Originally posted by: Homer Simpson
does an 87 Grand National count as a muscle car?
Originally posted by: Homer Simpson
does an 87 Grand National count as a muscle car? picture this pic is from 4 years ago but not much has changed. since i bought a house in jan, its just been sitting in my garage collecting dust. my dad has one too. actually its a turbo T so its same drive train, just not black. until a few years ago he had 71 GTO. i rode around in that thing since i was a little kid.
i would love to get me a old muscle car era car but its just not feasible to get into one unless you have lots of money. thanks to barret jackson on speed channel, everyone thinks their car is worth a fortune. even really rough cars cant be had for cheap. you blow all your money on the car itself and have no funds left for any attempt at a resto.
When/why did you get rid of the Goat?Originally posted by: Kadarin
As for me, I used to have an '83 Mustang and an '05 GTO.
I miss my old 1968 Buick Skylark coupe.Originally posted by: Fatdog
I'm 75% done on my 69 Buick GS400 project. Hopefully it'll be on the street by August. I've spent more money than I wanted but I wanted it done right. Still cheaper than doing a chevelle or mopar.
Originally posted by: pontifex
one thing that does suck about those cars though is gas mileage. the guy with the 69 Camaro says he's lucky to get 12 MPG. OUCH!
Originally posted by: 69Mach1
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: 69Mach1
69 Mach 1 for me, had it since 1981. Haven't restored it yet, and its needing some serious work. Its getting to the point that I don't dare drive it cause if it ever got wrecked I'd never be able to replace it. I've always been kind of nuts about this car, if someone ran into me, I'd probably make a serious attempt to murder them.
That's no way to live. I drove my Shelby over 50K miles before I parked it in wait of a proper restoration. If you can't drive it then it defeats the purpose. These cars were made to be driven. Just be careful.
Paranoia is not so easy to shut off. I agree with you, but I admit to not being rational about this car. The other part is that, if I get it out and drive it, I have an endless supply of nuts trying to buy it. ( They never want to pay more than $500.00) Someone in the past modified it and installed a set of thunderbird taillights. Lots of people think its a shelby. (not even close if you know anything) I have had to physically remove people from my yard, because they tried to buy it and wouldn't take no for an answer. I had one guy argue with me for 30 minutes about whether it was a shelby or not. I had the shaker stolen once, and they wrecked the grill and some of the sheet metal on the front end trying to get past the hood locks. I love the car, but it has some serious downsides. It gets about 19 mpg on the highway, but drops way down in town. Partly because it is very fun from stoplight to stoplight.
Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
Wasn't one of the more sought after cars but I had a 67 Ford Galaxie 500 with a 390
http://users.marshall.edu/~kessler8/galaxie/
Sold it about 7 years ago. Wouldn't mind picking up another classic to play with maybe a 67/68 Mercury cougar or dodge dart. Still cool but not ridiculously priced like a lot of the more sought after cars.
Originally posted by: Knavish
Originally posted by: 69Mach1
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: 69Mach1
69 Mach 1 for me, had it since 1981. Haven't restored it yet, and its needing some serious work. Its getting to the point that I don't dare drive it cause if it ever got wrecked I'd never be able to replace it. I've always been kind of nuts about this car, if someone ran into me, I'd probably make a serious attempt to murder them.
That's no way to live. I drove my Shelby over 50K miles before I parked it in wait of a proper restoration. If you can't drive it then it defeats the purpose. These cars were made to be driven. Just be careful.
Paranoia is not so easy to shut off. I agree with you, but I admit to not being rational about this car. The other part is that, if I get it out and drive it, I have an endless supply of nuts trying to buy it. ( They never want to pay more than $500.00) Someone in the past modified it and installed a set of thunderbird taillights. Lots of people think its a shelby. (not even close if you know anything) I have had to physically remove people from my yard, because they tried to buy it and wouldn't take no for an answer. I had one guy argue with me for 30 minutes about whether it was a shelby or not. I had the shaker stolen once, and they wrecked the grill and some of the sheet metal on the front end trying to get past the hood locks. I love the car, but it has some serious downsides. It gets about 19 mpg on the highway, but drops way down in town. Partly because it is very fun from stoplight to stoplight.
I guess there's a lot of sentimental value here, but fully restored it's worth something like $60k?? Ain't worth killing for lol
Originally posted by: jaha2000
I have a 72 350 stick nova (The fun one)
and a 76 T/A in the garage. (the good looking one)
The nova needs some body love, but the right foot more than makes up for it. The T/A has about 50,000 miles on it. All the stickers have been removed and its black with red guts. Too bad its an emissions car and is a gutless wonder. 2.91 rear end gears make it a good highway roller though. The motor hardly works!
Originally posted by: 69Mach1
69 Mach 1 for me, had it since 1981. Haven't restored it yet, and its needing some serious work. Its getting to the point that I don't dare drive it cause if it ever got wrecked I'd never be able to replace it. I've always been kind of nuts about this car, if someone ran into me, I'd probably make a serious attempt to murder them.
Originally posted by: fastcuda
I have had this car for 30 years, I drive it all the time, my only car, has went thru 3 engines, 3 rear ends, several clutches, rebuilt and re did just about everything in the car several times now, it is not a garage queen but still gets "nice car" compliments just about every place I park. Currently a 448 wedge, 4 speed, 373 dana powr lok 8-3/4. I just put in an updated A/C compressor and Condensor and modern mini starter. It needs paint but so what some kid would key it first day or it would get wrecked if I did that.
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Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
When/why did you get rid of the Goat?Originally posted by: Kadarin
As for me, I used to have an '83 Mustang and an '05 GTO.
Originally posted by: melchoir
Currently own a 2005 GTO, and 1998 Trans Am.
The GTO is stock, the TA is not.