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PopinJohn

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If money were no object, what make model and year of a car that used to be built in this country would you buy, if you could buy one brand new today? Brand new, not a restoration.
We have several in mind.....
A 1955/1956 Crown Victoria Ford, 272/292 V8 3 speed w/overdrive, blue and white two-tone.
A 1959 Ford Fairlane 500 Galaxie, 332/352 Cruiseomatic, solid black w/ss fenderskirts.
A 1963 Chevvy Impala SS convertible, 250/300hp 327, three speed, solid white with black top and black leather interior.
I can dream, can't I?
 
Tie:Late "40"s/early "50"s Power Wagon
"69 Torino Cobra Jet
"70 Super Bird
"64 Galaxy
"10 Challemger
 
1941 Studebaker President, Land Cruiser, with the straight 8. 1956 Chevy pickup with CustomCab, and V8. 1979 Chevy Chevette for the gas milage.
 
1957 Ford Thunderbird with porthole window top

1958 Corvette FI 283 engine, with alternate take off hardtop. Same as the one I still own.

1969 Boss Mustang 429ci Himi
 
definitely a '56 belair... a convertible would be nice but I'd be just as happy with a new version of my 4 door hardtop with all the options.
 
Yeah but wasnt the 3.8 engine they had a pile of junk? Local machine shop used to have a line of blocks to fix every winter. But they are a sweeet looking car.
 
1969 COPO Camaro. All aluminum 427. 50 lbs lighter than a small block, but with 500 hp. What a rocket. Nothing could touch them. Few people know about them .
 
I have two in mind. First it would be a 1948 Packard, custom w/ultramatic. Second would be a 1941 special deluxe chevrolet club coupe. CC
 
(quoted from post at 22:59:07 10/03/10) 1969 COPO Camaro. All aluminum 427. 50 lbs lighter than a small block, but with 500 hp. What a rocket. Nothing could touch them. Few people know about them .
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From Wikipedia -

1969
For 1969, the dealership worked with Chevrolet to have the L-72 engines installed on the factory assembly line using a Central Office Production Order, or COPO. The orders included power disc brakes, a 4.10 Positraction rear end, a stronger front stabilizer, and a heavy-duty 4-core aluminum radiator. Buyers of the car had the option of either the M-21 four speed or the Turbo Hydramatic 400 automatic transmission. A total of 201 cars were sold in 1969, 171 with four speed transmissions and 30 with automatic transmissions. Yenko rounded out the visual package with front and rear spoilers, a cowl-induction hood, special "Yenko 427" badges, twin stripes down the flanks and hood, and the sYc (Yenko Super Car) badge. According to the Camaro Research Group, standard black interior (code 711) was the only interior ordered by Yenko. However, many Yenko tribute cars have a white interior.

Almost 40 years later, these Camaros have been appraised and sold for well over $2.2 million USD at Barrett-Jackson auctions. As of sep 2008, there are 2 known automatic transmission 1969 Yenko Camaro's. as stated by ESPN auction show.

As of Jan 17th 2009, a REAL ZL-1 Copo, dark green, re-bodied, went for $290,000 at the Barret Jackson Auto Auction Lot 12773. Mr. October Reggie Jackson was bidding on this car but didn't win it. Another yellow, original body, non original heads with Auto transmission for $270,000. Both are said to be a steal and the deals of the show.
 
Easy one !! '63 Vette split window coupe with F.I. and off the road exhaust and alloy wheels or a ;67 Vette roadster with same equipment. All would be black on black !!
 
My steady and me after my discharge from the Marines Aug.1958.A faded out old picture but the back ground says it all. White,Red/black interior,283 w/4 barrel,power glide.Still have the steady, the 57 is only a memory.
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1. 1958 Oldsmobile Starfire 98 convertible, 371 J2 tri-power engine and 4 speed hydramatic transmission. All other options.

2. 1964 Impala SS hardtop, 409/425, four speed, Palomar Red with black interior, tinted glass and radio with rear speaker. No other options.

3. 1958 Buick Limited 2 door hardtop. All options.

