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Heh heh...oh man, so much of the stuff mentioned in this thread is familiar to me! Fondly remembered too...not all that old stuff was junk (a pal`s funeral home cars done with Blue Coral were absolutely Autopian). Well, my BearFinder was pretty crappy compared to the FuzzBuster that replaced it by `77...not that either worked well enough to keep me licensed :o

Lonnie- One of the car mags I read (C&D?) did an American Touring Sedan Project on a Granada/Monarch/Versailles...IIRC the latter had rear discs instead of the usual drums) and it turned out *really* nice.
 
I had a `79 with the small diesel. Black, black half vinyl, red velour interior, T-tops, wide whites. Quite the (ob)scene!
 
Here`s my 442 from 1973. 350 4bbl, turned an amazing 17.3 et in the 1/4 mile. I used to autocross it a lot. When you went to a course set up by someone with a little MG or similar size car, the only way around the tight turns was dirt-trackin`. There were days I had to scrape the rear mudflaps with a putty knife to clean off the heavy rubber deposits after an event. Paint was protected with Classic Slipstream cleaner wax (durable stuff) and interior was of course slathered with Armor-All. CCR, CSN&Y or WHO was always rockin` in the eight track.

Bill


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Accumulator said:
Lonnie- One of the car mags I read (C&D?) did an American Touring Sedan Project on a Granada/Monarch/Versailles...IIRC the latter had rear discs instead of the usual drums) and it turned out *really* nice.
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Wasn`t that a Cadillac Seville? Or maybe you`re talking about a different mag and different article. I know C/D did a Seville (back when it was on the Nova chassis), IIRC they cut out part of the front bumper and moved the battery to the trunk to improve weight distribution. I`m 99% sure I still have that issue somewhere, and 99% sure I`d never be able to find it.
 
BudgetPlan1 said:
Had a 1990 LX 5.0, first car I ever bought new. Yep, 225hp was pretty good back then. Maybe not so mind-bendingly fast but it sure sounded good.

Ford sure does know how to make an engine sound good; the 2008 & 2013 Mustang GT`s we had also sounded amazing, more so with Bassani`s on `em. Everyone preferred their sound over the 2004 Corvette w headers and aftermarket exhaust. LS motors always sounded a bit less authoritative, guess the somewhat odd firing order has something to do with it.

Not really `allowed` to buy Mustangs anymore.
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Doh! I love these newer 5.0 but realistically if you wanna feel American muscle hopefully she’ll let you drive the Vette. Nice to have a couple different sports cars around...


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Coatings=crack said:
Doh! I love these newer 5.0 but realistically if you wanna feel American muscle hopefully she’ll let you drive the Vette. Nice to have a couple different sports cars around...


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I much prefer the Cayman...I `make do` with the Vette on days when she wants to take the Cayman. Vette is just so big and ponderous...but it is fun on freeway on-ramps.

Actually trying to convince her to trade the Vette in on a Boxster; I`ll lose a ton on depreciation but the Boxsters/Caymans are so much more well-rounded. And FAR more comfortable.
 
I had a pioneer cassette deck with Jensen 3-ways in my 72 Gran Torino 351 Cleveland in it
washed with wisk detergent and waxed with kit or rain dance until Liquid Glass came out
I talked on the cb radio a lot. Had a big old whip antenna mounted on the rear bumper
had the Midland radio on a slide mount and would take in the house and run it off a Powerpack on a 1/2 wave RadioShack base antenna
couldn’t afford a base station. This was mid to late seventies
Those were some good times
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Wasn`t that a Cadillac Seville? Or maybe you`re talking about a different mag and different article..
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Different project..but I forget which mag did which. I do remember the various Boss Wagon projects at C&D.

The 1st Gen. Sevilles had great potential! A guy I knew back then (Bill Loughlin of Turbo Systems) built a few of them for himself and his family members, utterly killer sleepers...I wanted one!

Billy Jack said:
Here`s my 442 from 1973. 350 4bbl, turned an amazing 17.3 et in the 1/4 mile. I used to autocross it a lot. When you went to a course set up by someone with a little MG or similar size car, the only way around the tight turns was dirt-trackin`...
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That must`ve been great fun! (I`ve AutoXed a Crown Vic on tight SCCA-spec courses, loved showing the sports car crowd what Grampa`s Taxi can do.)
 
Heh heh..yeah, "transportable" CBs...my dad had one the size of a small suitcase.

My handle was "Black Bird"...black T/A ya know ;)
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Well, I may not be able to find that article, but the internet can: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blo...cd-seville-gt-how-to-build-a-mercedes-killer/
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Ah, thanks for doing that research, I *really* enjoyed revisiting that...and vaguely recalling it too (I was all about losing my license in the T/A that year).

Just think how much better that 0.72g handling would be with today`s tires! [Darn] this makes me want to go shopping for one of those...simply love `em, did then, still do now.

Heh heh, I bet that Granada project is out there somewhere too..
 
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