What kind of vintage car do you wish you had?

[Jstpssng]

Do you read Harry Bosch novels? He lives on Mulholland Drive and the stories often talk about the history of the famous road.

Written by Michael Connelly.

MoKelly

I've read almost all of them. I tried watching the series but fell asleep. I never really made the correlation though, between wht I was just posting and the books.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Agree. The Bad Boys II chase scene certainly was violent but I'm not sure we can compare the amount of destruction to the quality of the chase.

Double-clutching on that Mustang was for theatrical effect only. Unnecessary

I recall a lot of old trucks required double-clutching because the transmissions didn't have synchros. So did a lot of the British Leyland cars. No synchros. Well into -- When they stopped making them. Triumphs, I think. What was the 'wedge' thing? A TR7, I think. Only about 30 years behind the times. Not bad for them. Almost bought a TR5. Then I drove it. Ran, didn't walk, away.

Ford bought some of the brands and brought them back from the dead. For a little while. Ford didn't understand what British cars popular. Neither did anybody else.

I used to try double-clutching my old Farmall when I was a kid. It didn't work. No way. But.... I was a kid, dumb as a box of rocks.

double clutching is fun, sounds cool and teaches you how to change a throw out bearing etc etc......

I had too many triumphs......like having a girl friend that you know is cheating on you.

 

[Egon]

Double clutch, two shift levers and a two speed rear end Used to be the common set up for trucks. Double clutching wasn’t for fun. It was a necessity to align gears. The accelerator was also involved in a different manner for up or down.

One arm thru the steering wheel, two hands on the shift levers and a thumb on the two speed. Great fun when climbing a hill and missed a gear.

 

[dodge man]

Being a Mopar fan I have read a lot about the Bullit car chase.

The Mustang was a 390 4 speed car, the Charger was a 440 magnum 4 speed car. Steve McQueen did a lot of the stunt driving, there is one scene where he misses a corner then smokes the one tire backing up and going forward. He wasn’t suppose to miss the corner but after a couple tries the just left it as is.

It was all filmed at real speed, the sound affects are real. A 440 Charger has a horsepower edge over the Mustang and believe it or not is not much heavier and handles pretty good for the day. The Charger had to dog it a little bit to allow the Mustang to keep up. In the end the Charger misses the gas station and shoots beyond it when the gas station blows up. When watching the movie you don’t notice.

They wanted to shoot part of it on the Golden Gate Bridge but they wouldn’t shut it down.

One of the original movie car Mustangs that was well documented sold for 3.74 million dollars. Some guy bought it years ago and it was his wife’s daily driver for several years.

 

[ericm979]

But anymore, when you have BONE STOCK Mustang GT's that will turn high 11's? (people, that's moving) You can cruise down the Highway at 85 MPH with the A/C on, listening to a 10 speaker Bang & Olafsen stereo that came from the factory in it, 22'' wheels, 205 MPH rated tires....?

Why in the HECK would I want an old raggedy, loud, smelly dinosaur that rattles like a Beeyatch, rides like a haywagon, gets 10 MPG downhill and breaks down every five minutes? And then you can't get parts for it.

The one new car my dad bought in his lifetime was a '67 GTO. He agonized over it for months, ended up ordering nearly everything off the high performance part of the list except triple carbs. It turned out to be a great family car. I learned to drive in it when I was 12. It was a fast car for its time and even handled decently for an American car of the era. People would randomly try to race you.

The 2016 VW Golf R that I have now costs nearly the same, adjusted for inflation. It does the 1/4 mile over a second faster and gets nearly twice the miles per gallon. It handles and stops FAR better. Driving the GTO in the rain you had to be really careful or it'd light up the tires. With all wheel drive and traction control the R just goes. The emissions are only a fraction and it's more comfortable too. There really has been progress in the last 48 years.

I love cars old and new. But I hate being around a running muscle car with a lumpy cam where you can smell the raw gas coming out the exhaust. The good thing is that there's aftermarket FI systems that don't cost much more than a carb which will (mostly) fix that.

I'd like to have a good 240z with tasteful period mods. The prices on those have skyrocketed in the last 5 years. Hopefully when I have my shop built and have room for it they won't be stupid expensive. And yea if it's exhaust reeks it'd get an FI system of some sort so I'm not gassing out everyone.

 

[fried1765]

Agree. The Bad Boys II chase scene certainly was violent but I'm not sure we can compare the amount of destruction to the quality of the chase.

Double-clutching on that Mustang was for theatrical effect only. Unnecessary

I recall a lot of old trucks required double-clutching because the transmissions didn't have synchros. So did a lot of the British Leyland cars. No synchros. Well into -- When they stopped making them. Triumphs, I think. What was the 'wedge' thing? A TR7, I think. Only about 30 years behind the times. Not bad for them. Almost bought a TR5. Then I drove it. Ran, didn't walk, away.

