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haha i hit 100 posts i got a custom avatar!!! hehehehehe... anyways muscle cars rule the road.
Muscle Cars?
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no no no. the shift light on the dash. i know they had the hood tach stock. and the back tires have big side walls on them.
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oh wow didn't see that.. and i see what you mean by the tires
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the car does look great though
. if it is modded that only makes it better.
. if it is modded that only makes it better.
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yes and i like how they kept it looking original
Originally posted by wana b drifter
an H.O. 454/455 GM powered cars would have a hard time hang'n with a 426 hemi. GM probably could of made better faster cars but in the late 60's the government said they where too big (they had like 55% of all auto sales in the US) so GM pulled out of racing to try and lower sales.
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what? are ya callen BS on that? cuz if you are look it up somewhere it true.
i did mess up on one part though. i ment to say that a 400 would have hard time hang'n H.O. 455/454's, 426 hemi's and magnum 440's.
mayorbill11
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i dont realy like muscle cars but i agree that older cars were defintly better especily older race cars. the defening noise and the burning oil smell can not be beaten new cars are so refined these days. The noisest cars i ever saw was a Porsche 917/30 CanAm car with over 1000hp that was noisey but in a good way.
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its not good if ya smell that on ANY car
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yeah i know what ya mean. old cars just got somethin special about em.
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Hey my dad had a javilin like the one posted.. except it was white... and really nice mags.. my dad said it'd allways have something wrong with it.. but it was very fast he said
Love muscle cars. There is just something about cruising around in my SS Chevelle that just feels right. Simple but elegant lines and more power than should be allowed by law on any road. Love it.
It is nice to see so many young guys that still appreciate the cars that started it all.
It is nice to see so many young guys that still appreciate the cars that started it all.
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i just hate it when people say my 84 monte carlo is ugly it may not be a true muscle car but in a year or so it'll be as close as can be.. and will definately smoke most souped, sorry gotta use their slang.. tricked out imports where i live... i see wannabes and popular kids that i used to go to school with.. and they all have toyota celicas and civics and stuff like that.. they diss my car and can you believe that my sister said that she'd rather be in one of them celicas then a gto or camero.. i was like um what!!!
she said they that celicas are the coolest... i said why.. if you put 2000 in a old muscle car you can be a winner most the time against one of them.. the imports have computers and crap, you'd have to put probably 10 000 into one of them celicas to be as good as the old beast.. she just doesn't understand the feeling of a big old V8 and the sound that it makes.. to me i think its just a fad... serisouly
P.S. Thats my dads 69 Buick Sklark
imports where i live... i see wannabes and popular kids that i used to go to school with.. and they all have toyota celicas and civics and stuff like that.. they diss my car and can you believe that my sister said that she'd rather be in one of them celicas then a gto or camero.. i was like um what!!! she said they that celicas are the coolest... i said why.. if you put 2000 in a old muscle car you can be a winner most the time against one of them.. the imports have computers and crap, you'd have to put probably 10 000 into one of them celicas to be as good as the old beast.. she just doesn't understand the feeling of a big old V8 and the sound that it makes.. to me i think its just a fad... serisoulyP.S. Thats my dads 69 Buick Sklark
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Your Dad got his car in Hot Rod Magazine? Cool. I owned a 69 Skylark for about a week before giving it up to my then girlfriend. That thing wouldn't die no matter how much she abused it.
Don't worry about what people say about the Monte. It's not about them anyway. It's about what you like.
If I was into Gremlins then I'd own one reguardless what anyone thinks. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I owned a Lincoln Mark V for a while just because I always wanted one. Everyone said it was a boat and was ugly but I loved it. It wasn't fast and it only got 12 miles per gallon but I didn't care. I wanted it so I got it.
Your sister just doesn't get it. I was seeing a girl like that before and when we would cruise we would get more looks than anyone. She loved that and was eventually won over. Some people never will get it though. That's ok...they don't need to.
Anyway.
Good luck on the build up of the Monte.
Don't worry about what people say about the Monte. It's not about them anyway. It's about what you like.
If I was into Gremlins then I'd own one reguardless what anyone thinks. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I owned a Lincoln Mark V for a while just because I always wanted one. Everyone said it was a boat and was ugly but I loved it. It wasn't fast and it only got 12 miles per gallon but I didn't care. I wanted it so I got it.
Your sister just doesn't get it. I was seeing a girl like that before and when we would cruise we would get more looks than anyone. She loved that and was eventually won over. Some people never will get it though. That's ok...they don't need to.
Anyway.
Good luck on the build up of the Monte.
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oh nice.. i thats a 69 chevelle.. or nova? obvisoulsly an ss.. whats in it 350 400.. looks great.. and thanks for the confidence bud
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i hate ta say it, but i think the muscle car is dying. there old, the prices are going up, and there getting harder and harder to find. the import fad is just getting started. theres a long ways to go before it passes and 1/4 mile times are seeming to be less and less important. its seeming people are starting to care about handling just as much or more then low 1/4 mile times and the 1/4 mile was the thing that muscle cars where the best at. i think that soon people will want to go to a local auto X then the local drag strip and since it takes a lot of work to get a 4000lbs muscle to be a well balanced, nibble car. the day the muscle car ruled the streets is dying faster each day. soon imports will own the streets, but not because of there high hp, or super quick acceleration, but because of there supurior handling and muscle cars will become collecter cars.
this isn't a fact. its just what i think.
this isn't a fact. its just what i think.
Actually the muscle car is in more demand now than it was 5 years ago. A lot of it is due to all the people like me that are getting older and want to own what they did when they were just getting out of school. Besides..what other type of car keeps appreciating in value every year? Mine is worth 10 times as much now than when I bought it. Can any Honda say that? Anyway it's not about the 1/4 mile or how it handles anymore. It's about the car. The feel and the sound of a big block rumbling under the hood. The way it feels when you kick it to the floor and you are launched like a jet off an aircraft carrier.
It's also about preserving the classics. Preserving a peice of what at one time made this country great. Unless you have cruised down the road behind the wheel of a classic muscle car it's hard to explain.
By the way. Imports aren't synonymous performance. Nor are non-imports synonymous with poor performance. Want to race my wifes T/A?
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What are you talking about? The noise and the smell are two of the best parts of Muscle Cars!
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mayorbill11
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that's character. YOU should know that.
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Muscle Cars will NEVER die. People still collect and love cars older than them. Muscle Cars arent too hard to find either. I always see them in the Car ads in the paper for sale. It doesnt take alot of work to get them to go fast either. Just because it weighs 4000 lbs doesnt mean its slow. Hell, Lingenfelter made an Escalade that is faster than a Porcshe 911 Carrera, and it weighs almost 3 tons. It all matters in where you live. Some places are more heavily densed in imports, while others with Muscle (both old and new).
And newer Muscle (as in Camaro's (before they stopped production, at least for now) and so on) arent going out either. I have a video of a Camaro SS Twin Turbo smoken EVERY car they came up against (mostly imports). They just toyed with them, it was so hilarious
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mayorbill11
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DGB - girls are attention whores, that doesn't surprise me. lol.
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look at the price of muscle cars. there going up. this means there getting harder to find which means there getting rarer and rarer which means there dying and will soon become collecter cars.
i never said they were slow. i said they didn't handle as good as cars today do and since having a low 1/4 mile is meaning less and less and handling is meaning more.
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Paper ads:
1967 Chevelle SS
396 Big Block-4spd, Frame up restored, super nice driver, new insp. Must see. $4,500.
Oh yeah, that's REAL exspensive
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