Cars....pick just one..

[sonny]

Times have been slow around here except for Speckle55 posting great fishing pics. love those btw....

but..If you could own your dream car (sure some of you do lol) what would it be?

My dream car would be a 1966 Chevelle SS

My big bro had one and sometimes he let me drive it...Dang that was a sweet car..

I still have fond memories of that car...and If I ever win the lotto I will have one of those..

So what's your go to memory car?

[LeverAction]

Dream car, well , I would like to have a chuck wagon and a team of mules. I would have it loaded with cast iron cookware and basic food. I wound travel the foot hills, hunt , shoot when I wanted to, camp and see the world(well my idea of the world)I was never into cars when I was younger, and that's funny because I was a license mechanic for 10 years or so when I started my working life. After 10 hours pulling wrenches I had no interest in playing with one after work. But to answer you question, the car I loved the best was a good running one, that I didn't have to fix.  But not to bust your mojo Sonny, that is a cool car.

[Walleyes]

Easy peasy for me.

1967 Corvette Stingray. With 427 L88, with 4 speed Muncie. She packed 560 factory horses boys yes you read it right 560.

My favourite car since I was a kid. Had a chance to drive one once many years ago. The president of CBC Edmonton had one for sale with just under 30,000 original miles on it. Took it for a rip,, what a car. He wanted $30,000 for it of you can emagine and I backed out. I was just starting to work the rigs at that time and although I could have afforded it it was still a huge chunk for me and my father talked me out of it. Lol,, that car would be worth 4 times that today if was still in one piece I guess.

Damn I would look fine in that car.

[sonny]

Damn right you would look good in that car walleyes..

That's a sweet car for sure..reminds me kinda sorta of my oldest bro..

He had a 67 Camaro with a 327 in it but...it was a nice car and all but it didn't grab me like the 66 Chevelle.

Lever...lol

Chuckwagon sounds like a dream...I'd love to go cruzin' down the main drag with you looking for chicks..

[artie]

I always had a soft spot for a 1956 thunderbird. Ever since I was hitch hiking back in the early sixties and this bueatiful blonde lady picked me up in one.  Too bad I was only ten

[Paul]

[Walleyes]

Yup Mopar made some classics.. Big fan of the Cuda hard car to beat.

[Hammer spur]

Yep that's the one.come on lotto!

[Titanium]

   Thats easy, it would have to be the AC Cobra with a 428.

[AxeMan]

For me it would be a 64 Polara 500 with a 426 max wedge.  Kind of like the older stuff these days.
I have always been a big mopar guy.  Had a 400 horse 71 Duster back in the day.

[AxeMan]

Walleyes, lots of guys claim the 67 L88 427 made mid 500's horsepower but the actual factory rating was 430 hp.  It usually took at least aftermarket headers and a fair bit of tweaking with carburetion to get them realistically to 550. Chevy put a pretty big overlap solid lifter cam in the 12:5:1 67-69 427 rats.
This rat was factory rated at 5200 rpm but easily turned 6500 so they were underrated for sure.  Realistically the L88 rat was underrated by about 80 hp putting it to about the 510 mark.

It was always a Chevy vs Ford vs Dodge argument on which 60's big block made the most stock hp.  The L88 427 rat vs the 428 Cobra Jet vs the 426 Hemi.

The Mopar 426 Hemi was factory rated at 425 hp but that was at about 5000 rpm and with big headers and more jet and cam, look out!
The stock 68 Hemi L0 23 Dart would run 10's and the stock L88 Corvettes would run low 11's.  I think Chevy must have pissed off Dodge with that L88 67 Corvette and not be be out done at the drags, they had to come out with that street freak completely non-practical 68 race Hemi Dart.

[Walleyes]

Apparently it did take the right fuel to obtain the 560 hp and heck once your up that high in cars that light a couple horses wouldn't have made much difference.

