Sure, I’ve already done 3 pretty awesome Car Pictorials that were enjoyed by millions. But, that was several years ago, and no one remembers it. Nevertheless, I will pick lesser known vehicles and try to avoid repeats.
Can’t wait for some dipshit to complain about posting NON-SERIOUS SHIT (!!!) during this time of deep crisis. This person should become intimately familiar with DDD. I’m just a tad bit weary of Covid, Country 404, Dementia & the DC Klown Show, LGBTQPKFUKOFF, and other such articles right now. I need a little diversion. If you do also, enjoy. (I’m choosing only 1960’s cars because by 1970 many or most American cars were shit and, I don’t remember jack shit before 1960.)
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MUSCLE
According to Muscle Car Club an American muscle car, by the strictest definition, is an intermediate sized, two door, high-performance oriented model, powered by a large V8 engine, at an affordable price.
1963 Stingray. IMHO, the most beautiful of all Vettes. I could look at it for hours. The Split Window model only existed for one year because of a disagreement between the two designers. Others claim Chevrolet was forced to end it because the split window impeded rearward vision and was daaaaangerous. The standard 327 engine with optional fuel injection ($480) produced 360 bhp. You could order an optional 36 gallon fuel tank! Base cost about $4,200, and the St Louis factory could barely keep up with the demand.
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1966 GTO. Simple in design, almost plain, yet possessing stunning elegance. It’s a look that says ‘fuck with me at your own peril‘. One of the most popular muscle cars of all time, and a ’66 in mint condition could easily set you back for over $1ook.
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1966 Ford Fairlane 500 R-Code: The Fairlane 500 went from a ho-hum family car in 1962 to holy-crap muscle in 1966. Ford gave this beast their legendary 427 cubic inch side-oiler V8 cranking out 425 horses and a phenomenal 480 lb-ft of torque. Only 57 were made.
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1963 Chevrolet Impala Z11. Another ho-hum family car that briefly went into Bad Assed Beast mode. Under the hood of the Z11 is a 427 V8 engine that delivered 430 horses. Chevy only built around 50 of them. It is believed only 7 exist today. According to Conceptcarz, the car fetched $525,000 at auction in 2017.
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1970 Chevrolet Chevelle 454 LS6 Convertible. Piss off, MOPAR! That 454 engine was the most powerful of its time …. 450 horses and 500 pound-feet of torque, 0 – 60 in 5 seconds, top speed 142 mph …. pretty damned good for 1970. Hemmings estimates fewer than 20 exist today.
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1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda Convertible: Piss off Chevy!! Only 780 units left the factory with the legendary 426 Hemi …. only 21 were convertibles … which means you need to fork over at a minimum a couple million to buy one, if you can find one.
You Boomers fucked up, big time. You saw this ad below back in 1970. Yes, you did. You could have bought it for $4,600!! Did you? Nah!! You went and bought that Granada for $3,200. You putz. You coulda owned a million dollar car!!!!
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LUXURY
1963 Buick Riviera: The Buick Riviera marked General Motors’ first entry into the personal luxury car market segment. It sported iconic style features like the distinctive egg-crate grille and creased lines along the front and rear quarters. It had a flashy interior to boot, with several upholstery choices, a fancy center console, and countless extra-cost options. After a trip to Europe, GM design head Bill Mitchell decided that he wanted an American personal luxury car that would combine the elegance of a Rolls Royce with the sportiness of a Ferrari. Many believe he succeeded.
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1961 Lincoln Continental: Few people remember that Lincoln was in serious danger of being shut down by Ford in the late 1950s. They needed a blockbuster new car to save the marque. They got it in the slab-sided, Elwood Engel-designed 1961 Continental. Originally planned as the new Thunderbird, the car was reworked as a much larger four-door design with center-post, outward-opening “suicide” doors. The ’61 Continental, now forever associated with the Kennedy assassination, remains one of the most significant American car designs of the 1960s.
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1962 Cadillac Coupe De Ville: “I love you for your pink Cadillac. Crushed velvet seats. Riding in the back. Cruising down the street. Waving to the girls. Feeling out of sight. Spending all my money. On a Saturday night. Honey I just wonder what you do there in back of your pink Cadillac.” Enough said.
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1966 Oldsmobile Toronado: This car was waaaay ahead of its time. Just SOME of its many innovations; The Turbo Hydra-Matic THM-425 front-wheel drive automatic 3-speed transmission (torque converter separate from the planetary gearset), the Rochester down-draft 4-bbl carburetor, spherical-shaped exhaust flange gaskets that allowed freedom of movement within the exhaust system and prevented leakage, flow through ventilation which eliminated the vent windows that also reduced wind noise, Toronado-based design drive train for GMC motor, GM’s first subframe vehicle, and on and on …… The legendary Super Rocket V8 engine powered the vehicle. A potent 7.0 litres (!!!) 16-valve naturally aspirated V8 produced 380 hp and 644 Nm of peak torque at just 3,200 rpm. Base price was $4,500 (about $45,000 today). (It averaged about 38 miles per gallon.)
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FAMILY CARS
1982 Checker Marathon A12 / the last production year for the civilian, non-taxi model, and this blue beauty hardly looks any different than the silver 1964 Checker Marathon above it. Checker Motors was founded by Morris Markin, a Russian immigrant, who had a strong distaste for change. His philosophy was that once you get the right design —> stick with it.
The magnificent and legendary Checker Marathon, aka the New York Taxi, was introduced in 1960 and was sold until 1982. The Marathon was available as a sedan, wagon, and the interesting and rare 12-seater Aerowagon. Available with a straight-six or V8 engine from Chevrolet. It was designed and built from the ground up with a singular purpose; to be an absolutely dependable and tough machine. That is why they used and abused it as the definitive taxi vehicle for decades, and not only in New York but in other cities, as well.
It didn’t sell in big numbers which is somewhat odd considering it was one of America’s most durable and reliable vehicle. But, the 1960s cars were all about tail fins, bulges, chrome, more chrome, plushness, and people demanded changes year over year. The Marathon had few options, hardly ever changed, and was simply to austere for the era.
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1964 Ford Falcon: QOTD; “Can ya get any plainer than this??“. After seeing how compact cars were having an increasingly bigger market share, the Ford Motor Company changed its stand on small vehicles, and in 1960 came up with the Falcon. It was an immediate success. Ford hit a home run with the compact yet roomy Falcon even though the car was absolutely nothing special or innovative in terms of design or technology. I mean, the standard model only had a 2.4-liter measly 90 HP engine! The secret of the Falcon’s success was its affordability (Ford’s most inexpensive car) and a very long list of options — for example, the bigger six-cylinder or 260 V8.
