2LaneCruzer
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Bought a '77 Cordoba new. It was a beautiful P.O.S.
Anybody Remember Back When?
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But oh the Corinthian leather...
MossRoad
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I remember our poor police department got issuesd late 70's Plymouth Volare's with 6 cylinder engines.... oh those poor guys. :laughing:
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The only thing they caught with those gutless wonders was a cold.:laughing:
The only good thing about the slant 6 was that you couldn't kill it. As long as you kept oil in them, they just kept going and going. My old '64 Dodge had a slant 6 in it and even after it was burning 1 gallon of oil an hour, the only way I killed it was to run it over with a front end loader (I had already replaced it).
buckeyefarmer
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Local town uses a dodge charger for the permit enforcement officer. I wonder how many high speed chases they have to perform...
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If its like those around here, it may be a retired patrol car on its 2nd life. Could also be a V6 "economy" model.Local town uses a dodge charger for the permit enforcement officer. I wonder how many high speed chases they have to perform...
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2LaneCruzer
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It also had three carburetors replaced under warranty; that big 400 c.i. engine sucked oil like a sailor sucks down beer and would pass anything but a gas station. If we got a bit of a dew on the road, you might as well park it. It was so heavy in front and light in the back, it had no traction...and the front end ate tires. Traded it for new Honda Accord. Paid for it with the savings on gasoline. It was pretty though; seal brown color I believe it was called.
Oaktree
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The 70s/early 80s were a dismal era for cars...I'd be hard pressed to name even one decent one from those days.
This was the time when the government started setting fuel economy and pollution standards, for which the technology didn't really exist yet to be able to get both and still have something that could get out of its own way. To get the weight down they were using thinner and thinner sheet metal, which meant they'd rust out sooner. Lucky to get 5-6 years out of anything back then.
No they weren't speed demons, but they did the job. Still felt like a dragster compared to the 4 cyl foreign cars of the day.
As you said, they were one of the most bulletproof engines ever built, the 318 was another one.
Trouble was the pollution crap took a toll. They'd put slants in full-size boats like the Fury or pickups in the pre-emissions days. You weren't going to get many speeding tickets, but they got you where you wanted to go. It's not like today where they put turbo'ed engines even in econoboxes.
This was the time when the government started setting fuel economy and pollution standards, for which the technology didn't really exist yet to be able to get both and still have something that could get out of its own way. To get the weight down they were using thinner and thinner sheet metal, which meant they'd rust out sooner. Lucky to get 5-6 years out of anything back then.
No they weren't speed demons, but they did the job. Still felt like a dragster compared to the 4 cyl foreign cars of the day.
As you said, they were one of the most bulletproof engines ever built, the 318 was another one.
Trouble was the pollution crap took a toll. They'd put slants in full-size boats like the Fury or pickups in the pre-emissions days. You weren't going to get many speeding tickets, but they got you where you wanted to go. It's not like today where they put turbo'ed engines even in econoboxes.
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How about the old Chevy 2 tonner with the huge 235 cu in inline 6 with a 4 sp transmission,
we had one my father bought used a 1959 and always overloaded it, he had me go pick up 5 ton of fertilizer
one day about 20miles away. As I recall they would have been 80 pound bags. That poor old truck made it all the way home
did pull a couple of the grades right down in first of that granny geared 4 sp and wondering a couple of times if she'd make it.
Got home and he's wanting me to pull up in a plowed field were he's planting, we got about 10-15 feet in that plowed dirt before
she just shut down and said no more. Hooked on with the Farmall 400 to pull it in, still no go, ended up with about 50 sacks on
a wagon to haul up to him. Got the poor truck started and backed out parked in the shed after all that.
Pretty routine day for back then, load a hundred or so sacks haul them and unload them, fun times? Good old days?
we had one my father bought used a 1959 and always overloaded it, he had me go pick up 5 ton of fertilizer
one day about 20miles away. As I recall they would have been 80 pound bags. That poor old truck made it all the way home
did pull a couple of the grades right down in first of that granny geared 4 sp and wondering a couple of times if she'd make it.
Got home and he's wanting me to pull up in a plowed field were he's planting, we got about 10-15 feet in that plowed dirt before
she just shut down and said no more. Hooked on with the Farmall 400 to pull it in, still no go, ended up with about 50 sacks on
a wagon to haul up to him. Got the poor truck started and backed out parked in the shed after all that.
Pretty routine day for back then, load a hundred or so sacks haul them and unload them, fun times? Good old days?
