Wish it were like it was....

[famous bob]

We had hot rods and pro street cars. Hot rods were your average guy throwing cam and headers, maybe gears at his camaro, mustang, or Dart. Pro street cars had tubs, blowers, and the such. Even they were 10 and 11 second cars. And they didn't build it to race a 350 4bbl with headers in that 74 Camaro. I miss the days when a guy could walk the junkyard and find enough factory "upgrades" to play on the street and be competitive.

Or , find a 426 hemi in a wrecked roadrunner with 13,000 miles on it , for $750 for the engine , trans and driveshaft !!!

 

[MMissile]

Anything that runs 13.99 or quicker, can ride to and from the track has my respect.

A/C and a warranty.

 

[318willrun]

A/C and a warranty.

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Great gas mileage as well..... My son's Scat Pak got 30 mpg doing 60 mph on our single highways. Went through some city/traffic lights and dropped to 27.

 

[TT5.9mag]

when were those prices!??

maybe back in dickety-doo when you could get a GTS for $75 and swap out to a set of 3.91's in 45min that you got from big nose bobby, but you had to trade 'em back after the weekend or he'd make you take his sister big wendy on a date to the DQ and give him a pack of camel unfiltereds.

Oh no not big Wendy again. She makes you want to poke out your mind’s eye.

 

[TT5.9mag]

The biggest problem is muscle cars weren’t fast. Look at an LS6 454 chevelle. The “most powerful production muscle car of all time”. 450hp. Nowadays a Honda odyssey minivan will run right next to one. Hell even an 70 hemi Cuda would only run 12s. The public is spoiled with junk cars that outrun pretty much anything built in the 60s or 70s and get 3 times the fuel economy doing it WITH the AC on. If cool *** old street/race cars don’t keep getting faster then they get stuck back at the light looking at a Hyundai’s taillights with a “coexist” bumper sticker and a driver beating them while texting her girlfriend.

 

[NC Engine Builder]

I find those sick week cars to be unrelatable, huge money cars that are miserable to drive. I can guarantee you I have more fun in one of my slow beaters driven all the time than those guys do stuck in there promods for a few hours at a time

 

[TT5.9mag]

I find those sick week cars to be unrelatable, huge money cars that are miserable to drive. I can guarantee you I have more fun in one of my slow beaters driven all the time than those guys do stuck in there promods for a few hours at a time

Yea the upper classes I’ll agree. But the majority of the cars on sick week, or drag week, and any other “week” are true street cars. There are lots of 9-14 seconds cars on those events that are relatable.

 

[NC Engine Builder]

Yea the upper classes I’ll agree. But the majority of the cars on sick week, or drag week, and any other “week” are true street cars. There are lots of 9-14 seconds cars on those events that are relatable.

Yeah I was referring to the "fastest" of the classes

 

[TT5.9mag]

And there has to be some credit given to the guys that are willing to cram themselves in to a promod type 6 second “street” car and drive it 1000+ miles in a week. Most people trailer their 10 second cars to the track.

 

[273]

If it was cheaper and easier to swap in a 3.6l would be a great little engine for a mild performance A Body.

 

[junkyardhero]

Oh no not big Wendy again. She makes you want to poke out your mind’s eye.

nah nah man, she's good people. you're thinking of her jello wrestling tag team partner large marge. boy howdy when she puts on that american flag bikini and it turns into the original 13 colonies you can't drink enough mind erasers to forget that which has been seen.

speaking of bikini's... the 4th is coming up. word has it that big wendy's little sis and her cousin darla are coming down from the central valley for a big ol wrestling hootenanny over in reseda so i told 'em they could set up shop here in the yard and practice moves the night before. you're more than welcome to stop by, i'll fire up the grill and put the beer on ice. i still have your neon pink grape smugglers, so if you bring chris for the tag team match tell him to bring his gold sequined g-string which he conspiciously took home with him last time...

 

[ProjectBazza]

The biggest problem is muscle cars weren’t fast. Look at an LS6 454 chevelle. The “most powerful production muscle car of all time”. 450hp. Nowadays a Honda odyssey minivan will run right next to one. Hell even an 70 hemi Cuda would only run 12s. The public is spoiled with junk cars that outrun pretty much anything built in the 60s or 70s and get 3 times the fuel economy doing it WITH the AC on. If cool *** old street/race cars don’t keep getting faster then they get stuck back at the light looking at a Hyundai’s taillights with a “coexist” bumper sticker and a driver beating them while texting her girlfriend.

I get it!

And either Frieburger, Finnegan, or Derek Bieri (VG Garage) put it this way:

It’s much funner to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow.

 

[ProjectBazza]

I find those sick week cars to be unrelatable, huge money cars that are miserable to drive. I can guarantee you I have more fun in one of my slow beaters driven all the time than those guys do stuck in there promods for a few hours at a time

Whoa! I shoulda read this before I responded directly above.

And I couldn’t agree more!

 

[SpeedThrills]

I get it!

And either Frieburger, Finnegan, or Derek Bieri (VG Garage) put it this way:

It’s much funner to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow.

I've heard Leno say that too. And I agree. My '74 Mustang II (4 cyl., 4 spd.) was a ball to drive "fast". Float the valves on "launch", side step the clutch, shift (no liftin'!) when it flattened out. The passenger was responsible for chirping the tires on shifts with the tunnel-mounted brake handle. After doing all of that, I'd hit 4th gear and be doing 35 mph. Lol. Good times.

 

[TT5.9mag]

nah nah man, she's good people. you're thinking of her jello wrestling tag team partner large marge. boy howdy when she puts on that american flag bikini and it turns into the original 13 colonies you can't drink enough mind erasers to forget that which has been seen.

speaking of bikini's... the 4th is coming up. word has it that big wendy's little sis and her cousin darla are coming down from the central valley for a big ol wrestling hootenanny over in reseda so i told 'em they could set up shop here in the yard and practice moves the night before. you're more than welcome to stop by, i'll fire up the grill and put the beer on ice. i still have your neon pink grape smugglers, so if you bring chris for the tag team match tell him to bring his gold sequined g-string which he conspiciously took home with him last time...

Sounds like a dandy of a time. We will most definitely not be there.

 

[junkyardhero]

Sounds like a dandy of a time. We will most definitely not be there.

jokes on you amigo. i *knew* you'd take a hard pass so i sent the RSVP to Dr. The Mrs. Turbo Mike and she's already confirmed.

it's gonna be roasted carrots done up to look like hotdogs on gluten free buns and tofurky burgers with vegan mayo and plenty of cheap non-alcoholic beer and malort.

see you this weekend!

 

[TT5.9mag]

jokes on you amigo. i *knew* you'd take a hard pass so i sent the RSVP to Dr. The Mrs. Turbo Mike and she's already confirmed.

it's gonna be roasted carrots done up to look like hotdogs on gluten free buns and tofurky burgers with vegan mayo and plenty of cheap non-alcoholic beer and malort.

see you this weekend!

At least you ain’t makin Turbriskafill.

 

[RustyRatRod]

when were those prices!??

maybe back in dickety-doo when you could get a GTS for $75 and swap out to a set of 3.91's in 45min that you got from big nose bobby, but you had to trade 'em back after the weekend or he'd make you take his sister big wendy on a date to the DQ and give him a pack of camel unfiltereds.

The only Wendy I know is a super sweet and fine lookin gal that's the girlfriend of a good friend of mine. And if he doesn't marry her soon, I'm convertin to primitive mormon and havin two wives. lol