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I was 8 in 1979! I remember my dad drove a burgandy 1974ish Pontiac LeMans with a 400 two-barrel.
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I was 8 in 1979! I remember my dad drove a burgandy 1974ish Pontiac LeMans with a 400 two-barrel.
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The increased EPA emissions standards killed the muscle car, with it's lower compression and valve timings to compensate for the lower C/R. Then the phasing out of leaded fuels in 1973 that required catalytic converters mandatory in all vehicles... the muscle car era (as we knew it) was dead. Then to add insult to injury the octane ratings fell. This made it tough to hammer down the throttle on the real muscle cars of the 60's-70's, then hearing that death rattle of spark knock (detonation). The fuel crises didn't help with Detroit's engineers trying to breath some kind of performance back... this would come many years later.
BTW: got my drivers license in 73 along with my first "Muscle Car"
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Chris's FX4
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Trans tunnel?
57BORNTORUN
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Looks like a small Manatee with foot prints on it.
57BORNTORUN
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I`m hoping thats fiberglass!!!Feed back please
Blackthorn One
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I think I see small dents in it, and if there are small dents, it isn't fiberglass, because fiberglass doesn't dent. It cracks or breaks.
I also think I see a weld in the lower right corner...
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RedXray
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More clues guysHere's a teaser shot of the car Yancy took...
57BORNTORUN
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TEACHER............Yancy wont share with the CLAAASE!!!
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Viva Super Premium gas, 102 octane at the pump. That is how you could have a high compression muscle car. The Corvette L 88 required 103 octane, and still does. GM claimed 430 hp, by rating it at a lower rpm than the maximum hp rpm, which made 550-600 hp. It made the cars easier to insure.The increased EPA emissions standards killed the muscle car, with it's lower compression and valve timings to compensate for the lower C/R. Then the phasing out of leaded fuels in 1973 that required catalytic converters mandatory in all vehicles... the muscle car era (as we knew it) was dead. Then to add insult to injury the octane ratings fell. This made it tough to hammer down the throttle on the real muscle cars of the 60's-70's, then hearing that death rattle of spark knock (detonation). The fuel crises didn't help with Detroit's engineers trying to breath some kind of performance back... this would come many years later.
BTW: got my drivers license in 73 along with my first "Muscle Car"
Blackthorn One
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Could these be one of the same????
(without the sound deadening materiel)
Mystery Car
Not the same. The transmission area floor panel matches up much more flush with the driveshaft section of the floor panel on the mystery car than on the car you posted. The car you posted has a more raised section that has a bevel or angle where it meets the driveshaft tunnel.
57BORNTORUN
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Different.Could these be one of the same????
(without the sound deadening materiel)
Mystery Car
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So what kind of car is it then , I already guessed
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Even with the arrows, I'm still going to say those are different.
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