So where are all the Hot Rodders at???

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I know we've got hobbies other than Airguns...And usuallllyyyyyyy, Guns & Cars go together!

So whatcha got? Whats in it? and what's the history behind it? And Most IMPORTANTLY....Pictures!!!

I've built quite a few cars over the years, but I've been working on a '68 Mustang Coupe for the last 3 years. I traded one of my motorcycles for it and from there, everythigng went down hill so to speak. My wife thinks ANY car 5 years old or older is GARBAGE, but she likes my Mustang. BIG surprise to me!!! Go Figure?

Here she is! Kinda beat up lookin right now, but gimme another 5 years & she'll be a show winner!

She's running a 347 Stroker, GT40 Heads, Crane Hydraulic Flat Tappet Cam,Ford Racing Full Roller Rockers, Summit Racing brand Noisey Timing Gears,  Edelbrock Torquer Manifold & 800 CFM Mechanical Seconday Carb, MSD Ignition, Mallory Electronic Distributor, Hedman Full Length Headers, Late Model World Class T5 5 speed Trans, Aluminum Driveshaft, 9 inch Detroit Locker Rear End with 3.73 gears , 3" exhaust from the headers back to 1 chamber FlowMaster mufflers, Edelbrock Gas Adjust Shocks, Front & Rear Sway Bars and Factory front Disc Brakes.

This car was completed on my birthday! February 24th in San Jose California. Different year, but same month and day. She started out as a Green monster with Deluxe interior, Air Conditioning, 302 with a 4 speed and front disc brakes... When I got her she was in semi-sad shape. She was a daily driver being driven by the daughter of the original owner.

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No car guys here??? Come OOOOoooon! Gotta be S***in me!

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Well Sam, my last nice one was a `70 Monte Carlo, red and white diamond tuck in, and red with a white vinyle top. It was bored 30 over with a mild cam and a few other goodies. I needed a truck, so I traded it for a restored `70 F100 with a nicely built 302. However my favorite believe it or not,was a `87Mit mighty max pickup. I do not know exactly what was done to it before I got it, but it would pull the front tires off of the ground at 60mph and do 120+ in 3rd gear, it was a blast to drive and won me alot of money, hehe.
Mike

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Oh man...I LOVE 70 Monte's! Thats a car that I've been keepin a lookout for, for a LONG time now!

Sounds like your Mighty Max got a Turbo upgrade! I BET it was fun!  

[Big_Bill]

Hay Sam,

If you call a 1960 VW Beatle, bright Yellowwith a worked 1600 cc Porsche engine, 4 48 idi side draft Webber's, new gears in the trani, small 70's on the front large 70's on the rear, Hurst Hi Jacker air shocks, Hurst Bug Shifter, and headers, a Hot Rod, OK, That's ME !

I also had a 1967 RS Camaro, 327 with 350+ hp, Red with a Black Vinyl top, a 1968 La Mans Sport 350cid, Sport Blue, 1970 Boss 302 stock, Hugger orange, and now I drive A 1988 Cougar XR-7 monochromatic red, HP decided, electronic ignition, S&K air intake, etc.

I loved the VW, it could lift the front wheels off the ground and kick 427-454 Vetts butts for two blocks, if we didn't catch a light they 'ed say by by to me, but most often we did, and boy did they cry!

Ya Sam, I kinda grew out of it, I have excellent driving record, knock on wood, and my daughter still asks when are we getting there? I might be a lot slower now, but I still feel the NEED !!!!!

GREAT Mustang you have there...

[JMG]

Sam back in high school I was a gear head. Had a 69 nova with a shoehorned 427 ... the 427 umm uhh kind of uhh well it fell off the back of a truck so to speak. I worked at the Exxon station across the street from my high school all through high school. And I got my master ase cert during my senior year. The years went by I built a 69 chev half ton from the ground up and that was fun. When I moved to Texas after gettin married I got a 82 chev half ton and did a nice daily driver healthy street 350. Put an OD tranny out of a police caprice. That thing pulled 13.2's all day long on its BFG radial TA's and it got me back and forth to work every day and hehe outside the front gate where I worked was a 1/4 mile street racers thing every weekend where about 500 people would show up with everything you could imagine and then everyone would scatter when all the cops would show up. Goodnight trail in Houston anyone? Anywho as the years have gone by I have pretty much given up on the hotrods I am tired of working on cars and trucks thats why I work on trailers now the love is just gone but.... I love NASCAR!!!. Oh and blame southwest airlines for no pics and forleaving my shipping boxes out in the rain and ruining and losing a bunch of my stuff when I moved to Houston.... One of those items being a Beeman R1 that my grandfather had given me.

