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Was referring to the 'Z-Eater'(license plate).....a 429 Super Cobra Jet Torino.....factory solid lifters, 430 locker, etc.

Think Street Machine Nationals. The mouse eating Cobra got a lotta Chevy fans up tight........just like here.

428's chewed cranks.

Most Chevy's.........unmodified.......were crap getting out of the hole. Can you say wheel hop?

Double hump 327's pulled very hard.....spread bore mechanical carbs sounded like a turbine opening up.

It wasn't a 2 bbl Cleveland?

The Cleveland's had a 2 or 4 on the corner of the heads......kinda the equivalent of the humps on Chevy's.

We combed every junkyard.....searching out the 4's. Larger valves and advantaged combustion chambers.

We'd put 351 Windsor heads on 302's(Windsor). Larger valves and, dependent on the year.....smaller combustion chambers......boosting compression.

With modification.....you could install the 4bbl Cleveland heads on a 302.....which could get you close to a faux Boss engine.

We never made that modification.

Back then......a hp per cube was fun. Now, this stock 5.0 (302) in the F150 is rated 395hp.

Technology.

It was a Windsor factory 2 barrel. Had a lifter collapse & while the intake was off I took the heads to machine shop. They went over them & did a 3 angle job on em. Was a good running car, but wouldn't win any races.

My first was a ‘65 Mustang fastback,handed down from my older brother.Dad handed it down to him when he turned 16.No doubt,we both wish we still had it...

1969 Chevy Impala more-door, 350/255hp, 4-bbl Quadrajet. Dad knew how to tune that carburetor, he loved Q-jets and said they were fine carbs.

5.8L 351W. Some engine street mods and off road under chassis build up. Just enough to go where I wanted to hunting, fishing camping pulling trailers and boats.

Teen cousin I sold it took good care of it. Its still running last time I heard around 2010. All fixed up pretty I was told.

Good looking fam' and sorry to hear you losing your pops, primo.

!971 Bronco. Poor thing didn't have a chance. Broke everything on it.

83 mustang! Grey, chess little hatchback with a gutless v6 and auto. Bought it myself at age 15 for $2300 in about 88. I totaled it hunting deer. Almost made it too the top of an icy mountain road before it slid backwards down it dropped off about a 10 foot bank and landed upside down in a mountain creek.

Saw some huge bucks on the walk out but needed to get off the mountain and stop some bleeding so we didn't try to get on the deer.

Bb

1969 Pontiac Lemans, 350 4 barrel Q jet, factory dual exhaust. Q jets have huge secondaries and were prone to dieseling but if tweaked were an excellent carb. Fouled plugs running regular gas every 2 weeks. Clean the plugs, run premium, set the timing up and that thing would bark the tires hitting 2nd in the Turbo 400 every time. And it wasn't even a muscle car. 2nd car was a 1973 Ford Gran Torino 351 2V. Didn't have enough power to get out of its own way but looked good and with the Concord stereo was fun to cruise in.

FC67 I lived in the Lodi/Merced area up until about Y2K, you any where close?

1972, baby blue VW bug. 4 on da floor! It was a cool ride!

First new car was a special ordered 1970 Hemi 'Cuda. The doors rattled off the lot, but it was fun to drive. I'm surprised that I am still alive.

Now I'm playing with a F150 with a 302 Coyote engine in the barn. Lot of potential in that 4 cam, 4 valve per cylinder engine.

A friend's first car was a bug.

To change the clutch........you had to pull the engine. No hoist or jack required.

A cool ride........air cooled.

Saddest first car story ever. Bummer.

That sliding (or spinning) backwards is the most helpless feeling. Had it a few times......but never ended quite that badly.

Unless you had a Leupold, that rifle was likely knocked off zero, anyway.

1978 Buick Regal. Black with tan interior. You needed to turn off the A/C before merging onto the expressway, but this was still in the days of the double-nickel.

I kept two cotton bathroom rugs in the back for quick deployment-- one for the Friday night steady and the other for the Saturday Night steady. I eventually added a can of Raid after time spent beside a cow pasture. We got chiggers that could have killed.

The nice thing about the tan interior was that it hid the mud from my caving trips.

Gracias compa.

Why is no one copping to their first car being a Vega or Chrysler K car?

No one had an English Ford Cortina either?

Have seen a Peugot listed, and a Studebaker, but no Nash Ramblers, Desotos, Edsels, and other "oddities"?

74 Ford Maverick 4 door. Yellow with a white vinyl top. At least it had a 302.

'69 Chevelle SS with a 396 and 4 on the floor.

I blew it up and burned the rear tires off of it. When it started costing my old man money, he made me get rid of it.

A girlfriend had an Orange Vega in college, for her first car.....with a squealing throw-out bearing.

She sold that and then drove a Ford Granada.

I got roped into changing the water pump in that Granada, when I came up for a visit......middle of the winter.....Twin Cities.

She proposed a couple years later.....about 37 years ago.

Now, wrenching flat sucks.