Bad News Car Enthusiasts

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You are right.  It was in 69, but a 70 model year car.

I loved the Challenger.  My Dad was opposed to ti though.  He thought I might end up killing myself in it.

You have to remember, I was still in high school when I had these three hot rods.  So, I got a nice family car.  The Road Runner.  

Of course, after I got through, it had three deuces, headers, mallory ignition,  forged TRW pistons, and a nice Crane cam in it, just to name a few of the changes.  It was a nice high 10 second car when I was done.

 


dads...what the hell do they know....




The day I brought mine home...can you believe I paid 2000$ (actually thats a lie...the wife bought it for me )

wish I knew what I had back then...although it was not a numbers matching car...it was a 73 body with a 72 340....the last year of the High performance 340's...tough motor




took it to Chrysler's at Carlyle  one of the best weekends of my life



what movie?





I know you know it....

[Skuzzy]

Those are some fine looking cars ink.

I got my Road Runner for $800.00 used, in late 70.  Had a little rust around the rear window (not uncommon in South Texas).  Took it to the body shop at school and got the body restored with new paint for $150.00 as a class project.

Actually, my Dad knew a lot.  Him and his 54 Ford flat head had a nice trophy wall in the house.  I learned a lot from him. He never got in the way of me wanting to mod any of my cars as long as I kept them all running.

There were two cars he said "No" to.  A 66 Mustang GT (had too many miles for his tastes) and the Challenger (he really felt I would kill myself in that car,..knowing I would not leave it stock).

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I got my Road Runner for $800.00 used, in late 70.  Had a little rust around the rear window (not uncommon in South Texas).  Took it to the body shop at school and got the body restored with new paint for $150.00 as a class project.

Actually, my Dad knew a lot.  Him and his 54 Ford flat head had a nice trophy wall in the house.  I learned a lot from him. He never got in the way of me wanting to mod any of my cars as long as I kept them all running.

There were two cars he said "No" to.  A 66 Mustang GT (had too many miles for his tastes) and the Challenger (he really felt I would kill myself in that car,..knowing I would not leave it stock).

ya dads seem to get much smarter the older we get.

I was 1 when you got it 

[Zoney]

Vanishing Point !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Vanishing Point !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 


you know they made a remake with Viggo Mortison?

[Hajo]

By the way Gents Dodge can not call the car "Cuda."  Dan Gurney owns the name Cuda.  It will have to be called Barracuda if anything.

Again the cliché beauty is in the eye of the beholder rings true.  If Kampfer likes the new proposed barracuda that's great!

This is a Cuda to us old fartz that owned and drove them.



With apologies to Stampf beforehand this is a REAL Charger that he owned and modded.  I hope he approves.



This is what we older gents recognize as Cudas and Chargers for many many years. 

[Masherbrum]

Just because it doesn't look like old school MOPAR doesn't mean it looks ugly, you dummies. It means it looks different, and probably that your age is showing.

I guarantee that (assuming they last long enough) millenials will lament the awful look of sportscars in about 30 years, will be pining for the "golden age" of the 2000's and 2010's.

And my grandkids will no doubt think of your vaunted hemis the same way I look at a model T. They'll probably think it performs about as well, too.

Name calling over a rebadged 94 Chrysler Concorde?   

[icepac]

Here is a "speed racer" screen grab (1965) which clearly shows that their artists came up with the new challenger first.



Pictured below is what I drove in high school though mine had the SS appearance package.

I pulled the original LS1 and installed a L88 that had been built for 750hp but changed the pistons and had a cam grinder reduce lift and duration slightly.

Cam was so "big" he was also able to change lobe centers to get me a decent idle without losing too much top end.

With a holley 950 three barrel, it would pull to 7000.......with a modified quadrajet, it pulled to 7250 in top gear with 3.07 gears and 255/60 "blue streak specials".

Fast enough to win every mile race I was in.

The quadrajet could actually flow over 1000cfm but I limited the air door on the secondaries so it would get a better "signal" in order to get more consistent mixture ratio.

