Being a car nut I like all kinds of cars but I'll take a muscle car over an exotic anytime. (Only exception maybe an Aston DB9)
I do love Mustangs but there's nothing cooler than a 1970 'Cuda.
GDP dividing question: Italian Sports Car or American Muscle Car?
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Aug 9, 2008 8:01 a.m. Ratrod:
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Aug 9, 2008 8:26 a.m. Bear:
I bought an orange '70 Hemi 'Cuda convertible brand new in October of 1969. I traded my '69 GTO and $1,850.00 for it at Henry N. Bieker Plymouth in Hammond, IN. I traded it the following year a new Lincoln Mark IV which is still my favorite car of all time but I'd be a wealthy man if I still had the 'Cuda.
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Aug 9, 2008 9:08 a.m. Gigatron:
Cars don't do anything for me. Now, if I could afford it, I'd have one of these:
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Aug 9, 2008 9:54 a.m. MarkW:
Big Al
Great Taste! My first car was a blend of Muscle car and Euro sports trash. This self-acclaimed supposed consumer advocate killed the resale on one of the sportiest cars ever made...
1964 Corvair if you dare. Air cooled, shift on the dash, sporty rag top and road hugging stability! What more could a man want! 64 Corvair
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Aug 9, 2008 11:14 a.m. Tsar Nicholas :
Gigantron said: Cars don't do anything for me. Now, if I could afford it, I'd have one of these:
Ah the Vincent Black Shadow! A very great man once said that if you rode the Black Shadow at top speed for any length of time, you would almost certainly die. That is why there are not many life members of the Vincent Black Shadow Society.
God I love that machine. Forget 'Murken Muscle or Spicey Eye-tallin Roadsters, the Black Shadow is the only machine you will ever need.
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Aug 9, 2008 1:36 p.m. TwangOmatic:
Thanks big al until now when i got a proxy error my post went through anyway. This is a little off topic but i think its the coolest thing to happen to the auto industry in a long time http://www.teslamotors.com/design/gallery-body.php an electric car that does 0-60 in 3.9sec!!!
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Aug 9, 2008 3:26 p.m. marctrain57:
bigalthethird said: That's most of the ones I've posted. It's a 170 (I wanted a 289, but saw the price the dude wanted for this and did not want to pass it up), with Bench seats.
Most people forget that it was much easier as a teen to get laid in a car with bench seats than buckets. Otherwise you had to get the girl to get into the back with you after all the other begging and pleading.
I'd take an early T-Bird or a mid sixties Mustang over most of the European stuff. I'd look like I was driving a stolen car in a Maserati.
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Aug 9, 2008 3:46 p.m. bobbyrivera:
I love Falcons! Yours is great Bigal. I had a '64 Falcon Futera as a daily driver a few years ago (as I mentioned before- sorry I can't find any of the parts I had for it). Have fun- they are great cars. Here's a '64 I really like: <img src="
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Aug 9, 2008 3:48 p.m. jaydar:
Just seems the older I get the more i move away from sports to American muscle cars.
Dodge Charger, Plymouth Barracuda, Dodge Challenger, camaro, mustang you name it. I prefer convertibles.
I would not care if the numbers matched either. They would have to be drivers not garage queens.
joe.
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Aug 9, 2008 3:53 p.m. bobbyrivera:
Don't get me started on how cool the new Dodge Challenger is. If I had the money, that would be my next car. Pure Badass IMO. <img src="
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Aug 9, 2008 3:55 p.m. Bear:
I had the rare opportunity of riding a Black Shadow for a couple of miles about ten years ago. Of course I took it real easy, but as old as the technology on this bike is, it was still very modern feeling and had plenty of oomph. Also, the sound it makes is just pure music.
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Aug 9, 2008 4:08 p.m. bobbyrivera:
Bear- How much oil did you have to add after your ride?
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Aug 9, 2008 4:46 p.m. Tsar Nicholas :
I'm sure he just scraped it back into the oil take off his jeans!
I do love the old Challenger but I really don't like the new one.. The back end ruins it as far as I'm concerned. The lines of the car are ruined when it raises up at the arse end.
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Aug 9, 2008 5:32 p.m. Bear:
I rode slow enough that the oil just dripped straight down. Actually us old guys like a bike that leaks oil. When it stops leaking... we know it's empty and we pour in a couple of quarts.
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Aug 9, 2008 5:47 p.m. BillyZoom:
Something English...XK-120, MGA, TR3, Sprite, 100M, Morgan, etc. Italian cars are really cool, but always seemed a little slick with their roll-up windows and weatherproofing. That Darrin looks pretty trippy, but I don't care for the green.
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Aug 9, 2008 5:47 p.m. Beatles6120:
Having had 2 70 GTO's, My dream car is a 1969 Camero SS
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Aug 9, 2008 6:02 p.m. MarkW:
Marctrain57:
My Corvair (first car) had the split seats, my second car had "the bench seat". Much much more fun. A vast improvement plus it was a 1965 Chevy II Nova with a 283 bored out to 301 with a set of 411 gears and a turbo hydramatic transmission.
I actually won a pink slip against a Corvette, but didn't have the heart to keep it.
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Aug 9, 2008 6:02 p.m. Tsar Nicholas :
My granduncle used to have one of those.. the Camaro. Somebody stole the engine though! Not the car... just the engine! Straight out of his garage.
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Aug 9, 2008 6:04 p.m. Beatles6120:
That's Ballsy!
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Aug 9, 2008 6:05 p.m. MarkW:
6120
Was your GTO the 400 cu in engine? I had a 70 LeMans that had the GTO 400 engine and some special transmission I can't remember. It would snap your head back off the line.
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Aug 9, 2008 6:45 p.m. marctrain57:
My first car was a '72 Olds Cutlass w/ a 355 cu engine and a 4bbl carb ( you have to be my age to remember how to adjust a carb on your own to get that extra little kick out of the engine). It also got a whopping 13 mpg at best and could burn some serious rubber. But I'd take that car back if I could.
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Aug 9, 2008 7:39 p.m. crowbone:
My First was a 74 Nova, small block 350. which I ran into the ground, sold to my best friend, a teacher/mechanic, and he got it back up and sold it to my other best friend who let me drive it while I got a real car.
I went through a 58 Cadillac, which was too gone for me to do anything but a ground up restore on it, and a '72 Buick GS Stage One. Massive 455 engine, that was positively fun.
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Aug 9, 2008 7:42 p.m. Beatles6120:
MarkW said: 6120
Was your GTO the 400 cu in engine? I had a 70 LeMans that had the GTO 400 engine and some special transmission I can't remember. It would snap your head back off the line.
Mark, Both of the Goats were 400's You're thinking of the Hurst Dual Gate Shifter. I didn't have one of those. I did have RAM AIR. Those 400 engines were amazing.
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Aug 9, 2008 7:51 p.m. bigalthethird:
This thread kicks some kind of ass, and thanks Bobby! Did the Tele ever make it?
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Aug 9, 2008 10:20 p.m. do not be afraid:
i can honestly say that i've never been a fan of European sports cars! and while i've never been too much of a fan of American Muscle cars either, i can certainly appreciate them, and one particular muscle car has been in my dreams since i've been old enough to actually dream about cars:
what really gets me excited are old trucks ('30s, '40s, '50s), anything with tailfins, and, perhaps most of all:
