Bmw did it It was nothing but trouble , very unreliable . There a book about modifying Ford 5.0 V8s and in the book they experimented with intake runner length and adding 11 inches to the intake runners picked up 50 foot pounds at 3000 and lost 50 horsepower at 5000 Perfect for a truck or heavier vehicle . Makes you wonder why it’s never been done on a normal vehicle ... View more

I own a 73 Bronco with a cloth top . Does that count ? I’ve also owned two samurai’s Cheaper than an ATV , and street legal . Rough ride though . ... View more

I love old cars and currently own several . My first car at 15 , in 1979 , was a 66 Thunderbird . I have no interest in a career in the auto related field , certainly not trying to work with spoiled pampered Richie rich types . One of my sons was a natural mechanic and was doing EFI transplants at 16 . Had zero interest in college. At age 20, He started driving for a heavy haul oversize transport company, regularly hauling loads that weigh 100,000 lbs , 16 feet wide etc . He’s also buying too many old cars but with the fedgov causing massive inflation, vintage cars will appreciate far more than cash left sitting in a bank account . ... View more

Friend of mine had his car stolen and recovered three times Then he wired the starter to the windshield squirter button. I have a couple of cars that would be easy to steal But I have installed a extra push button switch between the ignition and the starter , so both have to be used at the same time. Hide the switch somewhere under the carpet or under the seat cover or wherever ... View more

I’ve ridden in a Fiero with a tdi five speed And also ridden in a Fiero with a 4.9 Cadillac V8 automatic Both were fun in their own way ... View more

In the 80s I ordered a vanity pants that was “MY TAG “ ... View more

GM still can’t make the V8-6-4 The ones in the pickups routinely drop lifters and bend pushrods It’s a $5k repair . And it happens to about half of the pickups that have that idiotic design . The new V-8 Fiero , er, I mean the new mid engine corvette , has the same issue , their engines self destruct in no time . ... View more

Saloon ? Was this written by someone in Europe ? With a Lincoln town car in the garage ? ... View more

No clue    ive sent many emails trying to find the route for the Great Race portion from Newnan Ga to Chattanooga TN Never got any response at all. Just totally ignored    we live in north Ga and would love to run the route in one of our old cars , but apparently the route is top top  secret , even three years after the rally …. ... View more

I got my Lerners permit the day i turned 15 ... View more

thats the thing, cars and houses and stocks go for years with no appreciation, and then suddenly, before you can blink an eye, double or more. Ive got several of those stories, I turned 15 in 1980. muscle cars were plentiful and cheap. my first car was a 69 Mercury Cyclone Cale Yarbrough edition for $275 my best friends car was a 73 Trans Am for $1,200, my brothers high school ride was a 68 fastback Mustang for $650. one of my friends had a lime green 4 speed Super Bee that cost $800 in rural Appalachia, in Carter America, you couldnt give away a gas guzzling muscle car, or a house, because no one had a job and no one could afford the 19% -- yes 19%---mortgage interest rates. a couple years after I bought it, I sold the Cyclone at an auction for $550, there was a car at the auction I was interested in, a four speed 69 GTO Judge, but the seller had set an outrageous reserve and he didnt get a single bid. I talked to the guy and a couple days later I went to his house and test drove it and didnt buy it because the shifter was all messed up and very difficult to find the gear you wanted. the cyclone would now be worth $50K, who knows what the GTO would be worth, oh and the sellers outrageous reserve ? it was $1,600 . and not one person at the auction thought it was worth that. and its happened with houses more than I care to think about. 18 years ago we were renting a tiny house in Atlanta for $450 a month, the landlord offered to sell it to us for $80K, but the interest rates then were 9% and the mortgage payment would have been more than the rent, plus coughing up the down payment , plus paying the taxes and insurance and all the repairs on a 60 yr old house. a few months later when our lease was up, we got evicted and the landlord sold the house for $170k, to a flipper who added a bed and bath and quickly resold it for $275. it recently sold for $650k missing out on that money is what motivated us to find a way to buy our own house, which we did. last year the house next door to us was for sale for $300k, 13 months later the buyer sold it in two days for $475k ... View more

i use a switch, inline to the starter relay , so you have to turn the key AND press the hidden switch at the same time, its a spring loaded push button, hidden under the carpet or possibly on the edge of the seat frame or ... also the TBI chevrolets used a oil pressure switch to operate the fuel pump. a spring loaded switch to run the fuel pump or coil, until the oil pressure switch takes over would also work. ... View more

when they make a golf cart that will go at least 450-500 miles on a charge that costs the same or less than a normal automobile, I might be interested. last week I used a crew cab 4wd 3/4 ton pickup to tow a 28 foot trailer to a jobsite 200 miles away. is there an electric car that can do that? nope, and there never will be. is there ever going to be an electric 4wd pickup that can tow a mini excavator or bobcat to a jobsite?? nope. not now, not ever. and this isnt even getting into Tesla refusing to sell repair parts, Tesla even has a team of people who sit all day and search the internet car auction sites looking for insurance companies selling wrecked Teslas, so they can harvest the VIN and lock those VINs out of their charging network. if your Tesla ever gets wrecked, you can never use it at a Tesla charging station again. If GM is so focused on the enviroment, why did they STOP making the hybrid Tahoes? it seemed to be a well thought out tacked on addition. just the transmission was changed to add the electric motor. bumping a pickup or SUV from 15 mpg to 20 MPG saves the same gasoline as bumping a car from 35 mph to 50 mpg. go ahead and do the math, I will wait. even if you went to a govt school, you should be able to compute that. for me, I have several vintage vehicles. but for the daily driver beaters, its all about the money. if I can get a used car for under $5K that gets 35-40 mpg , why would I spend $50K for a glorified golf cart with the same range as my camry or accord if the camry or accord only had a 3 gallon gas tank? we have a VW turbo diesel 5 speed that gets 40 mpg, we paid $5K for it,used, TEN years ago, it currently has 250K on it and we have no plans to get rid of it. why would I spend $50K for a golf cart with the same range as the VW if it had 3 gallons of diesel in the tank? oh and turn the AC on full blast and sit in traffic for a hour, see what that does to the range. met one of my co workers the other day at a jobsite, I drove the 12 mpg truck. they drove their Nissan Leaf. I sent them a few miles away to pick up some pipe glue. 2 hours later they arrive back, and explain that their Leaf only has a 90 miles range, they had used up 45 of it driving to the jobsite and then driving to the hardware store drained some more, and they had to find a vacant charging station to recharge their car enough so they would be able to drive back home at the end of the day. the only way these electric car will ever be viable is if and when the all powerful govt forces the companies to make them and forces the consumers to buy them . by decree, which the libtards in commiefornia have already done. manufacture this inferior crappy product that no one wants to buy or else! buy this inferior crappy product, or else! these decrees just hurt the poor people that the liberals always claim they care about. its really about power and control over the peasants. at some point a hundred years from now when an electric car costs the same or less than a gasoline car and can be recharged with 400 miles of range in 20 minutes, at one of tens of thousands of stations, it might be viable. until then, forget it ... View more

i get a chuckle when the car companies announce they will stop making gasoline engines in 2025 or whatever. its nots physically possible to mine enough lithium to manufacture that many batteries, it is not possible to mine and manufacture enough copper for the wires, for the vehicles and for the infrastructure required to charge all those electric cars. there is also not enough electricity being generated to recharge all those cars. nor does the existing electric grid have enough capacity to carry the juice to all those cars that wont ever be built. the car companies are just virtue signaling on social media by giving these ridiculous dates and claims. volkswagens claim is laughable. ... View more

in georgia you can run year of manufactured plates up to 1988 I think, they stopped using yearly plates in 72 and switched to stickers, and different plates every 7 years , but the YOM plates can be 4 years plus or minus of the car model. I discovered georgia kept making yearly plates for heavy trucks, so if you can find a plate from an 18 wheeler you can get the yearly plates. ... View more

