Posted on 08/20/2011 12:44:30 PM PDT by rawhide
Yes, there are a lot of places that offer “classic” whitewall tires.
My 67 Camaro is up on blocks, will be back on the road hopefully in december. Both the Bel Air and Camaro have the drum brakes, but I think the Bel Air stops easier to tell the truth.
Thanks for the post.
The whole family enjoyed it.
Myself, I loved seeing the continued mental agility she still has at 101, when she answered: “Not Yet”, to the question: “Have you lived in Plymouth, Michigan all your life.”
No I meant they enjoyed themselves and lived life right up to the end and they were living right, too. (Christians and conservative) ;)
The great,great aunt was training Tennessee Walkers in her 90’s when she broke a bone and they told her “No More!” She then supervised from the sidelines.
I hear you on the drum brakes. My dad recently bought a ‘66 Mustang with drum brakes and they really are a different animal from modern disk brakes. It’s a fun car to drive though in large part because the driving experience is so different. Slow heavy brakes, long hood, big steering wheel, primitive chassis and handling, and a hot V8.
Too bad you don't live where I do. The Woodward Dream Cruise is going on today (last couple days and this weekend) which is approximately 10 miles worth of classic cars..........
Whoa, I just clicked on the video and it looks like it's pouring rain there now.......guess it's coming my way.
Anyway, the Dream Cruise is the biggest weekend of classic cars on parade that you could ever imagine.......
According to what I understand to be the latest list of pinglists,
UPDATED MASTER List of FReeper PING LISTS; Vol. VIII - SPRING Edition!
there used to be an "automotive" pinglist managed by Sully777 but that person was banned during The Giulani Wars of 2007. You can see his/her final posts here:
There's a "Motorcycle Hooligans" pinglist managed by Martin Fierro which is still active but I haven't seen a current, active pinglist for classic autos.
I would enjoy seeing more threads about classic cars and I feel that they're entirely appropriate for a conservative website, as they remind us all that we don't have to drive a battery-operated rollerskate. Driving an older car can be viewed as a political statement....a rejection of the uncomfortable, unsafe, generic little toys that so often pass for cars these days and an embrace of an era where comfort, style, individuality, safety and raw power were the defining benchmarks of automobiles.
I remember coming home from a show one time in the Camaro with manual drum brakes and a storm hit. I had to go through a decent size puddle and after that I had zero brakes. I drove for what seemed like a mile with my foot on the brakes and gas to heat the drums up enough to get them to dry out and work.
I remember coming home from a show one time in the Camaro with manual drum brakes and a storm hit. I had to go through a decent size puddle and after that I had zero brakes. I drove for what seemed like a mile with my foot on the brakes and gas to heat the drums up enough to get them to dry out and work.
I had a Camaro with the same set-up. It was a death trap, which is why I don’t have one like it now. A classic, but...
All real luxury cars and race cars are rear wheel drive. Ever stopped to wonder why? Because FWD sucks.
It’s gorgeous!
Because they don't drive in snow and ice....They're parked in the garages of the fair weather fairies during the winter months......LOL!
FWIW, I'll beat a Mustang Cobra from stoplight to stoplight on snow and ice every time with my front wheel drive honda..........
There's nothing funnier than watching a RWD muscle car in my rear view mirror doughnut on a stretch of ice from a stoplight or on a freeway........
What a picture! So beautiful. So classy. ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS. Thank you from this dial-up. You’re the best!
You must be WAY too young to remember traversing ice and snow in a 1959 Porsche convertible. Back then we knew how to DRIVE. Today, driving is a video game. Enjoy your Honda.
I’m putting discs on my 67 Camaro.
The drums are just too unpredictable.
I’ve spent a ton of time trying to make them consistent, but not successful.
Clearly, there’s almost no one left alive who can remember it, but, yes, cars used to have character, long, long ago.
Actually I'm not, I was just a little too young to afford one. Had an uncle that wrecked his coming home from a day of skiing in Harbor Springs (northern Michigan) Turns out it wasn't so good on the ice and snow either.
With that being said, what's your point?
And yes, I do enjoy my small front wheel drive in the winter........
Just that today it seems to me ‘drivers’ are more interested in gadgets, mysterious electronic devices, getting ahead of the other fellow. Used to be, there was DRIVING—an art, a mutual courtesy on the road, an etiquette, an end in itself. I’m old that’s all—and I miss how it ‘used to be’. Guess that’s my point. (PS: my 356 was used, a little beat up, no heat, but it was all I had for shopping, getting baby to doctor, etc. in all kinds of weather. Don’t consider myself a —what did you write—a fairie?) Take care.
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