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Carb, intake, and rear gear upgrades should put you in range of what you had before, more or less. Remember, many new cars now are pretty quick compared to most 60's and 70's cars. Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, various minivans can cause a lot of trouble when fooling around on the road. I have a...

Congrats! So you're probably pretty certain after all that time the gas tank and fuel lines will need to be cleaned out or replaced. I came from the Pontiac camp originally. Always liked the '71 - '73 Mustang body style from a young age. Also wouldn't mind a late 1960's Road Runner or GTX...

It's amazing that you found multiple good examples of A pillar trim that hasn't disintegrated out in the elements. I did spot that Javelin. Have a soft spot for those in general. Had a boss decades ago who had a '68 he was driving / restoring.

Speaking of the scarcity of original wheels and hubcaps, what always amazes me is the amount of original air cleaner assemblies I see on pics of these cars now. When I was a teenager this is one of the first things we chucked and replaced with a chrome Moroso etc. air cleaner. And when the...

What ever happened to David / Carolina MM- last seen online Nov. 2021. (apologies for the threadjack)

My '71 Mach 1 429 CJ-R is in need of a replacement battery. I was just going to get a 24F or 27F EverStart Maxx at Walmart down the road from my house. Have used that brand in other daily drivers and they work out well. Also have AutoZone and others in that vicinity. However these...

I'm in eastern PA and it can get brutally hot and humid here all the way through September. We have already had four 85 degree days in April, not humid this early though, but those were oddball weather days and it's back to the high 50's for the time being. JMHO of course, but I'd have the AC...

I don't believe there are repops of these available anywhere. There are threads which show how to open them, replace the rubber inside from another currently available part, and then close them up again. Mine are not connected to vacuum and are presumably bad, and my ram air flappers are just...

The port might have been at Bayonne NJ. I followed a friend there in the early 1980's. He was in the army and taking a motorcycle to ship overseas to Germany. I had a '79 Trans Am with 400 / 4 speed. Well we hit a soaking rainstorm on the highway but he held on with the bike. ha It was...

I have a pretty good selection of late 1960's through early 1970's Hot Rod, Car Craft, Motor Trend, etc. magazines. Tech articles and letters to the editor make for interesting reading. I flip through those from time to time. Truly the golden era of car magazines. Even throughout the rest of...

My personal preference is a stock "ready to pounce" stance, but the rear lift on your car is very tastefully done. Yes I remember those days and pretty much everyone did it. Rear main seals can be tricky on a number of different engines. The rear main seal on the Pontiac 400 in my '68 GTO...

Something is definitely off. I don't know too many seniors who write using that many exclamation points either...

Awesome B-36 pics! It's too bad that a group has not championed getting one of these in the air again. The price would be astronomical. One of the flying B-29's "Fifi" is at the WWII weekend near me each summer. One of my uncles was in the Air National Guard for a few decades, retiring at a...

That is incredible for the era it was made! All-aluminum, 32 valves, flat plane crank, etc. A long, long time before these items made it into automobiles.

What, no pic of their B-36? ;) I'm not sure if that would even fit in one pic without using panoramic view. ha The XB-70 is certainly impressive. Built a model of that as a kid. It's a shame what happened as far as the accident.

Curious if you ever made a move on this particular car. There weren't a whole lot of these made, and as long as the core components on the car check out you could take care of the remaining details over time. I'm not a fan of complete color changes, but if the paint work was done well then you...

I will comment that the black Comfort Weave seats in my '71 Mach 1 429 CJ-R with no AC are actually fairly comfortable to sit on in hot and humid summer weather. Not as nice as having AC of course, but my legs do not stick to the seats. Had a '68 Pontiac GTO way back in '80 with the black...

Welcome to the forum. How was the 351-2V represented to you prior to the sale, and what was the indication to you that it had not been rebuilt. I take it you found driveability issues which weren't just related to tuning (including the carb).

Not my call or my $$$, but if I were you I'd go the subframe connector route at some point. Heck, all of these could use them, even the non-convertibles.

Cool pic Spike! Ah the old days when the hot rod was the daily driver / work in progress. I drove my '68 GTO in the snow for several winters beginning in 1980. One time I was stuck so badly that I pulled out in fourth gear and it actually worked. Had a bag of Sacrete from my dad's shed in...