EdM
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My 1965 Corvette coupe with the solid lifter 365 HP 327. I bought it in 1986 and sold it 8 years later. My daily driver for years.
71 torino GT 351c shaker hood car.
Almost as clean and unmolested as my current 73 Satellite.
Just one 50 cent piece sized rust hole over the rear wheel.
Buckets, console and AC,
I've only ever seen one other small block shaker hood car.
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My red 67 Firebird Sprint 6. First car I ever owned. PO had blown the engine and replaced it with a 400 Ram Air III. It was a 4 speed with a Posi rear end and 6 cyl. gears - still had factory exhaust manifolds and a single exhaust! The best thing was it still had the Sprint 6 callouts on the hood bulge and sounded like a sewing machine with the factory exhaust system on it.
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Got a lot of surprised looks when I stomped on it and only ever lost 1 race...to a big block Roadrunner
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Mama had a 67 Tempest 4 door with the 230 OHC 6 with a quadrajet on it. It would obliterate the right rear tire. I speak from first hand experience. To date, I've never in my life seen another Tempest with the Sprint 6 engine option in it, only in Firebirds. They bought that car brand new from Lamar Pontiac in Macon, Georgia in late 1966. We had it until it mysteriously started eating water pump pulleys and Daddy finally got tired of it and traded it in the late 70s or early 80s.
There is one that I see every once in a while at a car show about 50mi from here. Nice car and refreshing to see
I've ridden in one. My buddies dad had one back in Highschool. Always like that car and its' uniqueness.Really? A Sprint Tempest? Cool. I've never seen another one. That sure doesn't mean anything. lol
One other reason I forgot about Daddy got rid of it. He had Sears put air conditioning on it. He was a frugal man......ok......cheap as hell and refused the heavy duty radiator. <rolls eyes> Sure nuff, sittin in traffic, the temp light would pop on. Cut the air off and it would go right back out in a few. Mama didn't play that game when she drive it. That A/C was ON and it was staying on. lol One day when we were coming down the back alley that backed up to the house we lived in, the top tank of the radiator blew clean off and blew the hood open against the safety latch. They HAD to have a radiator put in it then, but once again, Daddy put the cheapest one in we could find. From a junkyard. After that was when he took it and traded it. They never really liked that old car anyway, because right after they bought it the story was it had to go back in for some kinda recall or service bulletin regarding the cylinder head. It had to come off and something was done. I never knew what. But in Daddy's mind, it was never right. So it had a mark against it.
Then, the first time he tried to trade it was again at Lamar Pontiac where he bought it. He actually sat down......all four of us....lol......and ordered a then new 78 Pontiac Ventura four door. When it came in, it was a pretty car. But it had everything on it he didn't order. Radial tires, a V8, air, and power all of it. Like I said, he was cheap. lol Pissed off we got up and went to Riverside Ford down the street and traded it on a used Maverick with a 250. It was loaded up, but the used price Daddy liked. lol That was actually one of the best cars they ever had.
My mom bought a brand new 74 Maverick 250 auto, 4 door, couldn't kill that thing. I don't know how many miles it had on it when she traded it for a used 1981 Thunderbird. She ran a driving school for years with that car, it had dual gas and brake pedals, I used to cruise around the Safeway parking lot sitting in the passenger seat just to see the reactions of people. Got my license in that car, was super easy to drive. She wanted an Oldsmobile Omega 2 door, with a 350 Rocket, but the old man wouldn't allow it, so she ended up with the "**** brindle brown Maverick" instead.Pissed off we got up and went to Riverside Ford down the street and traded it on a used Maverick with a 250. It was loaded up, but the used price Daddy liked. lol That was actually one of the best cars they ever had.
My mom bought a brand new 74 Maverick 250 auto, 4 door, couldn't kill that thing. I don't know how many miles it had on it when she traded it for a used 1981 Thunderbird. She ran a driving school for years with that car, it had dual gas and brake pedals, I used to cruise around the Safeway parking lot sitting in the passenger seat just to see the reactions of people. Got my license in that car, was super easy to drive. She wanted an Oldsmobile Omega 2 door, with a 350 Rocket, but the old man wouldn't allow it, so she ended up with the "**** brindle brown Maverick" instead.
Funny, I just came across a local ad for a 76 Maverick 2 door, roller, looks to be in really nice condition for $1500.00. Has a clean interior with bucket seats too. Tempting........They weren't anything to look at, but they were some really good cars. I actually liked the early thin bumper Mavericks. The Grabber.
Mama had a 67 Tempest 4 door with the 230 OHC 6 with a quadrajet on it. It would obliterate the right rear tire. I speak from first hand experience. To date, I've never in my life seen another Tempest with the Sprint 6 engine option in it, only in Firebirds. They bought that car brand new from Lamar Pontiac in Macon, Georgia in late 1966. We had it until it mysteriously started eating water pump pulleys and Daddy finally got tired of it and traded it in the late 70s or early 80s.