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From: Gulf Coast of Florida
I sold my '66 because the salt from MD winters was eating her up BAD... I'll build my Cobra first, and maybe by then someone will have engineered an All-Wheel Drive V8 Mustang... yeah, tube chassis with updated geometry, fat disc brakes at all 4 corners... and a 6speed... or maybe a system like our ESOF so that I could fishtail on demand... I'll be in my 40's and losing my license like I did in my 20's!!! HAHAHAHAHA
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From: Kiowa CO
I towed it back from California to Denver about 4 years ago. I used to drive it as a teenager. Blew the clutch and it has been sitting in storage since '89. Absolutely a rust-free CA car. It's in my garage now and I have had people stop dead in the street, get out and ask me how much I was willing to sell it for. I just laugh and say move on. BTW, my dad is the original owner. Still have the original paperwork from the sale in '67.
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From: Iowa
I still have the 68 roadrunner I bought in high school in a garage....it a damn fun car to drive, but the brakes are much worse than you remember. I tell people when they ask " a minivan will outbrake a 1960's 427 corveete or a shelby cobra"
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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
You ain't kidding!! All that horsepower and little skinny tires and even worse drum brakes on all 4 corners. I bought a 64 Ford dual quad 427, it took me less than a month to total it, just because I could not stop it while going about 120 mph and a garbage truck pulled out in front of me. From then on I switched to Pontiac, for no other reason than the fact that I could make em haul ***, and they were such great sleeper cars.
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From: Gulf Coast of Florida
Old Poncho's were great fun too because you could pull out the 327 small-block and drop in a 455... the outer block dimensions were the same... drove a 678 Firebird with a 455 and the guy did NOT reinforce the frame... you could almost SEE the body twisting when you hammered it... hehehehe
i'll give credit where it's due - the new-ish Civic's, Celicas, etc. can be made VERY quick, but there's nothing like the brute torque of an old V8 champin' at the bit... and then you've just GOTTA hammer it...
i'll give credit where it's due - the new-ish Civic's, Celicas, etc. can be made VERY quick, but there's nothing like the brute torque of an old V8 champin' at the bit... and then you've just GOTTA hammer it...
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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
Try to imagine todays technology with the cubic inches and high compression of the pre Ralph Nader days. Nine second quarter mile cars right off the showroom floor. That jerk single handedly put an end to the muscle car era. As far as I know he's never even had a drivers license in his life. That could be another Urban Legend, don't know.
PS: Pontiac never produced a 327 ci engine, it was 326, but you're correct about all of them having the same outside dimensions 326, 389, 400, 421, 428, and the 455. The 455 was the only over square one of the bunch but easily produced the most torque.
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From: Cut & Shoot, Texas
I towed it back from California to Denver about 4 years ago. I used to drive it as a teenager. Blew the clutch and it has been sitting in storage since '89. Absolutely a rust-free CA car. It's in my garage now and I have had people stop dead in the street, get out and ask me how much I was willing to sell it for. I just laugh and say move on. BTW, my dad is the original owner. Still have the original paperwork from the sale in '67.
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You guys forgot the the flat top mullet... I had one for easter one year when i went with my girlfriends parents/family for dinner... I had herd them earlier that week call me a "hick". So i showed up for Easter Dinner at a 5 star restaurant in overalls, a flannel, and a mullet. i walked in and sat down with her whole family and told them that "This is what id look like if i were a HICK!!!" grabbed a whole piece of bread bit into it threw it down on the table and left!
Come to think of it i never herd from her again...
OH WELL!
Come to think of it i never herd from her again...
OH WELL!
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From: Gulf Coast of Florida
Man, I used a Chebbie engine for a Poncho... OUCH!! Thanks for the correction Mark!
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You guys forgot the the flat top mullet... I had one for easter one year when i went with my girlfriends parents/family for dinner... I had herd them earlier that week call me a "hick". So i showed up for Easter Dinner at a 5 star restaurant in overalls, a flannel, and a mullet. i walked in and sat down with her whole family and told them that "This is what id look like if i were a HICK!!!" grabbed a whole piece of bread bit into it threw it down on the table and left!
Come to think of it i never herd from her again... OH WELL!
Come to think of it i never herd from her again...
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I would think the proper response to this question would be "You don't have enough money." You never know, some fool with more money than sense might prove you wrong.