Posted on 09/12/2017 7:04:54 PM PDT by mdittmar
Mine is a Chevrolet El Camino,it's a car,it's a truck,you can fix it.
An AMX. A stepped up version of the Javelin, correct? American Motors.
Sounds like my 72 Charger. 360 w/o crazy cam,TTY headers, really trim.
Now you’ve got me missing my ‘73 Mustang Mach 1 with 357 Police Interceptor engine.
1970 Plymouth AAR Cuda
My 1970 Challenger, Plum Crazy Purple, 440 magnum. I miss that car...except for the 10 gallons per mile. Nope, I didn’t stutter.
1965 Pontiac Catalina 2+2 - fastest American car from the showroom floor.
I had a 70-1/2 RS with the split front bumper. Set for top end, 350 with the 2 on it barrel on it but with headers, a bit of cam and a shift kit with extra leaf berlinetta springs and air shocks in the back and station wagon coils in front. It would get off the line nicely, go 150 mph (I did a run of 120 miles from in the Shenandoah valley to northern VA in an hour and ten minutes once) and remain stable and also get close to 30 mpg on the highway if you kept your foot out of it.
In our company office kitchen there’s a pic of me standing in the open door of it in a WHO concert T-shirt from around 1982. It’s captioned “Do not sell that which will be extremely difficult to re-aquire in the future”... it was yellow jacket yellow with black deck stripes... [sigh]
Oh, mine ended up blue with white stripes after damage in an accident later too. There’s a spectacular one (and a Z28) owned by someone in Finland that’s blue and white too, I’ll have to see if the pics are still out there.
One of moms old HS friends was a former drag racer and later school autoshop teacher. He drove around a junky looking Mazda pickup in which he transplanted a 351 with two 4 barrels on it. It just as well have had a rocket motor jammed in it :-)
Moms parents traded in a 69 Malibu with a 396 and 27,000 miles on it on a Citation...
I heard they are bringing back that GT500KR design.
A few friends in high school had some nice machines.
One friend had a 67 Cougar - 428 4-speed
Another had a 67 or 68 Fastback (can’t remember the year) - 428 4-speed
One had a perfect 67 289 Cougar 4bbl (like my 67 Fastback Mustang)
Another had a beautiful Challenger with a 440 Magnum / auto.
And one guy had a Roadrunner with 440 that would like the wheels through the first 2 or 3 gears. I would swear I saw that car on the freeway next to me about 12-14 years ago. Very distinct color and hood scoop. I got on the freeway and it motored past me abut 5 or 10 mph more than I was going. I was on my way to work but wanted to follow the car. Off to work.....
If anybody invents a time machine, I’d like to pop back to the 70’s, LOL....
351 there friend - I had a 1972.
Unless your engine was stroked or perhaps .10 over....that is.
I love that color.
The interior was definitely a cut above a comparable Mustang, Camaro or Firebird, this was back when FoMoCo actually understood what Mercury was supposed to represent. A top of the line XR7-G (that's the later Dan Gurney Special that was way more than just cosmetic) with 428, factory sunroof and leather interior has been on my bucket list for a long time. I'm not sure whether it looks better in black over black or in the very popular Lime Frost of the period, either way it's a beautiful car and underappreciated from a design standpoint.
This one in the photo is very nice but the wheels are buffed out and not sure I like it better than factory with dark matte coves, and those white letter tires haven't aged well to my eyes, honestly I'd probably prefer some Silvertown redlines on there. If I could get my hands on the Rader aluminum rims originally intended for the car, that would really rock, but they're hard to come by. Sort of resemble Fikse FM10's in a way, they're especially fetching on a black car.
Here's a nice little link on the history of the XR7-G, you'll have to cut and paste into the browser address field, it's late, I'm lazy so the hyperlink isn't active:
http://www.fordmercurycougarxr7.com/pages/History/CougarXR7-G.html
LOL. Those are some nice cars you listed. There was actually a kid in my school who had a Plymouth Superbird (with that ridiculous NASCAR wing). What a sphincter. At a time when VW Bugs were $1,800 new, and a Ford Mustang GT cost $2,600, this tool spends $4,500 on a Superbird! Nobody liked that kid.
Ridiculous though they may have appeared for a street legal car, if he held onto it he’s getting the last laugh.
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