Yeah my friend's dad's was an SS I believe! He said he had a '67 Camaro before that ('67 was the first year for the Camaro). Unfortunately he wrecked it while racing it! He said he was gonna buy another Camaro until he found out they were a unibody and he didn't want another one after that so he bought the Chevelle Malibu SS instead!
I remember my dad telling me the old joke from back in his day about the Pontiac GTO, it stands for "Gas, Tires, and Oil"! Lol! I've heard that same joke from several other people since then!
If a nice day i use to load a set of slicks in the trunk, and drive my gto to lebanon valley speedway in ny on a sunday, and run it at their 1/4 mile. It was a pretty good street car back in 71 turning low 12 sec. times...still if was more fun terrorizing the local streets in town with that car.
Yeah it's more fun terrorizing local streets alright! However it's also more dangerous! I can tell you stories of people in my area getting seriously injured or killed by street racers! Especially when the retards race on the main drag through town!
We had a well know 1/4 strip 5 miles outside of town that was in a desolate area. We did a lot drag runs who'd have the fastest street car at the time. All came to an end a few years later when one of the guys lost his life when he rolled his hemi roadrunner, and crashed. Cops really lowered the boom on illegal racing on public roads after looking the other way much of the time. Those were the days when streets, and roads weren't congested like today.
Same thing i do with my tacoma except no moab here.
We had an incident here in my area back in the mid '90s where a couple guys were street racing on a main thoroughfare, one of them was in his late 20s the other one was about 40, so they were both old enough to know better! Anyway one of them wrecked and killed a couple people and critically injured some others! It happened during the middle of the day on a Saturday! I know there was a woman out jogging that was hit and I think she was killed but can't remember for sure, also there was an elderly couple in a car that was going to lunch that was hit and I believe they were both killed! They created a lot of death, destruction, and injuries!
Doing that kind of stuff during the middle of day is just an accident waiting to happen. We've had similar stuff recently happen in the afternoon hours where a couple guys were road racing each other on busy highways when one of them was trying to pass the other ended up hitting another driver head on in the opposite lane, both were killed. I think law suits are still flying with one of the victims family.
Yeah I've heard of it happening on busy freeways too! Unfortunately you just can't fix stupid!
Backbwhen I was a Chevy kind of guy I traded my 79 SS ElCaminonin on a 93 Chevy Cheyenne. First brand new vehicle I ever owned. Matter of fact, all my vehicles since then have been used.
My dad's never been particularly partial to any make! When I was a little kid he had a '68 Chevy CST LWB with an automatic trans, power steering, power brakes and factory air! Also had the fold down center console! Originally it had a 327 but it started leaking on the rear main, my dad's friend (who was a mechanic) told him that was a common problem with the 327 so he had him swap in a 4 bolt main 350 short block and used the intake, carb., and exhaust manifolds off the 327! It was pretty good truck all in all, I do remember the the a/c didn't work nor did the factory tachometer!
Yeah the 4 bolt main 350 held up quite well for him until he traded it in '86 for an '84 Ford F150 swb! Like I said he's never been partial to any make! The F150 had the big 300 inline 6! Boat load of torque but not much horsepower!
Like Alan Jackson says When Daddy Let me Drive !
Like Alan Jackson says When Daddy Let me Drive !