Then again …. some Falcons are more equal than other Falcons
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THE 1960s STATION WAGON!!! Millions were built in the 1960s, many were as powerful as muscle cars, they could actually haul 10 people or a 4×8 sheet of plywood ….. and they were just friggin AWESOME! I really truly miss them. Enjoy the video.
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FOREIGN
1960s Jaguar E-Type: A timeless beauty with barely a straight line anywhere on its flanks, Enzo Ferrari said the E-Type was “the most beautiful car I have ever seen“. Hard to disagree. From 1961 to 1975, the E-Type defined the British sports car. When this car first came out, it was one of the fastest on the road. In 1965, Autocar magazine stated that “In its 4.2 guises, the E-Type is a fast car (the fastest we have ever tested) and offers just about the easiest way to travel quickly by road.”
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1965 VW Microbus: Introduced in 1950 by Volkswagen, but it really came into popularity during the ‘60s, when it became the archetypal “hippie van,” and a symbol of the counterculture movement. In 1975, while stationed in Greece, I bought an orange and white bus from a hippie (not kidding) for $500. I painted flowers and other hippie shit all over (not kidding). The whole back end was basically a mattress. Colorful beads separated the bedroom from the driver. One weekend five of us decided to go see the Oracle of Delphi and the real Mount Olympus which was nearby. We BARELY made it to the top. That woefully underpowered engine never getting out of 2nd gear or faster than 20 mph. I think we pissed off a LOT of drivers stuck behind us. But, we were doing hippie shit like drinking Ouzo and smoking joints so we didn’t really give a shit.
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1964 Porshe 911: There is much beauty in simplicity. The 1964 911 wasn’t a powerhouse, with a 128 hp flat six cylinder, but the beauty and handling dynamics were all there. The infamous Porsche options list began here, with targa tops and gasoline burning cabin heaters available in the ‘60s. While it wouldn’t get a turbo until the ‘70s, this is where it all started.
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THE ULTIMATE CLASSIC CAR!!
1957 Chevy Bel Air: OK, I missed the 1960s by three years. So, sue me! Elvis. The Beatles. Marilyn Monroe. Herman Munster. All mythical icon superstars, just like the Bel Air. Considered to be among the most recognizable American cars of all time. The car made its debut during a unique time in American history; 1957 was an age of economic prosperity and technological advances, when average wages and consumerism were growing at an unprecedented speed. And Chevrolet leveraged that zeitgeist by bringing to the public the right product in the right place at the right time — an affordable and yet beautiful-looking car that was perfectly adapted for the rising middle-class. And it was no slouch! The potent fuel-injected 283 version could sprint from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 7.7 seconds and top out at 128 mph.
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Bonus Section: WTF was I thinking??
1975 Mercury Capri: I was discharged in 1975 and needed a car for college. We got extra discounts if we ordered a car while overseas, so in 1974 while still in Greece I ordered the car just like the one above. Of course, there were no Lincoln dealers in Athens! I ordered the car without seeing it in person, giving it a test drive, etc. Truly one of the dumbest of dumbfuk things I’ve ever done. My final tour was in southern CA (Victorville) so I picked up the car in Los Angeles.
I had my WTF!!!! moment within about 60 seconds …… I couldn’t fit in the car!! I had to tilt my head 45 degrees, bend my ankles, and contort my body in ways I didn’t know it could bend just to get in. Oh, it was a stick shift, oh what effing joy THAT was! Within a few days I took it to a body shop, they took out the seat and moved the rails as far back as they could. That, plus tilting the seat, made it drivable … even if I felt, and looked, like I was lying down on a recliner.
I bought it because I was Being Responsible. We just had a gas crisis in ’73 and my post military income would be like my pecker, small and barely adequate, and the insurance was cheaper on that car than the one I really wanted. In other words, I bought something I could afford … a mistake I rarely made again.
It was woefully underpowered and made worse because it was a California car which by then already mandated something called a “catalytic converter”. It was faster than my dad’s 1961 VW bug (another truly iconic car), but not by much. On the plus side, I had it for 6 years, no repairs ever, and still running strong at 90k miles before I crashed into a guard rail and totaled it.
One last thing …. the real tragic part of this tale of woe. This is the car I REALLY wanted, and I could have afforded it as it was only about $1,700 more … a studly car … a car where I could have actually picked up babes (instead of babes pointing at my wannabe pimpmobile and laughing) …. this iconic beauty … 1975 Pontiac Trans Am
In closing, if there is ever a QOTD — “Who is the dumbest fucker you ever knew?” — you might want to consider nominating your pal, Stucky. Not kidding.
THE END
I still think the 65 Mustang was a marvelous car.
Indeed, it was! I know because I owned a yellow ’65 Mustang …. the cheap hardtop with the small 200 CID In-Line Six. Fact is, there were MANY great Mustangs. Could do an entire pictorial essay just on Mustangs.
I did not include it (and several other most worthy vehicles) because I featured them in the other 3 pictorials. The hardest part of doing these pictorials is always choosing which of MANY other viable choices to leave out (otherwise the article would be enormously lengthy).
I’m calling BS on
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle 454 LS6 Convertible. Piss off, MOPAR! That 454 engine was the most powerful of its time …. 450 horses and 500 pound-feet of torque, 0 – 60 in 5 seconds,
I had a friend who owned one and both back tires smoked off the line, maybe 10.5 seconds more reasonable.
Did you forget the Iconic Vega?
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“According to the ProfessCars™ estimation this Chevrolet would accelerate 0-60 mph in 4.8 sec,… “
https://www.automobile-catalog.com/car/1970/106820/chevrolet_chevelle_ss_454_sport_coupe_450-hp.html
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You can call “bullshit” all you want but there are tons of websites like the one above which all verify the 5 second time.
Maybe your friend just doesn’t now how to drive.
My bad Sir Stucky, I was thinking quarter mile, sorry. Can we still be friends?
Yes. But only because you called me Sir Stucky …. a first around these parts.
SHAME!
The Plymouth Barracuda ignored and shunned.
Drove this all through high school. Dad’s hand-me-down.
The sisters crashed it after I went to college.
Push button transmission?
No.
It had a really cool “stick shift” black knob on a chrome shaft between the seats.
