Johnny O
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LaRue Medlin
In Memoriam 1955-2017
I wish I could win the lottery.....................
blksn8k
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Very cool.
However, I do feel it necessary to pick a small bone with these old Top Gear chaps. The term "bundle of snakes" refers to the way the headers on a GT-40 mid-engine race car swept up and over the engine and transaxle before exiting out the rear of the car. That would be quite an accomplishment on a bloody Mustang.
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However, I do feel it necessary to pick a small bone with these old Top Gear chaps. The term "bundle of snakes" refers to the way the headers on a GT-40 mid-engine race car swept up and over the engine and transaxle before exiting out the rear of the car. That would be quite an accomplishment on a bloody Mustang.
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EddieS'04
In Memoriam 1950-2022
Ditto!!!
Hard to imagine that some my age. Used to race and drive high speed. On those skinny bias ply tires....:bwahaha:
Scrubed alot of sidewalls' on High speed corners.......Kept our fingers crossed alot. We thought it was great. When the wide ovals' and the poly-glass tires came out. Actually they might have been safer @ speed. But they were terrible wet and dry traction. Best wide tire I found back then, was. The wide tire that gates rubber company made. To compete with firestone wide oval and goodyear poly-glass. The only 3 custom wheels were. Keystone, crager ss and chromed oem steel.:driving:
Hard to imagine that some my age. Used to race and drive high speed. On those skinny bias ply tires....:bwahaha:
Scrubed alot of sidewalls' on High speed corners.......Kept our fingers crossed alot. We thought it was great. When the wide ovals' and the poly-glass tires came out. Actually they might have been safer @ speed. But they were terrible wet and dry traction. Best wide tire I found back then, was. The wide tire that gates rubber company made. To compete with firestone wide oval and goodyear poly-glass. The only 3 custom wheels were. Keystone, crager ss and chromed oem steel.:driving:
If they didn't blindly hate American cars so much, they might have known that.
I would love to own a Mustang someday but one like this beauty is the only way I'd have one. I have no interest in showing up at a car show to park in the "Mustang lane." Same with the Camaro and Bel Air. Gimme something unique. A one of would do it.
I would love to own a Mustang someday but one like this beauty is the only way I'd have one. I have no interest in showing up at a car show to park in the "Mustang lane." Same with the Camaro and Bel Air. Gimme something unique. A one of would do it.
Johnny O
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blksn8k said:
I caught the same thing. Either they don't know WTF they're talking about or it has 180* headers.
Eddie,
If you were like me..at that age, skinny, bias ply tires were the last thing you were thinking about at that time...:bwahaha: I burned up the original set of tires in less than 8K miles.
I bought a new 1965 GTO, 360HP when I returned from my tour on Okinawa. That car could probably beat 95% of the cars in a straight line that were on the road at that time. Don't even mention cornering or stopping...since that was not even in my vocabulary at that time...:grin:
It took me a few scary moments with luck as my co-pilot to realize that performance was not just HP and acceleration....handling and stopping power were just as important.
...Rich
If you were like me..at that age, skinny, bias ply tires were the last thing you were thinking about at that time...:bwahaha: I burned up the original set of tires in less than 8K miles.
I bought a new 1965 GTO, 360HP when I returned from my tour on Okinawa. That car could probably beat 95% of the cars in a straight line that were on the road at that time. Don't even mention cornering or stopping...since that was not even in my vocabulary at that time...:grin:
It took me a few scary moments with luck as my co-pilot to realize that performance was not just HP and acceleration....handling and stopping power were just as important.
...Rich
I had one such scary incident in my Cougar. All it took. It'll go fast; no need to prove it. It won't stop fast or corner fast; don't want to prove it. Drifting is not as fun as it looks when it's unintentional and not on a "closed course, professional driver." Talk about shaking for an hour.
The scariest part is thinking about what that wood steering wheel would do to my forehead in the event of an accident. I do believe I became a better driver than most my age because I learned to drive in a high horsepower, low traction, rear wheel drive vehicle with no engineering consideration for weight balance. That rear end can whip around to the front with just a wee bit too much throttle and steering input. My most embarrassing driving moment involves this fact and a four way stop sign. I just pretended I meant to do a 180 and return the direction I came from instead of turning right.:smack: The other three cars at the intersection must have thought I was a real idiot. They would have been correct I suppose. I never was good at showboating anyway.
The scariest part is thinking about what that wood steering wheel would do to my forehead in the event of an accident. I do believe I became a better driver than most my age because I learned to drive in a high horsepower, low traction, rear wheel drive vehicle with no engineering consideration for weight balance. That rear end can whip around to the front with just a wee bit too much throttle and steering input. My most embarrassing driving moment involves this fact and a four way stop sign. I just pretended I meant to do a 180 and return the direction I came from instead of turning right.:smack: The other three cars at the intersection must have thought I was a real idiot. They would have been correct I suppose. I never was good at showboating anyway.
