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Ivan Seeking said:Technically that is a supercharger and a superdupercharger.![]()
Ivan Seeking said:Technically that is a supercharger and a superdupercharger.![]()
Ivan Seeking said:When I was a kid, the neighbor - a highly accomplished mechanic - had 1957 Corvette Roadster that he raced. Less the street tires, it was exactly like the one below.
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http://www.corvettefever.com/featuredvehicles/corp_06110_1957_corvette/photo_01.html
He never let me drive it.IIRC, he moved about the time I got my license.
Ivan Seeking said:When I was a kid, the neighbor - a highly accomplished mechanic - had 1957 Corvette Roadster that he raced. Less the street tires, it was exactly like the one below.
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http://www.corvettefever.com/featuredvehicles/corp_06110_1957_corvette/photo_01.html
He never let me drive it.IIRC, he moved about the time I got my license.
You know you are going to grow up to be an engineer when you are thinking, wow what beautiful curves - if only that women would get out of the wayGnosis said:When I was about 12 years old, a beautiful young woman down the street from me (Mitsy) used to own one of these fine vehicles.
mgb_phys said:You know you are going to grow up to be an engineer when you are thinking, wow what beautiful curves - if only that women would get out of the way![]()
Gnosis said:I was most definitely happier sitting IN the car NEXT to those wonderfully formed Mitsy curves. Roul, roul!![]()
[/URL]Cyrus said:http://www.carforums.net/reviews/makes/pictures/pontiac12.jpg
I used to travel to Epping NH and another track in NB with my drag-racing buddy. the BIG weekends were Winston Cup races at Epping. Steve made it to the semi-finals one year when he was still tweaking his car, and then practically shut it down off the line and limped back to the pits. The crew from the Brut funny-car team had been rooting for him big-time and by the time I made it to the far end of the pit, they were tearing down his top-end to figure out what went wrong. It seems that an intake valve shattered and redistributed itself all through the intake manifold causing extensive damage. Steve was shattered, too. The Brut crew helped him get the disabled Duster onto his trailer, and while Steve was lashing the car down, I went through the pits and rounded up a couple of Winston girls. These were extremely top-heavy ladies in red tube tops and white hot-pants that were handing out free cigarettes and posing for pictures. I've got pictures of him being hugged by those hotties. Despite suffering a season-ending failure (he couldn't afford to have a spare engine at the time), he was grinning like a possum.Ivan Seeking said:You can't talk about muscle-cars without throwing in a bit of lust.
A few years ago I found some old photos that I had taken at the ~1974 Long Beach Grand Prix. I had far more photos of women in bikinis than I had photos of cars.
turbo-1 said:These were extremely top-heavy ladies in red tube tops and white hot-pants that were handing out free cigarettes and posing for pictures. I've got pictures of him being hugged by those hotties.
Yep! They were there to be seen and photographed and they were playing it up in spades. I told them how Steve had worked so hard to come up through the ranks only to have an engine self-destruct at one of the most important races of his life. I told them that he would love it if they came over and posed with him and they jumped at it. It didn't hurt that I was draped with enough pro-level camera gear to make them think that I was a stringer for a drag-magazine, and they really played it up with the poses. It really didn't hurt that I had track access, either. When you are lying on your belly shooting under guardrails at the starting line, it signals that you have pro-level access and these ladies were quite attuned to that.Ivan Seeking said:Yep, I also noticed in my pictures that most of the women knew they were being photographed - reminds me a bit of the Girls Gone Wild commercials, but not THAT bad. At least I did manage to photograph a few cars. I have one photo of the six-wheel ELF car broken down right in front of us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/weekinreview/03mayersohn.htmlDetroit was racing to put more powerful engines in its biggest cars when General Motors’ Pontiac division took a detour in 1964 and created a $296 option for its midsize Tempest. By adding a bigger V-8 engine to Aunt Martha’s economy car, Pontiac created the prototype of the all-American muscle car — the rocket-powered family sedan.
...The GTO’s birth can be traced to the musings of Bill Collins, a member of Pontiac’s advanced engineering group in the 1960s, at one of the informal Saturday morning get-togethers organized by John Z. DeLorean, Pontiac’s larger-than-life chief engineer. Mr. Collins pointed out that the husky V-8 from a Bonneville or Grand Prix would fit into the same space occupied by the Tempest’s tame engine. It was a head-slapping moment for engineers in search of performance.
Soon they were building a prototype. Mr. DeLorean’s team had to work covertly...
mgb_phys said:Is the point of these cars to look impressive or for street racing?
Wouldn't a Mitsubishi Evo / Subaru WRX with a 2.5L 350-400hp engine, AWD and sports suspension go faster for less money?
Or am I completely failing to get the point?
JasonRox said:If you want to go fast for cheap, it's best to buy small and slap a turbo on it.
lisab said:http://www.subaru.com/vehicles/impreza-wrx/index.html?s_kwcid=subaru%20wrx|3184293295"
Woo-hoo!
WhoWee said:My first car was a 68 Firbird 400. I loved that car...yet sold her to make a profit...and regret it to this day.
That might be why my father's 1971 1/2 TransAm (with the small bird on the nose - original decal package) with a 455 and working ram air is still parked in his garage. They only made about 1,200 of them...and it's a beast.
I received my first speeding ticket (skidding uphill) at 96 mph in 1978 in that car. Even though I pulled over and waited for the highway patrol to catch up, the judge suspended my license for 3 months...those were the days.
The car has an automatic transmission, which not everyone likes. But, when the ram air is used, at full throttle the car shifts out of 1st gear around 95 mph and seems to lunge forward. It doesn't shift out of 2nd until about 138 mph. I'll never know the top end limit (and neither will my son who will never know any of this).
The suspension was designed to accommodate the power. I've never driven anything (including a Porsche 928) that compares.
If you have ever launched from dead-start in an automatic posi-trac Firebird of that era you'd be pretty impressed. I never had the $$$ to burn up tires that way, but I didn't mind going along for the ride when I was young, dumb, and (well, you know).JasonRox said:I don't think I'd want an automatic sports car, especially nowadays. Whenever I see a automatic corvette or something like that, I think... "what a waste"
turbo-1 said:If you have ever launched from dead-start in an automatic posi-trac Firebird of that era you'd be pretty impressed. I never had the $$$ to burn up tires that way, but I didn't mind going along for the ride when I was young, dumb, and (well, you know).
Pontiac: The Official Car of the 2009 Economic Crisis.
JasonRox said:What happened?! What do you mean... used to!?
They are making a 2door coupe WRX.lisab said:Oh, I loved my WRX. ... But get it on a nice, curvy road and WOW :!)!
Cyrus said:For the last 20 years, pontiac has one ugly hunk of junk after another. I am glad they are gone, and its long overdue. I hope a few others go down with them, like buick.
Let other smaller companies with better products fill the gap that will be left behind when these giant companies selling junk go bye bye.
Hello new American Car companies. (These are cars that make me proud as an American!)
http://www.teslamotors.com/
JasonRox said:I agree that GM sucks, but you can't compare affordable cars with sports cars. Seriously.