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Jeebus!! NO ONE is ignoring or shunning the Cuda. It is a wonderful car, an icon (that bubble rear window is unique and instantly recognizable).
If I included every worthy car then there would be at least 100 entries! That is NOT the function of my pictorials.
Don’t forget the Chrysler Imperial!
Just look at it. It cooked anyone in the back seat, and the “fastback” look was aerodynamically horrible. The Gremlin was a better car, but not much.
Driving and the proper tires for dragging.
Bullshit.
Going up in smoke means a crappy 0-60 time.
Tons of websites are wrong, dontcha know?
I don’t buy this horse metric malarky. This could even pull as much plow as a single horse. If you hooked it to a plow it would just spin around like a hamster wheel. Maybe that’s a better metric: 450 hamster wheels!
Of course hamsters are pretty small and to make it sound more powerful it would probably work better to measure it in megahamsters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower#/media/File:Imperial_Horsepower.svg
Failed humor attempt. I blame the audience.
I owned a 1972 Chevy Vega, lemon yellow that was a wreck looking for a place to happen. I learned how to change out everything from an alternator to a water pump while I owned that little POS and I even bought a Vega with a blown engine for the manual transmission and paid a guy $250 to install a clutch and the “new” transmission.
(Note: My father put the $75 parts car up on blocks for me and I removed all the connectors and prepared the transmission for dropping, which my father helped me with. I was 17 and pretty darned capable for a girl.)
Bought the thing from my sister for $300 in 1978; she’d bought it brand new and had already replaced an engine. POS is a nice term for what the little rattletrap was, but it got me where I was going, most of the time.
I’m confused, but proud of you anyway.
‘It only left me in the lurch a few times’ is not much of a testimonial.
It was a crappy car. GM’s first venture into Nikasil plated cylinders was a failure.
Who was in charge? Didn’t this sort of thing lead directly to the bailout of GM, who have lately given us the Volt, or Goat, or whatever they called it?
I guess my point was that in 1978, things were a LOT different in many ways. People actually learned to make their cars run instead of calling Uber.
They aren’t live now, but the show was good.
Any modern 2 liter sport sedan will eat either of them for lunch, in any sort of race. They were barges with more power than they could safely use. They were too heavy, had crappy suspensions and feeble brakes. The recirculating ball steering was almost criminal.
Not only all that, but they didn’t last very long in the real world.
I made the huge mistake of buying a ’75 Pontiac Astra, a tarted up Vega.
As advertised, by 80,000 miles it was burning oil like an ocean going tramp freighter.
80,000 mile is also when the clutch wore out and the timing belt broke. Also by that time, the body was disintegrating with rust.
Iconic? Why?
I had a 64.5 mustang for a couple years and it handled great but was a mishmash of parts ford threw together that always was a puzzle for the parts guys. Definitely a fix or repair daily car. I still vote for the 60s MGs and Triumphs after the E-Jags.
The early Mustangs handled better than the period Detroit barges, and they weer pretty reliable.
Luckily for anyone who bought them, their electrics were head and shoulders above Lucas.
Mine was a deep blue with metal flake in the paint, V8, 289, convertible, black top , the interior was a paint matching blue. One sweet little car. One thing I found interesting was the rocker panels were galvanized metal, no rusting but had to be painted after the winter of road salt and sand beating on them.
I had a 200 in-line six (there was a circle track class for the 200 c.i.d. but they ran three one barrel carbs) in my ’81 Mustang. I modified the intake manifold to accept two one-barrel carbs, cleaned up the horrible intake port casting, added a performance header, cammed it up a bit and put some more suitable read end gears in. I also added an electric fan.
The result was quite good, but it wasn’t ever a car I dreamed about.
Yeah for a girl. Mustang’s were girly.
Really? The Boss 429 is right up there with the Hemis, COPOs and Yenkos etc.
Is that a Apache truck in background rigged 4×4,perhaps a Napco kit?
3 Mile Island.
I had a Yenko Trans Am. The previous owner blew up the 455 and Muncie Rock Crusher. Put a 400 Ram Air III in it. Replaced the 4.33 rear gear with a 3.42. Just a pile of rust somewhere now.
Damn, that’s a new one on me. Never heard of a Yenko Trans Am.
All I want to know is how the fuck one blows a M-22 stone crusher?!
Frankly,I do not see how tis possible!
The guy “might have been an idiot.” I actually blew one trans a year myself. Drove 75 miles once with only 4th left. The T 1o Borg Warner was supposedly the most bullet proof thing but I think those were in Fords? The Ford C-6 automatic was a good one too. Chrysler Torque Flight was good. Pretty hard to not have one or two transmissions replaced in anything from GM. If you tow, count on it.
Eh,for auto,Turbo 400 was it,C-6 and 727 also a good hit for ……,well…….auto.
That said ,the M-22 was a never die tranny,how does one kill that except purposefully!?!
Oh the days when tranny meant transmission.
Humans are capable of destroying almost everything. Often they have to work at it.
If I remember right, Yenko was a Western PA hillbilly who hopped up a lot of different cars.
The 289 Mustang in GT 250 trim was pretty nice, though rough as a cob on the street and noisy. What was that racing series that featured them and hopped up 283 Camaros?
Ford never made a GT250. GT350, yes.
The racing series you may be referring to was the Trans-Am racing circuit. AMC won with the Javelin in 1970 and 1971.
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That is what I do.. http://www.profit97.com
Rio,I also work from home.
On a side note ,have a van project that runs and is solid,would like to take you for a ride to discuss your business venture.
Do not mind the hermetically sealed doors,they along with the lock down points are there for your pleasure!
This is going to be a fun/one way ride/hop in Rio!
Are you ready Rio?!
I loaf at home, doing things I like to do.
What I earned in the past and saved and invested allows me to do this.
Will you provide Hookers in Rio?
https://imgs.search.brave.com/KHv_7ux9Fu1bky2MhwwL3C0MBTp4hRjV2V_zaAZK680/rs:fit:796:225:1/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly90c2U0/Lm1tLmJpbmcubmV0/L3RoP2lkPU9JUC5P/aVNKeGVnNkowaVg4/UWFrMDA4WHJ3SGFF/YSZwaWQ9QXBp
You might want to consider dropping ‘Duck duck go’ as your search engine. The guy that owns came out as being totally ‘woke’ and has promised to ‘filter’ content.
http://www.swisscows.com
The alternative search engine.
