hot rods

[jhs27275]

Why would a car that short need 4 wheel steering???

If you ever get to drive one you'll know the answer.

[High Pockets]

Why would a car that short need 4 wheel steering???

If you ever get to drive one you'll know the answer.

I got to drive one, one time. The salesman insisted on accompanying me. As we pulled back into the lot, the salesman pried his fingers off the grab bar, looked at me, and said: "You've done this before, haven't you?" That's when I told him I used to race MGs in SCCA, many years earlier.

[Talhoffer]

Here are a few videos I salvaged of my 68 Camaro

Might be able to salvage few more passes on the video after editing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxwz7jZ_DCw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Qub3cgsAo

[AmnFlury]

Obviously not mine, but I thought I'd share. 110 pics of american muscle.

http://izismile.com/2011/11/08/ameri..._110_pics.html

[98ctr]

progress report on my car....

i FINALLY ordered all the componets for my break system. They should arrive next friday. I hope to have them installed before 2012. Its scary having over 600whp and only using drums and autozone $15 pads up front to stop. After the breaks are finished. We plan to strap it back on the dyno and see if the new tires help the car to "hook" up better. Maybe, just maybe we can use the last 800-1K rpm's.

fingers crossed.

[STL9MM]

Well, it's not a hot rod at the level of some posted. But it's a fun daily driver! 2004 Mach 1, lowered a bit and has a Hurst shifter. Gets it's share of looks...the color doesn't hurt!

[goretro77]

ok, here's my old car, this was taken back in '83 right when I first got it:





that pic above is a pic of a teenager with his first car, happy and working the summer to pay his dad back $1400 for the car. We found it on a used car lot one block away from my high school. Had my first date in that car. You can say it kept me from getting bored and kept me off Chicago city streets and taught me to appreciate some hard work that went into cars. Made me appreciate everyone else cars too and the amount of money these things can be.

So its a 1977 Celica GT Coupe.

its a rear wheel drive, 5 speed. It had a old school 18RG (Hemi) 4 cyl, 2.0 producing probably about 200hp normally aspirated, its bore and stroke was squared so it just loved to rev. Main focus for the car was roadracing so handling and lightweightness. It was still very streeatble but the influences of this car led me to my next.
Heres how it looked when I was done with it. Owned this car for over 20 years.


occasionally tracked and autocrossed it.

















took to a car show once and won a trophy which surprised me as there were tons of beautiful cars there.

Drove home with the trophy on the passenger seat feeling great!


Here's a video I made a long time ago...

[SONYtec]

Very nice!!!

[goretro77]

Very nice!!!

Thanks SONYtec!

My oldest brother had a '76 Celica GT Coupe and I had a '77. He got me into roadracing:

[goretro77]

^ so those cars taught me the importance of power to weight.

It had led to this car: