Pics from Back in the Day
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How did you spot that? There are two that I know of within 200 miles of us.
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I was hopin' someone would notice that Machine!
Here was a new song to me I just stumbled into about 'Draggin Main'...
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Wow.....what a cobbled together mess!
Cheapsunglasses do you know who this man is and what he's done???
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Was he part of the Wayne county speed shop group?
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Probably fun as he'll to drive though! Second owner muscle cars lived a hard life back then. My oldest sister was dating a guy who bought a nice F5 green 69 Road Runner 383 4 speed car. Within a year he had beat the living schit out of the car. The hood had blown up and hit the windshield breaking it. The right rear quarter was crushed from end to end after side swiping a telephone pole after getting it loose. He blew up about 4 engines in it,and it was in pieces in his driveway before it was hauled off to the junkyard,it was a six year old car.
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When there was plenty of junkyards around stocked full of treasure. Walk the rows and build your car
That is how it was back in the day none of this perfect cars date coded spark plugs BS ……
I started going to the junkyards in the late 70s and early 80s and the yards were full of cool cars. There was one yawhere the cars got older the further back you went in the yard,it was like going to a museum! The cars in the very back had wooden wheels! The yard had a 66 Hemi Charger, a 64 4 speed 383 Sport Fury,a state police 440 Fury 1,a 69 red Charger, and a. Orange 70 Road Runner up on top of a box truck. Another yard had a 70 Hemi GTX 4 speed car thar was a recovered theft,missing the engine transmission and Dana axle. The drivers side vent window was smashed out,steering column broken,and the air grabber hood said HEMI on the back of it! White car with a black vinyl top and sidestripes! They wanted $250 for the car!
100% correct, air intake should be right at the front of the hood or as far back as possible.
I have an air grabber on my 70 ... but it does look cool though.
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There were a few exceptions to the rule, and I was fortunate enough to own two of them. Both acquired from the second owner - the '70 for $1500 in 1977, the '68 for $1800 in 1983, neither restored.
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...or at least above the 1-2" "boundary layer" like the T/A scoop and the 72/73 Demon scoop I mentioned.
Perfect, just checking
Wonder if that 66 Hemi Charger was a friends car that crapped out on Mass Pike. He got out of the car and hitch hiked home. I had bought the Hemi and the trans from the guy who owned it and he bought the car. It was black inside and out but had a 383 in it when he left it.
Someone on FBBO may have this now... just a thought. Wonder if Zappa signed it anywhere?
It could be, the junkyard was on the Massachusetts/Rhode Island line.
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