DAM PORK how do you keep tires on it or keep it from going air born

DDR, it isn't all that radical, although it is quick for it's time period. There are three reasons it hasn't killed me yet:

1- It sticks to the road pretty good.

2-I live at 5500 ft altitude and that slows a carbureted engine down some...

3- I'm an old poop and I keep my foot pretty light on the throttle.... Although I can't say the same for my grandson....

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
WW,

I thought the original car was a Ramchargers project with a 413 crossram. Didn't some collector buy the Bullet and have it restored to like new racing condition?

those were the days...

Rich

Nope, '67 Belvedere. It was an unofficial, backrrom engineering project. Their were a bundle Chrysler engineers involved. Very cool! Yup, some guy with deep pockets bought it, and made it better than it was.

A Healey 2600 V6 what a brilliant car!

I love the old Brit cars with a modern motor. A mate builds MGBs with Toyota 4 cylinders in them.
It's weird when you start one up and it just purrs rather than the usual MG coughs and splutters.

Next door neighbor was my age but his brother was 4 years older than us. Had a Austin Healy that looked a lot like the one in the pic but was a manual. what i remember about that car is that it made a lot of noise but did not get anywhere very fast. All show and no go but a cool car none the less.

EZ

The 100/4 was a nice car but the 6cyl Healey 3000 is not as nice really, the motor had not much power and weighs a load, but a V6 would sure fix that.

Red is right!

Rich

I actually think that 1964 to say 1970 were the best years for American muscle cars...

You could even go up a few years or so....

Yeah, American muscle probably peaked in 1970, Hemi Cuda, LS7, etc.

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Originally posted by fla3006:
Yeah, American muscle probably peaked in 1970, Hemi Cuda, LS7, etc.

It certainly did, and '71 was good too, but it all went downhill fast after that.

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Originally posted by Porkypine:
DDR, it isn't all that radical, although it is quick for it's time period. There are three reasons it hasn't killed me yet:

1- It sticks to the road pretty good.

2-I live at 5500 ft altitude and that slows a carbureted engine down some...

3- I'm an old poop and I keep my foot pretty light on the throttle.... Although I can't say the same for my grandson....

Hello Porky, This here is the East Texas Fire Ant coming at you. That is a right pretty little bug you have there. How many miles per turn do you get when you have the spring wound up tight?

If it was not so much trouble, I would get you and RA to bring it down when you come for your yearly fishing vacation. However, I don't think two old fat poots like me and you could get in at one time, and I would be afraid to drive it by myself.

Fire Ant

NObody makes a shoe horn that big! I know what you mean, I looked at a 1969 XK-E convertible a couple weeks ago. I had a 1967 coupe nearly forty years ago. It's amazing how those things shrink over time.

That is a neat machine.

Rich

Fire Aunt, as long as it didn't rain, we'd be OK.... I don't know if we could both get under the top if it was up....

What do you mean vacation, 3 months is a pretty long vacation, we only come back here to Colorado to escape the heat and get ready for the elk hunt. Then it's back to Tejas...

Rich, I don't know how to edit posts, so I'll do another one... It is amazing how they shrink isn't it. The reason I got this one is that a buddy of mine in high school had one and I loved it. Then another buddy in the Army had one with a 327 Chevy in it and when it wasn't scaring me to death I loved it too....

I had it on my bucket list and about seven years ago when this one became available I bought it. I actually preferred the 2.8 liter engine over a small block Ford V8 because of the residual fear from the 327....

I discovered how much the car had shrunk in the intervening years when I got it too the house. Plenty of room once I got into it, it was getting into it that was the problem. They are truly designed for the young and flexible, not fossilized old poops.....

But I was motivated so I learned.....

Seen the pictures of Butch Searcy's corvette yet? Somebody asked him how he fits. He said " I just fall in and fall out! Convertibles are much easier for us "full figured old geezers."

nice ride.

Rich

Don't have a picture on this computer, but I have owned a red '62 MGA roadster for 33 years now. Last year for the model; mine is less than a thousand from the last one made. It is a duplicate of the one Elvis drove in Blue Hawaii.

Incidentally, concerning the 911, who else remembers that the 911 was originally introduced as the 901, but had to quickly change the designation when threatened with a lawsuit by another European maker who had a copyright on car model names with an "0" as the middle numeral. Apparently only applied to road cars, since Porsche had subsequent racing models with thos designations (at least one I remember).

I sat in a friend's 1980 Ferrari a few weeks ago and the damn thing must have been made for mucking fidget.

I'm only 5' 6", had bugger all headroom clearance and needed a shoehorn to get into the bucket seat.

It's a lovely car but it isn't much bigger than a roller skate!

STEVE if it was made for a mucking fidget. your the right height but the circumference might be a problem

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
NObody makes a shoe horn that big! I know what you mean, I looked at a 1969 XK-E convertible a couple weeks ago. I had a 1967 coupe nearly forty years ago. It's amazing how those things shrink over time.

That is a neat machine.

Rich

They're not shriking, Rich, we are expanding!

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Originally posted by ddrhook:
STEVE if it was made for a mucking fidget. your the right height but the circumference might be a problem

I can't deny that my friend but they're not even built for anyone with anything even close to a proper pair of shoulders such as I have..... anyway, I've told you before, I'm not a midget, a dwarf or even a person of restricted growth, I'm a tokoloshe!