What was your first Muscle Car experience ?

[JSmith]

My step brother had a 67 Chevell SS 396 4spd, what fun.



I had a 57 Chv 4 dr wgn. Gave the wgn to dad to co-sign for a 69 DODGE SUPER BEE 383 Magnum 4spd. I had the motor rebuilt, Isky cam, Holley carb (3310), Edelebrock intake, Accell dist, wires, and coil. Hedman headers, 410 gears in the rear end, roller timing chain. Hush Thrust mufflers, H-pipe. Flex fan, 4 core radiator, heavy duty clutch. Hurst comp shifter. Traction bars. Dash mounted tach. And an 8 track tape player





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[lschultz]

69 Dodge Dart Swinger 340 4spd had 80000 hard miles on it(used to drag it on the weekends) put 1 clutch in it and numerous tires. Back then did not have money for headers so we welded the necks out of gas tanks on the pipes for cut outs was always blowing the caps off. Traded it in on a 71 Demon 340 with auto not as fast as the 69.

 

[Boomer II]

High school buddy had a 65 or 66 Chevelle with the biggest engine available, his dad punished him with it when he took his vette away. I had an English Ford Anglia 105E, like in the Harry Potter movie, real low on the cool scale.

 

[Philip]

My first one was a 71 Challenger with a 340 in it. I found out later that is had been totaled. It had started life as a big block car. It still had the big block suspension under it. Does the term slot car ring a bell.



My next one was a 1971 Nova with a 375 HP 402 CI engine and a 4 spd.



By the time I got rid of the Challenger 5 years later it was faster than the Nova.

 

[Scot]

Originally posted by TxDieselKid

It use to be all the rage down on the saturday nights, on the streets in Houston where we would all go to see some action (Westimer mostly for us on the south side), and sometimes participate.





Andrew

Yep, I remember 5 of us in a 69 Goat running south on the Gulf Frwy after a night of street racing. The speedo needle was about to twist off. Of course we were invincible then.

 

[MrWinkey]

I dont know about Muscle cars as I've rode in a few older hot rods... . but what sold me on turbos was a friends 87 Shelby Z daytona. That lil dodge 4 cyl car was just as fast as many of the Muscle cars at the strip.



I've never bought another N/A car since.

 

[emarsh]

well, maybe more of a pony car story. I was 12 years old when my uncle took my father and me for a wild ride in a brand new, just out, 4 speed 1963-1/2 Falcon Sprint, it was at night in the desert (Palmdale, Calif. ) and I'm sure we hit a 100MPH real quick, my father was mad as hell and asked my uncle to slow down and take us back home. I thought it was a grand old time. A month or so later it was repossesed by the dealer. But I will not forget how quickly that little car accelerated.

 

[gonehuntingagain]

73 Dodge Challenger. Parents are the original owners - still have it in original condition. First one I drove was a Dodge Magnum - when I was 6 - sat in Dad's lap and steered on the freeway, even changed lanes to pass someone. I had a grin the size of Texas! Not a muscle car, but my Dad had an old 1940's Dodge military truck - man that thing was ugly!



Hmmmm... . 2 Dodge are part of my fond childhood memories... seeing a trend here... just a bigger kid now

 

[CFast]

First experince, 68 Camaro 350, tired. I thought that thing rocked. Then my buddy put a roller 383 in it, WOW what a difference

Then my other buddy got a 73 duster with a built 360. It was a grandma's car with about 450hp. Looked like it was driven to church and back. That car ate that 383 Camaro all day long. I bought a duster shortly after that. 451 stroker, it's like driving on ice.

 

[Ncostello]

My Grandpas friend had a Plymouth Belevedere GTX 440... 1967 I believe. It would move out. That was the first experience I had in a factory muscle car. And it was good

 

[RamThatStroker]

Dad's 71 Buick GS 455 Stage 1, auto, 3. 54 gears. Started driving it in high school but only drove it a month before the motor didn't want to run anymore. Car is now sitting at my parents with the original balanced and blueprinted motor waiting to go back in. Although, now since I'm the owner of the car I'm going to do a frame off resto once I get enough money. Until then the burnouts are going to have to wait



Other than that I had a buddy who had an original 70 Chevelle SS 396 that was faster than heck until his dad rolled it after a late nite at the bar.

 

[RHARVEY]

1967 Chevelle SS 396 w/ Muncie 4 speed





Rick

 

[midlife crisis]

First Experience? Oldest brothers 72 340 Demon. Bright Orange w/ black stripes. Quick car- pics around here somewhere racing at E-town 30 years ago. So many since then.

