Posted on 07/10/2016 10:20:17 AM PDT by gigster
What is the nicest, or highest quality classic car or Muscle Car you've ever personally driven?
The scariest ride I ever drove was a ‘68 Firebird 400. I don’t know what had been done to the engine but it would lift the front slightly off the ground hitting 2nd. On city streets I couldn’t go as fast as the car wanted to go.
At 17 I got a ticket in my brother’s ‘67 Camero - 117 in a 35 ;’}
64 Dodge Polara. Nostalgia Super Stock.
‘70 Buick (Skylark) Gran Sport Stage 1, 4-speed. Such a sleeper compared to the Chevelle.
I was allowed to caress a polizei BMW once. A yard wide green block of machenesexund!
All I want for Christmas is a 1968 Chevy Camaro Rally SS.
1971 340 Duster
My 1967 Chevelle SS396.
Hurst 4spd transmission.
4:11 rear end. 7 miles per gallon.
Classiest car I ever drove was my friend’s 1986 Jaguar XJS, very smooth and refined 12 cylinder torque machine. Best overall sports car was my 1984 Porsche 944 which would rev like a Wankel rotary and corner like it was on rails. Best American sports car was a friends frame off restored 1962 Corvette convertible. Fastest race car was a racetrack only C/A 1968 427 (468) L-88 Camaro that ran high 9’s to low 10’s in 1/4 mile. But my favorite car of all time was my 1969 SS396 Camaro, Marina blue with white stripes and black interior that I replaced with a motor I built, a LS-6 454, Hooker headers, 800 cfm Holley, electric fuel pump backed up with Borg-Warner Super T-10 4 Speed w/2.64 first gear and 4.56 12 bolt posi rear end driving L-60 Goodyears mounted on classic 15” American mags. Life’s priorities and bad gas forced me to sell but still wish I had it today as everyone and his brother wants one...including me!
“1971 Dodge Charger driven by Barry Newman in Vanishing Point.”
You mean a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440
Those Sprint Sixes are a pretty rare commodity these days. There was a nice looking ‘67 Tempest for sale up north here in Michigan, but some lug nut took the OHC six out and replaced it with a 350 chevy(??!) boat anchor. I thought it was sacrilegious.
No problem. Both were great cars. I preferred the 426 Hemi over the 440, but different strokes still works.
THAT is a classic.
A completely stock 69 Camaro Z-28, orange with a white stripe. Very quick and responsive steering for the era
Four on the floor, 302 solid lifter engine, 11.0 to 1 compression. There were no other options.
When I was a kid in CA, all ya saw was young people in high end hot-rods, classic street car etc. If they weren’t driving them they were working on them and building them from the ground up.
Fast forward to America 2016, and all ya see driving whats left of these vehicle are the old gray haired senior citizens with $$ who drive them 3 times a year on holidays. While the young crowd now drive around 15 year old foreign made beater buckets.
Looking sharp America.
Being a Mopar guy, I have a keen, and vested interest in the iconically classic Bullitt chase scene. As most fans know, Frank Bullitt’s car was a obviously well- used 1968 Ford Mustang GT, equipped with a 390 4 speed, and American Racing Mags. The assassin’s black ‘68 Dodge Charger R/T had a 440 Magnum with a console shifted 727 Torq-flight transmission, and is one of my dream cars. Bill Hickman was the stunt driver and coordinator and I read in a Mopar magazine that they took both cars out to the near-by airport one day and thrashed them. I guess the Charger, with the 440 would walk away from the Mustang with the 390. Still an all-time classic chase scene, by any standard.
My BIL’s canary yellow 1969 Shelby GT 500 Mustang. He used to run it at the Homestead drags. 10 second mustang.
Good stuff.
As far as McQueen’s Mustang goes, I wish, but don’t think, that he was driving a Shelby Mustang. I don’t even think he was driving a High Performance Mustang. But it was still cool and Newman and McQueen made the cars they were driving even cooler.
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