My response in the following order...
1. Todays cars are worse, I'd rather go under an a body dash than a fords
2. Valid, but ever install headers in a 70's firebird?, 41'chevy?, BBC belair's?
3. Don't bother me that much, I see where they were going with that when I look at some import compacts & sports cars like datsun's with the 'more lamer' 4 lug wheels, But Valid cause of limited wheel selection.
4. Yeah it was cool when brackets was all it took, though with schumaker it still is, to put a v8 in place of a 6. Did you know that the drivers side tower is the same between v8/6? and all it takes is cutting the pass side off raising it and moving it forward?
Did you know that b/rb with easily fabbed/modified brackets bolts to a sb k real nice, better than the 67 factory version? and a lil dinging on a center sump pan and it clears the center link?
Now you do, cool!:cheers:
5. Never happened to me before, I've done it both ways, that sux I guess.
I had a friend that forgot the oil slinger on his slant and it pissed lots, though it makes no diff on a sb, I've run with and with out before.
6. If I wanna use a socket on the bell bolts I lower the trans and cross member some 1st and use a really long extension with a ball swivel, other wise a box/closed end works good and I have plenty of time to drink my beer.:cheers:
7. These cars are lasting way longer than the factory or anyone for that matter expected, it took over 30 yrs for my valiant to need bulk head attention, but thats just my car I guess.
90's seabrings make nice bombfires electrically if u know what I mean.
8.I thought all the hardware and shoes still fit and that the diff lied in the backing plate/drum? but I'm no brake expert, oh well didn't matter a whole lot to chrysler being that they snuffed the 8 3/4 & went 8 1/4 exclusively after they worked out the bugs in the early experiment with them in/around 1970 and the 7 1/4 changed as well [dimensionally] .
9. It's only been 49yrs, Now you can get 17''s & 20''s stock!
Besides I remember certain cars coming out in the 80's/90's with 12''&13'' rims, ?daihastu/chevy compacts etc.
10. Definitely a preference thing cause if I was offered a 440/6 or 426Hemi, well I take the hemi an abody, but yeah why the heck didn't they do that?
=insurance reasons probably.
Cool man, now what are the top 10 things you like?
Here's mine, for now that is.
1. There tuff lookin
2. They are fairly light weight
3. The curved inward back windows, bubbled cuda too
4. almost everything swaps between'em with the exception of 'some' body panels/trim & such, but like front glass & trim for a valiant 67-76, door handles mechanical parts,suspension,electrical, etc....too much to sit and think of.
5. torsion bar suspension that handles great.
6. solid unibody unlike the others with there bolted together inner
fender/clip crap.
7. The feel in general, the wheel base is perfect for me I could almost drive & park blind folded.
8. awsome dash lay out, especially in the performance models, vary simple clean styling, some even having the lower dash lip option, map light etc...
9. With the exception of 75 & up there isn't an abody I wouldn't want to drive or own, I like most all of the body styles!
10. That no worthless crud pushing chevy looks as good or can go as fast and can still take a corner like my A Body.
11. wth=P~, everything about them rules, It's what I know as a 'car', I've driven them since I was 15 yrs old.
Cool, have fun with this, it's friendly.:cheers:
