Car Porn

One for the Ferd guys. The paint on this car was smooth as glass.

 

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a...s-1036-hp-hellcat-powered-72-amc-javelin-amx/

 

Thanks a million. I could tell it's body had some work done on it. Moving the front wheels forward really helped the loos of it. Got rid of the HUGE overbite.

 

I was looking through some old pictures on the 'puter last night, and came across some of the FR-S. This was shortly after I got the car 8 years ago, and on one of my favorite 'roller-coaster' roads.



I don't know what I miss more...the car, or the road. The two together were sublime.
I traded this one for the Taco and I've been really jonesin' for a small, rear-drive car again lately. I don't have the cash for another new one of these (and new is the only way I would buy one...a 7500rpm 12.5:1 Subaru engine is a fragile thing, and needs proper care/oil from the start). I do have about $10K Canadian (about 37 cents U.S.) and have been looking for something a little more fun to daily drive than a 2.7 auto 4X4 access cab Taco.
In that price range, I keep coming back to the little 1-Series BMW coupe. I'm going to look at an e82 128i today...

 

https://coolmaterial.com/rides/aldekas-studio-made-go-kart-from-a-volkswagen-beetle-fender/

 

Russian brides ad?

 

Lower your truck and put a rear sway bar on it

 

There's a TRD one hanging on the rack at work, funny enough. Nah, I like this truck...

Now that I'm back to work full time, I just want to inject a bit of fun back into the daily commute. The drive is 35-40 minutes each way on some decent country roads. I snagged that little BMW today...couldn't stop myself.

 

Here is one with a roof rack

 

My Tacoma came with swaybars front and rear. Handles like a sports car...lol

 

I have the rear sway bar and a shackle brace on mine, love it.

 

I put sway bars on my old 94 (Hilux) Toyota truck, and it handled pretty darn good too. I also added Bilstein shocks when the originals stopped working after a few years.

But that was in the old days when a southern California company by the name of Performance Products sold out to some huge conglomerate. You could be sure that every product they sold fit, and worked. Dang, I miss that privately owned company. I bought almost everything for my 94 Toyota truck from them.

Well, them and LCE. LCE provided the "performance" products for my 22RE. They are another fantastic company!

 

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...^^^... (Doing this from memory) ... I test-drove a Barracuda S ... 273 cu in - 235 HP with Goodyear Blue-streaks and a single square exhaust.

It was peppy/quick and had a nice little growl but not super fast. I remember that little car like it was yesterday ... I remembered it because my buddy's dad worked at that Chrysler-Plymouth dealership and he allowed me to test drive that Barracuda and also test drove a Simca.

PS ..... NOS back windows (if you. can find them) on those Barracuda's bring BIG money on the parts websites ...

 

Many years ago, a friend's dad had a '67 Valiant 2-door post with that engine and a 4-speed. As basic as you could get...right down to the bench seat and 'dog dish' hub caps. Cool little car.