--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDP00014 Date: 09/19/96 From: ELVIS HARGROVE Time: 11:49am \/To: TERRY DURFEE (Read 4 times) Subj: Old Cars -> hood of modern cars. I still like the old cars and their simplicity. And the dern things didn't have fusible links hidden in inaccessable places. (Like the one UNDER the Tarus radiator....) ^..^ --- FidoPCB v1.5 beta-'j' * Origin: BOO! Board Of Occult, Rio Grande Valley Texas (1:397/6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDP00015 Date: 09/19/96 From: BILL CLARK Time: 01:36pm \/To: RICHARD DOHERTY (Read 4 times) Subj: Muscle cars On (15 Sep 96) Richard Doherty wrote to Bill Clark... RD> I disagree! They were NOT light! gawd, My partner drag races a '55 RD> and the damn thing weighs 2800 lb's with a tube chassis! That sounds about right. What does a GTO or Chevelle weigh in at? RD> The point is that they had only high priced and rare options RD> to give them power. Standard was a small 283 and a cast powerglide I was in southern Ohio during that era and they sure as hell weren't rare around there. Although I was into rods, I don't remember any of the Super Stock group complaining about price. RD> on the old shoeboxes. They were not meant to be a race car right from RD> the factory. They came with LOTS unessential to speed, basically the RD> base car was a full size metal monster. Whereas in the 60's they even RD> sold versions without hubcaps to save a bit of weight! In '57 you could also get all sorts of factory go fast combinations. Serious drag racing (on and off the strip) wasn't as wide spread in those days, but if you were in a hot spot all sorts of things were available and reasonably common. -bc- bclark@rochgte.fidonet.org --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Wow... I just had a V8 (1:132/180.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDQ00000 Date: 09/20/96 From: LORI HARVEY Time: 02:11pm \/To: RICHARD DOHERTY (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: Chevy vs dodge We are looking a 392 to purchase and put in our 4x4, to replace the worn out 400 (not stock) that is currently in it. The Viper did not have a SLIGHT advantage, there was no contest, it obvious from the time they took off from the line, that the Viper was going to win. A few words about Fords...... F ound O n  the R oad Dead --- MsgToss 2.0c (r) * Origin: The Proteus BBS - V.34+\8CDS\OS2v3 - 1.515.432.1965 (1:290/118) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDQ00001 Date: 09/20/96 From: LORI HARVEY Time: 02:12pm \/To: JOHN DEMOTT (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: Chevy vs dodge A hemi was available to the public as early as 1952, but it wasn't a 426, it was a 392, a early elephant. --- MsgToss 2.0c (r) * Origin: The Proteus BBS - V.34+\8CDS\OS2v3 - 1.515.432.1965 (1:290/118) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDQ00002 Date: 09/20/96 From: LORI HARVEY Time: 09:24pm \/To: BILL CLARK (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: Muscle cars By brother-in-law drag races a '69 Plymouth Road Runner and it weighs in at a heft 3800 lbs. --- MsgToss 2.0c (r) * Origin: The Proteus BBS - V.34+\8CDS\OS2v3 - 1.515.432.1965 (1:290/118) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDQ00003 Date: 09/20/96 From: FLOYD REISKE Time: 01:09am \/To: KEN THOMPSON (Read 4 times) Subj: Availability of Trim Pieces... A reply to Ken Thompson: KT> Have you got a contact number for Gateway? FR> yep sure do (203)798-7900 they have a toll free number I FR> beleive I just can't locate it now.. their address is : FR> 30-2 Shelter Rock Road FR> Danbury,Ct. 06810 KT> Thank ya pardner! you're welcome..hope they have what you seek!! Floyd --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Brass City BBS (1:141/1158) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDQ00004 Date: 09/20/96 From: MICHAEL JONES Time: 10:46pm \/To: BILL CLARK (Read 4 times) Subj: Muscle cars > That sounds about right. What does a GTO or Chevelle weigh in > at? I read in a car craft magazine that a '70 chevelle (the cheap street chevelle they purchased for $1500 and fixed up with pretty much all used parts) weighed in at 3700 lbs, the earlier models are probably a little lighter though. --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: People in Union City, CA sure do love their old cars! =) (1:215/201) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDQ00005 Date: 09/20/96 From: MICHAEL JONES Time: 10:51pm \/To: GERRY CALHOUN (Read 4 times) Subj: 305/350 > Elvis is an old friend to the OLDCARS echo. I guess I have > seen him in here for the past 5 - 6 YEARS or so. He and Bill > Boogart have been in so long, that if THEY wanted to make a I should watch my mouth and think before i say something that will make me look stupid. i apoligize --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: People in Union City, CA sure do love their old cars! =) (1:215/201) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDQ00006 Date: 09/20/96 From: MICHAEL JONES Time: 10:54pm \/To: KEN THOMPSON (Read 4 times) Subj: 305/350 > Well, I don't know, but back in the case of the Olds > diesel, I've been told that some of it's parts are good for > building one hell of a built gasoline Olds 350! now you're talking what i wanna hear! i gotta hear more bout this. too bad i can't find a whole lot of diesels around where I live or the wrecking yards (can't find anything but cavaliers and maybe a chevelle, plenty of 70's camaros though) --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: People in Union City, CA sure do love their old cars! =) (1:215/201) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: DDR00000 Date: 09/20/96 From: GERRY CALHOUN Time: 10:28am \/To: JOHN DEMOTT (Read 4 times) Subj: Chevy vs dodge Hi John, > GC> I though the 426 was a wedge head until 1965. The '63-64's were wedges, > GC> with the ram induction, and a 4 barrel carb over each head with LONG > GC> intake runners. > > True. I don't think the 426 hemi was available to the > general public until 1967 or 68. According to my soucres, the Hemi was available in production autos in '65. I know it was there for sure in '67 as a friend had a '67 GTX with it. This was in '74, he bought it in bone stock (except paint and wheels) shape for $2000. He thrashed it for two years and sold it in '76 for the same price he paid and thought he did good. Gerry --- * Origin: PETS R US! - 805-946-8345 - Lancaster, CA (1:2004/201)