Officially my fleet of "company cars." All daily drivers. 
FReegards!
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?
Officially my fleet of "company cars." All daily drivers.
FReegards!
72 Ford Mustang with a 351 Cleveland, white with blue interior. Same car James Bond drove in “Diamonds Are Forever.” One late night I took it out on I 465 to see what it would do; I got it up to about 120 and the tach showed it had more to give, but it was starting to “float” so I backed off.
I was going to keep it but didn’t get to. I drove it to Chicago in June 1984 to meet college friends and watch a Cubs-Cardinals series at Wrigley Field. The Saturday game, June 23, was the best baseball game I’ll ever see (plug in “The Sandberg Game” into an internet search). When I got back to my friends apartment after the game, the car was gone. I had to make a car theft report to Chicago PD after having had several Old Styles. They were skeptical: “You sure you parked your here buddy? All these streets look the same....”
The only thing I have left are the keys, and they hang on top of a framed photo of Ryne Sanberg with his autographed ticket stub from the game inside.
I have six 1969 Mercury Cyclones that are whats called Color code cars(3)and (3) Cale cars all in various states.Its a disease called Cyclonitist.These are the red and white cars made famous by the woods brothers in nascar racing.W nose cars and the aero cars.I work on them a little each night.Its not work if you enjoy it.
“for that blonde chick that drove me around in the 65 mustang and let me fiddle around with the knobs on her 8 track...”
Hey, sorry about that. It was my boyfriend’s car and he’d let me cruise in it while he was hunting. Sorry I missed you the next year when he had the Camaro SS. I was a bit of a tease....
It’s fun reading all your stories but I have one complaint about the muscle and hot cars that I see today. Not one has an incredibly foxy, tall blonde 20yr old driving them (that would be dearly departed husband) I always say the cool cars are wasted on the old bald guys who can afford them! Sorry, not meaning to offend anyone.
Know what’s crazy? I didn’t meet husband until after high school. In high school my one and only boyfriend owned a Camero SS, a Mustang (although I’m a total pony girl, I hated the fastback (?) rear window but loved the manual transmission, a Jeep CJ5 ( loved it...rag top and all... no power steering) and a Volkswagen bug. My husband, it turned out, had owned almost the exact same line-up of cars! Thank God when I met him he had a shortbox Chevy van!
Yeah, some call em that. But when I hear em go down the street I hear sushi, sushi, sushi, sushi......
It's large, it has a 302 cubic inch engine, and it can go from 0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds. My son got it up to 131 mph on a 3.3 mile speed track.
It sure seems like a muscle car to me.
It would be totally awesome if it could be restored.
67 Camaro, bought for $250 out of a junkyard in 1979. Still working on it.
Also 57 Bel Air bought off Craigslist in 2009 for $3500. Still working on it. Bad valve.
So.....Velma ?
We gots to know
Darling SG, you are such a great writer ... I think that is another one of your hidden talents.
The only thing FRolks should know, is that you drive your goat like it’s a F-16; hope it’s OK that that be added to your essay.
How you can achieve G-forces from a goat is noteworthy. If James Dean had been a fighter pilot, he would have been you. :)
Dynaflow.
I like your choice to keep the Cuda.
I have never been to Malthusia. Where is it?
Had the same car but with a drop top and automatic trans. Sold it to a sailor for $800 in 1976. Would love to have it back now.
I had a 1978 Pontiac Trans Am, 400, stick shift four speed transmission, color, “Black”, just like the Bert Reynolds “Bandit” Trans Am, which was a 1977 model. I kept it in “mint” condition, put a 4.90 rear end into it. It would do 13.9 in the quarter mile. I raced it at Westhampton Speedway on Long Island. I paid $6,800.00 for it, brand new.
Blew the the engine, drag racing and replaced the engine with Pontiac 455 C.I. V8 and installed a “radical” drag racing cam and valve train. Car was too awesome for me, turning 12 second quarter mile times. Sold it to a NYC policeman for $5,000.00. It was still awesome, inside and outside after my three years of ownership, but is was no longer a good “street” car for use every day. Too fast and gas guzzler, supreme. Loved it!!!
Was watching Barrett car auctions in Arizona on TV, and a guy put his 1978 Trans Am up for bid. He bought the car brand new in 1978, never drove it, stored it, covered in his garage. It had seven miles on the odometer. He sold it for $700,100.00 at auction in the mid-1990s. I learned, if you want to get maximum bucks for your wheels, keep them in stock condition. Modifications just diminishes the value, in most instances. I think Burt Reynolds got about $85,000.00 for the last one he sold, a few years back.
It is even faster since you last rode in it!
And, the older I get, the more fun it is, too!
I hear you. It’s too recent and has too much electronic engine management to be a true muscle car. Plus it’s a Lincoln which means luxury, not muscle, even though it’s really just a Ford. But you’re right that it has a lot in common with the muscle cars of the classic era. The big Lincolns and Crown Victorias of the late 1990 and mid 2000s were the last gasp of the rear wheel drive, body on frame formula. It was such a solid workhorse design. If you catch a taxi cab in my area there’s a good chance it will be a Crown Vic.
Here is the car I once had and dearly regret selling: 
Mercury Montego Brougham 1972
Mine was off-white. I remember that hood was a mile long and the engine packed deceptive power--deceptive because on normal driving, the engine complained that I only used regular octane gas, but it could really respond in a pinch.
Sadly, the person who bought it from me totaled it.
I regret selling it, so much. I should have had someone take care of it for me while I was overseas.
What a big beautiful machine that Mercury is. 1972 was right at the trailing edge of the classic era, which I would say was about 1965 to 1972. Just about any American car produced in those years will be fantastic.
The older I get, the more chicken-hearted I get, Capt. SG Speed.. >8-)
At first glance I thought that was a pic of Nancy Pelosi.:-)
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