What's your favorite car.

[jihad]

 The nicest looking Trans Am ever built - the 1977 model rules!

   

 Too bad this moron axed the shaker hood scoop. I have one in my back yard I'll finish restoring someday, the engine is in the shed,462 C.I. of SD Pontiac power!

THE HEARTBEAT STOPS HERE!

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[Jimdandy]

jihad I had a '74 TA. I've always liked the TA's. My uncle bought one new in 77' 400 (the real Pontiac engine) 4 speed just before Smokey and the Bandit came out. We went and watched it and after the movie he pulled out on the road and did a big smoking 360 in the road. Man I was in heaven.   Remember Sammy Hagars song Trans Am.   My personal favorites are the 70 1/2'-73' TA's. I'd love to have a 73' SD 455 4-speed.

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[Pongo]

Car I like to see the  most.
Late 60s GTOs

Car I would like the most
Im allmost with Rip.
Ford F350 Diesel XLT Offroad Supercab. Repainted that yellow colour that the smaller 4X4s are using.
I have been warned away from getting the Powerstroke diesel on a 250 as my dads friends have reported front end problems from the weight. So 350 it is.

[hblair]

Favorite car?

 

I work in a family-owned Autobody repair business with my father and brother. Over the years, I've been around/driven/helped build lotsa nice rides (none of them mine damnit!). Although I can see where funked and the others are coming from on the GT-40, and dejavu on the Cobra (real cobra I assume? big $)

I lean toward Street Rods when I think of something I would really like to own. Not necessarily for the car itself, but for the fun that can be had cruising that jewel to a Rod Run, where there's thousands (2-3k at Shades of the Past) more cars and owners that you strike up conversations with and possibly do some horse (car) trading. Makes a good family mini-vacation.

Right now, my pop has just started a street rod project. He's got a '34 Ford Cabriolet...

 
a pretty much stock car, that we're turning into a rod. Here's a pic of it just after he bought it at Hershey, Pennsylvania a few months ago.

He pulled the old flathead Ford engine out last weekend to make room for this engine,

 
a Cheverolet LT-1 dressed up by Street Performance. When the engine gets here in 3 weeks, we'll send the car to Fattmans' Customs to have the frame boxed and the suspension and drivetrain installed. Then it'll come back to us for the body work, then paint. Then off to the interior guy for the roof and interior work. It'll look something similar to this car we spotted in Daytona at the Turkey Run in November...
 
..with Halibrand wheels of course.  

Sorry for the big pics fellas  

[Jimdandy]

hblair That's cool! I like the street rod too. Not as much as I like sports cars but almost.

I know I'm talking dollars again but... I would like a 32 Ford 3 window coupe with a blown alcohol Hemi, 4-speed   ,Ford 9-inch, no fenders of course   chopped, black with flames, tuck and roll, side pipes with dumps, Centerlines, of course big and littles. Love the rolling romp of a blown alcohol engine. I know a 4-speed is nuts but in my book it's mandatory.  

[jihad]

I'd love to have a 73' SD 455 4-speed.

 I've got one of the Super Duty engines. <G> If memory serves correctly only 611 of them were made. I also have a 455 H.O. for back-up. 8^)

[Jimdandy]

 

Originally posted by jihad:
I'd love to have a 73' SD 455 4-speed.

 I've got one of the Super Duty engines. <G> If memory serves correctly only 611 of them were made. I also have a 455 H.O. for back-up. 8^)

COOL! Both rare! You will cry when I tell you this one. I have a buddy that used to work in an engine shop. They got an SD 455 in that was being rebuilt for a restoration. The dummy that set up the boring bar for got to set the stop. He bored right into one the main bearings! Screwed a numbers matching block!

[lazs]

jim... if you like cobra kit cars there is an outfit that makes kits that use a 87-93 mustang as the "donor" car.  It is a pretty good kit and fairly reasonable.  The cars are quick and reliable.  

Still like my Healey tho.  The problem is.. I need two cars.   The Healey doesn't have a top, or a heater or even door handles but like hblair, it is a blast to put around in.  When I was younger I lived on a Harley but these days It's pretty hard to get me out in toejamty weather in anything that doesnt have a top
lazs

[Jimdandy]

 

Originally posted by lazs:
jim... if you like cobra kit cars there is an outfit that makes kits that use a 87-93 mustang as the "donor" car.  It is a pretty good kit and fairly reasonable.  The cars are quick and reliable.  
lazs

Yep I've got a Car and Driver right here with one in it.   Nov. 2000 issue. Factory Five Racing. I'm leaning more toward their Daytona Cobra coupe lately.

[hblair]

Unique Motorcars is located here in Gadsden, they are one of the larger manufacturers of reproduction Cobras. As far as I know, you can buy rolling chassis from them. Here's a link to their website- http://www.cybercars.com/unique.html

Check out this pic of a rolling chassis off their site. No wonder Cobra's handle so well, they gotta have great balance, look how far back the engine/trans sits in the chassis...
 

[NATEDOG]

Favorite car I've driven: Dodge Viper
Favorite car I've been in: Diablo
Car's I want:
for everyday use/hunting: Ford F150 supercab 4X4
sports car for club hopping: Diablo
for when a ford or a diablo just won't do: BMW850i
weekend project car: 51 chevy pickup\
and last but not least: ELINORE ( form Gone in 60 Seconds )

[Jimdandy]

Cool hblair thx for the site.

NATEDOG Elinore was cool alright.

[lazs]

nice chasis pic hblair..  My Healey has the front of the valve covers about even with the back of the front tire also and it is 49/51 distribution on a 90" wheelbase.   My car weighs in at 2150 lbs.  The real cobras ran a little over 2500 in big block trim.  repos claim to be around 2200 but most run closer to 2500.   Even at that, engines that would not be tractable in heavier cars are very streetable.   I thought mine would be a little "flat" on the low end with the dirt track solid lifter cam but being so light....  

For handling, the best thing I ever did was get rid of the old lever shocks and go with a bilstien tube shock conversion.   Some of the kits use coil overs with questionable shocks or even Mustang 2 front ends.  If I had a way I would post a pic of mine primer and all.
lazs

Oh... wait, just thought... Check out "modifiedhealeys.austin1.com"  for picks of some great sports cars.   Mine is car #108 (the primered out rat of the group) That's poor ol fat, bald harmless lazs standing next to it (you have to clik on the thumbnail pic).   Check out the last car of the bunch #126 i think... for the ULTIMATE sleeper, lbs/horsepower, Sports car, nostalgia, engineering....   whatever!

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[Lephturn]

There can be only one!
 

Check out more pics here: http://www.lambocars.com/framed/diablo/diablormi.htm

In my fantasy world, this is how I get to the airfield where my P-47N resides.    

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A pig is a pal, who'll boost your morale, Though mountains may topple and tilt.
When they've blackballed, bamboozled, and burned you, When they've turned on you, Tory and Whig,
Though you may be thrown over by Tabby and Rover, You'll never go wrong with a pig, a pig,
You'll never go wrong with a pig!" -- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"


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[hblair]

Gotta love xoom, huh lephturn?  


Nice ride lazs, I bet that lil monster will skin it back!