Ratty Muscle Cars
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That is pretty cool.....reminds me of my 69 buick wildcat I had in high school,, was rusty as hell, no paint whatsoever, the fender rotted off one day coming home....but damn was it awesome, and I loved that 455 rocket engine, I'd smoke everyone in that thing, and I think I bought a set of used tires every week for it lol. Like him, just raced it and beat on it, and had the time of my life in that thing.
I wonder what motor it had before the 455. Maybe a 430. Anywho, Buicks never had the rocket moniker. That was Olds. I love old giant american cars. They are actually quite fast and people don't think they are so you can surprise a lot of people.
I had my 1970 Ford Thunderbird from December of 2015 to May of last year. I loved that car. I bought it for 300 bucks (MSD ignition, 429 11:1 motor and all) and drove the hell out of it until I bent a pushrod doing burnouts and sold it for 1000. In that time I rebuilt the whole front end (minus UCAs, springs, and the sway bar) due to the new balljoints ripping out of the lower control arms because of a stupid design for the aftermarket joints. The foot wells of the driver, passenger and rear passenger were gone, the windows didn't work (P/O mangled the electric system, car didn't even have a key. Just a little toggle switch under the dash.) so our ac was removing the plywood on the floor until my brother manhandled the back passenger window half way down. It had a 600 holley on it that was trashed and no donut gaskets connecting the rather nice dual exhaust to the manifolds. So for the longest time the car was basically running straight manifolds.
Even after getting the carb dialed, and the exhaust fixed it still popped and sputtered. I guess it was a really worn timing chain or some burnt valves. For having 11:1 it ran fine on 89 octane but liked 91 better. OH. And it had a Joe Dirt foot shaped gas pedal.
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When I was in my teens during the 1970's in CT I had quite a few friends that had muscle cars that would not win any beauty contests. They built up the motors and left the bodies as is. We called them the sleepy cars because just looking at them you would think they could not get out of there own way. A few were a 396 Chevelle, a 72 Nova, and a Duster that looked like a POS but was as fast as heck. My friends loved them because you did not have to worry about where you parked, waxing, and no one gave them a second look.
The most fun car I remember in high school was a guy who got the family station wagon which was a big block chevy and he was always lighting up the rear tire and did some motor work that would scare the heck out of anyone that rode in it. We were young and dumb back then but those big old 60's and 70's cars were fun in high school back then.
Great video and I enjoyed it. Thanks for posting it OP.
The most fun car I remember in high school was a guy who got the family station wagon which was a big block chevy and he was always lighting up the rear tire and did some motor work that would scare the heck out of anyone that rode in it. We were young and dumb back then but those big old 60's and 70's cars were fun in high school back then.
Great video and I enjoyed it. Thanks for posting it OP.
Saw that episode. That 'Cuda is sex on wheels, and not just because it's a Barracuda. It's because it looks fun as hell. Watch enough Barret Jackson and you'd forget what those cars were even made for if not just to sit around looking pretty.
So I called my friend who sent that video over today to cancel wing night ( work stuff ). He said he sent the video because it reminded him of me LOL I guess I am a little hard on my cars, and drive them in the rain and occasionally snow, and I do find traction control to be over-rated 
But damn I don't know if I could let the monte "go" like that.
But damn I don't know if I could let the monte "go" like that.
I just sent it to my brother and told him that's what he should do to his 69 Hurst/Olds instead of selling it
Watched the Cuda episode a couple nights ago, thought to myself, maybe I should just stop worrying about making mine look good, build it and drive 'em.
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