Swiss-cows is ‘woke’ in their way too — announces that they collect for Ukraine … flies the Ukraine flag …
No thanks …
dogpile, altavista, ask(Jeeves), excite?
Am I out of date, a little?
Netscape
Not sure why you down voted my suggestion but just proves there are an abundance of Jerks in the World.
Is he filtering out thing like 1968 Renault R-10s?
Looks just like the car my neighbors the ” Woolzaks” drove.
You can post from brave by opening the image in another tab (by hitting the “view file” tab), copying the URL and posting in the comment box like this ’65 J300 right here:
OK,I want one,,…….how much?
Beautiful ride.
I post pictures using Brave with no problems.
Not sure why anyone would complain. Very nice stuff, Stuck, and keeps Covid article overload down.
I always wanted a 66 Stingray. Guess I’ll be wanting one for the rest of my life because they are unobtainium for me.
I stopped at a little car lot to look at a 70 Mustang like my best friend in high school had. They wanted 18K. It would have taken 30K more to make it nice. Pass.
Even a Lemans, which is the base for the GTO has gotten out of reach. Late 60s and early 70s Camaros and Firebirds, forget about it.
Nixon and the EPA destroyed the muscle car era. Even the Trans Am pictured was woefully smogged down to around 200HP.
Yup …. and that was with the 455 cubic inch option!
The standard 400-cid had a paltry 185 hp. This is hard to believe … 0-to-60 mph in 9.8 seconds. Some “muscle”!! Jeebus, I think my dad’s ’60 Rambler Classic was faster than that. lol
But, hey, if you wanted a “muscle car” in 1975 your choices, I believe, were either a Corvette or Trans Am. There were still enough fans of the T/A to keep GM from killing it …. 27,000 sold in 1975.
In high school in the mid seventies, my friend drove a beat up 64 Buick Wildcat with a 401 Nailhead engine. He had put on a Holley carburetor and it went like a BAT OUT OF HELL!
His greatest joy in life was racing college boys driving shiny, brand new Corvettes & Trans Ams and beating the pants off them. It was particularly satisfying if they had their girlfriends with them. The looks on their faces were priceless. Anger. Astonishment. Embarrassment. Total Cognitive Dissonance. Mouths Gaping Open as we pulled away! A carload of zit faced 16 year olds – laughing at them! Great memories!
Do you remember the ’75 Grand Am? It was a full or midsize then and had a 455. A friend had one and he was about half nuts behind the wheel and scared the bejeesus out of me in that thing. Then they made them into teeny bopper girl cars with the 2.5 Iron Duke 4-popper.
My dad was a car nut and the Jaguar E-type he had was the coolest with a one-piece front end that tilted forward.
he liked Italian sports cars also. But raced Chevys and Dodges. I always wanted a 57 chevy with a gasser style front end.
All of the E-Types had a hood (bonnet) like that. Unfortunately, they also came in an automatic transmission as an option.
Stupid me, I brought a used E-Type thinking that switching to a manual would not be so difficult, but….
little did I know that the whole car had serial numbers on all components (like engines and transmissions). If the serial numbers do not match the value drops somewhere to below sea level.
So then, I was stuck with a car I didn’t really want and didn’t like. Another thing I learned that the worst of all of the E-Types was known as a E-Type series 1 1/2, auto transmission 2+2. The only E-Types with a soft top were Roadsters, not “Fixed Head” (hard top to us) and the 2+2. The 2+2s were supposed to seat four people (good luck with that).
I kept the freaking Brit. thing for a couple years and finally a man called and asked to buy it. At least I got most of my money back.
Lesson learned, boy and howdy.
Now I’m working on a 1931 car. It ain’t real purty, but it’s been in the family since 1952, low mileage. Best part is that it can run on gasoline, alcohol or diesel. Not kidding, it was rated for it. I think the compression was designed with about 4.5 to 1, a square bore/stroke 4″ x 4″.
It drives like a tractor and it’s slow, but it goes.
PS. Alcohol dissolved parts of the fuel system, specifically, the cork parts for the fuel level float and some of the gaskets. I’m replacing those parts and others to original specs. for alcohol use.
PPS The car never ever had that kind of problem until the introduction of corn in gasoline.
Correct – ethanol does damage to old fashioned fuel systems. I have two vintage era bikes that cannot take anything other than premium ethanol-free gas. Had to pay $2.20 CAD per litre last night ($6.40 per USG). Forty dollars was not enough to fill up both tanks from 2/3 empty. When I bought that ’82 Seca in ’87, four dollars and 20 cents filled that tank from empty.
I had a Honda CB 450 around ’70. I ran ethyl in it. Ethyl fluid contained a dye which would distinguish treated gasoline from untreated gasoline. I thought it was cool fuel because as I recall the dye was pink/red.
A 1976 silver Capri was my first car. I got it in 1977. It had been rolled and my brother bought it at a car auction, fixed it up and sold it to me for what he had in it. I had to borrow 2K. I loved that car. Black vinyl seats, no A/C and I still loved it. It took me 2 years to pay off that car. A 15 year old driving on his learners permit to school took too wide a turn at a corner and hit me in the front. Knocked off the front bumper and caused enough damage that the insurance company totaled it.
I replaced it with a 1979 Datsun 200sx. Loved that car, too. I had it for 10 years before another teenager hit me from behind and totaled that one. It was too hard to get the kids in and out of the back seat since it was a coupe. It was time to get something more family friendly.
In 1970 I was 15 and a half, living in Socal and just got my learners permit. Took Drivers Ed. in high school and was learning to drive in my dads 1966 Chevy Biscayne with a 250ci six. Then he got a 1970 Dodge Monaco with a 440/4brl, what a beast! We moved back to NY and I got my DL when I turned 16, three days later I got a speeding ticket on the Taconic Parkway for 110mph. They didn’t have radar back then, the cops would time you between two lines on the road. I got a letter a month after that saying my DL was suspended for 30 days, can’t tell you how mad my dad was, I had no business driving that car at 16 years of age.
I’d like to see driver’s education come back. The current teenagers arent getting enough drivers training. The lessons learned in driver’s education last a lifetime.
In Iowa you can drive to school at 14. During WW 2 my Dad lived with his uncle there because his cousins were in the military and needed help. He got a license at 13.
Ha… my first car was a used Chevy Biscayne station wagon I bought for $800; it had a 289 engine. It came in handy back in the drive-in movie nights of high school.