There were some great deals at mecum Houston . it sure looked like it to me . A 47 Lincoln convertible for under $20k ? A 37 Ford 4 door sedan convertible for under $20k ? And that 63 Mercury Meteor for $6k looked outstanding . In the 80s my family owned a 62 four door meteor and a 63 two door meteor. And I thought they were cool cars, based on the fairlane but slightly longer and usually more options. Our 63 two door had the 260 V8, power steering , power brakes, automatic, factory dealer AC and bucket seats and console. The 62 foot door had the one year only ? 221 V8 three on the tree and zero power options . But we got it from the original owner in 81, it was their daily driver all those years , had 230,000 miles on it . ... View more

yep,  funny how supply and demand always works that way, not only with cars but with real estate and also salaries .   and humans are very bizarre in their desires, I have owned a 72 Bronco for 27 years, six years ago I tried to sell it for $5K, it has fuel injection, power steering, a 5 speed , disc brakes etc. zero, ZERO interest. none.   now people see it sitting in my yard and want to buy it. no one wanted it until everyone ELSE wanted it,    no one wants cars until everyone else wants them too.   no one wants a cool vintage car unless its expensive and everyone else wants it too.   i have no idea why. but thats the way people are.  there are lots of affordable vintage cars available, you just have to find one you like that everyone else isnt investing their retirement fund on.     no,  you cant buy a hemi barracuda for $10K anymore no, you cant buy a fastback 66 mustang  for $2K like you could in 1985   but there are plenty of  reasonably priced vintage cars available  or at least i thought so  did any of yall watch the Mecum Houston auction? some very good cars got sold for under $25K   the auction started with a very nice 63 Mercury Meteor 4 door for $6K   followed by a 47 Lincoln convertible $23K 58 Edsel convertible $28K 37 Ford phaeton convertible $20K  37 Ford 4 door convertible $20K 60 cadiliac convertible $18 54 Mercury glass roof $26K 62 olds starfire convertible $22K 49 Mercury convertible  $32k 65 mercury park lane marauder $12 59 ford galaxy sunliner cloth convertible $27K 66 mustang $22K 75lincoln mk4 $7K 71 mustang convertible $20K 40 Packard coupe $13K 68 Cadiliac convertible $20K 68 cutlass convertible $25K 47 Lincoln convertible $25 74 couple deville $7K 53 ford $21k 38 chevy $9K 49 ford tudor 302 5 speed $21K 36 ford tudor $19K 50 ford four door $8K 59 ford 2 dr hardtop $18k 31 ford highboy hotrod $26K 66 plymouth fury $10K 37 dodge streetrod $21k 65 chevy stock pickup $18k 39 ford sedan $18k 37 chevy hotrod $18k 73 mustang convertible $21 61 falcon 4 door $4K 65 thunderbird convertible $18 48 Lincoln continental $20 70Buick GS $24k 67 elcamino $21 78 Lincoln mk4 $23k 67 impala convertible $23k 69 caprice 4 door ht $20K 54 pontiac $25k 72 gmc pickup $22k 57 chevy 2 dr $23K 63 Avanti $22K 70 cutlass $22K 65 fury $25K 72 mustang mach 1 $24k 81 Z28 $25K           ... View more

When I was a kid my family had a 28 foot Travco motor home, with a 318? Whatever engine , it was totally gutless towing a boat or a trailer full of motorcycles in the Appalachian mountains.  my father found a 440 from a junkyard charger or something and had it souped up and swapped in. it easily had twice the power of the original engine.    ... View more

You must live in Minnesota? In Georgia , A/C is the first thing to add if you want to spend any time actually driving an older car. We have a 65 Falcon station wagon with a hot 302 with a lumpy cam & C4, tubular A arms , disc brakes, dual chamber master cylinder, original radio converted to Bluetooth by Tayman electrical in Florida. Slot mags & fat tires, air shocks, And vintage air AC. We have driven it on several 1000 mile trips. It’s a nice highway cruiser and attracts more attention than any Lamborghini ever could. ... View more

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He was a Funny guy , know what I mean vern?   and who writes these articles ? what the heck is a Toyota 86??? is that a car ?   certainaly not one sold with that name in the states.      Does Hagerty Not know that this article is mainly for American viewers ? ... View more

What the heck is a Toyota 86? ... View more

My first bike at age 11 was a 73 Honda CT Trail 90 got it from my older brother when he moved up to a Honda XL-175 ... View more

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