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Red, I have to double post..
Youv'e seen how much the Plymouth Superbirds are going for this day..
My older cousin was born in Greece and I guess when he came to NY he loved the flash. Back in 70 he bought a brand new Superbird, a stripper, bench seat on the colume shifter with just a AM radio. Stock 440 4bl and 14in steelies with the little moon hub caps.
He put a Corvette style fiberglass LT1 scoop on it, after market buckets, a lenco trans which he cut a hole in the hump for the shifter, cut the rear quarters out to put N50's on Wesson wheels, and topped it of with a "chain" steering wheel.:eek: He ended selling it for like $2000 a few years later:cryyy:
Oh yeah, the same on the motor with a too big cam, too big intake, headers and all..
 
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Yea if he only knew what that car would be worth, and if dad would have known to buy some Xerox stock, or Home depot, but the fun we had is also of great value, you only get 1 life. YOLO :beer:
 
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Yea if he only knew what that car would be worth, and if dad would have known to buy some Xerox stock, or Home depot, but the fun we had is also of great value, you only get 1 life. YOLO :beer:
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Sorry to torture you Red:can:
No one near me lately is in to cars much and got a bit nostalgic:o:)
 
Don't be sorry I love the technology and the memories, keeping our minds sharp and learning is what being alive is all about.

The 10 second bikes I have ridden were so addictive, 1st gear gets you to 70mph in about 2 seconds, you duck your head down with your chest over the gas tank and get a decent launch and as soon as your you hear/feel redline you bilp the throttle and speed shift into 2nd and in 2 seconds you're into triple digits without even trying, it's a thrill ride and a fight to keep the front wheel down, I loved it, I miss it, I want it again but I better not, so why not enjoy the memory. Did you ever ride bikes ?

I remember this so well, this is not my video, but I remember doing exactly the same thing, your mind is running so fast that it seems slower, every moment of sound is being processed, every little physical input you are aware of and honing all the time, it's like a drug, like being super alive....it's adrenaline and it's addictive and you get used to blasting down the road until you pass a cop and instantly wake back up to the fact that you are hauling ass, it's just too much fun and impossible to sit on that much fun without cracking it open, truth is they know it and often give you a lot of latitude, but there was an epidemic a while back, I suspect it was one reason behind the highway cameras, but I have been out of the game for a while now, also no matter how good we are, no matter how resolved we are not to hurt anyone, there are totally reckless jerks who ruin it for everyone.

Of course some would call me reckless, although I never hurt anyone, scared the hell out of some maybe, however there are points of no return in just driving to work obeying every law, there are situations where anyone can be helpless to circumstances, and as the fun increases so do the risks, I suppose the question is who are we to decide a higher risk is fair to others...who decides the chemicals in our food pose an acceptable risk, who decides one more atomic test and the fallout is an acceptable risk, don't kid yourselves, hospital mistakes kill more people than anything and that risk seems to just be accepted, and 90+ % of everyone on the highway is breaking the speed limit every day, except during the growing non stop traffic jams during daylight hours. Montana would be nice......Just not in the winter months.



 
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That is insane:D ^^^^^^
Never got into bikes and can't understand Harley lingo and don't know the difference between "knuckle head" and "pan head" Not that I don't like bikes and what they are about between Harleys and the rice burners but my father wouldn't have let me in the day..
I did have a mini bike:whistle: as a kid, it was a cheapie Sears frame, no shocks and the brake was a cup that rubbed on the rear wheel, but that was missing and I destroyed tons of sneakers! Do want to say even though it was made for 2 1/2 hp, I was able to stuff a 5 hp Briggs an Stratten i it. I walked it home more than riding it as the cops would make me push it home following me:)

Like every town does, I knew a kid who was a sicko riding the rice burners and he would run this curvy road named Elem st and scrape the petals doing 100mph. he had a bunch of super bikes at the time in early 80's and one was that Honda with the 6 cylinder that came out. You have to remember what Honda named it, the motor was a straight 6 that stuck out on both sides! It wasn't a handler he said but could lift the front tire doing 60 but not at 80.
He did break every Cardinal Rule and humanity rule though that pissed alot of people off, he took a 18 year old girl for a ride doing well over a 100 on a curvy street and she screamed histericly for him to stop and he wouldn't. She ended up in a Psyhe hospital..
Off all the crazy riding he did, he got hurt bad when he was only doing like 20 and an elderly women drove into him.
 
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The CBX, that is old school. Sounds like the guy pushed too far. Yes you can jump off the roof all day and then die from tripping over a curb stone, it's crazy sometimes.

