Your new musclecar

mtkawboy · 10-09-2010, 02:24 PM

After owning a 427/425 FE 4 speed powered 57 Ford Custom 300, at the age of 23, I bought a new black 67 GTO hardtop, 400HO/360 HP, 390 gears, close ratio 4 speed for $3050. The thing was beautiful but also a flaming turd running 15.25. I put the Chevy adjustable rocker nuts on it and set them, blocked the heat risers, rejetted the Q-jet and put an advance kit in the distributer and got it down to 14.01. Not spectacular but it would run off & hide from most factory stockers at the time {untouched} on street tires. Looked pretty good too with American Mags on it. Unfortunately I worked on Miami Beach and 4 years of salt air renedered it a major rust bucket even though I washed nearly every day. The insurance on it at the time would still be a ton today but I had to have it. Never regretted it either.

Charlie A · 10-09-2010, 03:00 PM

Summer of 71 I bought a stunning black, gold interior 70 GTX 440/6pack from a local guy. This car was garaged and never drivin in rain. He had an old pickup for that.He was getting married and the wife-to-be needed a/c.
Bucket seat, automatic, p/s car that scared the poop out of my then 17 year old girfriend (and myself) when she drove it away from the first stoplight. You see, she drove a automatic shifted Vega and she hit the pedal in the GTX like she did in the Vega!
Funny now.....
Never raced it (on the strip) but it was a very fast ride out on the marked off quarter miles outside of town.
Memories.....

10-09-2010, 02:24 PM	#1
mtkawboy Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Billings Mt Posts: 282 Likes: 186 Liked 54 Times in 18 Posts	Re: Your new musclecar After owning a 427/425 FE 4 speed powered 57 Ford Custom 300, at the age of 23, I bought a new black 67 GTO hardtop, 400HO/360 HP, 390 gears, close ratio 4 speed for $3050. The thing was beautiful but also a flaming turd running 15.25. I put the Chevy adjustable rocker nuts on it and set them, blocked the heat risers, rejetted the Q-jet and put an advance kit in the distributer and got it down to 14.01. Not spectacular but it would run off & hide from most factory stockers at the time {untouched} on street tires. Looked pretty good too with American Mags on it. Unfortunately I worked on Miami Beach and 4 years of salt air renedered it a major rust bucket even though I washed nearly every day. The insurance on it at the time would still be a ton today but I had to have it. Never regretted it either.

10-09-2010, 03:00 PM	#2
Charlie A VIP Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mississippi Gulf Coast Posts: 2,483 Likes: 68 Liked 87 Times in 63 Posts	Re: Your new musclecar Summer of 71 I bought a stunning black, gold interior 70 GTX 440/6pack from a local guy. This car was garaged and never drivin in rain. He had an old pickup for that.He was getting married and the wife-to-be needed a/c. Bucket seat, automatic, p/s car that scared the poop out of my then 17 year old girfriend (and myself) when she drove it away from the first stoplight. You see, she drove a automatic shifted Vega and she hit the pedal in the GTX like she did in the Vega! Funny now..... Never raced it (on the strip) but it was a very fast ride out on the marked off quarter miles outside of town. Memories.....