Side pipes on 70 charger

[Kern Dog]

So....sidepipes are mainly for ***** guys?
Is JC Whitney still selling them?

 

[chargervert]

I am one of those guys that likes some of the old and some of the new.
I won't be putting EFI or 22" wheels on my cars and won't jack up the back and put N-50-15s on either.
I do like slotted mags though. I like Sidepipes. It isn't something that I would do for my own cars but I like seeing them on others.

That's what muscle cars looked like when I was a kid! They were bad ***!

 

[chargervert]

So....sidepipes are mainly for ***** guys?
Is JC Whitney still selling them?

I got the ones for my van from Summit.

 

[Kern Dog]

I agree, that is what the "look" was back then and I don't necessarily hate it.
I have a tendency toward making my cars handle well. at least to the degree that they are capable of. A jacked up rear end reduces caster. Tall tires squirm more. The look may be cool but the function takes a step back for me.
If I saw these cars as just straight line runners, that would be fine but I prefer a car that does everything well.

 

[Islandkent]

Here's what mine looked like when I was a kid. Circa 1986. I wrote my 74 Charger two years earlier. Picked this up for a platform for my sweet 340. Ah those where the days! I would have chucked a set of pipes on her at the time.

 

[Kern Dog]

Years ago, the CA laws changed in regards to emission testing. For a long time, ALL 1966 and newer cars were supposed to be emission compliant which meant that they had to have all the original type emission equipment in place and the car had to meet tailpipe emission standards.
In 1998 or so, they changed that to 1973 and newer cars. Later that was moved to 1976 and it has stayed there.
I liked the F body cars but since I'd be limited to the choked off single exhaust and 3 catalytic converters, I just kept my interests in the older models even though the numbers were dwindling.
This may have led to a large number of restorable Aspens and Volares being junked and shredded. If you can't fix up a car the way that you want, what is the point?

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

That's what muscle cars looked like when I was a kid! They were bad ***!

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That’s the era I built my car to resemble, the eta I didn’t get to live in, but love

 

[Islandkent]

Up here it was the rust Lol

 

[DeltaV]

So....sidepipes are mainly for ***** guys?
Is JC Whitney still selling them?

No, they were for guys that couldn't afford a '68-'72 Corvette.

 

[chargervert]

I got a 72 Challenger carcus, and I was up in my loft the other night and I saw a set of big block fenderwell headers. So I thought that would be the only car I have that I would cut to put those headers on. It had side pipes on it because the brackets are still on the rocker panels and it has cool old school fender flares on it too. I would love to build an old school 70s street machine with a blown 440 in it!

 

[Islandkent]

Yes sir with one of those interlocking paint jobs. I don't what you would call that type of paint job. I hope you know what I mean. Big in the mid/late 70's

 

[chtampa]

Jacked up in the back just like the girls with the platform shoes. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[chargervert]

Gotta get that fine *** up where it can be seen and admired!

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Yes sir with one of those interlocking paint jobs. I don't what you would call that type of paint job. I hope you know what I mean. Big in the mid/late 70's

Do you mean this? I believe they just call it endless lines . Not my car, but if I could afford it, you bet I’d do it

 

[chargervert]

Do you mean this? I believe they just call it endless lines . Not my car, but if I could afford it, you bet I’d do it

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People personalized their muscle cars back then,and made them their own one of a kind street machines!

 

[DeltaV]

I remember the SS Chevelle guys having their name painted on the driver's door and their girlfriend's name painted on the passenger's door. Small painted script done by a pinstripe artist. Always looked tacky no matter how professionally applied.

Nowadays, maybe the Chevy guys would use a magnetic label on the passenger's door.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Oh yeah! My GTX has booger welded brackets on the rockers, almost put side pipes on it, but someone talked me out of it, should have done it!

 

[Islandkent]

Do you mean this? I believe they just call it endless lines . Not my car, but if I could afford it, you bet I’d do it

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Yep, that's the type of paint I was referring to. Thanks. I'm going to go google it to see what's out there.

 

[Kern Dog]

This one is wild....

Again, I'd never do this but I love seeing it done to other cars.

 

[chargervert]

It needs longer shackles!