Another Car Thread.....

[Steve]

I love looking at the pictures in car threads. Thanks everyone for posting theirs.  Here's a couple pics of mine. The latest motor project pictured below is almost done. It will roll out somewhere between 525-550 HP plus another 190 or so on the NOS.

[CAP1]

Recently I was driving my Mustang coming home from a date at 2am.  Pass a cop going the other way and he pulls a 180 to follow me..I wasn't doing anything wrong so I wasn't worried.  By the time he caught up I was going 45 in a 45 and he gets so close to my rear bumper I can't see his headlights.  So when it turned to 55 I bumped my speed up to 60, thought maybe that would back him off....nope still riding my rear.  About a mile ,total of about 2.5 miles, of that i just put on my turn signal got on the brakes hoping he would just pass me.  Pulled off the side of the road and stopped and he stopped in the road.  He then turned on the cherries and pulled in behind me.  So he walked up behind my car and I rolled down the window.  Conversation went something like this:

Cop: Something wrong?
Me:  Nope just wanted to know why your riding my ass
Cop: Well I couldn't read your licence plate because the cover was causing a glare
Me:  Well is it illegal to have a cover?
Cop: nope..but they do make it hard to read the plate
Me: OK so instead of following me so close why not just pull me over?
Cop: We have the right to follow people
Me: OK so why indanger our safety by following so close at highway speeds?
Cop: can I see your information?
Me: sure <hands licence and regrastration>
 -he never goes back to his car and hands my papers back to me-
Cop: Just wanted to make sure everything was in order
Me:  Are you sure that the red mustang had nothing to do with it
Cop: <laughs> um...No

He then follows me for about 5 miles staying about 1/2 miles back.  At the county line he stops and I can still see his headlights when I turn off the highway towards my town.  I know the police chef in that town and thought about saying something to him. 

DuHasst

I HAD A SIMILAR situation here in nj. cop stopped me for noise in stratford. wrote me up.

 as it happened, i was dating the chiefs ex-wife, and, rather strangely, had become friends with him. this always bothered her, but what the hell, right?

 so that night, i'm telling my girlfriend about it when he stops by to pick up his son. he hears me, and asks me why i didn't tell the cop who i was. i told him that i didn't want to throw his name around like that.
 he took the ticket from me, and made it disappear .

[SFRT - Frenchy]

I'm a picture ho'r too   I love dem stupid cars, lucky I don't make much money so I can't have a Jay Leno's collection. The good thing is that I have do all the work myself, learning from scratch the hard way. I definitly wished I had a garage big enought and didn't have to work/paint in my driveway with the North Utah's weather. Maybe one day I'll amke enought so I can buy a half descent car to start with  

Here's what I have, not "had":

73 Pontiac Formula ,Pontiac 455:
Then


and now






86 F250 ,6.2L Diesel:


75 CB750, 750 SOHC Honda:



72 Dodge Monaco, Chrysler 360 2BB:

As of 3 weeks ago:

As of last week:



... it ain't much, but that's my stuff 

[CAP1]

hey steve......your belts loose dude!
 


sssaaaaawwwweeeettt

[sandwich]

1971 Mustang

[mensa180]

The car has 52k miles on it and works fine best we can tell so far.  The sudden braking after letting off the pedal is taking some getting used to for me though. 

[Grayeagle]

*nice* bits there Steve

Nice Firebird Eagle
..also nice rebuild on that 455 firebird.

And ya, I bought the Duster with no drivetrain in it, guy had blown it up.
I painted it, built the motor, trans, rear, installed the way cool K-member from Chrysler, only thing I did not do on that car was the welding.

I learned to weld a few years later.


tube framed, Narrowed Dana set forward 5", engine set back 13" .. was buildin it when aerospace jobs went pretty much into unobtanium status in the late '80's .. was gonna be the replacement for the Duster but I had a guy offer me way more than I thought it was worth and I needed the money more than I needed the car

-GE aka Frank

[eagl]

The fairmont work is pretty sweet...  I thought about doing that to my fairmont wagon.  First car I ever owned, handed down from my parents.  The original 255 blew up at 95k miles and they replaced it with a rebuilt 302 from a bronco.  Not much hp (maybe 185) but it had a hell of a lot of torque.  It had the 3-speed auto tranny optimized for 55mph (thanks Carter... jacka**) so it would accelerate like crazy to 125 and then just sit there with the motor begging for one more gear.

I fixed it up a bunch and sold it to my brother, but his wife totaled it 2 weeks later while hauling their 4 kids.  They were ok but she hit a curb and a telephone pole while spinning so she managed to break the axle, bash in the liftgate, and tent the hood while pushing the water pump into the block.  Nothing left to rebuild really, so they got a couple hundred bucks from insurance and off it went to the junkyard.