John

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Sounds almost exactly like my High School days John! Only the car I built was a 72 Maverick with a Blown 351 Windsor and a whole host of other goodies. I didn't get my master ASE till after I got outta the Navy though. I worked as an Automotive & Diesel mechanic part time for a coupla years. Never again. It screwed my hobby up REAL bad. I didn't wanna have  jack crap to do with cars when I got offa work...Took a few years to get over that! Then I started racing in SCCA Vintage Touring Car with an imported Austrailian '74 Datsun 260Z and that started stuff up all over again for me.


Bill...That Bug sounds BAD ASS!!! Sounds like my buddies beetle. He's got a '56 with an 1800 motor and a Ray Jay turbo set-up, spooled differential and a built up trans. He eats ALL KINDS of stuff for lunch in that thing! I've personally watched him pull a 9.3 second pass at Sears Point 2 years ago. He's also got another 56 that he's workin on installing a late 80's Porsche 911 Twin Turbo motor into. Now THATS gunna be a scooter for sure!

Bugs always remind me of a car my dad & uncle built when I was real little. They took an early 60's beetle, chopped the front end off, cut out the floor pan and welded in a tube chassis & a trellis front end. They ended up installing a Chevy 383 Stroker, 2 speed powerglide & a 4.11 rear end with welded spider gears. The front wheels were 16 inch BICYCLE WHEELS! hahaha


I'd kill for that 67 Camaro or the 70 Boss 302 though! OR a 70 Hemi Cuda... Toooooo many wants & wishes, not enough time and never enough money... Ain't life grand???  

 I'm not a Chevy Guy, Ford Guy, Mopar Guy etc...I like em ALL. If they look good, run good and sound good...I like em!
I drive pretty slow on the streets now too. Once I got back on the track, doing anything on the street just didn't do it for me. But having a NICE drivable nongarage queen classic has always been a dream of mine...It's finally comming true! Slowly, but it's commin!

[Big_Bill]

Ya Sam, the 67 Camaro was a killer, I hated to get rid of it, but the cost of tires, gas, and insurance won out.

We had the BOSS, it was my wife's car, one owner, right out of high school. She was tired of it, and God knows it was hard to drive. All you needed was high humidity, and you had to start out in second gear, she'd spin the tires. The BOSS would burn out in first and second and churp in third.

I almost bought a Hemi Roadrunner, but after I took it out for a test drive, the salesman asked me to leave, I scared the heck out of him !

I also had a Gremlin X with a 304 V8 in it, that was fun to drive and handled very well. I kept that for years, a load of fun, but hard to put plugs in !

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Man Bill...Them are some NICE cars!!!

[Rixtrix]

Clean Mustang, Sam! Still have my '66 Malibu that I bought in 1971. Wasn't a nice car then, having been used by a veterinarian for a work car, but it's slowing going through it's 4th regeneration. Came with a 275hp/327 and PG trans. Raced it Stock and Super Stock in the 70's as well as a hot street car. Had a 5.13 Olds rear. Was fairly competitive, then I converted it to a topend carwith a 2.76 12 bolt, 12" B-Body front Brakes, Trans am front and GTO rear sway bars and a hidden 400 shot nitrous setup under the manifold. Used to have a lot of fun with it out on the NE, Wyo and Colo interstates. Pulled like a *_*_*_*_*_* from 80and up, especially since low gear in the powerglide was good til 120. Ran it once in a clandestine top end deal east of Denver on I70. Was able to pull 6600 rpm out of the 327 until I used up the nitrous. then the wind was like a brick wall. Restored a '68 Z-28 RS  my wife bought me as a shell for a B'day present when we were engaged. Sold it a week after I finished it to buy our first home( darn it) Got $6500 and thought I was doing good. Just look at em now! 1974 Vega GT with a Doug Roe 11to1 cylinder head, Saginaw 4 speed with a Sag. 3-speed overdrive added on. Surprised a lot of Z-cars on the freeway with my "5-speed". Then a '76 Nova wih a L82 Corvette engine, Police package( My neighbor was in charge of procurement or the local sheriff, so he ordered it for me. I installed the engine 1week after I got the car. Pays to be from a small town sometimes and know everybody. My wife had a 72 Olds Cutlass S when we got married( Sold the Nova to buy the ring!) Just added the brake and suspension I had in the Malibu to itand drove it a out daily until we had kids, then all the neat cars went away and the Malibu went into the garage to keep dust off the floor for 20-some years. Now it's been back halved with ladderbars,40" tubs,  coilovers, 9" Ford rear, 14 point rollcage. Already thinking about a 3 link rear, B-Body front suspension. Got all the parts for a 383 with AFR 210 heads, Victor manifold, 850 Holley, T-56 or 200-4R. but now I'm into airguns and Field Target shooting, so it's on dream again. Shootings a lot cheaper!
High School: me-63 buick Skylark, 215-4 speed, best friend and his bro- 69 GT-500 and 68GT-350 Vert. Dodge dealer's kids-everything with a big block Mopar. Chev Parts managers kid-69 Z-28 with all the dealer intalled Trans am options( cross ram, headers, disc rearend). If we still had some of these cars some of us could retire very comfortably. Oh, Well Much too long

