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The only car mags I grew up with was Hot Rod and Car Craft. Helped me tremendously when my older brother and I (under dad’s careful supervision) restored our first car, a ‘70 Olds 442 with Hurst shifter and air scoops underneath. Two weeks after she rolled out of the driveway, my brother wrapped her around a telephone pole drag racing (sadly he walked away without a scratch). I don’t think I ever recovered...
I love cars. I read articles on cars over the internet, and sometimes watchTV programs like Top Gear. Never subscribed to a car magazine.
Very specific taste in cars, and unfortunately very few manufacturers make cars to my taste. I like
1. Small cars
2. Needs to be quick and preferably lots of low end torque, because most times I want to look responsible but still be fast- My current car does 0-60 in about 5.7 seconds which is a joy to drive. I have driven cars which are faster, but they are fun only when you redline. My car , if you just rev a little higher than idle, it shoots like a bullet
3. I value handling much more than acceleration and speed. Having said that, I have rented entry level Mustangs a couple of times and enjoyed them. But my own car is much more fun
4. Unfortunately I do need 4 seats. That actually makes a lot of fun cars not viable for me
5. I would preferred all seasons rubber - but my car only comes with summer rubber. Regardless, I have driven it over four winters.
Very specific taste in cars, and unfortunately very few manufacturers make cars to my taste. I like
1. Small cars
2. Needs to be quick and preferably lots of low end torque, because most times I want to look responsible but still be fast- My current car does 0-60 in about 5.7 seconds which is a joy to drive. I have driven cars which are faster, but they are fun only when you redline. My car , if you just rev a little higher than idle, it shoots like a bullet
3. I value handling much more than acceleration and speed. Having said that, I have rented entry level Mustangs a couple of times and enjoyed them. But my own car is much more fun
4. Unfortunately I do need 4 seats. That actually makes a lot of fun cars not viable for me
5. I would preferred all seasons rubber - but my car only comes with summer rubber. Regardless, I have driven it over four winters.
In 1956 my Father bought a Ford Fairline with the 292 cu engine with a 4 Barrel. He was Captaining a work boat out of Galveston Tex, leaving Lafayette La he motored to Galveston. After his hitch he came home, told my Mom, that’s a fast car but damn it nearly killed me with the roughest ride I’ve ever had. Going back to the dealer they put it on the lift and found it did not have shock absorbers, forgotten at the factory. I was in high school and that 56 was the fastest ford in Vermilion Parish, if only Dad knew!
Great car lore here. Restoring an American LaFrance, storming NOLA in a Cobra at dawn, and that incredible archives of car magazines. Mine tend to get buried under clothes and furniture. Cars aren't as fun for young folks anymore, or not as generally. Too pricey to buy and operate, so many kids don't even want to learn to drive. I'm glad I came along when internal combustion was king, and driving was an adventure in independence, even though it took me forever to get my own wheels. I still pine for the big Dodge pickup I drove in the Navy (to make mail runs for the ship, etc.) and the snappy white Dodge pickup I drove on a newspaper internship in Neosho, Mo., Jesse James country and Ma Barker country. Both stick on the floor. Got the newspaper truck back to the office (a re-purposed chicken hatchery) in time for others to use delivering the paper.
Car without shocks, living hell! A footnote, that it is remarkable how many brands of automobiles were manufactured in the U.S. that went extinct. Recently, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, and Plymouth, but scores, maybe hundreds long before that, Studebaker, Packard, going back to Hupmobile and Reo and so many more. Crosley, the American compact that predated the appearance of VW bug and Falcon in the U.S. And so on.
Tom, I about fell over when I read what he said about no shocks. I mean, seriously, good God, Dearborn! The 292 was a sharp engine for the day, though!
Me, I started out reading Sports Cars Illustrated & continued as Car & Driver, my favorite of them all. R&T (John Bond era only). My current favorite is Collectible Automobile. Wheels everything from a '63 Falcon through a '63 T'bird to an early Honda Accord through a '79 Toyota Corolla to a Mazda pickup on to several Hyundai Sonatas. Of them all, though, I miss the '66 GTO the most.
Car & Driver was great. Davis, Bedard, Csere, loved 'em all, but my absolute favorite was Warren Weith, God rest him. He did love his Volvos!
Honest, I fell in love with the little Crosley station wagon when I was four years old, seeing it parked at the neighbor's curb. At that age, I enjoyed saying Crosley. When I subscribed this week to Motor Trend, supposedly with my two-year $18 subscription, I'll get a "auto safety tool," whatever that might be, maybe a folding set with various tools attached. This was available only if you sent along your payment with the subscription card and used your own stamp. I may report on what it is, but I was warned to expect to wait six to eight weeks. All this for two years for $18 bucks snagged my Scottish blood. A later infatuation was the sound of the TR-3 engine on my aunt and uncles' car piloted by my cousin around Florida back country, who couldn't drive to the mail box without hitting 80 mph. My speediest driving was done in a friends' parents' American Motors Rambler station wagon on a car camping trip to Daytona Beach, but not during the race. I guess us three friends in the Rambler were the race. I take a moment of gratitude that we didn't blow a tire or otherwise destruct.
You guys would probably like Uncle Tonys Garage on You Tube, he used to do the old Mustang rag, forget what it was called exactly. If you go down the rabbit hole, there's a vid with his old staff & his other magazine buddies at the strip, talking to an old Ford engineer about getting extra power out of the 5.0 back in the 80's. Forget what he said exactly, but there was definitely a model year to avoid, maybe the first or second year of EFI, because the timing maps were screwed up or something on that model year. It was interesting if you're a motorhead.
Here's that vid I was talking about, this really is gold.
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5.0 Fox Body Revolution - The Second Coming of the American Muscle Car
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5.0 Fox Body Revolution - The Second Coming of the American Muscle Car
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