One of my few "bad cop" stories came while driving that car from San Diego to Colorado Springs.  It was around 2am and I was approaching the AZ - NM border on the AZ side.  I crossed under an overpass and figured it would be a great spot for a speed trap, so I made sure I was going exactly the speed limit.  Well, sure enough a cop came screaming down the onramp with his lights off and he switched them on when he was just a couple of feet off my rear bumper.  It startled me a bit, but not enough to keep me from wondering what kind of lawsuit settlement I'd walk away with if I dropped the tranny into second so he would rear-end me.  Vehicular assault on an innocent USAF cadet would probably play well in front of a jury.  But I refrained, and he probably kept doing that same dumb trick until he either retired or rammed someone.  Jerk.

Still, any cop that gets that close to me might get a 6th to 3rd downshift to deal with...  If his eyes are that bad then he shouldn't be driving

[CAP1]

The fairmont work is pretty sweet...  I thought about doing that to my fairmont wagon.  First car I ever owned, handed down from my parents.  The original 255 blew up at 95k miles and they replaced it with a rebuilt 302 from a bronco.  Not much hp (maybe 185) but it had a hell of a lot of torque.  It had the 3-speed auto tranny optimized for 55mph (thanks Carter... jacka**) so it would accelerate like crazy to 125 and then just sit there with the motor begging for one more gear.

I fixed it up a bunch and sold it to my brother, but his wife totaled it 2 weeks later while hauling their 4 kids.  They were ok but she hit a curb and a telephone pole while spinning so she managed to break the axle, bash in the liftgate, and tent the hood while pushing the water pump into the block.  Nothing left to rebuild really, so they got a couple hundred bucks from insurance and off it went to the junkyard.

One of my few "bad cop" stories came while driving that car from San Diego to Colorado Springs.  It was around 2am and I was approaching the AZ - NM border on the AZ side.  I crossed under an overpass and figured it would be a great spot for a speed trap, so I made sure I was going exactly the speed limit.  Well, sure enough a cop came screaming down the onramp with his lights off and he switched them on when he was just a couple of feet off my rear bumper.  It startled me a bit, but not enough to keep me from wondering what kind of lawsuit settlement I'd walk away with if I dropped the tranny into second so he would rear-end me.  Vehicular assault on an innocent USAF cadet would probably play well in front of a jury.  But I refrained, and he probably kept doing that same dumb trick until he either retired or rammed someone.  Jerk.

Still, any cop that gets that close to me might get a 6th to 3rd downshift to deal with...  If his eyes are that bad then he shouldn't be driving

i actually did stand up on the brake once when a local cop did that to me. was in my 67 mustang,.,,,,he almost hit me, but managed to miss. he gave me a ticket for that too. 

[CAP1]

*nice* bits there Steve

Nice Firebird Eagle
..also nice rebuild on that 455 firebird.

And ya, I bought the Duster with no drivetrain in it, guy had blown it up.
I painted it, built the motor, trans, rear, installed the way cool K-member from Chrysler, only thing I did not do on that car was the welding.

I learned to weld a few years later.

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tube framed, Narrowed Dana set forward 5", engine set back 13" .. was buildin it when aerospace jobs went pretty much into unobtanium status in the late '80's .. was gonna be the replacement for the Duster but I had a guy offer me way more than I thought it was worth and I needed the money more than I needed the car

-GE aka Frank

yaknow?

THAT just became my favorite car so far.

a lot of the others look good. lot look better. but there's SOMETHING about a decent looking boat like that with ginormous tires tucked in so dam nicely like that. 

[CAP1]

i think i left these out so far in this thread.

this was my daily driver till a lady in a saturn used me to test the laws of physics. she proved they stand.


she had a stock lower end, x303 cam, gt40 everything....well......every thing that now resides in the fairmont i pictured came from this car.

this was what i replaced her with....mostly for no other reason than i like the looks, and she sounded good with the glasspack. i've since replaced the glasspack with a flowmaster.\


i took her off the road back when gas was in the $4.50 range. i might re-tag her for awhile, as the caravan is gettin old. as in boring. 

the dakota is all stock, 'cept for the muffler, cold air intake, and a police strobe kit.

[BigPlay]

yep,,,,,,that's why i even left the column shifter in place. 


i'm sure there'll be someone comin in shortly to tell us how porsches will embarrass us though. 

On a road course what do you think?

[CAP1]

On a road course what do you think?

dude, do you know what a fairmont is?

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Personaly, drag cars look really cool but they are not my cup of tea. I don't say they are easy to build/tune, nor driving them is simply smahing the gas and shifting 3 times. But for the money invested and the only thing they are good for, ain't worth is to me.

Those tubbed meat monsters look squeaking on that body style GE.

[Strip]

I like circuit racing better but the odds of coming home with a massive paper weight are to great...

My uncle won a the Southern MiniStock Challenge in Florida in 2007, then sat out the next year because people were wrecking him at 5-10k a pop.