It probably flowed around 830cfm with the snappy response of the tiny primaries.

The guy who built the L88 was a neighbor who had died at riverside in a Porsche when his thinwall roll cage collapsed.

I bought it more or less complete from his widow for 500 bucks.

I had the rear wheels widened later on to 10 inches which they did by welding a band in the center after lathing off the lips.

There was a picture of it in the Miami herald with a kid in a canoe paddling past it after hurricane david........which is  how I snagged it for 400 bucks.

It had a water line on the rear view mirror and even the 4 speaker factory stereo still worked after I dried it out.

When I was fixing it up, I found some papers woven into the seat springs that showed it had been through the assembly line for impala SS appearance package, F41 suspension and other goodies and the previous owner still had the window sticker which read around $4800 bucks.........which was very expensive for November 1968 sales.

I tracked down the original owner and he was Mr Luby of Luby Chevrolet who had it specially built as his demo and he drove it for a couple of years.

Possibly the only "SS427 caprice" ever made.

Wish I still had it.

I still do mile racing and the irony is that it's only a couple of miles from where I used to mile race on the street in high school.

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By the way Gents Dodge can not call the car "Cuda." Dan Gurney owns the name Cuda.  It will have to be called Barracuda if anything.

Again the cliché beauty is in the eye of the beholder rings true.  If Kampfer likes the new proposed barracuda that's great!

This is a Cuda to us old fartz that owned and drove them.

(Image removed from quote.)

With apologies to Stampf beforehand this is a REAL Charger that he owned and modded.  I hope he approves.

(Image removed from quote.)

This is what we older gents recognize as Cudas and Chargers for many many years.

here here



and I didnt know that about Dan Gurney....maybe he sold them back the name 

[WWhiskey]

Here is a "speed racer" screen grab (1965) which clearly shows that their artists came up with the new challenger first.

(Image removed from quote.)

Pictured below is what I drove in high school though mine had the SS appearance package.

I pulled the original LS1 and installed a L88 that had been built for 750hp but changed the pistons and had a cam grinder reduce lift and duration slightly.

Cam was so "big" he was also able to change lobe centers to get me a decent idle without losing too much top end.

With a holley 950 three barrel, it would pull to 7000.......with a modified quadrajet, it pulled to 7250 in top gear with 3.07 gears and 255/60 "blue streak specials".

Fast enough to win every mile race I was in.

The quadrajet could actually flow over 1000cfm but I limited the air door on the secondaries so it would get a better "signal" in order to get more consistent mixture ratio.

It probably flowed around 830cfm with the snappy response of the tiny primaries.

The guy who built the L88 was a neighbor who had died at riverside in a Porsche when his thinwall roll cage collapsed.

I bought it more or less complete from his widow for 500 bucks.

I had the rear wheels widened later on to 10 inches which they did by welding a band in the center after lathing off the lips.

There was a picture of it in the Miami herald with a kid in a canoe paddling past it after hurricane david........which is  how I snagged it for 400 bucks.

It had a water line on the rear view mirror and even the 4 speaker factory stereo still worked after I dried it out.

When I was fixing it up, I found some papers woven into the seat springs that showed it had been through the assembly line for impala SS appearance package, F41 suspension and other goodies and the previous owner still had the window sticker which read around $4800 bucks.........which was very expensive for November 1968 sales.

I tracked down the original owner and he was Mr Luby of Luby Chevrolet who had it specially built as his demo and he drove it for a couple of years.

Possibly the only "SS427 caprice" ever made.

Wish I still had it.

I still do mile racing and the irony is that it's only a couple of miles from where I used to mile race on the street in high school.

(Image removed from quote.)

that a pretty caprice !
 My mom drove a 454 caprice for a while, my dad would pull up in his 72 Chevy 454 pickup and they would race home the three miles to our dirt road!  Those were the good old days!

[Shuffler]

V8 should be banned they cause global warming

What caused the last global warming? You know... back before engines and the industrial age.

[FBKampfer]

See Rule #6