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#248,901
bobyoung53 said:
A couple of friend's of mine's father had a '66 New Yorker with a 440 in it, it used to burn out going 30 mph, then they burned out the transmission. :laugh:
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My cousin had a 2- door '68 New Yorker with a 440 in the mid to late 70s. Looked like a super nice family car. He used to go racing and eat Camaro's, Chevelles, Mustangs and all manner of hotrods. His would burn out at 35 when stomped. Weird feeling. He used to tape a $10 bill on the dash and say you can keep it if you can reach up and grab it when he took off. His was all factory, but he was training to me a ME and kept it in perfect condition.
His older bro had a '68 Chry 300 convertible which was a stunning dark blue. I don't recall what it had in it, 413 maybe. It wasn't a speedy for whatever reason, but did look much better. Great looking car regardless of color.

Looked exactly like this dark green one.
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Never had any of this in it's monster trunk.
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RedVee said:
So, at the risk of being OffTopic - I was chatting with Donnie @dagrev and we reckon it must be 40 years (early 80s) since we have driven a car with a “3 on the tree” column shift manual gearbox. Further, we reckon a column manual would be an effective car theft deterrent. :laugh:

Any of you fine folk driving a column manual car? Or have sometime in the last few decades? :laugh::laugh:
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I had a 65 econoline...

I'm on the lookout for a 65-67 mustang or ranchero/falcon with a inline 6 and three on the tree...
 
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#248,908
BklynKen said:
I have a couple of questions about the Probucker 760s.

1. How is the size of them compared to the TB+? As in will they drop into a modern Gibson?

2. How easily do the covers come off?
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1) IIRC the 760 pickup is very slightly smaller than the TB+ pickup in length and width and quite a bit smaller in height (or thickness). So it will easily fit in an unmodified Gibson Tbird route but you might want to consider trim rings to tidy up the perimeter gap. Because they are so much thinner you might also need a spacer (thick foam or wood block) under the pup to get the correct height and a trim ring spacer to raise the trim ring high enough to cover the potentially exposed bottom edge of the pickup.
2) Have never taken one off, they are soldered on. I wouldn’t recommend unsoldering them, the heat might mess up any wax potting or silicone or epoxy that might be inside the can. If I wanted to take the top off I’d probably very carefully use a dremel tool with a thin cutting disk (watch out for hot solder splatter when cutting).
 
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#248,910
dagrev said:
My cousin had a 2- door '68 New Yorker with a 440 in the mid to late 70s. Looked like a super nice family car. He used to go racing and eat Camaro's, Chevelles, Mustangs and all manner of hotrods. His would burn out at 35 when stomped. Weird feeling. He used to tape a $10 bill on the dash and say you can keep it if you can reach up and grab it when he took off. His was all factory, but he was training to me a ME and kept it in perfect condition.
His older bro had a '68 Chry 300 convertible which was a stunning dark blue. I don't recall what it had in it, 413 maybe. It wasn't a speedy for whatever reason, but did look much better. Great looking car regardless of color.

Looked exactly like this dark green one.
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Never had any of this in it's monster trunk.
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so much to like….:drool:
 
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dagrev said:
My cousin had a 2- door '68 New Yorker with a 440 in the mid to late 70s. Looked like a super nice family car. He used to go racing and eat Camaro's, Chevelles, Mustangs and all manner of hotrods. His would burn out at 35 when stomped. Weird feeling. He used to tape a $10 bill on the dash and say you can keep it if you can reach up and grab it when he took off. His was all factory, but he was training to me a ME and kept it in perfect condition.
His older bro had a '68 Chry 300 convertible which was a stunning dark blue. I don't recall what it had in it, 413 maybe. It wasn't a speedy for whatever reason, but did look much better. Great looking car regardless of color.

Looked exactly like this dark green one.
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Never had any of this in it's monster trunk.
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440's were monster engines. They made different HP ratings back then, in 68 you could go from 335 to 380 HP, they stopped making 413's in 1965. A buddy of mine had a '68 Plymouth GTX with a 440, that thing flew.
 
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GBassNorth said:
1) IIRC the 760 pickup is very slightly smaller than the TB+ pickup in length and width and quite a bit smaller in height (or thickness). So it will easily fit in an unmodified Gibson Tbird route but you might want to consider trim rings to tidy up the perimeter gap. Because they are so much thinner you might also need a spacer (thick foam or wood block) under the pup to get the correct height and a trim ring spacer to raise the trim ring high enough to cover the potentially exposed bottom edge of the pickup.
2) Have never taken one off, they are soldered on. I wouldn’t recommend unsoldering them, the heat might mess up any wax potting or silicone or epoxy that might be inside the can. If I wanted to take the top off I’d probably very carefully use a dremel tool with a thin cutting disk (watch out for hot solder splatter when cutting).
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@BklynKen chrome Tbird pickups are about 1.3mm smaller in length and width than the plastic cover ones. It's not a big difference, but it looks a little gappy when you put the chrome pickup in a route sized for the plastic cover.
 
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