Oddball Muscle Cars

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Thats cool.

I never had any "oddball" American muscle cars, the closest and stranges I ever came was a 30k mile Renault Fuego that I only bought because it was $300, upon driving it home it came to me and the old mans attention it was a twin turbo and intercooled at that from the factory, it was a european model that came through canada, lived there a few years, and down to Ohio.....a true 140 mile an hour 1.6 wicked fast car.

The old mans stranges car like that I remeber was a very pretty 76 Grand Prix 455 4 speed posi everything and the sink, the dealer owner ordered it special for his wife and she hated it....sold it with about 2k mikes to my dad who couldnt ever run it over about 5k till Arlen Vanke fixed it...(a dist wire would short out against teh weight and housing on the hei .... dealer could never figger it out, Vanke did in 5 minutes. As pretty as a 76 Potiac could be.....Silver , Moonroof, red vinyl buckets, mags, sharp car, I still cannot find any production numbers or refrence for a GP 4 speed so I dono, but damm I remeber the car since it was new.


GREAT Thread btw...I love the strange......and I love cars......GREAT thread....
Im only sad the Maserati TC by Chrysler isnt in the classification guides....oh well,, would give me another excuse to get one.

Originally Posted by Ed OBrien

My dear old dad who couldn't have cared less about cars bought what ever was a good deal and came home in 1963 with a full size 4 door Ford wagon with 390 4 SPEED 4:10 posi no air that that owner of the dealership ordered to go deer hunting in and made the old man a good deal on . Thank God it was tough because that's where I learned about power shifting . Have a nice day