Ford bought some of the brands and brought them back from the dead. For a little while. Ford didn't understand what British cars popular. Neither did anybody else.

I used to try double-clutching my old Farmall when I was a kid. It didn't work. No way. But.... I was a kid, dumb as a box of rocks.

I owned a Triumph TR-3, when I was a studly hot shot young Naval aviator.
Fun....but a genuine POS!
You did well to walk away from anything with the Triumph name.
Lucas Electric says it all.
Why the British like warm beer....because Lucas made refrigerators too!

 

[Username Taken]

Being a Mopar fan I have read a lot about the Bullit car chase.

The Mustang was a 390 4 speed car, the Charger was a 440 magnum 4 speed car. Steve McQueen did a lot of the stunt driving, there is one scene where he misses a corner then smokes the one tire backing up and going forward. He wasn’t suppose to miss the corner but after a couple tries the just left it as is.

It was all filmed at real speed, the sound affects are real. A 440 Charger has a horsepower edge over the Mustang and believe it or not is not much heavier and handles pretty good for the day. The Charger had to dog it a little bit to allow the Mustang to keep up. In the end the Charger misses the gas station and shoots beyond it when the gas station blows up. When watching the movie you don’t notice.

They wanted to shoot part of it on the Golden Gate Bridge but they wouldn’t shut it down.

One of the original movie car Mustangs that was well documented sold for 3.74 million dollars. Some guy bought it years ago and it was his wife’s daily driver for several years.

My first new car ever was a Roadrunner. I currently drive a Ram CTD.

But I can tell you from personal experience, that GT390 would eat that Charger for breakfast. I, personally, was never impressed with Dodge 440's. Could be because I had a Plymouth. I used to beat them like a rented mule right off The Base every Friday night when I came home from overseas. They seemed sluggish and slow to wind-up to me. And most all of them were automatics back then. Auotmatics of then and automatics of today aren't even related to each other. They really were slush-boxes. Even the Chrysler TorqueFlite. Except in the HemiCuda. We had one on base. We also had a Nicky Built Camaro with a 427. Of course, they tangled. The Camaro barely beat the 'Cuda and that's because, IMHO, the guy didn't know how to drive. A bog is better than a burn. He smoked the tires. Bigly. The Nicky had big fatties on the rear

Hemi's I wouldn't mess with. There was a couple of 440 6-Packs nobody wanted to mess with, too. There was a Roadrunner (or maybe it was a GTx) with a 440 Plus Six (I'd swear to it) but they started calling it the 6 Barrel instead of a 6 pack. Whatever. He was the baddest kid on the block. By far. Until a guy from another base with a Ford Thunderbolt put him in his place. The Nicky Built ran for cover.

Almost every veteran came back with a new car. Seriously, you sit in a hot, nasty environment in a country you really don't like surrounded by people you like even less telling you what to do 24/7; and you don't have a lot of places to spend your money. Beer was 10 cents, women weren't much more and everything else was payed for by Uncle Sugar.

I got a Roadrunner. Had to fly to Dee-Troit to pick it up. Of course, they got everything wrong on it. I cared, but not enough to wait another 3 Months for them to get it right. Besides, by the time they got done discounting it because of all their screw ups, I got it for way, way, way below cost.

Sorry for the rant. I miss the good old days.
I miss being young even more

It all went to snot after 1970 anyway. The goobermint killed it all. Maybe for the better because we were starting to lose too many young people

 

[dodge man]

I’ve read the story more than once on the Bullit chase and in great detail. The Mustang wouldn’t and didn’t eat the Chargers lunch. I read what the actual stunt drivers said. The Charger had 50 cubic inches on the Mustang and 50 horsepower. The Charger would have weighed about 200 pounds more. They were surprisingly light for their size being a unibody, but the Mustang would have been to. I don’t think there was a huge difference but Hickman, the bad guy driving the Charger said he had to ease up for the Mustang to keep up.

I just read about the chase again and apparently the sound was dubbed later.

 

[mray16]

wish I had my 1967 olds 442 back

 

[Jstpssng]

There was more like 400 lbs difference between the two cars. Both were anything but stock, and the 440 was much easier to boost up the HP than the 390, which was on its way out, anyway. So maybe that particular Charger was badazz
The Dodge had a slush box auto.... And guys, they're not like today's autos that are actually better in every regard than a shick stiff. Those things sapped the engine of at least 30 HP.
And Factory HP ratings? You're smarter than that. Meaningless, especially in the 60's.

And anything other than a straight line on a Chrysler product of the day (even today)?

Here's the only way to fix the weight distribution problem

Now that just ain't right. Those two shouldn't even be in the same town together, let alone the same picture.