Author Topic: Father of the Musclecar dies. (Read 1702 times)

lazs2 · « **Reply #90 on:** March 25, 2005, 09:14:44 AM »

it is a word that has allways made guys with ford and chevy fast cars just a little bit..... uneasy.

lazs

1Klink · « **Reply #91 on:** March 25, 2005, 09:41:05 AM »

LOL@ Laz,yea like GTX,or wedge.

66 is my fav. year of GTO.

Why would anybody in thier right mind take a 283 out of a 57 chevy?That's like the best engine general motors ever produced.

Nilsen · « **Reply #92 on:** March 25, 2005, 10:30:53 AM »

but what does it mean?

Roscoroo · « **Reply #93 on:** March 25, 2005, 11:56:05 AM »

dodge/plymouth/chrysler = mopar , which also = very very collectable cars these days ....

that last '70 Hemi cuda convert that sold was hidding a few doors down from my shop ( the cops set the guy up and came stole his cuda from him .... something about getting busted for growing wacky plants a few years earlier ..and they took that along with alot of his other cars)
but that sold up here for 450,000 ...

ive been doing a fair amount of work on the early 300 series cars ... fins fins fins and more fins, early hemi /max wedge eng's ... these cars have been selling 200,000 + these days

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclecars/chrysler-300/chrysler-300-pictures.shtml

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #94 on:** March 25, 2005, 12:30:11 PM »

Even rusty junker Mopars are pricey now.

Isaw a guy asking ten grand for a 440 69 charger, they did not run, did not have the tranny in and the interior was trashed! lol.

lazs2 · « **Reply #95 on:** March 25, 2005, 02:59:22 PM »

1klink... I never owned many mopars but I was allways warry of em... they were brutal and they had bulletproof drivetrains.

When I was growing up 57 chevies were $200 cars. a 327 (the real best chevy small block) was VERY expensive and hard to come by for a high school kid. big oldsmobiles were stacked up at the wrecking yard... 10.5 to one compression.... allmost 400 cubes and... a lot of em had factory tri power... they were tough as nails too... shave the heads and a decent exaust and no small block short of full on race motor could touch em in a light belair.

plus... it was something to do.

lazs

1Klink · « **Reply #96 on:** March 25, 2005, 02:59:22 PM »

the wildest MOPAR engine i,ve ever seen was a wedge with 4 -4 barrels on it.MOPAR just made ugly prettythang cars,thats why i never really liked them,plus as a teenager when i saw the GTO it was all over from there on.

A good friend of mine is selling a 1967 327 ci. with the 202 double humped heads.

And no matter what anybody says there really isn,t nothin that will out run a ROCKET motor.

NUTTZ · « **Reply #97 on:** March 25, 2005, 03:18:53 PM »

Ros, Nobody mentioned the fact that the 65 GTO has the Worse stopping distance of any car. The factory brakes with the single resivior brake is suicidal. My brother installed ABS in his 65' with disc brakes. The problem he has now is a wider turning radius.

My 65' Convertible and HT both have power drum brakes. I have the zinc pads with the cut "cooling groove" Thats the best I can do for now. I always have to allow a few extra car lengths when driving, and have to deal with the brake peddle getting "mushy" after they get hot. Oh well, until I can switch it to disc, I'll just have to suffer:)

NUTTZ

Roscoroo · « **Reply #98 on:** March 25, 2005, 11:35:08 PM »

the 68-72 A ,F body discs and backing plates w/ calibres are a bolt on
you dont even have to change the spindles if ya dont want to ..(the difference is in the cotter pin hole clocking) then ya just add a fresh 2 cyl master and the porpotioning valve ... they sell the change over new for around 450-500

ive got used several sets laying around the shop (i'll toss a $ figure at ya if your interested )

lazs2 · « **Reply #99 on:** March 26, 2005, 10:22:26 AM »

my 69 camino has factory power disc fronts with good rotors. Adding good pads and rear brake shoes helped a lot as well as bilstein shocks. I am gonna add the ceramic shoed "highway patrol" 11" x 2" drums that are currently for sale... they will fit the goat and work as well as any rear disc.

Chevelles allways handled better than goats but I have all hotchkiss suspension and four link as well as heavy sway bars and the aforementioned bilstiens. The camino has much better weight distribution than either the goat or the regular chevelle so it handles pretty sweet.

lazs

Hajo · « **Reply #100 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:13:40 PM »

First brand new car I purchased was a 1969 Road Runner.

Vitamin C orange, 4 spd 383 cu. in. 335 hp.

Wish I still had it.

Meep Meep.

culero · « **Reply #101 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:16:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
67 Ford Galaxy 500 XL with a dual 4bbl 427 engine w/side oilers.

I knew a girl in high school who owned one and a convertible at that. Rare car, with an even rarer engine.

And one hot-rod SOB that was, too. Wow. The Ford 427 cammer was amazing.

culero

culero · « **Reply #102 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:22:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Hajo
First brand new car I purchased was a 1969 Road Runner.

Vitamin C orange, 4 spd 383 cu. in. 335 hp.

Wish I still had it.

Meep Meep.

Buddy of mine in high school had one. Being a rich boy, he did what rich boys can do - ordered it new, had it shipped to a speed shop in San Antonio, and spent $6,000 on what they did there before he ever saw it (remember, 1969...lotsa $$$ that).

He had it equipped with a set of 6 Cragar SS mags, 4 with street tires for everyday use, 2 with street slicks for when he wanted to run. Friggin car would get the front tires over a foot in the air off the line with the slicks on, stock 426 Hemi's were no competition.

He replaced it 2 years later with an orange 442 W30, and that was another story....

We had fun skipping school and riding around town, that's for sure

culero (then there was the guy whose Dad owned the Dodge dealer, and let him drive whatever he wanted)

culero · « **Reply #103 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:30:53 PM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
but what does it mean?

Nilsen MOPAR was (actually, still is) Chrysler Corporation's brand name replacement parts branch, much like Motorcraft is to Ford nowadays. People adopted it eons ago as a nickname for Chrysler Corporation cars.

culero

Toad · « **Reply #104 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:58:13 PM »

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Sometime in the mid to late 1930's Chrysler Corporation looked into consolidating the parts divisions of all their brands -- Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, DeSoto, Imperial etc. -- into one division.

Thus was created the Chrysler Corporation Motor Parts division, From then on, parts used on ANY of the Chrysler Corporation marques came in boxes branded with the Chrysler Motor Parts division's logo: MOtor PARts).