Posted on 05/30/2021 7:36:41 PM PDT by ETL
Unreal. Thanks ETL. Made my night! Beautiful!
i liek that first one- and the color too-
Yep, I remember some guys I hung with in the 70’s were such gearheads, they’d do things like take a wagon, have the rear doors stripped, welded shut, ground out, and make homebrew Nomads. Sometimes to grisly effect, depending on the make and model. LOL Come to think of it now, we used to go to car shows at the National Guard armory back home, and there was a couple of sweet ones my buddies and I saw. Padded, tuck and roll interiors, aircraft lights, I mean the whole JC Whitney catalog in there. They were like a custom conversion van with lower headroom. Joe Sixpack Love Machines.
Around 15 years or so ago I was approaching a red light at a busy intersection in Manhattan in a beatup 1970 Caddy convertible that I had stupidly just bought, stepped on the brake and the pedal just kept slowly fading to the floorboard! The car was slowing, but just barely, with people crossing in front! I stuck my head out the window and warned them to move out of the way. Typical New Yorkers, they didn't notice or pay attention to what I was saying. Fortunately the car did slowly come to a stop, just past the crosswalk! I put some more brake fluid in and was able to drive again. Thing was leaking brake fluid from one of the lines.
Chrysler tried that with the PT Cruiser. Yeah, they were eye candy, inside and out, but they were garbage under the skin. I owned one. An '09, I believe. Less than a year old, low mileage, fleet rental. Still smelled new. I loved that retro roadster body style, and for a while there was a whole cottage industry in aftermarket custom parts (yes, I threw a lot of chrome into mine, came close to adding running boards), but the drivetrain wasn't fit for a lawn mower. Mine had a bad cam and timing module, and the engine seized before it could get diagnosed and fixed properly. That's when I bought the Rogue.
yeah the cruisers weren’t tat great- like you say, styling was fine- but not a great car- If they came out with like a 60’s Mustang, or SS, or roadrunner look or goat or something- with a decent engine- doesn’t have to be quite as fast as the old powerhouses- i bet they’d sell- as long aS they aren’t seriously underpowered-
Long, long time ago, bought one of the early 1000cc HD Sportster. Drum front brake. That “heritage” thing they wallow in, no doubt.
Had been used to a Honda CB750 with a disc front brake.
Big wake up when I come up to a red light at full tilt, and nail the brake. Yep, faded out in a second or two, went halfway into the intersection before the POS would stop.
Sold it shortly after.
Nice car!!
First real rock and roll song ever done by Ike Turner under a nom de guerre
Yep. They’ll never really be able to clone the old muscle cars like that with all the safety, emissions, and enviro regs they’ve suffocated the industry with now. I mean, when was the last time an auto manufacturer built a car that had a posi rear and could bark the tires from a dead stop at a red light? A ‘Vette, maybe? I think nowadays, they even have governors on the clutch to prevent you from doing that. Anything that they’d build that could do that would have a ticket on it that would look like your average mortgage payment.
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First real rock and roll song ever done by Ike Turner under a nom de guerre
Took me awhile. But I figured it out.
Lose the pimp wheels and keep the rest. I only saw “three deuces “ carburetor set ups on hot rods back then, not production cars. Very special.
That is a 55Chevy.
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