https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H01hJ_ykxQo
Sorry, looks too much like a Dodge Dart...
That is the make & model of the first 426 Hemi-powered car that I ever laid eyes on back in the day: A black HP2 monster with a 4-speed. It was definitely no slouch back then.
Then again, maybe not.
Ping❤
I have fond remembrance of dual 4 barrel Hollys. God they sucked down the gas but it was worth it, gas was cheap then.
Two barrels open just to cruise, 4 barrels if in a hurry and step on the pedal and all eight barrels to haul your ass down the highway.
However, due to the extreme expertise of modern engineering, I have a 395 horsepower engine in my truck that averages 20 miles to the gallon and even better on the highway if I keep it below 70. It will haul ass if I want to. I have no need of this anymore, I am old.
I have fond remembrance of dual 4 barrel Hollys. God they sucked down the gas but it was worth it, gas was cheap then.
Two barrels open just to cruise, 4 barrels if in a hurry and step on the pedal and all eight barrels to haul your ass down the highway.
However, due to the extreme expertise of modern engineering, I have a 395 horsepower engine in my truck that averages 20 miles to the gallon and even better on the highway if I keep it below 70. It will haul ass if I want to. I have no need of this anymore, I am old.
My childhood hero, Jimmy Addison and his "Silver Bullet" GTX gets the credit for that.
Jimmy owned this GTX. This GTX owned Woodward Avenue.
A friend from high school had a ‘67 Superbee. We carpooled to college for a year - the Superbee was constantly breaking down, but it made a nice vroom sound when it was running.
Sweet!
A guy near me owned not 1 but 2 of the 11 1970 Hemi Cuda convertibles that are worth $3-4 million each . Raced both early 1970’s to 1974 era. Sold them both back in the day for around $6000 each.
Owned over 20 hemi and 440 -6 pack back in the day-not all same time. Owned and sold all of them in the 70’s, early 80’s.
When the blue Hemi vert sold for $4 million at Russo Steele a few years back. His son said there went my inheritence on FB
Had the same car with a 440 back in 1978, my paint was not nearly as nice.
Whiplash alone is one reason, comfort is another, but they really came in handy when leaning the seats all the way back with your girlfriend.
Buddy of mine had a ‘61 Belvedere. Coolest thing about it was the push button tranny :)
When I married, my wife had a 67 Plymouth Belvedere with a 318 engine and a 4 barrel carb. I never tried it, but it would probably beat the 67 289 Ford I had.
I came to hate that Plymouth. Got a flat in the pouring rain. Gave up waiting for the rain to stop and started to change the tire. Followed the usual routine of prying off the hubcap and loosening the lugnuts. Except the lugnuts would not loosen. Not one damn one of them. “They can’t all be frozen!”, I reasoned while soaked to the bone issuing a few expletives. Finally, mad and exasperated I slammed the lug wrench clockwise. The nut loosened. Ahh, MOPAR. I changed the tire and drove home. The next day I read the manual and discovered that the lugnuts on the left side of the vehicle did loosen clockwise. Counter clockwise on the right side.
Forward a few years and the car is running ok but the vinyl upholstery and dashboard are developing large cracks.
Moving across town I loaded up the Belvedere. It didn’t take much for the springs and shocks to demonstrate how cheap they were. Had to cross a railroad track. I took it very slow since I was riding low. The tracks managed to rip out the entire exhaust system from the headers to the tailpipe.
I did replace the exhaust and bought some new shocks, but the Plymouth’s interior continued to disintegrate. Replaced it with a Toyota SR-5.
