The '62-64 big block Mopars were game changers.
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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
- Thread starter Iridescentone
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My 2nd car was a 1965 Dodge Dart GT. Mine had a 273 with a four on the floor. Great times in that ill handling beast
Loved the looks, completely wrecked mine by putting a 67' 383 in it from a 1967 Chrysler Newport. In one fell swoop at the Sacramento raceway I twisted the frame and threw a rod on the first pass. As a broke 20 something it was devastating. Eventually put a 360 from a 1976 Chrysler Cordoba in it. It was a consistent track car. Not the fastest but dead nuts every run no matter the track or ambient temps. Got a lot of trophies with it.
Would the 383 fit without cutting into the fender wells and where did you get big block motor mounts??My 2nd car was a 1965 Dodge Dart GT. Mine had a 273 with a four on the floor. Great times in that ill handling beast
There was metal removed but not too much. Swapping K members is a Mopar secret sauce. What did *I* do? Solid mounts .... like the D.A.K. I was .. ( dumb ass kid ) Also swapping in a Mustang II front end was popular then.
I did so much wrong to that car
It was a junkyard learning experience. Pick and Pull knew my name.
Not my favorite car from any decade but someone here will enjoy this, I'd think.
I certainly liked the 1963 Corvette Stingray with the divided rear window, but evidently it was very difficult to see out of. The other one that I rode in and drove once was my high school buddy, Bill, had a 1966 GTO with the 389 and a 6-pack with progressive linkage. It was blue with a white top and had white bucket seats in the front and white bench seat in the back. The car looked good and only ran on one of the three 2bbl carburetors around town. When you got on the freeway it would open up another 2bbl. When you put your foot in it, the engine would roar and slam you back into your seat. Bill had made a padded cube to fit between the two front seats so his girlfriend could ride close to his side, with his arm over her shoulder.
One day Bill and I and my next door neighbor, Tina, were in his car heading up to the beach to meet our group of friends, and Bill took the frontage road. Tina made the mistake of asking him how fast his GTO would go, so he floored it while we were doing about 45mph. The car roared (freaking great sound), slammed us back into our seats, and flipped poor Tina into the back seat because there was no backrest on that padded cube where she was sitting. She came back up yelling at him and smacking him on the shoulder. Bill said, "you asked, so I though it best to show you!" We all laughed about that for years to come.
So I guess that Blue with white top 1966 GTO would be my favorite car that I ever drove or rode in. Looked like the one below but with a white top. Only the 1966 and 1967 looked similar. Difference was the 1967 had a chrome crosshatch grill that didn't look as cool and the tail lights were 2-pair of bars on each side instead of the 3 slats on the '66:
Rearview:
Of course my all time favorite car is a 1969 Ferrari 365GTB4. It was commonly referred to as the "Ferrari Daytona" in the US. It was a V12 with a dual overhead cams and 4 valves per cylinder. In 1968 it had a top speed of 174mph, which was the fastest production car up until then (1969). The 1971, 1972, and 1973 models were all raced at Le Mans. In 1971 their top speed was over 200mph and they finished 5th overall behind the two Porsche 917 long tail cars of the Gulf Oil Racing Team and two Ferrari 512's of the Ferrari racing team. The upstarts who did this were the "North American Racing Team". It's a front engine car and yet had 51% of the balance weight in front with 49% in the rear. That was unheard of in a front engine car of any type at the time. Ideally you wanted 50% front and 50% back.
And the rearview which is what you were much more likely to see...
I recall merging onto Hwy #7 (the Long Beach Freeway) in LA from Hwy 101 back in 1970. For a change it was easy as there was very little traffic in front of me. However there were 4 cars abreast basically forming a blockade behind me. As the two merging lanes came in, all of a sudden I heard a car roar, looked in my mirror and saw a white Ferrari Daytona finally get around that roadblock and he blasted by mewith a puff of smoke coming out of his exhaust. He was out of sight ahead of me in a matter or 2, maybe 3 seconds. In 1970 when I saw this, you could buy one for just $19,700...or you could buy a 3-bedroom house for that same amount...
One day Bill and I and my next door neighbor, Tina, were in his car heading up to the beach to meet our group of friends, and Bill took the frontage road. Tina made the mistake of asking him how fast his GTO would go, so he floored it while we were doing about 45mph. The car roared (freaking great sound), slammed us back into our seats, and flipped poor Tina into the back seat because there was no backrest on that padded cube where she was sitting. She came back up yelling at him and smacking him on the shoulder. Bill said, "you asked, so I though it best to show you!" We all laughed about that for years to come.
So I guess that Blue with white top 1966 GTO would be my favorite car that I ever drove or rode in. Looked like the one below but with a white top. Only the 1966 and 1967 looked similar. Difference was the 1967 had a chrome crosshatch grill that didn't look as cool and the tail lights were 2-pair of bars on each side instead of the 3 slats on the '66:
Rearview:
Of course my all time favorite car is a 1969 Ferrari 365GTB4. It was commonly referred to as the "Ferrari Daytona" in the US. It was a V12 with a dual overhead cams and 4 valves per cylinder. In 1968 it had a top speed of 174mph, which was the fastest production car up until then (1969). The 1971, 1972, and 1973 models were all raced at Le Mans. In 1971 their top speed was over 200mph and they finished 5th overall behind the two Porsche 917 long tail cars of the Gulf Oil Racing Team and two Ferrari 512's of the Ferrari racing team. The upstarts who did this were the "North American Racing Team". It's a front engine car and yet had 51% of the balance weight in front with 49% in the rear. That was unheard of in a front engine car of any type at the time. Ideally you wanted 50% front and 50% back.
And the rearview which is what you were much more likely to see...
I recall merging onto Hwy #7 (the Long Beach Freeway) in LA from Hwy 101 back in 1970. For a change it was easy as there was very little traffic in front of me. However there were 4 cars abreast basically forming a blockade behind me. As the two merging lanes came in, all of a sudden I heard a car roar, looked in my mirror and saw a white Ferrari Daytona finally get around that roadblock and he blasted by mewith a puff of smoke coming out of his exhaust. He was out of sight ahead of me in a matter or 2, maybe 3 seconds. In 1970 when I saw this, you could buy one for just $19,700...or you could buy a 3-bedroom house for that same amount...
Hard to "not like" a Ferrari! That 365P is also a beauty!
The three that were made are certainly different than any other Ferrari road car (that I know of). My taste in Enzo's cars run from around the mid '50s to mid '60s, for the most part.
Magnum...Best car for money return
Easy choice. The one in the upper right so I can go back in time to a better place.
Rare 1956 2 door Ford Parklane Station Wagon. It's for sale close to my house.
I'd probably go with the Dukes of Hazzard car because I really like classic American muscle, but the flag on top would have to go!
