Opinions on trucks

[pitt_md]

Yeah, trucks can be used to pull a load, especially diesel trucks but what will your's get for an ET in the standing quarter mile????

Ya gonna put propane induction kit on it???

Pat

No i'm not putting anything on it and I could not give a HootInHell what the ET for a standing quarter mile is.

 

[Builder]

No i'm not putting anything on it and I could not give a HootInHell what the ET for a standing quarter mile is.

I'm done with any serious modding of trucks as well. Maybe some airbags or a hitch, but I'd doubt I'll do anything under the hood. There's no need to anymore. We have more power than we know what to do with.

One thing I do like about Ford is they're the last privately owned American car company......for now.

When I grew up there was 10 of them.

Unbelievable times we live in.

 

[Bird]

One thing I do like about Ford is they're the last privately owned American car company......for now.

When I grew up there was 10 of them.

Let's see . . . there's General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, Studebaker, Packard, American Motors, Henry J (well, actually Kaiser), Hudson, Willys, and Frazer. I've driven cars by all of those. Were there others?

 

[Gomez]

Tucker?

Does Delorean count, or was that GM?

 

[LarryRB]

You forgot Hudson, Rambler which became American Motors,,,

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

You forgot Hudson, Rambler which became American Motors,,,

Actually Hudson and Nash merged to form AMC, in 1954. Rambler was a brand of Nash. George Romney wanted to merge Studebaker-Packard with AMC as well. I wonder how that would have turned out if it had actually happened, although all four of those independents were in pretty rough shape in the mid fifties, getting hammered by GM, Ford, Chrysler's price wars. With the recession in 1958, AMC was saved by the re-introduction of the compact American.

 

[gordyy]

ah the amc had me a 73 javelin amx with a 401 a little tricked out did a very low 12 second quarter mile
just had to put in a new bellhousing every other weekend LOL

what a drive train too bad the body fell apart and self destructed

also had a 66 ambasodor loved to pull up at a stop sign and say want to race my rambler
then go home and get the AMX haha

 

[Builder]

Tucker?

Does Delorean count, or was that GM?

I thought Deloreans were made in Ireland.

 

[mjncad]

Let's see . . . there's General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, Studebaker, Packard, American Motors, Henry J (well, actually Kaiser), Hudson, Willys, and Frazer. I've driven cars by all of those. Were there others?

Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg and a whole plethora of other makes in the early part of the 20th century.

 

[mjncad]

I thought Deloreans were made in Ireland.

Yes they were made in Northern Ireland and as I recall they used either Volvo or Renault engines and transmissions.