My first car was a '64 1/2 Mustang Hardtop with the 289 and the dinky little 2 Bbl Stromberg carb. My dad's boss' (spoiled) son had a Lotus that he'd totaled, but the engine was still good, so I bought it from his insurance co. for $400. The insurance company threw in the tranny, gated shifter and all! My new powerplant was a 351 Cleveland bored 80 over with a Holley 1200 cfm. Man, that carb looked like a washtub! Anyway, the 351 was way too big to fit, so we had to cut out the wheel wells and rebuild the shock towers. We also had to cut a hole in the hood because it would not shut with that big Holley stuck on top. I wanted to put a blower on the thing, but I'd done run out of $$$ by that time. The 351 was so heavy I had to put in oversize coil springs so the shocks wouldn't bottom out. It came with the Lotus headers and made this wonderful bubbly sound at idle. I ran it through a pair of Cherry Bombs for around town (or when the state police were out), but on the open road I had cutouts for straight pipes. God, it's no wonder I can't hear squat these days. At first I left the stock rear-end in, but I kept burning the right rear tire (L50s were expensive), so I found a Muncie 411 limited-slip at a junkyard. That car was quick out of the hole, but if you really got into it, the thing would wheel hop something awful (couldn't afford traction bars). Man, I wish I still had that car, but it did pay for my freshman and sophomore years at school. The guy I sold it to burned the motor up by running regular (unleaded) gas in it without a lead-additive. Idiot. I heard the he spooled it up and blew big holes in the pistons. Broke my heart. -Kyle Barber, Kenneth L. wrote: > > oh, i struck a cord. i liked and dreamed of the shelby mustang. they had > that little 289 motor reved up to 350 horse power and it could really get to > peak quickly. i also liked the "GTO" OH, THOSE WERE THE DAYS, WERE THEY NOT. > ? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kyle E Cleveland [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > > Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 8:04 AM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: Working @ home > > > > Martin and Karen Logan wrote: > > > > > > > > The last big car I remember was my parents 1978 Chrysler Cordoba. It > > > had a 380 ci V8. It was a lovely brown with a cream (shag) interrior. > > > > Yes, with that "rich, Corinthian leather". (BTW, there is no such > > thing. Just some marketing phrase Chrysler cooked up.) > > > > > The other car I remember was my uncle's 1968/9 Dodge Charger with a 440 > > > ci V8 and six barrel carb. > > > > Wow! A 440 with a six-pack. If I remember correctly from my muscle-car > > days, didn't that carb run something like 1000-1200 cfm? I suppose it > > had the posi-trac rear end too, huh? SCHWA-A-A-A-NG!!!!