Help with choosing /6 build type for newbie
Bill you look as happy as a pig in you know what in that pic!! Thanks for the two cents. My next ride to restore unless i get distracted is a 1941 Oldsmobile Limo. My grandfather corted my grandma in one and then a 1948 willys when he got back from the Pacific he told her that he got a convertable haha. Then they had 10 kids her mother told her dont trust a boy with that big car. lol. I get sentimental with them. Thanks
Thanks for the kind words; I still look like a dork (some things never change...):angry3:
I WAS happy; that car ran B Gas Coupe and ran a best of about a 14.20, at 98 mph (9 pounds per cubic inch.) It was competitive in that class, locally (most stock "street" cars ran in the eighteens or nineteens, back then.)
I just read the quarter mile numbers for the 2012 Toyota Camry in the December 2011 issue of Motor Trend magazine, page 57; 14.20-seconds @ 100 MPH.
So, my "race car" that I thought was bad-***, was virtually as fast as my niece's soccer-mom, grocery-getter, normally-aspirated V-6 Toyota in 2012.
That "race car" (LOL!) was only 24 years old in 1959, when I raced it; that's like a 1998 car would be, now.... not really very old. Certainally not one you'd "restore," probably...
The Volkswagen Passat they tested was (marginally) even faster/quicker than the Camry.
Nowadays, they yawn at performance like that and call these cars "BORING."
That's quicker And faster than a stock 1968 383 Road Runner or a 1970 340 Duster (or, the vaunted 1966 GTO) was when they were new. So much for the "muscle cars" back in the day...
Any car that will run 100 MPH in the quarter-mile is exciting to
me.
Guess I really AM gettin' O-L-D...:angry3: