Exhaust Tips....Resonators?
ramcharger said
I don't know. It was interesting to me at the time, you might disagree.
Before I start, I want to say that I'm in no way saying I'm well informed about the religous group I'm about to mention. I don't want to offend anybody, & I'll just say what I was told & what I saw.
Where I grew up there was a small town about 25 miles away with a large Mennonite population. In general, these people tend to kep a low profile & live a fairly simple life. The women wear long dresses & small black "skull caps" (? I'm not sure what the proper term is) & the married men wear beards. I had a friend who had converted to that religion to marry a very attractive Mennonite girl who worked at the local Harley Davidson/Honda dealership. I had another friend when I was about 18 who lived in that town, & in our group he had the nickname "Mennonite" just because he came from that town, even though he was not a member of the Mennonite church. (I recently saw him after almost 30 years & a friend of mine said "Don't you recognize him? It's Les, Mennonite!" So I guess the name stuck.) He told me that the followers of this religion were not to have radios or televisions. He said he would find brand new car radios that had been removed from cars and thrown away. (I was told that "it was ok" to have a small portable radio for weather reports, etc.) My friend also told me of a high school age friend of his that had a TV in his room, of which his parents did not approve, & they had to tell him to keep it turned down when they had company so nobody would know he had it in the house. He also said the family would sometimes gather in the boy's room to watch it if there was something really good on. This is all a lot of general background for, as I said before, something you might not find interesting at all.
One weekend I was cruising "The Main Drag" & I noticed a car ahead of me in the lane to my left. It was an early to mid 70's (Fairly new at the time) Dart or Valiant. Plain Jane type of car with stock wheel covers, etc., but something about it caught my eye. As traffic moved I was at times beside it & other times slightly behind the car. Being a Mopar guy I started to see some things about the car that were different. It had air shocks, but set level. It had oversized tires on the stock wheels in back. It had headers. It had dual exhausts with four mufflers, one on each side in the stock location & an additional glasspack in the tailpipe on each side, next to the rear springs. It was obvious that the car had been "hopped up" but with extra effort made to see that it attracted as little attention as possible.
And it was being driven by two (very attractive) high school age Mennonite girls.
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Hope this wasn't too much of a let down. :thumbrig: