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on: 08-13-2004
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Normaly, I'm more of a fan of the full size Muscle cars, but I've always liked the Demon. |
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8-14-2004 @ 09:19:49 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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I'd like to see more now just because they're so darn rare, especialy the mid 70's ones, comming onto the muscle scene during it's decline, nobody wanted them
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8-14-2004 @ 09:54:41 AM |
| Posted By : V8Tbird |
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Well someone needs to get their ass kicked for the rims on #3.
But ya, I'm looking into Resto-moding a Mopar sometime after I get the new engine into the T-Bird. Mostly I'm looking at a Challenger, but if I could find one of these, I'd go for it. Its just as LTR said, their pretty hard to come by.
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8-14-2004 @ 09:56:59 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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There was one of these at the local yard, I used to see it all the time, because it's front was facing the road when you drove by, then one day, I got around to looking at the back......
It had been rear-ended by a dumptruck :( owie......
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| #6 |
8-14-2004 @ 09:59:15 AM |
| Posted By : DA_MAISTA |
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Why are they so hard to find? Were they build in small numbers or didn´t peple consider them being worthy enough and dumped them into the crushers?
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8-14-2004 @ 10:01:11 AM |
| Posted By : V8Tbird |
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As far as Mopar went, they just never where all that popular.
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8-14-2004 @ 10:02:57 AM |
| Posted By : DA_MAISTA |
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Too bad. As far as I know they lacked the brutish BigBlock-Power but were lighter and handled quite well for a car of that time.
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8-14-2004 @ 10:07:50 AM |
| Posted By : DA_MAISTA |
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#10, Yes... but they were... different... like... come on! A Hemi in such a small lightened car! Thats cheating! ;)
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8-14-2004 @ 10:09:03 AM |
| Posted By : V8Tbird |
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Ya these really are pretty cool little cars. Duno if I'd say it would handle well, its still an all metal body with a cast iron engine, all be it a small block, but it would out handle the B bodies hands down.
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8-14-2004 @ 10:12:59 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#6, Low sales numbers, the market for midsize muscle was GONE by 73' , and 73' 74' 75' were BAD years for sales of performance cars, most of the marquee names from all the manufacturers bit the dust around that time, by the 77' Model year, only the F-body and Mustang remained
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8-14-2004 @ 10:15:00 AM |
| Posted By : V8Tbird |
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The challenger didn't run a full production year in 74'. But with the gas crunch on, HP was down across the board.
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8-14-2004 @ 10:19:34 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#14, A lot of things came to a head around 73' 74'
-Federal regulation, cars had to run cleaner and emissions choked engine performance. As a stop gap measure, most manufactureres just dropped compression to meet them instead of re-desiging the engines, so HP went in the tank
-ALso, HP started being measured at the wheels (net) instead of flywheel (Gross) so on paper, cars were losing HP even though the engines weren't changing
-Insurance rates for muscle cars were getting prohibitive, some underwriters were charging 4 digit premiums in 1970's dollars, and that was for people with CLEAN records
-Soft economy, car sales were down accross the board, espeicaly non-econnomy ones
-Gas crunch, although it didn't last long, it forever scared folks away from cars that had one-digit MPG ratings
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8-14-2004 @ 10:21:52 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#16, A lot of hallowed names died a slow painfull death on cars like that. Not that they were "bad" but considering what they had to live up to, it was murder.
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8-14-2004 @ 10:22:28 AM |
| Posted By : V8Tbird |
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LoL, ya its the same with that Charger I posted today or worse yet the 4-banger chargers, or the Mustang II, or the early-80's Challenger's.
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