Now you knowvhow OLD I am!

Ric G

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Damn Ric!!! Now THATS a car collection (even though they're gone)!!!  Love whatcha did/doing with the Malibu!

I love the sleeper Vega too! I've seen a couple around here that are just plain.....Unloved LoL
I'm set to do some fabricating & welding for a guy that lives near me in trade for an Opel GT...Poor Mans Corvette. LoL. If/when I ever get around to it I was planning on doing some kind of engine swap. I was thinking of dropping in either a turbo 280ZX motor or an RB20DET Skyline motor that I have in storage.

Still helping my brother-in-law with his car too. He's the second owner of a '67 Mercury Cougar XR-7 . Original Deluxe package car with matching K Code 289 Hi-Po motor. We've got the Motor & Trans out, rebuilt & ALL the Interior Pieces stashed off to the side for "Resto" purposes later. We just  finished a 12 point cage & 4 link in it last summer & we've been workin on a late model 302 and a twin turbo set-up mated to a Muncie 4 speed and 9 inch 3.18/4.11 dual gear range rear end from a 70 Ford Truck. He's hoping to run about 25-30 PSI boost and make somewhere in the area or 900 Crank HP. Not quite there yet though! 'Specially on Pump Gas!!! We've still gotta get the carbs dialed and a whole host of other stuff. I told him just to keep the Fuel Injection for ease of tuning, but he wanted to go the "Vintage Route" according to him.

[Rixtrix]

Sounds like you go some neat things going,too, Sam. Helps keep the mind active and off all the nonsense going on out there doesn't it? Have Fun!

Ric G
Now I'm afraid to drive 10 over the limit for the points and fine, not to mention the price of fuel. LOL

[Gene_SC]

Nice Stang, Sam.. I was into Mustangs and restoring them for 30 years or so.. Restored 4 of them.. A 66,67, and two 70's.. It was alot of fun and money..hehe.. I finally hung up my car tools after I hurt my back.. When I was in my early teens I would go on Friday and Saturday nights street racing.. There was always some one with a set of portable lights.. We would jump around to different places in order to evade the man... hehe.. Back then there was no traffic to speak of and not alot of cops to catch us.. There cars were not fast enough.. hehe.. Thats before they used helicopters... Those were the good ole' days..

Gene

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zx12r with k&n filters, lightened using carbon fibre, wave rotor full race brakesand titanium and then of course the300 kph eliminator chip . . .

Seriously fast . . . seriously

Wow supprised I didnt see this thread.

I have a 97 grand prix gtp I have modded heavly.

Custom cam 528/544 @ .050 116 lsa, heads have been ported an polished by yours truley, SI oversized valves with 130# springs decked .030, the block is out of a 2000 grand prix gt (higher compression) currently running 10 to 1, and its supercharged running 16 psi with a water to air intercooler. And a nice set of stainless/ceramic coats slp headers to match The setup is good for around 500 hp
I have also built my own transmission. A front wheel drive automatic... woa that was a pita. But it has custom gears and chain 3.29's with a 15/16th chain, 2750 stall and hardened input shaft. Car really snaps

Its a sleeper around here. Best ive run was 12.2 @ 119 mph hoping for 11's this year after slicks and a good tune.

Here is a pic