in it

44 posted on 07/15/2016 8:12:52 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Well, my hat is off to you for getting the job done with a vehicle that was barely up to the task. My earliest memories are of playing in the back deck of my parents’ olive green Pinto station wagon.


45 posted on 07/15/2016 8:17:55 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: mdittmar

I thought the “Cash for Clunkers program” was over with?

Oh yeah, ..... Chevrolet is to big to fail, - as well as too big to bail!


46 posted on 07/15/2016 8:34:19 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: mdittmar
Lots of nice cars here, but all pale in comparison to probably the greatest muscle car of all time:

The Ford Thunderbolt. A completely stock 'bolt, on modern tires, will run around 9.3 second 1/4 mile times. The fastest 1/4 mile time ever for a factory vehicle.

47 posted on 07/15/2016 8:40:45 PM PDT by Shanghai Dan
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To: Paladin2

Drum brakes were quite grippy with good shoes, but try a few 80-0 panic stops and you will be coasting with your foot jammed through the floor board................

Disc (actually better termed caliper) brakes are one of the best improvements made to modern cars. You have to have driven the old stuff with enthusiam to appreciate the difference.

Same thing with motorcycles, having gone through an intersection or two with totally faded front drum brake. I loved good brakes on bikes so much I modifies three Hondas to have dual front discs, before any stock bikes were offered with them.


48 posted on 07/15/2016 8:55:23 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Lx

My brother had a yellow version of the black Chevelle Super Sport. 396, four-barrel, four-speed. If you wanted to pass someone on a two-lane road, it did not take long!


49 posted on 07/15/2016 9:02:23 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Shanghai Dan

Thunderbolts were fast, but stock ones cannot run 9.3 ETs.

The best NHRA teams managed to get low-11s from them at best. That’s fast but they were not nine second cars.


50 posted on 07/15/2016 9:35:47 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Don W

Smokey was always a really big thorn in nascars backside.The guy was brilliant with the way he could taunt nascar and their rules.Do you remember the 7/8 scale Malibu/chevelle? One of the greatest stories ever told.


51 posted on 07/15/2016 9:57:36 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Shanghai Dan
Yes. This is what that Ford muscle looked like under the hood.


52 posted on 07/15/2016 10:23:56 PM PDT by katana
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To: atc23

Had a 1984 Chevrolet Malibu wagon a bit later.

Floored ... Could do a 0-60.
In 18 seconds flat. 8<)


53 posted on 07/15/2016 11:17:38 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: sparklite2
Amen! My friend's older brother took us
to the Chevy showroom, where he peeled
off 7 hundred dollar bills, and we drove
home in a white-with-red-trim convertible 1959 Impala.
54 posted on 07/15/2016 11:31:49 PM PDT by jobim
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To: sparklite2
As interpreted as an after-market Corvette body:


55 posted on 07/15/2016 11:36:14 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: editor-surveyor
The ugliest Chevy ever built!

LOL! Was watching a "Bones" show last night and there were two folks in an old Mini-type that had seen better days and hadn't caught up with technology. The owner said it was a classic and the passenger said that "classic" was code for "old piece of junk I spent money on".

56 posted on 07/16/2016 4:27:32 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

that is why I always kept a big hammer and a pad of sandpaper in my trunk....


57 posted on 07/16/2016 5:01:52 AM PDT by joe fonebone (gay people do not bother me.... fags do...)
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To: joe fonebone

Yep...sandpapered them good when we got to Idaho. Plenty of life left in that set. They were glazed as well as fine pottery.


58 posted on 07/16/2016 5:27:29 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: The KG9 Kid
Which is why I said with modern tires (like the current supercars get to use - not old bias ply 1960 era drag slicks). Add moddern rubber and you have a low 9 second vehicle:

A Ford Thunderbolt with a good tune, modern tires (not tubbed even), running a 9.23 second quarter mile.

There's not a car available today that can do that, from the factory. That's over 2 seconds faster than the Hellcat.

Lots of HP, tons of torque, and a very light car make for quick quarters!

59 posted on 07/16/2016 8:34:49 AM PDT by Shanghai Dan
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To: Colorado Doug

That 427 wasn’t factory installed...


60 posted on 07/16/2016 9:28:41 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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