Dean
 
A real 427 S/C Cobra- gotta make sure it's an S/C with all the track goodies and the 427, not the 428 that went in a lot of the street cars, and it's gotta be Guardsman Blue with white stripes. An old buddy had 3 different ones in the 70's, and then two original race GT40's, a MkI 289 car (blue/white and gorgeous) and a MkII 427 car- his mom had a '69 Boss 429 she used to drive to Safeway until she got sick of the kids following her around gawking at her. He got what has to be the slowest speeding ticket ever in a 427 Cobra, 40 in a 35 zone, right in front of Courtesy Ford in Napa on Saturday afternoon- the salesmen loved it, lots of folks stopped in all of a sudden LOL.
Noisy, uncomfortable, hot, very difficult to drive to it's potential (the race drivers much preferred the late USRRC/FIA Comp 289 cars which were just as fast if not faster on a road course) but still the absolute king of just plain bada$$ and attitude. I started going to the Glen in '65 and watched the 289 and 427 cars run, they would smoke Sting Rays 3 at a time on the front straight- there used to be a cartoon page in the back of Sports Car Graphic called "Happiness Is", and one month it said "Happiness is.. a Sting Ray pilot watching the only Cobra in Sunday's race blowing up in Saturday's practice"
Another buddy of mine here in town working in the Shelby factory with the race teams, and drove the original Dragonsnake- when you see the pictures that say "Aimer" on the side and the 5 foot nothing 120 lb guy who can't see over the steering wheel, that's him
 
It would be just like my first car. A 1952 Chevy Convert. I have never liked a car more that I did that one.

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I kinda like this one as well.

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1959 Cadillac Series 62 convertible
1974 Trans Am with the 455 SD
1959 Ford Falaxy Skyliner Fliptop
1931 Cadillac Sport Phaeton with the V12
 

Never did own one, but I always did like the looks of the '62 Chevy, especially the 2 door hardtop version. 40 years ago I would've wanted it with the 409 and 4 on the floor. Today I would want it with the 235 in-line 6, 3 speed manual, and overdrive. With that set-up, you could easily get 22 to 25 miles per gallon.

To be honest, I would consider just about any car or truck that you could open the hood, and not only be able to SEE the engine, but could also easily work on it, and it would NOT have any computer controlled components on it anywhere.
 
I've got a '69 Nova. It was always interesting to order parts for when you had a 16 year old behind the parts counter, because whenever I'd say "Nova", the parts man said there was no '69 Nova, only a "Chevy II". Whenever I'd say '69 "Chevy II", the kids couldn't find it in the computer and told me it was a "Nova". Whatever.
Mine isn't a 6 cylinder or an 8. Believe it or not, mine has the factory 4 cylinder, with factory manual choke. Tranny is the powerglide. Talk about a dog off the line......
When I drove it regularly, mpg was about 22-23.
 
A 1958 Chrysler 300 with the Bendix Electrojet fuel injected 392 Early Hemi Or any of the A body Dodge or Plymouth's from the mid-60's.

Kent
 
Easy. 1967 427 SC Cobra. In black. 0 to 100 to 0 in 13 seconds, even on bias tires and without overdrive or anti-lock brakes.
If I can get more than one car... add a few Mustangs: '69 or '70 428 SCJ Mach 1, Boss 302 and Boss 429, and '71 Boss 351 and 429 SCJ Mach1. Probably throw in a convertable, too.
 
(quoted from post at 06:17:32 10/04/10) I've got a '69 Nova. It was always interesting to order parts for when you had a 16 year old behind the parts counter, because whenever I'd say "Nova", the parts man said there was no '69 Nova, only a "Chevy II". Whenever I'd say '69 "Chevy II", the kids couldn't find it in the computer and told me it was a "Nova". Whatever.
Mine isn't a 6 cylinder or an 8. Believe it or not, mine has the factory 4 cylinder, with factory manual choke. Tranny is the powerglide. Talk about a dog off the line......
When I drove it regularly, mpg was about 22-23.
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I didn't know that the "Iron Duke" 4 cylinder was still available in '69, but then I never went shopping for a Nova either.
 
a 1939 Ford rumble seat convertable, first.yr for hyd brakes and the last of that eara for a floor shift. I've had two in my life !!...Jim in N M
 
Early 50's Hudson Hornet. 300 cubic inch 6 cyl
won virtually every stock car race it was in
and beat Ford, Mercury, Olds V8's !
 
If I could have any vehicle I wanted would be a 3 way tie between a 427 S/C Cobra, have seen and heard a few very sweet, a 70 Chevelle SS with a LS6 454 and super T10 tranny and all the bells and whistles, or a 55 or 57 Corvette just for looks.

Leonard
 
UH OHHH , i know what kind of Speed that is !!!, Dad Had a 58 DESOTO Fireflite with a 392 hemi that came out of ambulance .... be nice to have that one brand new ...Like to have a t bird Brand new
 
1968 Shelby, 428 Super Cobra Jet, KR, convertible. British racing green, white top, white LeMans stripes, white interior.
 
"51" Ford Convertible....my first car, bought from Dad....still have it. Was a real "Cat Wagon" in it's day. Was my sole transportation until 1972.
 
