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.
That pic is way too big and blurry. Only because I wanted to see if her ‘headlights were on’, if you get my drift.
My Dad was the coolest Dad on the planet when he bought a 67 GTO with a 455 engine, TH-400 automatic transmission with the dual gate select shift. I still laugh when I think about my Dad saying, “these factory tires are terrible. They haven’t lasted 20,000 miles.” I told him, “your oldest son (my older brother) knows what the problem is.” “He’s the one that has left all the tread on the street at the bottom of our hill!”
The car Barry Newman drove in “Vanishing Point”.
1970 Chevelle SS 454 - my 70 Malibu is desperately needing some attention after sitting for nearly 20 years.
Cool...
Well then, lookie here.
Hey! My 1960 Bug Eye Sprite all 849cc’s and SU 2 SU carbs.
It’s was MY mucker car.
Once timed it zero to sixty.
Never made it to sixty.
I still have it.
So there!
You nailed it!
Dad and mom took all 5 kids from Washington State to Illinois every year to see the grandparents in a Impala,then the train,my cousin in Illinois had a Chevrolet Nova,girls loved it,we were out one night and the drive shaft fell off going down the highway,it was a bondo buggy,but we had fun;)
71 Chevelle SS 396 - good gosh I love that car!!
Wow!
51 posts to get to the correct answer, whew!
OBTW, we called those Dual-Quads...
That’s a beauty, isn’t it? Too bad its not my car!
My first car, after a few mods...
1971 Firebird Formula 400. A trip to a scrap yard yielded a set of Ram Air III heads, bringing the compression ratio up to a respectable level. A low rise offy intake manifold, Holly 650 double-pumper, competition cams cam shaft, and a Doug Nash 5 speed replacing the Muncie 4 speed. I replaced the stock rear end gears with something in the 2.9 neighborhood. With the DN underdrive, it was like launching a 4 speed with 4.11 rear gears.
It came standard with the Trans-Am handling package, and I added front to rear sub-frame members from Nunzio’s in Brooklyn, NY, and a set of Michelin Wide-X radials made it really fun to drive in tight turns.
First gear take-off was exciting. Way fun to drive, but in slick weather I’d start from a stop in 2nd or even 3rd gear.
Mark
Yup. Like it so much I have one.
Second place...'67 Hemi GTX.
I have a 1937 Chev pickup and a 1969 Mustang GT.
A neighbor down the street from me had one too, a deep blue convertible, and it had the hood-mounted tach too.
Mark
I turned down an offer for a very well kept bug eye Sprite. Still kicking myself for not buying it. I would still be driving it.
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