[quote=Cabal][quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=flu]Side question. Why didn’t you keep all those legacy american muscle cars? They would have been awesome to run these days.[/quote]
FLU: Don’t remind me. You want a heart breaker? I sold my 1969 Mustang Mach I (428CJ) in 1991 to buy my first house with my first wife.
How much you ask (for the car)? $11,000. Yup. Cherry, too, except for an aftermarket Alpine stereo. Black with gray racing stripes, original hood locks, Rally wheels, interior… Only significant change was pulling the 351 Cleveland and replacing it with the 428CJ (which was really a built up four bolt main 428 Police Interceptor block). I rebadged the quarter panels following.
Broke my heart to sell that car. No longer have the car, the house or the wife. Wheeee![/quote]
Ouch, I can relate. I had to sell my high school ride to help pay for college – a 1970 Challenger RT, metallic blue with white vinyl top, 383, Holley 650 carb, dual hood scoops w/ locks, hush thrush mufflers, and 50 series tires. Sold it thinking I would someday buy my dream car, the most beautiful car GM ever produced, a 69 Z-28. Something about those lines and the retractable headlight covers. I still hope someday it will happen.
Allan – As a casual lurker and infrequent poster, I’ve enjoyed reading posts by you and other Pigg mavens. Unfortunately, the asymmetric, fallacious arguments presented by Paddy (aka rt66) have mutated beyond ad hominem, beyond ad populum to the point of incoherency, thus rendering further on topic participation in this thread pointless. On the other hand, one positive outcome is fondly remembering the classic Jeff Bridges movie Thunderbolt & Lightfoot co-starring Clint. Maybe I will look for it and Bad Company next time I rent. Tron II is also in development by Disney pictures. Should be a visual feast given the quantum leap in special effects.[/quote]
Cabal: Thanks for the compliment.
A good friend of mine in high school had (I believe) a 1969 or 1970 Cuda in “Hairy Canary” yellow. He pulled the 340 motor and dropped in a baaaaad ass 440 Magnum with a similar set up to yours. I’ll never forget that pistol grip shifter he had. I had an 8 ball, but that pistol grip was perfect for the real short throw on that Cuda.
The most truly frightening vehicle I ever locked horns with (and he kicked my ass mightily) was a 1969 Challenger R/T that the owner had dropped a heavily modified 426 Race Hemi into. He told me, after embarrassing me horribly in the 1/4 mile, that he was turning somewhere north of 600hp.
If I had the jingle, I’d love to lay my hands on a 1965 Stingray with a 427TP. Get it in the gorgeous red with Rally wheels and nothing but Beach Boys on the radio.
I loved Tron, by the way. I saw that movie at the Century Theaters in San Jose in 1982, right after seeing Journey in concert (“Escape” Tour at Oakland Coliseum) that same summer (they did the closing song, “Only Solutions”). I drove my Mach I to that damn movie, too. Man, getting old sucks.