Ah Sorry the Road Runner convertible did not come out in 1969 . As i was a Chrysler tech and i only worked on the high performance Mo Par's for the dealership where i worked . we were onje of the first to sell one . When we learned of the convert.'s come out i told my one good friend that evening and the next morning i ordered his car in on the initial order and was the second car off the carrier when the 69's arrived and was on the road the day we could let it off the lot . And Big Ed's car was in the bronze color with a white top and white interior 383 4 geear 3.55 gears with posi and the rest of the drag pack stuff and a Am/Fm tape radio . he paid 2850 bucks for that car . At that time i had a 68 1/2 Road Runner with the nice interior 383 4 gear 3.23 posi and a vinyl roof in the coupe model. . And came to find out that mine was one of only five ever built like it with the color and other options that mine had. But the best thing that went with that car was the option that came after i bought that car and that was the cute little brunette that sat next to me .
 
'65 Pontiac Catalina 2+2 hardtop. 421 engine with 4 speed. A guy I knew bought one with his "summer money" and took me for a ride. I couldn't believe a car that big could go that fast.
 
296,000 miles on the stock bottom end of my Grand National. And that's with a cam, ported heads, larger injectors and larger turbo. Buick built them tough enough.
 
Well, can't say that I could narrow it down to just one. But my top 5 would be a '46 Hudson coupe; '47 Hudson pickup [their last factory pickup]; '54 Hudson Hornet Hollywood Hardtop with Twin-H and overdrive; '67 Dodge Coronet R/T with a Hemi and a 4-speed; and maybe a '70 AMX 390/4-speed [last year of the 2-seater, first year away from the trunnion front suspension]...although a '67 Rambler Marlin with a 343 V8 [390 didn't come along until '68 when the Marlin was history] and 4-speed would be pretty tempting because of its rarity.
 
My first car was a black vinyl top over burgandy '68 Chevy Impala with a 4 speed 396, all factory. I think it was that last year for a manual trans in a full sized Chevy, and I replaced the 396 with a 427, and the 14" factory Rally wheels with the 15 inchers for the 427. That was quite a car. A month or two ago, I went to Ebay just to see what they had to offer my memories of my first car, and there it was...'68 Caprice, black vinyl over burgandy, and forget if it was a 396 or 427 out of some muscle car dealership from I think...Ft. Worth, TX. They were asking under $12K and I should've bought it. It was all identicle down to the black interior, except was a Caprice to my Impala. And the back seat, huge back seat in a farm field under the stars was the first time for my girlfriend and me, if you know what I mean. No bad memories about that car. I'd love to have it back.

After that, strictly Big Block '68 - '72 Chevelles, Novas, Camaros, and ElCaminos on the street and the strip until I grew up, got old, and fat. These days, Cummins Dodges and field Deeres, ACs, and Masseys with an interest in shoe horning a 440 or 426 Hemi into about a '64 dart or 2 door Studebaker Commander (Bullet front). Back in the day, I did have a friend that towed his '69 Hemi Roadrunner to the strip every Sunday behind his almost identicle '69 Hemi GTX, and he kicked some serious behind, even mine a time or two. Being a Dodge/Plymouth dealer mechanic, he shoe horned one very potent tunnel rammed 440 into his sister's Rambler Rebel, and she used it to embarrass a whole lot of big talkling fellas on the street.

Thanks for the memories of "back in the day", all of them.

Mark
 
Ones best option is to remember to research your facts prior to being way wrong.
Duesenberg (often nicknamed "Duesy") was an Auburn, Indiana based luxury automobile company active in various forms from 1913 to 1937, most famous for its high-quality passenger cars and record-breaking racing cars.
Just because it has a German sounding name does not mean it is ""foreign"".
Chevrolet seems pretty French (as a name) to me. Jim
 
1970 Cyclone Spoiler 429 Spoiler blue. I still have it (bought it from Dealers Book)
My brothers white with red interior 62 Impala SS 409 with 2-4 bbls and 4 spd.
Friends 62 1/2 GTO 389 Tri Power with 4 spd
And a super bird in Petty Blue.
 
like I said.... local machine shop used to have them lined up all winter to rebuild, something about the rod journals being offset
 
How exactly then is there 296,000 miles on the original untouched factory block,bores, rings,pistons,pins, main and rod bearings? Peak power is at least 375HP.
 
SC is semi-competition. A full race Cobra like Dick Smith's has even more race goodies. A super snake would have been the ultimate if they could be purchased. A 71 Hemi Cuda convertible would right up there as well. Dave
 
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