And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I love the lines of the late 60's/early 70's Mopar muscle cars.
I had a 71 Cuda with w 440, 4V carb, 4 speed, posi 4:10 when I was a senior in high School in '79. No AC so it was always windows down in south GA. It was a base model red monster. Quick in a strait line but it's handling was horrible. The back end would brake loose on mild corners and at speed it floated all over the road with the steering wheel in the same spot. The other drawback was it got horrible gas mileage that was in the single digits for city and highway. If I left it idling I could never top off the tank. I would love to have that car today but with a modern suspension, fuel injection, AC, and launch control.
Listen up, T2 : Back in the day you steered with the throttle, not the wheel. Throw in a decent set of performance shocks and tires. Then, crank in enough caster in the alignment to get the front end to track down the road. Learn to adapt the short comings of the Detroit chassis engineers to compensate......
This car is obviously well maintained and it deserves it but for F's sake fix the damn license plate mounting! The rest of the car could be flawless and perhaps it is but I just can't get beyond that crooked plate, it's the first thing my eye goes to.
Mauser nailed it. Quite possibly the pinnacle of American musclecar design. They merely fucked it up in '69 when they did away with the turbine style tail lights, simply for the sake of change. Buddy has a '68 and we spend more than a little time sittin in the garage by the beer fridge just admiring the lines of the F5 green big block beauty. Shit, it's damn near as much fun to look at as it is to drive!
I love the lines of the late 60's/early 70's Mopar muscle cars.
ReplyDeleteI had a 71 Cuda with w 440, 4V carb, 4 speed, posi 4:10 when I was a senior in high School in '79. No AC so it was always windows down in south GA. It was a base model red monster. Quick in a strait line but it's handling was horrible. The back end would brake loose on mild corners and at speed it floated all over the road with the steering wheel in the same spot. The other drawback was it got horrible gas mileage that was in the single digits for city and highway. If I left it idling I could never top off the tank. I would love to have that car today but with a modern suspension, fuel injection, AC, and launch control.
its a '68
ReplyDeleteListen up, T2 : Back in the day you steered with the throttle, not the wheel. Throw in a decent set of performance shocks and tires. Then, crank in enough caster in the alignment to get the front end to track down the road. Learn to adapt the short comings of the Detroit chassis engineers to compensate......
ReplyDeleteThis car is obviously well maintained and it deserves it but for F's sake fix the damn license plate mounting! The rest of the car could be flawless and perhaps it is but I just can't get beyond that crooked plate, it's the first thing my eye goes to.
ReplyDeleteMauser nailed it. Quite possibly the pinnacle of American musclecar design. They merely fucked it up in '69 when they did away with the turbine style tail lights, simply for the sake of change. Buddy has a '68 and we spend more than a little time sittin in the garage by the beer fridge just admiring the lines of the F5 green big block beauty. Shit, it's damn near as much fun to look at as it is to drive!
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