Trends from the 60's

60's were a lot of "chromies" "chrome reverse" and "baby moons." NO side pipes. Once in awhile you might see somebody with "lakes" pipes but I don't remember seein' em on a pickup.



Friend of mine used to have a nice shortie 48 Ford, 283 Chev, 3 speed "Mystery shifter" (misery shifter), 4:11 weld-a-lock rear, "cheater slicks" and a Dixco "wide sweep" tach. One day in the early spring of 68 before I went into the Navy he showed up in town with homemade headers. No collectors mind ya--just clamped 'em together with hose clamps at the end.

So we're gonna go out to the "Dover highway", and see how it goes with "Kincaid's" brand new 68 350 Camaro. So we all trapse out there only several miles, and Don runs the 48 oughta gas!!!!. So some of 'em pile into Kincaid's Camaro and run back to town for gas.

Don had a 'Vette 2x4 manifold all ground out with adapters and AFBs on it. (They came with WCFBs, a whole bunch smaller.) I'm sure that 283 had all the air/fuel it could ever handle.

So we line 'er up. Don winds that ***** up and dumps the clutch. He winds it until!!! the tach pegs at 6K!!! and then just keeps on!!! windin!!!! it!!!! until!!! I guess must have been the points floated, and slams that mystery shifter into 2nd gear. Since this is a pickup, he'd welded an extension onto the bottom of the shifter handle, so the damn thing had a "throw" of about 6 ft from 1st to 2nd

By the top of 2nd gear, as I remember, it was all over. The Camaro, with tall gears, couldn't pull that 283 in a short race.

When you hear songs like "hot rod lincoln" and "little deuce coupe" and those guys have lines stuff like "hard to steer" they ain't KIDDIN!!!! It's a freekin miracle most of us lived through it all. A few didn't