There is karma, I used to have a Honda 360 when I was about 12 years old, a guy at church gave it to me and I replaced the points and cleaned out the carbs, then I would start at the back of the neighborhood and see how fast I could go....well years back some kid in a civic started at the back of the neighborhood and came through to see how fast he could go, all I saw was a flash of light and heard a screaming engine as he came out of the blind dip in the road and hit me doing about 100 miles an hour, totaled my mazda MX6 and his Honda, he flew through the window but was ok, bloody but ok. I was fine, my car was destroyed.

Anyway he was so worried that I would sue his parents as he had no insurance, I told him not to worry as I used to do the same stupid thing and he could pay for my car later, he never did but I don't care, I paid a personal debt to karma. ;)

 
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I knew you got it.. Yup, now I remember the CBX:beer:
Karma is a big thing too me. I believe both are Father's instilled you work for your money.
Slip and fall people are maggots in my opinion. Not talking about the real issues of negligence. Years ago I was heavy traffic at a light and lightly tapped a car in front of me, about as hard as putting a Q tip in your ear. The woman claimed back pain and called an ambulance. A police officer happended to see it and there was not even a smudge on her car. He gave me his card just in case and told me she will probably be billed for $800 for the ambulance ride and she would be in court if she didn't pay.
You did the right thing, and that poor kid suffered enough I think..
 
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I had looked and the road was clear when I backed out, but there is a blind dip in the road where cars can disappear, at 25 or even 45 miles an hour there's plenty of time to react, however he was going so fast that as I backed into the road he closed in fast seemingly out of nowhere, all I saw was a flash of headlights and I heard the screaming engine, it is a dangerous spot, I have seen a lot of wrecks here and on the hill going out.

Anyway he hit my rear quarter and spun me into the yard next door, I probably spun 3 times, if he had hit me in my passenger door I would have been badly hurt or killed, but because the energy was dissipated in a lot of spinning and sliding I was ok, his front end was smashed after hitting me so he went straight into a concrete drainage inlet built into the roadside and that threw him out his front window, so I don't know if he did all he could to avoid a broadside into me or if we got lucky, in all the excitement I did not think to ask, I remember I had a winter cold and my throat/voice was all messed up from being sick.

I know when I push things on the road if there was a situation and a choice I would choose to run myself into a ditch rather than hurt anyone else in a flash without thinking about it, how could I not, but I always tried to not let anything happen, although with increased speed the risk is higher, there's really no valid excuse and I know all speeders are in the wrong, it's one reason I don't push things on the road anymore, I would be sick if I ever seriously hurt anyone and my recklessness was part of the cause, so now I just drive to go A to B, I would love to race on a track but it's not my top priority, so I play with lasers and go shooting, maybe someday I will build a drag car and go spend all Saturday night to make 3 passes, but no more on the roadway, nothing hard core, I do exceeded the posted limit along with the majority of drivers, but here there's not even any points until 15 mph over, in North Carolina they have a zero tolerance 1 mph deal. I know Montana used to have no posted limit, just " reasonable and prudent " but now I think it's 75 or 85 and a lot of long empty roads.
 
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It must of felt forever spinning and spinning even though it was maby 5 seconds.
Stupid how it can take alot of people being hurt before any change is made. Growing up there was just a stop sign down the street and after a guy did the same by flying through his wind shield into a mail box did it take for the city to put stop lights.
Were i'm at now I see the most dangerous and obnoxious drivers I ever seen. The type "hey I have a SUV and I can do anything because its 4 wheel drive". Plus stop signs mean nothing to them.
This happenend recently, I was driving with my neighbor and I came to a stop sign, she said go they have a stop sign and I said really like thats going to make them stop for sure. Just as I said it a guy ran it and T boned the car right in front of us.
Women are the worst drivers i'm sorry to say, or the most aggressive or could care less.
Getting to a track is the best and safest way like you said. I don't want to put anyone innocent in danger. Yes I might light the tires up or a nice freeway on ramp blast if I ever get my car up and running. But gone are those stupid days..
 
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Sadly I have totally given up, gotten old, I just get from A to B now. But I remember when it was easy to hot rod a used Camaro, and when the sound was everywhere, Saturday night at the parking lots and on the road all you heard was lope, cherry bombs and tires chirping, it was a different world. :beer:
 
GSS and Red, you guys will have to come here in August, we've got the best show of classic cars and hot rods that you'll see anywhere!
Miles and miles of hot rods, and they actually start cruising like this days ahead of the actual cruise.

Check out the begining, and again at 3:38 for some "superbird" sightings! You've got to watch the whole thing though. :yh:

 
The deleted link I had was me trying to link the special heads and package of the Buick GSX Stage2 car that roamed Woodward Ave in the 70's. I guess all the car manufacturers did that in the day:)
Great link Bow and what a show it must be! I'm looking for your Nova:wave:
 
@ BowTie: Nice, the last good car show I saw was in Biloxi on Beach blvd.

@ Arctic: Those GITD looking green and blue laser lines are nice, much more vibrant colors.
 
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