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Classic Cars Models After 1952
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Slant Eyed Polack
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1965 Plymouth Barracuda. I bought mine in 1990. The first cool car I ever owned; drove it for a long time.
Slant Eyed Polack
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My dad's favorite ride: Citroën DS. One of the most amazing production cars ever manufactured. Hands down the most comfortable. Ever. It has a ton of innovative features; for me the most impressive is the suspension. No springs. Air and fluid under pressure instead.
Dad was introduced to them when he was a small town cop in Colorado. One day he was assigned to drive the mayor around in the mayor's car; the mayor had a DS. As they were approaching a nasty piece of road the locals all took at 10-15 mph, the mayor told Dad to take it at 40. Dad said "You're crazy!" The mayor insisted, and the rest was history. Dad was sold; he wound up owning 3 of them over the years.
Late in his life I pointed Dad at Leno’s DS vid. Dad was digging it, until Jay pointed out the car’s only real weakness: the anemic little 4-banger, and said something like “Up around 90mph it gets a little buzzy.” Dad was incensed. “90! Who the fu¢& needs to drive it at 90?!” Whaddaya think it is, an SM? Pull your dago head outta your wop ass!” You almost had him, Jay. Almost.
Speaking of the SM (Sport Maserati), Dad owned one of those too.
At the time he was living in rural, mountainous area with a lot of winding mountain roads - perfect for the SM. But after a couple close calls, he was convinced that if he kept driving it was meant to be driven, he'd wind up with a deer in his lap and its hoof down his throat. So he jettisoned the SM in favor of his final DS.
I’ve been blowing through projects lately and I’m not even retired yet. This one owner 1968 AMX came up and I didn’t have the will power to pass it up. I can drive it as is for a couple years while doing my 1969 power wagon Cummins project that is set to start right after the RaidTrac is assembled. I figure I’ll be on the truck right after Christmas. The AMX runs and drives 92000 original miles and has been in storage since 1992. Needs interior but the dash and door panels are good, so just the 2 seat covers and carpet, the exterior is straight with just a couple door dings with zero rust even the floor pans. I took it for a run down the road a little while ago, it needs the front end rebuilt before driving it much. I got big plans that include a stroker 401 out to 440 ci with a 727 as a transmission, along with a ford 9” for the rear, I will save the original numbers matching 390 and AMC transmission. It was the only other 2 seat American sports car made in that era, besides the Corvette that it was made to compete with, there was also a few factory super stock race cars made at that time to compete with the other factory cars of that era like the super stock hemi darts and cuda’s, the super stock amx’s had 13.5 :1 compression with a cross ram dual quad set up, they were low 10 second high 9 second cars in the 1/4 mile @ around 130mph.they did ok as a factory race car but didn’t sell as well as expected due to price.
They were made 1968,69 and 70 around 15000 in total were produced.
They were made 1968,69 and 70 around 15000 in total were produced.
FrancSevin
Proudly Deplorable
In '68 I was running a 348 Chevy Impala, stick shift convertible. Dual four-barrel carbs, high rise camshaft and solid lifters. Heavy chassis but ran in the12's.
I met Crumpy in Christmas '67 and by the fall of '68 she persuaded me to sell it for a '65 Plymouth Fury ragtop, 318 V/8. Wimpy, but nice.
And, she didn't have to push it to get it started.
Well, I started out in 60 with a new Impala with the 348 with 3 2 barrels, solid lifters, and 4 speed tranny. Traded in in 62 for an Impala with the 409 with 2 4barrels, 4 speed and all the goodies I could get. It ran easily in the 12s. My problem was Don Gay with his Catalina 421. He was sponsored and ruled the area where I ran. Later on I became partners with a guy with a 58 Corvette. We used a 283 that I built in my garage. It only had one carb but it ran in the 11s. That old engine was turning 9 grand going over the finish line and lasted a year. It would lift the front wheels in first and second gears. Found out it had a 5:57 rear gear. Great times!!
Y'all are older than me.
In my day, (and I wasn't as much as a gearhead as you), a couple of my early cars were:
1970 Olds Cutlass supreme
1970 Monte Carlo
Both were fitted with a 1968 350cid engine that was beefed up (I didn't do the engine work but moved that engine from car to car).
They were really quick but not fast. Don't recall the gearing but they wouldn't do much more than 100mph.
In my day, (and I wasn't as much as a gearhead as you), a couple of my early cars were:
1970 Olds Cutlass supreme
1970 Monte Carlo
Both were fitted with a 1968 350cid engine that was beefed up (I didn't do the engine work but moved that engine from car to car).
They were really quick but not fast. Don't recall the gearing but they wouldn't do much more than 100mph.
In the 1970’s my dad had a used car lot in Michigan where I grew up, I trashed every brand and model there was, and a 70 Amx was one of them. My first nice car was a 70 Dodge charger RT 440 4 speed, bought for around $600.00 ( can’t remember exactly)in 74 when I was in high school, got lots of stories but one of my favorite was when I threw the rods out of a 1969 mustang gt500, it had a shaker hood 428 cobra jet with hood tach. I ripped a 352 from an old ford truck, put all the 428 accessories on it and had it running before dad found out.
FrancSevin
Proudly Deplorable
I bought my 60 Chevy for $300.00. It came with Tri-power and had the duel four barrel in the trunk. I could never get the three carbs to "balance" level feeding the V/8.
I never spun mine to 9 grand. No where close. WOW! Not sure what my rear gears were but I think it was 4/11
If you had a '60 Chevy and used it on the track, how many times did you replace the carrier bearing in the middle of the split drive shaft?
Guess I was lucky as I never replaced that bearing. I also was partnered into a 68 Nova that was in the old Modified Production class back then. It had a destroked 283 engine and weighed 3500 lbs. It ran in the 10s. We also won our class at the Winter Nationals in 1975. That little engine didnt last very long. We built a new engine about once per month. The third needle on the tach would sometimes show 12000 rpms. We ran a 6:17 rear gear. Had the rear end narrowed to allow huge rear slicks. The little gas tank between the tires would only hold 5 gals. of gas. Lots of fun!!!!