From Wiki.
The 427 was available with a 1282 ft³/min (605 L/s) Holley triple two-barrel carburetor arrangement, which the factory called Tri-Power. The ultimate Corvette engine for 1967 was coded L88, even wilder than the L89, and was as close to a pure racing engine as Chevy had ever offered in regular production. Besides the lightweight heads and bigger ports, it came with an even hotter camshaft, stratospheric 12.5:1 compression, an aluminum radiator, small-diameter flywheel, and a single huge Holley four-barrel carburetor. Although the factory advertised L88 rating was 430 bhp at 4600 rpm, the true rating was said to be about 560 bhp at 6400 rpm. The very high compression ratio required 103-octane racing fuel, which was available only at select service stations. Clearly this was not an engine for the casual motorist. When the L88 was ordered, Chevy made several individual options mandatory, including Positraction, the transistorized ignition, heavy-duty suspension, and power brakes, as well as RPO C48, which deleted the normal radio and heater to cut down on weight and discourage the car's use on the street. As costly as it was powerful - at an additional $1,500 over the base $4,240.75 price - the L88 engine and required options were sold to a mere 20 buyers that year. With potential buyers anticipating the car's overdue redesign, sales for the Sting Ray's final year totaled 22,940, down over 5,000 units from 1966 results. Meanwhile, Chevrolet readied its third-generation Corvette for the 1968 model year.[8][17]

This article explains it a bit as well.

http://corvettes-musclecars.com/gallery2/v/al_corvette/1967+Corvette+L88+427-430HP/

[AxeMan]

20 sold in that configuration....wow.  Could you imagine what that would be worth today, Walleyes.  You should have bought that one.
Just like I should have bought a 66 Hemi Coronet when I had a chance once for $5K.  It is was completely original, low miles, and mint.  Was in about 1984.
I did get to race it though in the 1/4.  Beat it with my 71 Duster though but mine was modded a fair bit.

[Walleyes]

Lol,, did you see the purchase price at the time. The L88 added a whopping $1,500.00 over the base price of $4,230.00 made a grand total of around $6,000.00 for the car lol. Man if people would have known hey.

The car I drove a few years back was not the single carb it was a triple carb 427 amazingly powerful but still not this package. I doubt many people in the world can claim to driving one of these hey.

[Walleyes]

Any pics of that old Duster Axe ?

[AxeMan]

Lots of articles and links of actual factory horse power outputs of the factory big blocks:
This one puts the L88 at 510 hp with parasitic losses of fan, alternator, and full exhaust.

http://driving.ca/bmw/m5/auto-news/news/five-of-the-most-underrated-engines-and-their-true-power

One thing that was undisputed though, is that the Hemi's ruled on the 1/4 mile drag strips across North America.

[AxeMan]

Any pics of that old Duster Axe ?

I have one or two around I think, but I have to find and scan them.

[Walleyes]

One thing annoys me when looking at older units is automatics. I spend quite a bit of time looking through Kijiji at the classics section for what ever,, never know when a good buy may come by. The second thing I look at on the ones that interest me is the tranny if it's an auto it doesn't interest me in the least its a waste of vehicle as far as I'm concerned. Unless it's a model that may have only came in auto thats different but I mostly look at pickups or muscle cars.

Just my preference of course but it's a stickler for me.

[OL_JR]

       I'm pretty torn on this one.  Maybe I'll get some stones thrown my way but in my teen years the big thing was little cars with big power and while I'm honestly not really a car guy the idea of taking a little 4 banger import and modifying it for maximum power to weight interests me. 
       On the other hand the old man has an early 2000s corvette which is a little closer to a muscle car (although not near the power of some of the other cars posted), but for a guy that likes to cruise it seems perfect.  A bit of a dog off the line but punch it on the highway and that needle moves in a hurry and it handles well.

[sonny]

A 1972 Dodge Dart with a 340 in it is what scared the crap out of me when my bro in law said "Let's go for a ride."

Yeah man...the road was glistening white with frost and your doing 135mph..

The pic ain't his car but you get the idea what they look like.