Badart's post: Wow! Did Chev's on and off ,for 2 decades.Never even dreamed ,of using an impact on any engine assembly.
Exactly.....The "resto" man was just a dumb f#ck in general, don't blame Chevrolet for his stupid ***.
Last night I am at my neighborhood bar. My wife has talked to the bar owner about my Duster. He has told her there is a guy that comes in regularly that restores cars and I should talk to him about the body work. He comes in while we are there so my wife asks him about it. His response is why would you fix that. You should get a Chevelle or some other Chevy because the Duster will cost more than it is worth to fix it up. When I tell him it doesn't matter because i do not plan on selling it he just drones on about how it isn't worth it and I should buy something different like some guys got a duster all set up as a drag car and it wold be cheaper to buy that or he goes on and on about how you can't get parts for a duster. I kept telling him I get that but those are not the cars I want. I don't want a Chevy or a drag car. This is the car I want and I am willing to spend the money to put it together in the manner that I want and then keep it and drive it regularly. He just couldn't wrap his brain around that.
Hi, my name is John and I own a Chevy....... Please forgive me. I am building a super clean 71 Dart. My 78 Malibu is pro streat and about 600 hp. I know it will put plenty of cars to shame no matter who made it. I built the car myself along with help from my friends the same way I am building this Dart. This is mopar number 5 for me. I hope my chevy doesn't make me narrow minded. I will say I never owned a ford and probably never will. I still have friends that own them, I just dont care for them myself. It's ok to like more than one make, just stand true to the hobby. Please don't kick me out of the family! I'm just sayin...
Frequent Ford and Chevy forums and don't recall seeing any threads of this nature any where but here.....hmmmmm.....As the PROUD owner of a 72 Corvette, and a 67 Mustang (both of which I restored myself), and a 65 Dart I'm currently restoring, I think there is a heck of a lot of projection going on in this thread!
To all of you guys that think people are 'a##holes' for owning a Chevy, well I think it doesn't matter the make, anyone bigoted enough to only own a single make of car, has got to have a screw loose!
I have been on the Corvette forum for years, and i have never seen a thread like this on there. I starting to think that maybe it's mopar guys who are the 'a##holes', and maybe i should sell my Dart after i finish her!
How convenient for Mopar people to forget that the Hemi was basically copied from Zora Argus Duntov " the father of the Corvette " and the " Ardun Hemi heads " for the Ford flatheads, just a few years before Duntov worked for Chrysler. At the time when he worked for Chrysler Duntov was amazed when Chrysler introduced the Hemi remarking how similar their heads were to his... Anyone can doubt this if they have a streak of republican in them yet lets not for their 1978-9 government bailout as well..
He doesn't have the skill and can't admit it. I wouldn't look for a body guy in a bar any more than I would look for a wife in one. Just go have a beer and forget all the bartalk.
Chrysler developed a HEMI head for a 6 cyc in WW2.
Shortly after the war, they put that technology into their cars!
Chrysler has produced three generations of such engines: the first (the Chrysler FirePower engine) in the 1950s, the second (the 426 Hemi), developed for NASCAR in 1964 and produced through the early 1970s, and finally the "new HEMI" in the early 2000s.
Ardun heads for the Ford flathead were perhaps the first use of a hemispherical head on a readily available American V8.[8] First offered in 1947 as an aftermarket product, these heads converted the Ford flathead to overhead valves operating in a hemispherical chamber. Zora Arkus-Duntov, who later worked for GM and was a major force behind the development of the Chevrolet Corvette, and his brother Yura, were the "AR" "DUN" of "Ardun."