Posted on 12/09/2014 1:06:29 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Edited on 12/09/2014 1:09:22 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Gotta have a new car to block for the truck? A speedy car?
A 1978 Pontiac Trans Am once owned by Burt Reynolds will be rumbling across the block at the Mecum Auctions event in Kissimmee, Fla., in January. It
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You should married her. :-)
Problem here is she looks too much like my kid sister. Just to weird to have a crush on her.
Engine was like a huge chainsaw engine,no torque but tons of horsepower at high revs.Then I bought a Roadrunner and installed a bracket engine in it.Along with a lot of other driveline and chassis mods.It was the only car I ever owned that wanted to kill me if I wasn’t careful.
Or jail. But IPD was driving Ford LTD’s back then. :-)
And that’s how we got Forrest Gump!
Greatest car movie ( in the same frame) of all time was “Gumball Ralley”.
“What is behind me, is not important.”
“Some things just get meaner with age.”
My dad bought my mom a ‘69 Firebird. Man that was a sweet car!
SMOKIN’ Smokey and the Bandit!
She was so cute, still looks about the same! But LIBERAL!
I know someone who went to high school with her. They dated a few times.
Back when cars were cars, girls were girls, and men were men! The good old days!
We have a 1990 Porsche 911 which is now going UP in value. It is our “baby” LOL I am a Jaguar person, but hubby loves his Porsche!
Back in the day, Burt had the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater in Jupiter, where I grew up. My cousin was in one of the plays there, along with Robert Morse (who was in Mad Men among many other things), and Burt gave my cousin the Trans Am to drive around while she was in town. I was about 5 years old and got to ride in the Trans Am with her and Bobby, and even a 5 year old girl knew this was a cool car!
The 'powerful' engine option package cut high-15s in the quarter mile, which is another way to say "Would get burned at a stoplight drag race against a late model Toyota Camry that even gave the Pontiac a few cars head start". Those models of 400/403 were also famous for dropping intake valves down into the chamber assuring instant motor death.
In Pontiac's defense, even with those lame performance figures they remained the 'fast car' side of the house in General Motors during the '70s. It wasn't until the Grand National came out in Reagan's second term that Pontiac began to set matters straight.
In an interview some weeks before his death famed director Alfred Hitchcock confessed that watching “Smokey and The Bandit” was one of his guilty pleasures.
Now, I owe it to myself to tell you that if you’re taking the whole tribe cross-country, the Wagon Queen Family Truckster... You think you hate it now, wait ‘til you drive it.
Ouch! That's goin' to leave a mark.
5.56mm
I find her strangely attractive
There's always an asterisk on everything...
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