Admin, I appreciate that you decided to make this featured. I started on this earlier in the week and could have finished it, but then decided to wait until today …. kind of my Father’s Day present to all the dads out there …. especially old farts, like me, who actually lived in that era of gorgeous cars, … and miss it.
However, I am also truly embarrassed. I would be much happier if “A Man’s Man” and “Until We Meet Again” were featured, and this fluff piece just a regyoular article. Sincerely, and again, thank you ….
A hearty thank you to Admin And Stuck for this Fathers Day delight.
This was a great change of pace. An unexpected pleasure. Thanks.
My cousin had a 1966 L88 Vette with a 427 power plant. When he power shifted the 5 speed Hurst we’d have to bring it back to the shop to reweld the frame. It was an animal.
Great post on Father’s day, Stuck.
Thank you, friend. It was a labor of love. Not kidding.
Isn’t there some modern day Vette with 1,000 hp? Man, oh man, I’d consider donating my left nut just to drive that for half an hour.
Well, I’ll answer my own question since none of you curs decided to help out this po’ niggah.
There is, indeed, a 1,000 hp Corvette. Ya take yer Chevrolet C7 Corvette ZR1 and slap on the HPE1000 upgrade by Hennessey Performance. Then you can go 0-60 in about 3 seconds, the quarter mile in 10.6 seconds, and top out at 212 mph.
212 miles per hour. That would be fun to try on the Garden State Parkway, during rush hour (the car handles grrrrrreat).
DAHUM, THE SOUND THAT ENGINE MAKES IS SWEEEEET!
5 speed?
Yes. Five speed. If m 73-year-old memory is intact.
L88s were available from the factory three years only; 67-8-9. Something like 20 67s made, 60 68s and 120 69 models. None had 5 speeds as such was not available from GM until the80s. All were 4 speed with a few specially modified Turbo 400s.
I swore to myself that I wouldnt even bother reading – much less commenting – on an article from stucky again, but thought that since it was about cars that I would be safe…and I just cant help myself.
Of course, a Corvette isnt a muscle car – its a sports car – and neither is a 63 impala. Nor a Cuda [pony car there], but I’ll try and stop the pedantry and go look for the previous articles. It IS a nice break from the ‘normal’ heaviness… 🙂
There was no 5-speed in a 1966 Corvette. And Hurst was a shifter, not a transmission.
This one was a beauty too…
The Eliminator had a 428 cobra jet motor…
Meercury Cougar
I first took notice of one back in the day. Lost my license, dui, working in a vineyard running the irrigation system. Driving around unplugging sprinklers in an old beaten up f250 4×4 with no windows on a cold windy day. Spotted two spinklers round the middle of a row…. F******KKK. Jammed the truck into reverse, popped the clutch hit the gas, Pissed off… wheel hopped backwards until there was a rather large crunch.
Pulled ahead, got out. There was a lady standing at the side of a white cougar having a screaming fit. Hood crumped, bowed up, grill busted… not something you could buff out in an hour. She wanted my drivers license, told her I didn’t have one, suspended. She demanded I give her the insurance papers for the truck… I held my hand out towards the truck and asked her to take a good look at it and decide if she thought that maybe it might not have insurance… She nearly fainted when I confirmed it had no such papers… its a vineyard beater. She demanded I go with her to see the vineyard manager… I said nope, gotta go back to work, cya.
At the end of the day I went to fill in a time card and Ted, the manager, came to me and said a very angry lady came up into his office. Ranted for a full ten minutes nonstop and barely took a breath. When she finished screech’n he asked if she had his permission to be in the vineyard. The blank stare was met with a ‘vineyards are no place to be driving around’ and an invite to leave. The smile on his face meant he enjoyed the show and he muttered, it was a nice car too…
I remember it like it was yesterday… two cougars in one day. One had very nice lines the other was fat and had dark hair…
A very overlooked muscle car for sure. It was also considered an elegant sports car.
One of the models had a hard top that would stow in the trunk with a push of a button. Made the trunk useless with the top down but it sure looked kewl…
Bullshit. There was never a hardtop convertible Cougar.
Funny story from The Life Of Brian!
Charger RT 440.
The 68’s & 69’s had such beautiful body lines!!!
I agree with you on what the most beautiful corvette model year was. Although, the 2022 is pretty sweet.
That purple thing ain’t no Cuda. It’s a Challenger.
That Rivi sure is sweet also.
Thanks for stirring the sauce Stucky.
Well …. at least they both start with a “C”!!
Thanks for the heads up. Is this better?
Yessir.
Yup, that’s a 70 ‘Cuda in Plum Crazy purple
Rivi’s are awesome.
If I had to pick a favorite ….pretty damned hard to do!!! …. I would probably go with the Toronado. It’s big, and I need big. Plus, it looks futuristic even still today.
This is my dream car now.
Looks just like mine! I’ll be ridin’ in this sooner than later.
Nah, Ol’ Stucky, a Viking funeral for you. We’re going to stick your carcass in that Ford Capri, set it on fire and push it out to sea
LOL LOL THANK YEEEEW!
GNL, if when you are trying to find the Lincoln TC you might look for the Lincoln Towncar Signature L sedan. Why? Because the length of the car ( and specifically the back seat) is six inches longer. Also, there was a recall on the power steering having to do with a rack and pinion part. As I recall ( no pun intended), the part was fairly cheap and can be replaced without tearing down the entire front-end.
68 GTO with the hide-a-way headlights was my favorite GTO. On the Porsche, the 912 with it’s 4 cylinder engine was more affordable. The Mustang is missing as well as the Cobra and De Tomaso Pantera.
hey!
I’m 6’4″ and drove a 1974(?) capri 3.2 for a bit during e&e training in west germany. No issues fitting in to it and the thing was genuinely fast for its time. Fantastic for things like southern crosses but bounced badly on tracks.
However, the car that stole my heart was a 1972 Volvo 142GT with after an aftermarket supercharger. Invisible (people notice cars they own, flashy cars, and cars they covet – so, for most, not volvos) on the street, roomy, and insanely agile on eurocobbles, gravel, and concrete – I’ve never owned anything other than a Volvo since.
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and what? no mustang?
I’m a fraction of an inch shy of 6’7″ and it was impossible to drive. Otherwise I would not have spent around $400 rearranging the drivers seat, a lot of money in 1975 (the body shop actually had to fabricate some parts).