 

[dieselpilot1969]

gettin booty in the back seat

 

[crobertson1]

One of my buddies in high school had a '72 Z28 with the "Rockcrusher" M22 4 spd, very fast. Another had a '70 Nova SS with a 375hp 396(402)/4 spd, very fast, even faster when he put a blower on it. Still another buddy had a '68 Camaro SS with a 375hp 396/4 spd, very fast. Thinking back now, our high school parking lot would make a pretty decent car show today. One guy put a 428 or 9 Super Cobra Jet in a '65 or '66 Ranchero, insane. Oh to still have those cars.

 

[Rhondasway]

First experience, probably my mom's Mach 1 when I was little...

First very fast ride: sister's boyfriend's '70 440 Challenger...

First of my own: '68 GTS 340 Dart (trouble)

 

[rrausch]

In 1964 my buddy Mike V. bought a trashed-out '56 red Corvette. Old Corvettes were relatively cheap then, especially ones that had been rodded hard and not taken care of. But he had to have it and so he bought it. The old 283 lasted for awhile, but he decided to put 2-4bbls on it, and that really hastened it's demise! After the 283 blew the car sat at a friend's garage for months on end. Mike was looking for a 327, but since they had only been out about 2 years then, and he didn't have top dollar, he was having a hard time finding one. But the guy who ran the garage had a 426 Dodge Wedge-head from a wreck, and he convinced Mike to put it in the Corvette!~! Yup! A 426 Dodge Wedge in a '56 Corvette! This was done, although things were REALLY a tight fit. As I recall you had to lift the engine to change the spark plugs. But it flat out RAN!! We took it to Kansas City on a fun trip once. I borrowed it to go out with a K. C. girl and later that night stopped at a gas station to fill up--(Something you had to do a lot!) The car turned over a few times and then the battery was dead. So I just sat there and asked several knowledgable-looking guys who came in for gas if they had jumper cables. I found one who did have cables, and when I popped the hood on the Corvette he stared and stared and finally said, "What the hell kind of engine IS that?" I told him... his jaw about hit the ground! We didn't do any official drag racing, but it was one of the faster cars I've ever been in.



Oddly enough the other "fastest car" was my girlfriend's '59 Corvette which someone has stuffed a built 396 into. She bought it off of a car lot because she thought it looked "cute". She had no idea! And I didn't either until I drove it. That car was also very tough. This was in 1968 when you could still get old Corvettes relatively easily. The 396 sounded very smooth, whoever had built it had not put a race cam in it, but it was very, very tough. Very fast. It felt faster than Mike's 426 if truth be told. Someone with a tow truck stole that 'Vette from the side of her house in 1970. Never saw it again.



By the way, at that time I had a '58 'Vette with a 327 300 H. P. in it. T-10 4-speed (which I was afraid of shelling out) and both tops. Boy do I miss that car. That was the best travel car I ever drove--I could keep my legs completely streched out in front of me. It wasn't in the league of the other 2 'Vettes, but it had a lot of power. I was running a single Quadrajet on it and had several rear ends under it at one time or another. I hated the 4. 11 because I didn't like the high RPM's when on long trips. I finally found a 3:xx (forgot) Posi from out of a station wagon and kept it. It was a GREAT road car, but not really a full-blown muscle car.



The guy who put the 426 Wedge into Mike's 'Vette had THE most rusted out '56 Chevy Station Wagon I've ever seen. He couldn't put much on the floor behind the front seat because things would fall through the holes in the floor!

 

[Elite1]

git-r-done, mine was similar to yours... . I had a 68' GTO with a 400 ci, Holly 850, edelbrock manifold, headers, sig erson race cam, . 373 gears with a turbo 400 slap stick transmission... man I had alot of fun in that car!

In my high school parking lot I could lay rubber the length of the football field...

It had a big enough back seat that it worked out pretty good at the drive in movies, too!

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Abolute BEST experience was in a 1995 Blown 460 Saleen mustang. But that more so is a Supercar and I am not allowed to discuss that EVER again (Or so my doctor says so).



First was in a 70 'cuda 426. Man when those dual 4 barrel carbs were wide open it would make me giggle in ways I cannot possibly duplicate. We were on knapps highway in fairfield when rob first got on it rolling @ 20 or so. the thing went from sweet cruiser to spaz in one single downshift and there was nothing but wide open hemi and tire smoke. ..... I was hooked BAD. Then with warmed up clean tires we launched again ... this time going forward REAL QUICK. That thing WAS fast for what I remember was an otherwise unmolested car. It was an awesome red color and I never could look at my 68 mustang Fastback the same again after that day. It just looked mean, and comanded looks stil some 20 years later and til this day too. Man I could just smell the air , feel the temp , and hear that sound as if it just happened.

 

[NVR FNSH]

Not the first but the most memorable: ~1990 - restored '69(?) Boss 429 Mustang - I think it was a Holman & Moody (sp?) car. With four of us not so small guys in it the thing pinned me in the seat.



Brian