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Old 07-30-2012, 03:23 PM
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I got that speed **** out of my system when i raced in kentucky.


Race on the track, not on the street.
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Old 07-30-2012, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by zwhiz
just for fun. at work on saturday...
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Old 07-30-2012, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by jimmy21669
According to Muscle Cars, a book written by Peter Henshaw, a "muscle car" is "exactly what the name implies. It is a product of the American car industry adhering to the hot rodder's philosophy of taking a small car and putting a large-displacement engine in it. The Muscle Car is Charles Atlas kicking sand in the face of the 98 horsepower weakling."[7] Henshaw further asserts that the muscle car was designed for straight-line speed, and did not have the "sophisticated chassis", "engineering integrity", or "lithe appearance" of European high-performance cars.[7]
So where does my 89 chrysler conquest shp fall into?
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Old 07-30-2012, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by jakbob
I got that speed **** out of my system when i raced in kentucky.


Race on the track, not on the street.
I never said anything about speed or racing so you can skip the lecture. You dont have to speed to feel power...
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Old 07-30-2012, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by zwhiz
just for fun. at work on saturday...
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Old 07-30-2012, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by jakbob
I got that speed **** out of my system when i raced in kentucky.

Race on the track, not on the street.
Yea those days are over but there was no better feeling then when 20lbs of boost kicked in.....both cars are waiting rebuilds
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Old 07-30-2012, 03:50 PM
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taking 3rd place in open superbike on my stock kz1000 back in the late 70s at Summit Point Raceway, then riding it to werk on monday,those were the daze!



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or was it 2nd??? hafta look at my trophy?
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Who gives a **** what is or is not a muscle car or about speed and age.
I drive a Jeep, it's neither
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yeah--who cares we werk on Jeeps, and when they are willing,they let us drive them,tempermental biotches that they are!!
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Who gives a **** what is or is not a muscle car or about speed and age.
I drive a Jeep, it's neither
all I know about that is Steve really is old.
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I was just reminded that I'll be in the Outer Banks next week!
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Bennie--56 is really really old?
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Originally Posted by jimmy21669
Just picking on the definition....a Corvette would not fit your definition....you run from the debate? Just saying....I think that a Muscle car can be ANYTHING....if it is made into a muscle car.

And THIS is sexy....
Those are some great looking cars. The power that could have been bought off a showroom floor without tweaking was incredible in that era but IMO a rodded Bel Air outshines them all.

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Originally Posted by LittleBuddy
I was just reminded that I'll be in the Outer Banks next week!
--are you goin off shore? fishin?
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