Any vintage car guys here?

[pcoumbe]

Had this HJ47 Landcruiser until I left Australia. Was the only way I could keep my licence

 

[Downeaster]

Nice! I'd like to have something like that just for cruising around town in.

 

[TX650A Van Islander]

Those older Toyotas go for a fortune around here!

 

[pcoumbe]

One for the Aussies, not mine but pretty unique

 

[Jan_P]

Perhaps not vintage but rare Never seen one before --- 272 registered in Sweden
Cant find a picture on the net even

White 2011 Convertible ( Black Top ) Mercedes Benz AMG ( maybe e -class ) sports car
In as new condition

The AMG markings on the trunk lid sends signals making people pay attention turn heads

The owner and I walked out from a Store so I asked him about the Horsepower rating expecting it to be high
But not so 185 hp . Some Small Mercedes Cars not being AMG have 5 - 600
He was working researching traffic safety so he said no need for higher power.
He had bought it used one or a few years from new paying $ 30 000 that sounded low

Never been into Mercedes but have started to look at them .. Reputation as Bank Managers Cars ..
More or less.
But I knew some of them have big motors .. I have a friend bought a used one
500 E
380 Hp -Stock from Factory Even if heavy it can move -- sleeper

 

[buzzword]

What could possibly break on an air-cooled Beetle??? Well, now that you make me think about it, I did have a crankshaft break once. Funny thing is that despite having ventilated the top of the engine cases, it still ran. You could see inside the engine at the two halves of the crankshaft with a diagonal break, one end driving the other. Didn't do much for smooth operation of the engine, though.

if the belt snaps, not only does the generator stop charging the battery, but the fan stops spinning and the heat death of the little engine’s universe begins.

battery trays rust out, or worse, the battery shorts out on the seat base in the back seat

pushrod tubes get leaky and drip oil onto the exhaust, valves require adjustment every time you change the oil, points get sticky, heater boxes rust out and then the J-tubes inside rust next.

when you discover your bosch 009 distributor doesn’t play nice with the brand new solex 34 PICT-3 carburetor you just got, that’s a whole
new level of frustration.

first car was a 71 wide eye baja bug i bought at 14, lost count on how many aircooled VWs i’ve owned since - to say nothing of the absurd number of them my dad had through the years.

 

[Kevin Werner]

if the belt snaps, not only does the generator stop charging the battery, but the fan stops spinning and the heat death of the little engine’s universe begins.

battery trays rust out, or worse, the battery shorts out on the seat base in the back seat

pushrod tubes get leaky and drip oil onto the exhaust, valves require adjustment every time you change the oil, points get sticky, heater boxes rust out and then the J-tubes inside rust next.

when you discover your bosch 009 distributor doesn’t play nice with the brand new solex 34 PICT-3 carburetor you just got, that’s a whole
new level of frustration.

first car was a 71 wide eye baja bug i bought at 14, lost count on how many aircooled VWs i’ve owned since - to say nothing of the absurd number of them my dad had through the years.

IF you were any damn good you would have a true story of 2 XS650s driving that trans axle.... Cheers.

 

[Jan_P]

Drinking Vodka and Coke hearing about ramming a $ 10 million barn find -- with a fork lift
tales about life and German vs Italian quality

Peoples Dreams

 

[Wordman]

Me and my first car back in the 80s.

After that, I had this '61 Impala. It wet through a few iterations. For a while I ran a 409 bored and stroked to 482 with 2-4bbls, then a ZZZ 350 crate engine, both backed by an M20 4-speed.

My dad and I built this '56. LT4 ('96 Corvette) crate engine, 700R4, 2nd gen F-body front clip, and a ton of other custom stuff.

 

[Wordman]

We built this '59 after he sold the '56. L99/6L80E, bucket seats, etc..

 

[Jan_P]

He's not wearing safety gear because he wouldn't want to survive a crash anyway.

 

[John Regular]

I knew that there had to be a classic car thread on here somewhere, are there any 1st gen Camaro gurus in the group? I acquired a 1968 (mostly) about 7 years ago that started and drove but didn't stop so good. I fixed the brakes and drove it a bit that summer and came up with a plan (fantasy) to put it on a custom pro touring chassis with an Ls motor and modern drive train, paint, interior....then discovered exactly how much that was going to cost and that it pretty much had to be done all at once with the body coming off the frame. I didn't have an extra !00,000 and didn't seem like there was a way do it one piece at a time like Johnny Cash, RIP, so it went on the back burner util about a year ago, I've had a little work done at a local shop but that dude is shady, You can read about it in the rant thread once I get that posted. It's a bit of a frankincar, doesn't have the original motor or tranny, has had some mods done to it but I'm not sure what hose were. The guy was trying to make it a drag racer and I don't think that he kn ew what he was doing, at least that's what his ex-wife told me when I bought it.

There She is, the car not the kid, I told him he could take to prom if we could get in running good. I know this isn't a classic car forum but I might ask a question or two in this thread. And I'll post more pictures if anyone's interested.

