Re: MUSCLE CARS
I have owned some fast cars ... my first was a 390 Police Interceptor in a 69 Country Squire - has a beefed C-6 trans, boot it and she would shift out of passing gear (yanno, second gear
) at somewhere over 120, yet even with those tall gears, she had pin ya back accelleration, towed the rather heavy SeaMaster around for years with the usual axle busting load of kids dogs and ice chest, and enough beer to float a battleship (my parents LOVED thier beer, lol, mom would knock back a case, yes A CASE by herself in a day, lol) and with all that power still get over 20 MPG on a trip (it never got more than 10 when I had it tho, lol)<br /><br />My first two Mustangs were small blocks, late 64 1/2 289 and 67 302, a little worked, and the very worked 428 Stang, lol, sure was a fast car<br /><br /> .... I bought a Buick Apollo (remember those?)fer cheapo, had a 350 bopper in there *BOP - buick olds pontiac*<br />well the 350 was tired and I found out that the 455 bopper would bolt right up, found one in a 71 Estate wagon that was bashed in the rear, freshly rebuilt, woo hoo, this thing cranked out something like 500 ft ibs of tire melting torque ... transplanting the radiator was tricky, but got it in there, that car would inhale trans ams, Z 28s, and quite a few vettes - handled nice too, and I switched the power steering spool valve out of a Trans Am (and a trans am steering wheel!)so it would feel good<br /><br />but it would slam down gas like wild, lol, I dont know what it got, I think zero, had to shut it down when filling her up or it would be there all night long pumping gas into it
<br /><br />oh yes, about those hemis ... when we moved to the other side of Cherry Hill, there was a farmhouse where the Pier One now stands, a rather crazy old man was having a yard sale, I bought a crystal butter dish for a nickle, and a 1956 Plymouth Fury WITH a 331 Red Ram HEMI engine for 5 bucks, I was seven, lol, my friends and I all pushed it to the house and into the yard, my mom went absolutely insane, lol, didnt want to hear that it was a hemi, that I would be driving in ten years, (and ive been driving for a quarter CENTURY now, sheesh!)<br /><br />Defeated, dejected, back the Red Ram went, it WAS ugly as hell, faded PINK, but I bet that old boat would have really rolled, ah well! <br /><br />I reminded mom of that, and she laughed, and said EVERY GRAY HAIR ON MY HEAD
YOU PUT THERE!<br /><br />I think she gives me too much credit at times