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You must have juiced it up. The official numbers don’t indicate it was fast …
” 1975 Capri II 2.3 (man. 4) Horsepower/Torque Curve —– 88hp / 0-60 took 12.3 seconds / top speed, 103 mph …” Yikes.
https://www.automobile-catalog.com/make/mercury/capri_mercury_2gen/capri_mercury_2gen/1975.html
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Something I did not now until moments ago ===> “Capri skipped the 1975 model year in the U.S., with Mercury dealers selling leftover ’74s until the redesigned Capri II arrived mid-year as a ’76. “ I bought a leftover 1974??? I got screwed worse than I thought!!!!
The link below might be of interest to former Capri owners — “Capri: The Sexy European” …. a nice history of the car, not too long, and non-technical.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/ford-capri/
First car was a yellow 72 rust bucket I got in 77. Had the 2 liter in it.
Some nice rides there,the 60’s to mid 70’s was peak 4×4 builds also.
Some of the cars I owned and sold make me the front runner in the “Dumbest Fucker” of the day!Seriouesly ,folks would kill me for some of the cars I sold!
On the upside,I am still working on this labor of love,so,even dumb fuckers have moments of redemption!
When you upgrade to this…. THEN you’ll be turn’n heads…
https://i.postimg.cc/prNmpHvH/james-van.webp
Really?!
I am not sure how to respond to that image!
Wait for it!
OK,yes,I do know how to respond!
The irony is you probably bought one of me classics,71 drop top LT-1 350 Vette/69 GOAT/1967 Firebird/1971 W-30 442/71 Cutlass plus many more classics!
OK,am now a bit depressed!
Do not even ask about the 4×4’s and motorcycles!
Well I started out riding dirt bikes, then streets (CB550) brand new out of the crate, then went to a 71 mustang, followed by numerous 4×4’s… nuth’n ever special… at that time of my life I was drinking and smoking everything I made… my wayward years.
Sigh,me dirt bikes,started with a Honda CT-90,lasted about a month!I then got a MT-125,lasted a year,then,a Honda MR-250,then…..,wait for it…..,a Hercules GS-250 with a 7 speed transmission,a awesome bike,only down side at time 7″ suspension(which was great for the day!),then,a Husky 390 with 9″ suspension,yep,good times!
Street rides,well,Yamaha 750 with shaft drive/1100 Sportster/a HD Heritage with 1340 built to the hills with cams/heads /pipes ect./Triumph Tiger hardtail with springer front end/Matchless 750 with feather bed frame/72 Norton Commando,am sure am missing a few.
James, there is currently a 75 Norton Commando Mark 3 or 5 advertised on the Kansas City Craigslist. $11,500
While I have the money do not have the time.
Bikes/cars/trucks ect. own you/i.e. you do not own them.
I have one project of love itself(4×4 van)and am looking for new property,tis more then enough!
Ad a Brit bike to the collection time runs out quick!
Huh……,get the land with not too much remodel……,eh……perhaps then a Brit bike in the mix!
They’re called money pits…
Had a KTM 500.
A scary powerful bike even for an experienced rider.
Had many bikes over the years.
Started with a Honda 50 as a kid,
a ’76 Yamaha 400 enduro bored out to 450 in college,
The girls had to hang on very tight to stay on……
Then street bikes. too many to count.
Still have my Harley 48. Wish I had kept my ’90
Grey Ghost Fat Boy.
Worth a fortune now.
64 Galaxy 500
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntc0NUj4ErY
Absolutely Gorgeous!!!
Friend of mine had a nice 67 GTO and traded it for a Capri during the first “gas crisis”.
Yeah, he still gets razzed about that unmercifully.
Traded a ’67 GTO for a Capri???????? Please tell him Stucky says thanks for winning the dumbest fucker of the year award. Wow, just wow.
Oh, and the Toronado most definitely did NOT get 38 mpg.
HA!!!! I threw that in there just to see if anyone actually reads the writeups …. or, just looks at the pics. You win the Smarty Pants Of The Week award.
Marky also read it. But, he gets no prizes because he didn’t get the joke.
I though the “3” was a typo. 8 MPG might be closer to the truth
I about choked on my beer when I saw 38 mpg, For fucks sake a 7 liter with a 3 speed!
“For the sake of the record, our test covered 2769 miles used 3 quarts of oil (the car had only 75 miles on it when we got it), and averaged 12.3 mpg, with a best of 14.7 mpg recorded at a steady 60-65 mph.”
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/toronado-roadtest/#:~:text=For%20the%20sake%20of%20the,first%20model%20is%20highly%20perfected.
My dad had some bad rides when I was a kid. 61 BelAir coupe bubble window , Roadrunner, Coronet 440. My uncle today has SS396 Chevelle , SS454 Camaro and a bad ass Roadrunner . I liked boats, Biscaynes, Caprices, Delta 88s and Olds 98.
Chevy never put a 454 in a Camaro. 427, yes (ZL1), but not a 454.
1966 Oldsmobile Toronado: -It averaged about 38 miles per gallon. Is that a mis- print? Thats incredible. I knew back in the 70’s they had carburetors that could get 60+MPG. That technology was suppressed by big oil cartel and other special interest groups. A few of those inventors that wouldn’t sell out ended up dead. We have been scammed. The whole energy industry is a scam.
I have just recently been exploring FREE energy using magnets. Magnetic generators are a real thing and they work. The materials and parts to make them are not rare earth or expensive resources with exception of copper. I am doing the research on building my own magnetic generator. I am convinced for under $2000 I can build one that will produce enough electricity to power a home. Minus the cost of materials to build and occasional nominal cost of maintenance , A free unlimited power source. The whole green new deal energy agenda is a scam.
Please share by writing an article with photos and videos.
If you’re thinking perpetual motion is possible…I do too. I believe perpetual motion is linked to gravitation.
Write an article? Thats sounds challenging because I’m not a physicist or engineer. I envisioned it long time ago but just recently been spinning the theory in my head and being such a simple concept was sure that thousands of others had thought on the idea as well. So, I typed in “magnetic generator” in the search bar and dozens of videos demonstrating it as practical, fairly inexpensive, various designs, and most importantly producing free electricity. The foundational basis for how our universe functions in the physical plain is electro-magnetics.
It’s not perpetual motion. The way it works is outside that definition.
No, they don’t. Please prove me wrong.
I have been WAY down that road. Ever heard of Steorn?
For 30+ years I have checked out many of the “Free Energy” claims. So far, every one has made major claims, not one has delivered.
Remember, there is only one way to prove you can make free energy. By demonstrating you can make free energy. Good luck.