 

[NashGTI]

I knew that there had to be a classic car thread on here somewhere, are there any 1st gen Camaro gurus in the group? I acquired a 1968 (mostly) about 7 years ago that started and drove but didn't stop so good. I fixed the brakes and drove it a bit that summer and came up with a plan (fantasy) to put it on a custom pro touring chassis with an Ls motor and modern drive train, paint, interior....then discovered exactly how much that was going to cost and that it pretty much had to be done all at once with the body coming off the frame. I didn't have an extra !00,000 and didn't seem like there was a way do it one piece at a time like Johnny Cash, RIP, so it went on the back burner util about a year ago, I've had a little work done at a local shop but that dude is shady, You can read about it in the rant thread once I get that posted. It's a bit of a frankincar, doesn't have the original motor or tranny, has had some mods done to it but I'm not sure what hose were. The guy was trying to make it a drag racer and I don't think that he kn ew what he was doing, at least that's what his ex-wife told me when I bought it.

It's not a full chassis and still not exactly cheap, but look into Detroit Speed. The rear four link kit and full front subframe kit give to a mostly modern suspension for the car and aren't overly complicated to install. Much easier than trying to get a semi-unibody onto a full frame. If done that way you can sort of piecemeal it to an extent.

 

[John Regular]

It's not a full chassis and still not exactly cheap, but look into Detroit Speed. The rear four link kit and full front subframe kit give to a mostly modern suspension for the car and aren't overly complicated to install. Much easier than trying to get a semi-unibody onto a full frame. If done that way you can sort of piecemeal it to an extent.

Yeah those are cool, I checked those kits out in 2017 when I first got the car and the only complete subframe I had found at the time. The 8k price tag gave gave me pause you could say but I was still considering it. It's gone up a bit but still looks top of the line. and Josh Homme has a set on his 67, says it rides on rails. Haha...rails, Now there's a bunch of companies that have some thing similar in various stages so dummies like yours truly don't have to try to piece one together and get it wrong. I bought a set of Hotchkis 2" drop springs to replace the ones that the PO's Ex had cut down. The cross member graded probably 20' of my gravel drive when I first brought it home due to all the rebounding. I wound up pulling enough oil soaked gravel out (and 3 sockets that I had dropped inside the cross member when I was replacing the springs), to fill a butter tub. So She probably could use a new subframe and the DS comes with brakes if I'm not mistaken. But first I'm going to get this carb issue sorted and to do that I need to figure out what mods were done according to what I have read in the other forum. I have not yet announced my presence there and want to be prepared. I just realised that I haven't wrote my rant explainingg how this all started just yet. It's about a Shady con man, a naive mark and a carburetor swap, stay tuned

 

[NashGTI]

Yeah those are cool, I checked those kits out in 2017 when I first got the car and the only complete subframe I had found at the time. The 8k price tag gave gave me pause you could say but I was still considering it. It's gone up a bit but still looks top of the line. and Josh Homme has a set on his 67, says it rides on rails. Haha...rails, Now there's a bunch of companies that have some thing similar in various stages so dummies like yours truly don't have to try to piece one together and get it wrong. I bought a set of Hotchkis 2" drop springs to replace the ones that the PO's Ex had cut down. The cross member graded probably 20' of my gravel drive when I first brought it home due to all the rebounding. I wound up pulling enough oil soaked gravel out (and 3 sockets that I had dropped inside the cross member when I was replacing the springs), to fill a butter tub. So She probably could use a new subframe and the DS comes with brakes if I'm not mistaken. But first I'm going to get this carb issue sorted and to do that I need to figure out what mods were done according to what I have read in the other forum. I have not yet announced my presence there and want to be prepared. I just realised that I haven't wrote my rant explainingg how this all started just yet. It's about a Shady con man, a naive mark and a carburetor swap, stay tuned

Yeah, for 95% of the people out there who would consider one they're not cheap. They do really significantly improve the car though.

 

[650Skull]

Went to a car and to a lesser extent bike show on Saturday. Some Aussie classics, mussle cars + a couple of US imports. Lot of late model mustangs, just don't do it for me no ma5er how much modern manufacturers try to recreate them a mussle car only come from the late 60's to the late 80's if you count a Godzilla Nisson Skyline.

Some dates may b out by a year or 2
60/61 Chrysler Valient nice lines, shame about the grill


73 Valient Charger E55 ...real mussle car. Fuel crises killed them off before they could b developed to take on Bathurst


68, first of the Holden Monaro fast back.


70/71/72 Last of the Holden Monaro GTS Fast back. They came out with a 186 six cylinder, 308V8 and the 350 v8. After this the GTS was the everyday standard car with GTS V8 features

 

[650Skull]

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[motormike]

Had many.... 67' SS Nova, 55' Bel Air, with wonder bar radio.... 66' Pontiac, 67' SS Camaro.... couple of belly button Mustangs... more.... Memories ...... BUT ! if a 1959 Studie Lark hardtop comes on the market.... my first car.... Hummmmm temptation...