Real street cars need apply

[500/600]

Come on man. I have driven a 550hp 6.1 Hemi with American Racing Header/Corsa Extreme exhaust 5 days a week out of my woods and right through my neighborhood at 5:30am. I haven't heard a peep out of anybody in 9 years. Of course I idle out respectfully...…………...

 

[64nailhead]

A turbo with an OD trans makes all of your concerns go away, with the exception of salt (grrrr.) Living in the salt belt makes you appreciate something that isn't held together by rusted bolts. Brake lines that last more than 5 years lol.

Junior's car has been over 500hp for 5 years with the last couple closer to double that. In that time frame it has been driven about 35K.

Here's an H2O pic in Ocean City a couple of week after Drag Week.

 

[500/600]

A turbo with an OD trans makes all of your concerns go away, with the exception of salt (grrrr.) Living in the salt belt makes you appreciate something that isn't held together by rusted bolts. Brake lines that last more than 5 years lol.

Junior's car has been over 500hp for 5 years with the last couple closer to double that. In that time frame it has been driven about 35K.

Here's an H2O pic in Ocean City a couple of week after Drag Week.

Now you're talking!

 

[500/600]

Who else we got?

 

[SSpev]

bother used to drive this every day to work and any where. Several years. Fastest it went was 11.4. Then blew up. All buick, 455.

 

[SSpev]

My stuff are all drivers. Mostly. 81 Malibu wagon, 95 Impala SS. 2000 1 ton. Rag top I try to stay out of the rain and salt. The rest just get worked on
My daughter has driven her 86 Monty for over 8 years (only thing she has) and still going. Original engine carb and all.

 

[SSpev]

I used to drive a 65 and a 61. 65 went 13.8

 

[Local Hero]

1. I do with two cars, a 78 and an 83
2. One has heat the other has heat/ac, one gets parked for the winter and the other goes everyday year round and I'm in the rust belt
3. Both have wipers and full interiors and big stereos
4. Both are carbed (Q-Jets) and are standard pushrod V8 350 c.i., one Chevy and one Olds
5. Long range yes, one has a TH400 and the other a TH350 and both have 2.41 rear gears. Round trip commute is 52 miles.
6. Yes in the rain to both
7. Both are terribly slow.
8-10 None of my cars are capable of this as it's not really my thing.

 

[Texas82GP]

What's wrong with the black one?

It's just a cruiser.

 

[Smack-it]

In the spirit of antique vehicles, let's talk about 1995 and older cars and trucks only. Who do you know that drives a 25 year old V8 car as a daily driver (or at least 6000 miles per year)? TPI and 5.0 Fords changed the rules in the mid 1980s about how quick a car could be and still be driven every day. I know that tons of new stuff is faster and more drivable, so let's don't discuss that stuff. And I know that the Hot Rod Drag Week is full of so called 'street cars' that are specialty build for that once a year performance, impressive but not daily driven.

Just for discussion sake, answer one or all of the following questions about 25 year old actual street cars. "I have one that 'could be driven daily if I wanted to'." is OK but I'd rather keep it to actual driven often cars. Fuel mileage is of little concern. This is about the will to drive, not fuel efficiency.

1) Who do you know that daily drives a 25 year old V8 (Turbo Buicks and Dodges count too)?
2) For those in the northern half of the US, is the car driven in the winter? Does it have a good heater/defroster? Air conditioner?
3) Wipers? Full interior? Functioning windows? Passes required state inspection?
4) Fuel injected or carbureted? Turbo or nitrous? Old school engine or LS/LT/late Hemi/Modular?
5) Can the car be driven long range at interstate speeds? What transmission and rear gears?
6) Is it able to be driven at any time or if it rains does the owner break out in hives?
7) How fast is the car at the strip? 1/8 or 1/4 mile?
8) Any 7 second 1/8, or 11 second 1/4 mile daily drivers?
9) Any 6 second 1/8, or 10 second 1/4 mile daily drivers? Come on now...……...
10) Any 5 second 1/8, or 8 to 9 second 1/4 mile daily drivers? Seriously, surely somebody knows a person that is that dedicated.

Anyway,

Just a friendly conversation about real (actually driven) cars...………….think about it, you can put a late model turbo engine LS in a 1995 and older car, but that doesn't mean that you will want to drive that old school suspension with aged amenities every day. Does it? Let's hear some stories.

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