Muscle Cars and Hot Rods

[Laxfan]

That is what I have at the moment, got rid of a few others that were being neglected.

 

[ripinanroarin]

here we go again.... I was dodge crazy for a while. The first pic..1969 Road runner 440 4bbl 4 speed. 410 posi was extrealy fast and fun. The black winged charger had a 440 magnum 4 speed.Sure wished I still had it now.Next 1970 coronet 318 auto. Nexy 1970 satelite 318 auto. Next orange 340 4 speed 1970 demon" lost my licence in that one" next red 1967 monaco 500, buckets and floor shift auto.Bottom left is a 1968 coronet with a 273 commando v-8 automatic. Next dark blue 1968 chrysler 300"very odd car...had buckets ,4 speed and a 1967 440 tnt engine from the factory.

 

[tugla]

sweet rides man unk:

 

[Diablotin]

sorry about the naive question but how do you define a muscle car ? what are the characteristic which is making it a muscle car ? Engine power ?

 

[tugla]

there are lot of answers to that question, one is an american 60's eraly 70's v8 cars, or midsize cars with big engines, lots hp etc. but many hot rods around that era are also considered. pony cars also muscle cars. list goes on adn on depending on who you ask.

 

[Jack Butler]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_car

 

[4gasem]

Don't know if you'd classify this as a Hot Rod or a Muscle Car but it's not bad for a grocery getter...

400BHP, 6 speed trans with rev match down shifts, RWD as well.

Uprated springs, struts, bushings and sway bars. Damn thing handles like it's on rails! :eusa_dance:

Shined strictly using Adams Polishes and MY labor!

Goes pretty good and I average 20 MPG in mixed driving.

Photo 1 and 2 taken with my iPhone 4 and #2 with my 3GS Sorry I never remember to take GOOD pictures... lol

A few of us went for a drive one day... This isn't everyone. 70 of them came to my home town for our G8 meet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra5piiu7oWA

 

[4gasem]

Nice Commodore conversion... :eusa_dance:

Chris

 

[ripinanroarin]

Don't know if you'd classify this as a Hot Rod or a Muscle Car but it's not bad for a grocery getter...

400BHP, 6 speed trans with rev match down shifts, RWD as well.

Uprated springs, struts, bushings and sway bars. Damn thing handles like it's on rails! :eusa_dance:

Shined strictly using Adams Polishes and MY labor!

Goes pretty good and I average 20 MPG in mixed driving.

Photo 1 and 2 taken with my iPhone 4 and #2 with my 3GS Sorry I never remember to take GOOD pictures... lol

A few of us went for a drive one day... This isn't everyone. 70 of them came to my home town for our G8 meet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra5piiu7oWA

I would have to say yes. It would have compared to the big buicks and oldsmoblies with 394 sky rocket and 455 motor . Stealth family cars that had serious punch and would still run a high 13 sec ET down the 1/4. Just because it hasnt got a cartoon character taped to the the side and hood scoops, doesnt mean it wasnt fast.:biglaugh:

 

[Cogitater]

My 38' Chevy- 355/700R/3.36 posi, power discs...and a 48-52 Chevy on 92 S-10 chassis 4.3/700R/ 3.42 that bro and I built for Dad
( If the pics attach)

 

[tugla]

heres a couple of the 67's

 

[texmax]

Nice looking 67's tugla. I sure do miss my 442. It broke my heart when they quit making the Olds and now Pontiac is history. I wonder who is next.

 

[The Beekeeper]

Hummer, Saturn and Mercury.............................

 

[Rusty McNeil]

Produced from the factory with a lot of HP and not too much attention paid to handlling, concentrating on 1/4 mile times instead. A 70 chevelle is a muscle car, a 70 Ferrari, while probably faster, is not.

Original muscle cars=those involved in the HP wars of the 60's, 70's, whether in true two door fashion or even the High HP Sedans built with performance in mind, tho to a purist not sure if that qualifies either.

My first, and last run from the law involved a heavily modified 70 Impala 454 sedan, it wasn't mine, it was the cops, I lost and spent my first and last night in jail at 16,,,,Too bad they didn't have Vmaxes then.. dads old 75' GMC service truck loaded up with tool boxes and ladders just couldn't cut the mustard although she gave it her best....Man was he pissed...

Dig in to it a little deepr and there is actually a definition of the differnce between hot rods and street rods when entering vehicles in shows and what not, at least there used be anyway, don't know about now, hot rods being older and rounder 1920's-1950's stuff and street rods being newer and more modern tho not neccesarily built from original muscle cars.

Modern Muscle cars= anything with a V8 and a crap load of HP, the G8, qualifies with flying colors, along with the 565HP Caddies, GTOs, Dodge Chargers and the like, along with of course the modern day versions of the original muscle cars.

I think without a doubt the modern musclecars are way the **** faster than the originals in every respect, and handle well to boot...my 70 Ram Air IV Trans Am, advertised 365 HP, and would barely cut a mid 13 quarter, my wifes bone stock 350Z beat that time.

Forget the late 70's through 80's "muscle car" crap, they killed the compression and hadn't figured out how to make HP without smog yet.........i don't think a 15 second Camaro or Mustang can qualify as a muscle car, not out of the box anyway...although they had potential, had a 78 Camaro that would run low mid 12's and still take me to work every day, but inspection was hell living in Harris county.

 

[satariel666]

Thats what im talking: :biglaugh:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueL0245Y46c

 

[CaptainKyle]

Here is a couple pics from a private car show I went to last weekend. This is a great show the guy has bucks & pays the police to shut down the street so every one can roast there tires off. There were a few cars there well into the 1,000 HP range they say they were street cars but I dont think you could go real far in them. A couple of themhad there time slips displayed & they were running 8.65-8.80 not to shabby.

 

[sal98]

Here's mine ('70 Pontiac Lemans Sport - Verdoro green):

 

[yamtom]

I had a Chevy Two, 63 with a four speed and 327/350 hp n headers back then. Very fun. Now have a Thirtieth Anniversary Z28 stick stock and a C4 Vette with a six speed stock motor.

 

[Slacker]

Cool cars, cpt. Nice pont ,sal. I once hated the drk green. I love it now.