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Message started by zipidachimp on 07/27/15 at 13:35:52

Title: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by zipidachimp on 07/27/15 at 13:35:52

Just spent 2 days at a huge 'goodguys' rod/custom show near tacoma wa. Learned 2 things here: 1. no one, and I repeat no one has any interest whasotever in v6 engines, just as I was thinking of a v6 mustang. and 2: if GM had any smarts, instead of resurrecting the new Camaro, they should have resurrected the 66-67 Chevelle, sold 10 times as many as the camaro.These cars are huge in the hotrod world and hold your full family, rear wheel drive, v8 etc. Just my observations. 8-)

ps: http://www.hemmings.com/hmn/stories/2013/04/01/hmn_buyers_guide1.html

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by HovisPresley on 07/27/15 at 14:12:03

To me, big American V8s sound like an engine should 8-)
I also feel that big American V twins sound equally amazing 8-)

My step-dad was big in the drag racing scene in the UK in the mid 60's till early 80's.

I could post some pics and details when I can find them :)

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 07/27/15 at 15:36:45

6B4C554A50735146504F465A230 wrote:

I could post some pics and details when I can find them :)

Yes you could, and you should get on with finding them.
Everybody likes hotrod pics.

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by Kris01 on 07/27/15 at 15:56:37

I've got a V6 Mustang. It's no hot rod but it's served me faithfully for 14 years so far and it gets 34 mpg! ;)

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 07/27/15 at 16:43:56

Fourteen years, I SERIOUSLY appreciate that kinda mindset.

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by Kris01 on 07/27/15 at 18:11:43

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"... or replace it with a newer vehicle that's probably guaranteed to fail shortly after the warranty expires!

...or likely to be recalled!

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by Steve H on 07/27/15 at 20:51:25

I've got a V6 Camaro with 224xxx on the clock. Still runs great. No oil buring, no rattles. It just goes when I'm ready. I wish it got 34 mpg. I get just over half that. But that is normal for the car.

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by WD on 07/29/15 at 07:34:10

Hmmm.....

Real cars/trucks in our fleet...

1949 Dodge 1/2 ton truck, period low rider project with a 230 L6 (flathead).
1969 Dodge 1/2 ton truck with a 318 V8.
1970(ish) Ungers Commander Motor Coach with a Dodge industrial 413 V8.
1972 Cal Look Super Beetle low rider.
1985 Chevy C10 with a built 4.3 V6.
1987 Chevy C60 with an industrial 350 V8.
1992 Chevy K1500 4x4 cab and a half short bed with a 330hp 350 V8.

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by HovisPresley on 07/29/15 at 12:18:37

I hope this works ok, but here are some pics of the slingshots he built and raced:
http://i59.tinypic.com/ka4tn6.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/332nrev.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/2z8nj1z.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/2wnwspg.jpg

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by old_rider on 07/29/15 at 12:54:54

My 2004 Toyota tundra that I gave my son had a V6 and it was powerful enough to drag an old chevy custom mark IV van outta the mud up to its undercarriage! The guy had parked it there in the back yard in the fall and it sat through the winter and when the spring thaw hit, it sank. I blew my left rear tire, but I pulled the hunk of van outta there!
It got upper 20's on gas mileage, had a good frame and body, I liked that old (new) truck. I might have to buy it from him ( I gave it to him when he left home in 2005). It sat for the last 5 years, so i'm not sure how good he got it running, but last I heard he finally did.

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by zipidachimp on 07/29/15 at 12:57:03

hovis:
that looks like santa pod, historic british dragstrip!
would dearly like to hear that double engine! vroooom! 8-)

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by HovisPresley on 07/29/15 at 15:30:20

Yep, Santa Pod!

It's about 10 or 12 miles from here.
I've got many fond memories of that place as a child.
I can still picture Sammy Miller's "Vanishing Point" doing the 1/4 mile in 3.9 (ish) seconds, in about 1980, I think :)

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by Paladin. on 07/29/15 at 20:47:44

4A555354494E7F4F7F47555912200 wrote:

Fourteen years, I SERIOUSLY appreciate that kinda mindset.

ref: http://www.andruschak.net/MT/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=camaro
http://andruschak.net/mike/Xmas2014-4.jpg

Wife have been riding me for a bit over 28 years. She has had her hotrod for over 30 years. She maintains it herself. In '87 or '8 she got a rebuilt motor, a 4-bolt 350, Holley, Heddman, etc., all smog legal. The paint is rattle-can Rust-Oleum® red Primer, about 25 years old, mostly still good. Has a Harwood white fiberglass hood. With the red primer/white hood it is rather unique -- which means the cops know it. Gardena, where we live, the cops ignore us. In Torrance we get harassed regularly.

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 07/29/15 at 21:03:50

Never met her, never seen her, but I LIKE her.
What year model izzat? Camaro? Early seventies?

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by Paladin. on 07/30/15 at 13:51:37

'72 Camaro RS. Originally a 350 2bbl, still has the 2.73:1 axle.
Wife is a '64 Californian born and bred.

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by jcstokes on 07/30/15 at 14:30:05

Surely not a C A Bedford and a Comical Commer in the background?

Title: Re: Also a hotrod fan!
Post by HovisPresley on 07/30/15 at 16:12:35

777E6E697276786E1D0 wrote:

Surely not a C A Bedford and a Comical Commer in the background?

Spot on ;) ;D