Posted on 10/07/2017 6:07:25 PM PDT by mdittmar
Do you own an old Muscle Car?
What's the story?
What is it?
Where did you find it?
Does it run?
Will it ever run?
It will be the last thing I own and will give to my son someday really soon.
76 Trans Am......Last year of the 455 4 speed combo package. Kinda nice really........
Haha Snort!
My husband owns a 64 GTO, original everything, perfect condition, runs great.
gearhead ping
The one that I missed out on 40 years ago and it still bugs me today, a 1969 Shelby GT350 (Hertz Rental Car).
A friend of my Dad had it. I told him I wanted it and he sold it out from under me after we agreed I would come by and get it the next morning. Never talked to the A Hole again.
He wanted $2,000 and they only made 150 of them.
My Wife tells me to let it go. I will never let it go. LOL
Just a 10 year old used car then,Dad said "no,you'll kill yourself".
That was the end of that,wanted to put those bronze Moroso valve covers on it.
That's a little bit more than a technicality, I think . . . LOL
not with a 305 - A 427? yes
Truthfully its a fluke that I still have it. I've owned many sports cars over the years but I just can't sell this one and I really don't need to thank the lord. 68,000 original miles.
When I came home from Vietnam, I had saved some money...
Had the chance to buy 23 acres of land on Norris Lake in East Tennessee with 700 feet of lake frontage (worth several million today)...Or buy a ‘70 Hemi Cuda....
Lord, I had fun in that car....
She’s thinking: but it’s rear wheel drive, a V8, body on frame, an American make, more than two decades old.
That adds up to an old muscle car, right?
And you can sorta see her point.
Except we all know that a freaking ‘92 Lincoln isn’t a muscle car in the classic sense.
The question is, why?
Yep. 1990 was first year of that body style. The twin turbo was the fastest production car that year. I love the T-top feature.
It doesn’t really qualify as a MC though, the other poster is right. I just wanted to participate in the thread
At a new car dealer. They're making NEW ones, ya know.
Does it run?
You bet it does.
BTW, my Z has 124,000 miles
I’ll never forget this ahole that my brother worked for at the Dairy queen LOL
This guy was the King of idiots, he managed the place.
He had a 73 stingray vette t top and would pitch his keys at my brother an bark ‘wash my car’ Junior would come by in the vette and i’d say “Hell Ride!”
Ahhhh! Pontiac nostalgia.
Over the years, I have had access to four Pontiacs: a really, really ugly 1951 two-tone green four door sedan; a very pretty 1957 Star Chief two door hardtop; and two 1965 GTO hardtops. It is fair to say that I came of age in a Pontiac, and, by virtue of owning a 1965 GTO today, I am still coming of age!
My dad traded a really nifty 1941 Buick four door sedan for the ‘51 when I was in the 7th grade. I was already a car guy, and I have always wished he had not done that — the Buick would have been a fine ride years later when I was in college. But that was not to be.
So, when I started driving, I spent the better part of 3 years trying to blow that old straight 8 up — never succeeded, but I did blow three mufflers off of it with intentional backfires. By the time my mother sold it, I wanted to keep it, because it had become a desirable car for a college kid.
Dad got it right when he bought the ‘57, although he never knew it. For a while, it was the fastest car in my high school at the FRiday night street drags. 347 ci V8, 4 speed Hydramatic, radio, heater, no air, no power; that was one sweet ride. In those days, a speeding ticket also got you a call home FRom the Police Officer who issued the ticket (Ahhh — those were the days). I got “grounded” several times in high school for “Excessive Wheelspin” and assorted other offenses against the Great State of Florida. I also installed “lakes plugs” on it and in my senior year in high school drove the car (with three buddies who were interested in attending FSU) FRom Jacksonville to Tallahassee with open exhausts. I have no idea why or how we didn’t get arrested and thrown under the jail, because it was both loud (wonder my hearing didn’t fail earlier than it did!) and fast. The car was a chick magnet, and I (and some of my girlFRiends) really enjoyed it. Had my brother not gotten T-boned in Tallahassee while I was in Navy Flight Training, I might still own that car.
In Pensacola in those days, every new Navy Ensign bought a Red Plastic Chevrolet, it seemed. Not to be one of the crowd, I traded my 1964 TR-4 in on a brand new (engine blew in TR, but that is another car story, and off topic) all-white 1965 GTO with a four barrel and a four speed. In retrospect, a 1964 split window FI Vette might have been a smarter move, but what did I know?
I loved that car! I semi-hot-rodded it with an Iskendarian cam and kit, headers, reworked ignition and carb and raced it every chance I got — but only once legally on the track (with a 4.11 rear end and “street slicks,” my memory is it ran in the 12s). Owned it for 10 years; fell in love in it more than several times; got a few tickets and thoroughly enjoyed running the wheels off that car. I had to part it out in Corpus Christi, TX due to excessive body rot in 1975.
Onward and upward. In 1983 I bought my current ‘65 GTO as a daily driver. It is, of course, no longer a daily driver, having been extensively “restified.” Although stock in appearance, it has an H-O suspension, balanced & bluprinted 400 ci w/aluminum heads, Comp Cams cam & kit, roller rockers, headers, MSD 6 AL ignition, Turbo 700 R-4 transmission, 650 Holley double pumper, Eaton posi-traction, Pypes 3” exhaust, American Mags, etc., etc. Fast and fun! Driven to cruise nights and on nice days only. Every time I drive it, I roll the clock back to those “Good Ol’ Days.” I don’t get to drive it as often as I’d like to, but for now, once in a while is enough.
Sad to see the marque go away. Mine will go away when I pass it on to my son, I reckon.
1967 Ford GTA Fairlane factory 390, disc A/C P/B P/S in primer. It is in surprisingly good shape for its age. Bought it back when there were car ads in the newspaper. LOL
The guy that was supposed to be doing the machine work on the engine ended up stealing the relatively rare 4 bolt FE heads along with the rest of the engine parts and my money.
Built another engine, 410 FE, C6 manual gear hold trans and tried to get someone to do the body work on it without much luck. It’s been sitting in my shop for about 20 years. Someday maybe.
lol!
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