I do believe in free energy if one has a collector(not free):i.e. panels/wind turbine/water wheel ect.,all which will need maintenance but the energy then is free.
I have no doubts that energy collectors have been in many ways suppressed and that storage(i.e. batteries ect.)have also been suppressed.
That said,more ideas coming out daily and as long as net up we will see more innovative ways to “collect” energy.
I posted a couple videos demonstrating proof of concept from YT. Where are they ADMIN? Why are some videos here blocked? Does ADMIN not allow YT vids here? Just search “magnetic generators” and see for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhJwF-H3sY
Wierd. Now these video postings stuck. Is it a glitch?
Newton’s 3 laws.
Exactly. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only converted from one form to another.
Nothing in the universe is free or unlimited … especially energy.
Yes, magnets can provide a constant force. However, force and energy are not the same thing.
Perpetual motion means that energy can be output without any input. I believe this violates one of the Laws of the Universe; the conservation of energy. That’s a pretty big constraint on reality.
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OTOH, if we have eternal life in heaven then there must be free and unlimited energy somewhere. If you are successful in your endeavors consider naming your invention Da Jeebus Machine.
To be fair, I did use the the words FREE ENERGY rather loosely. A more accurate term would be extremely low cost electricity The input would equal the force exuding from the magnets which do have a limited life span outside the definition of perpetual motion.
Nope. No magic carb.
And the Earth is round, well not flat.
1964 and 1965 GTOs were better than the longer 1966 GTO.
Eh,late 60’s for me,love the curves!
1961 Chrysler Imperial
LONGEST American car —–
1976 Fleetwood Series 75—– 252 inches!! I believe that’s 21 feet long.
Also, the 8.2 litre V8 was the largest V8 engine to power a production passenger car in the entire world.
Neverthess ….. “The engine produced 190 hp @ 3,600 rpm with 488 Nm of peak torque @ 2,000 rpm. GM’s ….. Performance was rated as 0-60 mph in 13.3 seconds ….. ¼ mile @ 73 mph in 19.4 seconds ….. top speed of 109 mph.”
From wikipedia….
Imperials during this period were substantially wider, both inside and out, than other Mopars, with front and rear shoulder room equal to 64.0 in (1,626 mm) and 62.0 in (1,575 mm) respectively. The front seat shoulder room measurement remains an unsurpassed record for Imperial and would remain the record for any car until the 1971–1976 GM full-size models. Exterior width reached a maximum of 81.7 in (2,075 mm) for 1961–1963, which remains the record for the widest non-limousine American car.
HEAVIEST American car (excluding trucks and SUVs)
1960 Lincoln Continental …. 5,712 pounds
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The Soviet Zil-41047 limousine weighed 7,352 lbs !
My 2006 Suburban weighs 6,075lbs.
Different looking but ugly does nor begin to describe it. The high rear fins as a design created some really wonky looking cars.
Dad sold cars 50 of his 64 years I remember cleaning lots of them growing up.. This one i will never forget cause my cousin tried it out just after he got back from Nam and he took me with him! he ran it through the gears rubber 1-3..this one is close….the one I was in dark blue 1966 Ford 7 litre conv whitewalls white pinstripe…just awesome
https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0120-397400/1966-ford-galaxie-500-7-litre-convertible/
Beautiful car.
Colors very close to my 65 mustang.
This was mine back in the 80s
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvdqC0wifNmCvUP82o2_eiy-S6fe
Honorable mentions: ’62 Studebaker Avanti & Plymouth Barracuda with the curved rear glass.
Another foreign car that had nice lines was the MGC-GT with its inline six cylinder.
Eh,except Lucas Electric,the Prince Of Darkness!
Q: Why to Brits drink warm beer?
A: Because Lucas also makes refrigerators.
I never understood why people like the Avanti.
It does kinda look like it came from either the Island of Misfit Toys
or the Island of Dr. Moreau.
Here’s the actual, honest to God, first family sports car!
4 seater, 289 with a Supercharger putting out about the same horsepower as the displacement. I was lucky to find one, restored it, and sold it to a guy who had won the CA lottery!
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1957-studebaker-golden-hawk
I have a picture of me mum and uncle in a non supercharged model,me grandma bought it well out grocery shopping,me grandfather,while I am sure not thrilled let it ride(pun intended).
I was a Teenager during the height of the Muscle Car Era so this brings back many fond memories.
I had a 1963 Chevy Impala 2 Door Hardtop/327 Powerglide. The 63’s had the most elegant Body Lines of all the Impalas.
I had. 1966 Plymouth Belvedere 2 Door Coupe/383 4Speed with a factory Hurst Shifter.
I would love to have that 1961 Lincoln Contenential with those super cool suicide doors!!! What a gorgeous Classic!!!
My first car was mom’s 63 Impala SS 327/Powerglide. Was extremely clean (my dad took excellent care of all his vehicles) and totally stock. We needed a bigger family car so she got a 71 LTD Country Squire.
I soon needed a truck for hauling my drums and dirt bike so sold the Impala to my cousin and bought a Courier pickup.
I’m a Ford guy through and through but wish I had some way to keep the 63.
We were a Ford family when I was growing up.
My stepdad had a side-gig fixing up used cars and reselling them.
At one point we had an Impala for a short time.
That car made me the GM fanboy I am today.
Was in an art gallery 20+ yrs ago, and there was a painting of a blue Checker Aerowagon sitting in a rural field.
8 doors. Bought it, and it still resides above our headboard.
We had a 56 Bel Air 4 dr., black & white. Great car but no A/C, so it was traded for a 64 Impala sedan when we moved back south. 327, 250 HP. Oil burner, crappy car, but fast.
I saw the most beautiful ’56 Nomad wagon, red and white with all the chrome I have ever seen last Sunday on I-294 near O’hare airport. My Dad had a ’57 Sedan Delivery with a 265 and three on the tree with overdrive.
Got to agree on that ’63 Sting Ray — the most beautiful of all the ‘Vettes, ever …
The Buick Riviera and the Oldsmobile Toronado were fine looking luxury cars … not sure how they were to own …
Missing are a couple of cars from Studebaker from the (’50s and) ’60s … Studebaker GranTurismo Hawk and the Studebaker Avanti. The Avanti was ahead of its time in some ways — too bad Studebaker never made a go of it on that car alone.
The Jaguar XK-E was one of the elegant sporting cars of the era — not just a British 2-seater and all the implied, but it had an amazing style to it — Enzo was right to respect it for what it was.
