It's snowing and I'm bored so I thought I'd torture you with a few of my past cars.
The first is my 1971 Mustang fastback (yes I'm old) and this is the only picture I have of it. Sorry for the lousy cell phone pic. Oh right, this was before cell phones.
351 Cleveland with auto transmission
650 Holly spread bore carb
Edelbrock aluminum manifold
Headers-unknown brand
Good-
Not too slow. Beat several cars it shouldn't have
Bad-
Too big, needed better gearing and a stick would have been nice
Getting destroyed by a 390 4 speed Cougar the first day I drove it to school
What's with those hood pins?
Next is the car that replaced it. My wife said we needed something more economical.:smt044
1978 Chevy Monza
Bought it new and paid something like $3200 for it
3.2 v6, automatic
Headers-I installed them thinking it might help. it didn't
Good-
Nothing I can think of
Bad-
90HP at the crank, Camel color with beige interior. You could get a 305 V8 in these but wouldn't pass emissions in Cali so they got the 350 V8.
Traded the Monza for this used 1978 Mustang II Mach 1. I think it had 34k miles on it at the time.
302 V8 4 speed stick
Holly 4 barrel
Aluminum intake manifold
Headers
Universally hated now but I kind of liked it. Notice the T-tops! With mods and undersized tires the acceleration wasn't TOO bad. Felt like an STi next to the Monza. I learned to drive stick on it driving home from the dealer. Drove it for a couple of years but started having issues so traded it.
1981 Plymouth champ
Bought new. Traded Mustang in on it. Twin stick so 4 speed plus high and low range. Easy 40 mpg.
1970 1/2 Trans Am
350 automatic-Wrong! These only came with 400 cubic inches. Most likely the 335 HP Ram Air III. My memory of things 30 years ago must be slipping.
Mostly stock
Good-
PO had installed some ridiculous rear end gear so much faster acceleration than the '71 Mustang
Actually everything was better than the Mustang which is why I would have one of these again
Bad-
Bought it with "new paint" which in Illinois means "over lots of Bondo and rust."
Looked fantastic when bought but slowly rusted to death
That's it for now.
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