Joe Handley

KEWL! It's just begging for a Vintage V8 in the back......maybe an early Caddy, Hemi, Supercharged Ford 312, Or even a built Flathead or 348 Chevy!

Yea, for a Pierce-Arrow, that would be a pretty poor build job, I'd be pissed off if that was real, and I was the owner that had paid money for that restoration job!

dang

Hmmm........ Post war GM "fast back" sedan either Buick, Olds or Caddy, it's been nearly a decade so I'm not too sure which anymore..... Heavily rotted Mid 60's Mustang with the leaves poking up through the trunk. Mid 70's Gremlin made into a wanna be ElCamino, complete with era correct red tinted windows, shag carpeting, and horrible bodywork.... Rag Top Cavelier that was folded in half after the rockers were cut out and havine nothing done to support the center of the unibody. Both a '94 or '95 Lebaron Convertable and a same vintage FWD Monte Carlo that had been rolled, kinda looked like the drivers took their exit ramps a little too hot since there were tufts of grass sticking out of various parts of the upper structures of the cars. Last trip I made there was a rolled XJ Cherokee and ZJ Grand Cherokee (which had the whole roof cut off by the responding fire department too), both with steel rims that were folded under, kind looked like they'd been slid into curbs immediately prior to rolling......The XJ provided the spare air filter box that I cut the whole front wall out of and made a broke man's cold air intake out of SAme trip both Dad and I spotted some teenage kid in the yard with his girlfriend, who was wearing short-shorts and sandles......I thought I was seeing things (It was pretty warm that day....) and missed the sandles, while Dad was shocked they let her in with that outfit (not the kind of place I'd roam around in shorts and anything less than some kind of gym shoe in all honesty). The next weekend Dad took my sister to the same yard and she got in for free while dressed to actually tear something apart so I'd be willing to guess that this kid's girlfriend must have gotten him in for free too

kInda reminds me of the vintage BMW (I think it was a 2002) a customer used to own, kinda beat and ratty looking (actually pretty good for a car that age here in Chicagoland), with a few bolt on hop up parts. He recently sold it off and his mid 90's 3 series sedan for a matching 3 series wagon as a daily driver. *Edit* I went back and found pics of Gene's '74 2002!

Diecast model, and not one I'd spend much money on either I do think that car would look good as a high dollar hot rod though! Slight drop, dark lower color to hide the panel lines, more modern 18"-22" rims, maybe stretch the cabin some for longer doors front and rear..............................

I'm guessing real for now, but won't offically vote till I can look at it on my home computer. No matter which it is, I do think they need to find somebody that can do a better job of color matching the front clip to the rest of the car, the entire front clip looks to be a different shade of silver than the rest of the silver on that car

There've been some people who've posted videos on YouTube of just the chase scenes form the movie so we don't have to waste our time watching that whole abomination too!

I was wondering if that's what that bar code was all about. It seemed like a decent race (didn't fall asleep while watching it either!) and that track looked heeeuuuuuge too! What got Dad though was that the track looked glass smooth from the images shown on TV, yet the cars were bobbling around like they were trying the things to drive on some of our frost heaved roadways

Hopefully the doors hold on halfway decent though............

We did have some issues with the driverside "B-Pillar" (or what ever you'd call it) our second G-Van starting to break at the door latch pin location and there have been paint flake or clear coat fade issues on most of the mid-80's through early 90's Mopars we had. I don't think I've ever heard Dad not complain about a lot of the rail road Fords being worth the metal they were made out of (especially the late 70's through mid 90's F-Series), and about the only think he ran into at one road that was at best nearly as reliable were the Mercedes Unimogs in the early 80's, which spent almost as much time broken and waiting on parts from Germany as they did on the job and working! IIRC C&NW gave up on those turds within 6 months and got rid of all but a few, which were shipped to rural areas where the local railroaders who used them could fix them with knowlage gained from repairing farm equipement when they grew up on the farm.

I don't know if we still do, but it must have been from when the car was fairly new because it still had the door scoops and R/T badging on it IIRC. Dad ordered the car as a fairly stripped down R/T then ditched those scoops and badges in favor of 500 badges on the doors to help throw off their insurer, the police, and the local hot foots. Mom used to have issues with the '68 or 69 Cornet (it was either a Super Bee or R/T and even had the rump stripe, I can't remember which one they told me it was anymore and my folks can't remember either...) it replaced with being followed by the local teen boys, street racers, and cops looking for some kind of action

Yea, Mom was driving it down a steep hill when it stalled on her in early '76, she ended up putting it in a ditch and shoving the entire right side right up along the engine. They bought it back form the insurance company and Dad stripped the car and sold all the surviving goodies to a friend who built a Dart drag car with them. I don't know if that would have been restorable today, ut I do know it would have been worth quite a bit even before the Barrett Jackson lunacy!

NP Moparfan, kinda get that attitude from my father, we've had some fairly "rare" mopars (and maybe a couple F/S Chevy's vans too ) that were lost do to either rust, old age, and/or wreckage (including a 440 Six Pak/4-speed/Super Trak Pak '70 Charger R/T ) that he really doesn't feel bad when something somewhat common isn't kept in pristeen, as delivered condition.

I like the ideas behind some of it, but I'm not fond of the right hand drive, the paint scheme, and I'm not so sure how much I'd trust the way that front suspension arm and the heim joint for the steering is attached to the K-Member in all honesty. If it were mine, the exterior color would be much darker, maybe black or black with a light coat of candy red over it and the carpet would be about the same shade of red as the exterior now is. Engine wise, I'd probably have made it more of a multipoint EFI that looked like a traditional 4 2 barrel Weber Carb arrangement....but that's just me

I have to agree with Moparfan, if it's a tires but rare and/or numbers matching car, then a restoration would be in order, if it's a survivor......I'd just leave it be, but a well used (up;) ), garden variety, /6 or small block car should really be able to go either way without too many people getting upset though. As for Dave Zinn's '49 Dodge, I'd rip off the Chevy and Ford junk and look to go all Mopar on it. Maybe Volare or Diplomat Front Suspension (not sure if I'd use the Torsion Bars or Magnum Force's coilover conversion though, ZJ or WJ Grand Cherokee based rear suspension (it's a 4 link solid axle arragement ) then probably use a 5.2/5.9l V8 and 4 speed or late model Hemi/5speed auto out of a truck or LX car if I were going that far.

That's going to be neat when it's finished, I like the exhaust tips too, but maybe do them in a matching flat white or some kind of "bare metal" finish ANybody else think that could be slightly modified for a reissue with either more 60's era appropriate or a more "Modern" Rat Rod/vintage "looking" rolling stock instead of the 70's era stuff

What's worse is working behind a RC Parts counter and having people that are more willing to pay to $30hr to have a $5 part installed than trying to do it them selves or let their kids do it for them selves HAHAHA, Nice and one of the more truthful things I've read!

Model, I think it's an Aussie Ford Falcon too...................

Looks grape.....er great!

X2!

I don't know, looks like that one held up pretty well to this impact.

Eh, nothing a good limited slip can't fix, or maybe even a set of airshocks BTW, how about leaving it look like that with wider rims, more tire, and a monster pump gas 440

That's a shame, looks like that S10 was a pretty nice truck. How hard was it it to fold it up like that though?

Thanks, that's what I thought, but wasn't totally positive!