And, so, with all of those amazing possibilities — what have we got today? Nothing that has style and beauty and grace … just cement blocks being pushed down the road … so many looking alike.
Sad …
As my former wife says — change is inevitable, growth is optional … too bad she’s right …
225 buick dauntless, jeep commando
That was an enjoyable post, Stuck. And a nice respite from the doom and gloom, indeed.
This is just one experimental design. It works.
YT video blocked,
I always saw automobiles as a necessary evil and means of transportation. But my father enjoyed telling me about the classic car auction he went to and I listened politely as he told me about some of these pics being there.
a more sophisticated design
Dude, what about the Rambler man??
My old man had a Buick with a 455 cu in. We used to haul ass between Barstow and Needles, California in the mid and late 70s. My uncle was in the highway patrol in that area, and we had family in Needles. As a result we knew there was only one patrol car that covered that strip of highway – out in the morning and back in the afternoon by memory. We knew when he would be where. We would wait til he passed us, then would head out.
That land yacht would fly. Couldn’t hardly see the road, as the front end would rise up so much at high speed due to wind pressure lifting it up. It is 143 miles Barstow to Needles. We could make it in about an hour fifteen or so. Yee-hah! Almost no traffic on that road back then.
You could watch the gas gauge needle fall, it burnt through so much gas. Gas was only about $0.50 a gallon back then. I can’t remember how much we burnt through making the trip, and it had to be dangerous as hell given the quality of the tires back then, but for $20 bucks in fuel or whatever, we grinned ear to ear on those trips.
I was in the same car once, out on a date. A couple guys in a muscle car pulled up along side me at a light. Well, the Buick looked like a nice old lady car, but I knew different. So I goosed it just to show the other guys, and immediately let off the gas, throwing smoke and rubber. What I hadn’t seen was
the cop car sitting on the opposite corner. Oh, shit, I am screwed, thought I.
The cop hit his lights and here he came. Well, Lordy be, he pulled over the two in the muscle car and let the little old lady car pass on by. Bwahahahahahahahahaha! Too bad for them. I am sure they could not explain that shit away. The cops would never believe the Buick caused all that ruckus when they were in the Cuda or whatever it was. I imagine those two unfortunates still tell the story. Wonder what happened to them. Bwahahahahaha!
Loved that car.
Thanks for sharing. Funny story.
The 66′ Nova . My fav.
Couldn’t give them away in Spanish speaking countries. No va in Spanish = no go/it won’t go. Lost a lot of sales because of that.
My 1970 Challenger R/T Special Edition was the one car I wish I still had. Although not a hemi (that would have been one of 40 made), it was a big block 383 Magnum and was one of about 2800 made that year (R/T S/E Challengers were 4200 of the 70,000 production run in 1970).
Also really nice and unique for 1970 – The 1970 Challenger T/A with 340 six pack.
Sorry, can’t take a list about 60’s muscle cars that doesn’t have the ’69 Camaro on it. Major disappointment.
https://classiccars.com/listings/find/1969/chevrolet/camaro
This was NOT only a “muscle car” thread.
You are an idiot.
You first list MUSCLE cars, so, yeah, there is a muscle car list. Dumbass.
Admin told me this article has 833,381 views.
While others have stated they wished certain cars would have been included …… you are the ONLY one crying like a libfuk bitch, “Waaaaa! That mean old Stucky left out my fucking Camaro, waaaaaa!!!
This makes YOU the king of dumbassery. And I forbid you from ever posting on my articles again.
Here’s your ’69 Camaro. It looks like you live in a double-wide?
Thanks to all who responded, and to those who only read. This was a LOT of fun!
I’m closing out with one more car pic. Why? Because my dad owned one and I got to drive it often. Boxy? Yes. But, roomy? Definitely. Zippy? Absolutely. Fun to drive? Definitely in the Top 3 most fun cars I have personally driven. I’d like to say #1 … but, you would not believe me.
1970 BMW 2002
Thanks, again
Thanks for posting this Stucky.
68 1/2 RS/SS Camaro with the 427. Hands down my dream car.
Just finished the 2022 Hot Rod Power Tour. You could have seen all these cars and more on the road doing their thing. About 2000 miles of classic cruising. I drove my 1953 Ford F100 Panel hot rod and had a blast.
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Any day now…….Great to read about cars,however we are entering perhaps the two most important weeks in American History.No not the ghetto high school in Newark NJ, but the supreme courts decision on Roe V. Wade. It will be be put off as long as possible until the kiddies leave high school and college,so the protesting will be minimal just like the the Vietnam war when everybody went home. Out of sight out of mind.
Back then there was the weather underground, yippies, and Earth First to unleash mayhem on places, things and people whom they didn’t like.
More recently in the summer of arson and still it is BLM and Antifa.
This week or next it will be Jane’s Revenge who,in a giant temper tantrum will try to destroy anything in there path to avenge a law they find unjust,
Be careful, wherever you are. This will be hate on steroids.
Stucky- See how much fun car articles are compared to fake war?? I’m late to the party old pal but WELL DONE, really nice to see folks enjoy a topic.
I ACTUALLY OWNED the Olds Toronado in that exact color, wish I still had that car…..great car that sucked down gas big time.
1963 Stingray was and will always be my favorite vette. New vettes do nothing for me.
Loved the list.
I learned a lot and appreciate the diversion from so much downbeat info all round.
I got the pink slip daddy
Hey, that was nice!
I wish I would have included another category —- “Classic Cars In Songs”. Could have picked 3 or 4 more excellent cars. For example, I could have included a Camaro song for that little whiney pussy, “duhmy”.
Speaking of Camaro …. here is a damned fine history of the car … while being funny as hell. Too bad no one is gonna see it at this point. For example …
“I know whatchyer thinking; Why is muh Camarow painted black? I had it painted to match my dick. I also know whatchyer wondering; Emory, what about the red paint? That’s ketchup, I put it on my dick right before your mom sucks it.”
Well, OTOH, that kind of potty humor isn’t for everyone.
One of my all time favorite car songs, good shots of classic T-bird
I was driving a 1986 Jetta diesel when this was released. Made me laugh when I first heard it on the radio while driving at 92mph, foot bending the pedal, black soot trail obscuring everything behind.
Kazzer – Pedal To The Metal –
And of course,
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen – Hot Rod Lincoln –
Sorry, but 1969 Plymouth GTX, 440 magnum, 6-pack Holley. . . . . . . . . . .or 70 SS. . . . . . still the two best.