My old man claims this......
05-31-2011, 07:01 PM
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Part of it is the fact that we want to remember it as the best time with the best cars, best girls and certainly the best octane, cheapest leaded gas to put in those cars. I like many would love to go back and re-live those times, experience some of my youth over again just like it happened and change a few things I screwed up. Those were "the good ole days" because they were the days of my youth....and we had really cool cars fast or not...LOL.
05-31-2011, 07:25 PM
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You take a classic and put modern technology in it and you have the best of both world.
Of course, you wouldn't want to do that to Shelby or anything worth the big bucks but some cars are perfect candidates, like my 70 Cougar...
Stroker mill (500hp) with 5 speed, 4 wheel discs, double wishbone suspension with rack and pinion steering, Koni shocks and so on...
05-31-2011, 07:46 PM
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Yours was in need of either a good tune, or a good driver mod, if it could do 0-60 in only 6 sec. Heck, my stock 1968 383 RoadRunner could do 0-60 in a tad over 6 sec.
http://www.car-forums.com/s7/t10875.html
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05-31-2011, 08:37 PM
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The 1/4 mile et (13.3 sec) of the stock 1969 RoadRunner Hemi listed in the below link extrapolates to a 0-60 jaunt that's much quicker than 6 sec.
Yours was in need of either a good tune, or a good driver mod, if it could do 0-60 in only 6 sec. Heck, my stock 1968 383 RoadRunner could do 0-60 in a tad over 6 sec.
http://www.car-forums.com/s7/t10875.html
Yours was in need of either a good tune, or a good driver mod, if it could do 0-60 in only 6 sec. Heck, my stock 1968 383 RoadRunner could do 0-60 in a tad over 6 sec.
http://www.car-forums.com/s7/t10875.html
05-31-2011, 08:56 PM
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I would love to see pictures of that car. The gsx is one of my all-time favorites.
TIRES....TIRES.... TIRES....
That is the big difference. Cars back in the late 60's and early 70's where very fast. A lot of them with 450 actual crank hp and over 500lbft tq. But poly glass tires stood no chance to hooking them up.
I have a friend that has a 1970 Buick GSX Stage 1 that he bought brand new. He used to run it at the strip all the time and used to run low 12's with drag slicks. Im not so sure he didnt get into the 11's with is cam. (He still has this car, and yes i drool everytime i see it)
Regardless
Cars today are very very fast in stock form compared to back then, but in my honest opinion its the tires that make the cars today a sure bet.
That is the big difference. Cars back in the late 60's and early 70's where very fast. A lot of them with 450 actual crank hp and over 500lbft tq. But poly glass tires stood no chance to hooking them up.
I have a friend that has a 1970 Buick GSX Stage 1 that he bought brand new. He used to run it at the strip all the time and used to run low 12's with drag slicks. Im not so sure he didnt get into the 11's with is cam. (He still has this car, and yes i drool everytime i see it)
Regardless
Cars today are very very fast in stock form compared to back then, but in my honest opinion its the tires that make the cars today a sure bet.
05-31-2011, 10:03 PM
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Funny u bring that up pete my dad told he would go through atleast 3 set of tires over a years time. Plus when he was drag racing he would go through about 3 to 4 tanks of gas in a single night. U imagine doing that today wow. u would have to have some deeper pockets
05-31-2011, 10:06 PM
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That's why Restomod became popular...
You take a classic and put modern technology in it and you have the best of both world.
Of course, you wouldn't want to do that to Shelby or anything worth the big bucks but some cars are perfect candidates, like my 70 Cougar...
Stroker mill (500hp) with 5 speed, 4 wheel discs, double wishbone suspension with rack and pinion steering, Koni shocks and so on...
You take a classic and put modern technology in it and you have the best of both world.
Of course, you wouldn't want to do that to Shelby or anything worth the big bucks but some cars are perfect candidates, like my 70 Cougar...
Stroker mill (500hp) with 5 speed, 4 wheel discs, double wishbone suspension with rack and pinion steering, Koni shocks and so on...