Old cars rotting away on your route?

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Lol
That's what's going in my mustang. A guy on my old route builds high performance racing and pulling engines. Gonna buy a 351 block I'm thinking he can pretty easily get 400HP out of it for under 5k.

inside said austin you could put your foot on the valve covers through the cut-out floor. eventually it wound up on it's roof when the stock springs snapped and it pole-vaulted over the drive shaft.

 

[Brownslave688]

inside said austin you could put your foot on the valve covers through the cut-out floor. eventually it wound up on it's roof when the stock springs snapped and it pole-vaulted over the drive shaft.

Well it'll have a built ford 8" or 9" rear end. A rod and custom Triangulated 4 Bar Rear Coil-over Kit. No need for leaf springs. With tinman subframe connectors and a welded on driveshaft loop so hopefully that exact thing doesn't happen.

 

[texan]

C'mon guys yellow isn't that bad. The yellow Judges looked pretty good. Chevy had a lighter yellow (Daytona yellow) you could order late 60's & early 70's. It looked good on the '68 &'69 RS Z-28s with black deck stripes. R/T Dodges and Plymouth Road Runners had a similar color.

Still is not me sir. Makes me think of yellow cab.
I love Chevy's now. But all the yellows are not me.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

the stock springs broke because they were designed to cope with a 4cyl Perkins diesel.

 

[65Goat]

I'm thinking dark blue with some sort of GT stripes, maybe a 390. A little bit of Bullit flair but not the green. The 351 was an awesome motor, even a 302, but with a little digging perhaps a 428 CJ screamer. OWWWWWWW. My roomate in college had a GT 500KR with a 428 CJ. OMG

 

[slantnosechevy]

Still is not me sir. Makes me think of yellow cab.
I love Chevy's now. But all the yellows are not me.

haha I get you man, but I knew of a yellow '57 with a 572. Nobody got around that cab. If that's a LS-6 in the pic not many got around that one either back in the day.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

maybe it was that show i saw where they built a checker marathon with a stroker hemi for some vegas casino. somebody in my area has a marathon WAGON!

 

[texan]

I still like Chevy Blue.

 

[Tiny Panda]

Are u willing to pay 15k for literally a rusted out car and block with matching numbers?

It really is insane how over priced some
Collector cars have gotten. I use to really want a 69 or 70 SS. Now ill just get a Malibu and make an SS clone for way cheaper.

You should see the price of American muscle over here, a brand new Camaro off the boat from the US will cost just shy of $100k once you drive it off the forecourt, you can of course import it yourself but a lot of people want the backup of a dealer.
Luckily the price of gas means a big V8 isn't a realistic prospect so second hand cars can be had for a good price compared to new.

 

[rod]

Are u willing to pay 15k for literally a rusted out car and block with matching numbers?

It really is insane how over priced some
Collector cars have gotten. I use to really want a 69 or 70 SS. Now ill just get a Malibu and make an SS clone for way cheaper.

Go to Barrett-Jackson or one of the other major "no reserve" classic car auctions. It seems like everytime the announcers say that the owner has invested a $100,000 + thousands of hours of labor into a total frame off restoration of a car it will sell for $40-$60 thousand. Anyone who does the work themselves usually bites the big one.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

makes you wonder how any car gets restored with those economics

 

[slantnosechevy]

I still like Chevy Blue.

I had one of those. Same color but a hardtop. Big Block Novas were sleepers. Same weight as the Camaro. Only draw back was the rear wheel wells. Couldn't get enough tire under them to hook up. I'm guessing this one in the pic doesn't hook either. Not with hopper stoppers. I needed ladder bars and subframe tie-ins back then. Come out of the gate at 5000rpm with an 4.88 and go straight all day. Ran 11:40's all day long. All steel body with full interior and a glass hood. Pretty good for 1975.Damn I miss that car.

 

[texan]

You should see the price of American muscle over here, a brand new Camaro off the boat from the US will cost just shy of $100k once you drive it off the forecourt, you can of course import it yourself but a lot of people want the backup of a dealer.
Luckily the price of gas means a big V8 isn't a realistic prospect so second hand cars can be had for a good price compared to new.

I had a 1972 Pontiac Firebird with the 350 extracted and a 1967 Catalina 428 shoe horned in.

I drove it all over Germany as a G.I. in the 80s' I paid 700.00 for it in 1981 from another G.I.

I loved making the Germans preplexed on the Autobahn with it.

It would do 150 mph or 240 kph at top speed.

In the early 80's, that was something.

 

[texan]

I had one of those. Same color but a hardtop. Big Block Novas were sleepers. Same weight as the Camaro. Only draw back was the rear wheel wells. Couldn't get enough tire under them to hook up. I'm guessing this one in the pic doesn't hook either. Not with hopper stoppers. I needed ladder bars and subframe tie-ins back then. Come out of the gate at 5000rpm with an 4.88 and go straight all day. Ran 11:40's all day long. All steel body with full interior and a glass hood. Pretty good for 1975.Damn I miss that car.

Most 68s, 69s, 70 Nova's I have seen had 350's.

A Big block model was not as common.

A well massaged 350 with 2.02 camel humps, a good cam, headers, good intake and carb would still
make those Nova's move along very well.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

a good tall overdrive would be a big help for a car like that. i'm fairly sure your old pontiac completely dissolved about 20 years ago.

 

[texan]

a good tall overdrive would be a big help for a car like that. i'm fairly sure your old pontiac completely dissolved about 20 years ago.

Why do you make me cry and destroy my memory? "pontiac completely dissolved about 20 years ago"

I ate up MANY German autos on the baun with that fine American / GM sleeper.

I traded it for a Mercedes, as my wife said to me, me or the car............................

Just kidding with you UPS Mechanic.

It does not upset me.

I miss that younger, male ego, 360 HP, 472 foot pounds of torque Pontiac Firebird with 2.73 gears
that would do 70 in 1st, 110 is second, 145 to 155 (front end bias plys tires shaking auto).

But the voice of reason (my wife) won.

Sigh it is tough growing up and becoming a real husband / man. Sigh

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

it was shocking to me how quickly cars start to rot there. hard winters and lots of salt. the gas prices were not amusing either.in my time it worked out to $4/gallon for super "benzin" and $3 for regular....and that was when the exchange rate was good! This was 1984, mind you.

 

[texan]

it was shocking to me how quickly cars start to rot there. hard winters and lots of salt. the gas prices were not amusing either.in my time it worked out to $4/gallon for super "benzin" and $3 for regular....and that was when the exchange rate was good! This was 1984, mind you.

Ahhhhhh but the ration card saved me in the early 80s.

 

[Rico]

Go to Barrett-Jackson or one of the other major "no reserve" classic car auctions. It seems like everytime the announcers say that the owner has invested a $100,000 + thousands of hours of labor into a total frame off restoration of a car it will sell for $40-$60 thousand. Anyone who does the work themselves usually bites the big one.

When I restored my army Jeep I did so knowing I would never see out of it what I put into it. I was very lucky that my father has a 4 bay shop, along with an ultimate set of tools. Even so, it took a year to tear it all down and rebuild it.

 

[serenity now]

When I restored my army Jeep I did so knowing I would never see out of it what I put into it. I was very lucky that my father has a 4 bay shop, along with an ultimate set of tools. Even so, it took a year to tear it all down and rebuild it.

there's a lot of personal reward in the journey * things don't always have to be valued with a price tag