Yep. Dude put 4 extra spark plugs in a round bracket and used all 8 plug wires. They just sat there sparking away
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If you could own just one special vehicle what would it look like?
- Thread starter Elektrishun
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Were you really expecting any of us to want a modern, emissions strangled, Gen Z, tech mobile?
Hollow-Grind
Member
I do! Maclaren p1 would be my special car. Not sure I’m understanding emission strangled. My ram trx is making 702hp stock and I can assure you the emissions aspect isn’t restricting it much. 700 hp daily driver that does almost everything…
Here’s the 2 Camaro ZL1’s Ive owned. Both 6 speed stick. One stock lsa with 580hp and one LT4 with 650 hp. I’ve owned 18 camaro’s, multiple mustangs, Daytona Shelby’s, etc etc. modern stuff to me blows away old gear.
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Oh, I know that! It's actually amazing that they can do that!
Strangled might not have been a great choice of words. What I was mainly focussed on is the ability to repair it and keep it running. All that emissions control stuff is complicated, finicky, difficult to maintain, and very expensive to repair compared to the old pre-emissions iron.
eotrfish
Ultra Member
Hollow-Grind
Member
Luckily if you buy the right vehicle a lot of the emission problems aren’t there. Also with the right vehicle you can actually turn all nannies off fully which is a rareity these days.
I should add I’m gen X lol
@slow-poke, not all the old gang were good stylists. Only reason this looks good is because the paint is shiny. 90hp 195ci flathead six, 2500 lbs empty, automatic transmission, and vacuum-operated windshield wipers. I remember my father teaching all us kids some really good words while driving one of these up Anarchist Hill in Osoyoos during a rainstorm.
Tell you what. Let's archive this note and talk again in 5-10 years.
I'm glad you like it though. I do too. I even like some of the nanny features. That heads up display on the Ram is awesome. So is the phone charger pad - to name just two really nice features. Can't complain about the power, the sound, or the comfort either.
Hollow-Grind
Member
In 5-10 years I may be thru 2-4 more vehicles lol. Ram said TRX is coming back with more power. Question is red eye or hellephant… That will dictate if I build this or upgrade.
If I decided to find a Datsun 510 and modify it I'd have to crack open this book. Found it when I was moving books the other day. This was the 'bible' for upgrading a 510.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
I love this design for a truck, though. Small(ish) footprint, and gets a lot of work done. If I could build my own, it would have a similar core concept. I’m not trying to impress anyone with my ride (unless they have a couch that needs moving)
I've been trying to find the right old Toyota to build something similar. Early/mid 80's, Custom built flat bed with fold up bedsides. Eventually i'd to build a slide in welding deck, as well as a lightweight camper for it too. Most I've found are too far gone to throw anymore good money at them (and they still want $5k....), but I'd like to get going on something in the next year or two, so may have to lower my standards.... Not sure how much longer my current truck will keep ticking, and I'd rather build something cool for the next one. I wouldn't turn away a good condition old GM squarebody to build the same though. But would rather have the smaller Yota.
Something like this
If we could just get this here.....https://www.toyota.com.au/hilux/workmate
Lightspeed Mike
Well-Known Member
Dream cars, too many too list.
My current hot rod. All apart desperately trying to get it painted.
My bike I bought new, haven't found anything that I would replace it with.
My current hot rod. All apart desperately trying to get it painted.
Downwindtracker2
Ultra Member
Oh, how I lusted after a Alfa GTV V-6. I ended up with a '74 Fait Sport Coupe. close.
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Yeah. And?
Knew a guy years ago who had a Merlin in tractor pulling trim. Yeah, it didn't have the snap of the prop, but it sounded lovely anyways.
Had a '72 F250 4X4 crew cab short box, 360, 4 bbl, headers, port matched aluminum intake, 4 speed, 4.11 gears (actually, front was 4.10, rear was 4.11, she did not like being in FWD on a hard surface road), 35" Mud Terrain T/A's, had 10-1/2" of ground clearance under the pumpkins. Engine went south (started blowing steam out the exhaust, don't know if it was a head gasket or a crack somewhere), money was tight, let her go to a guy who wanted to install a diesel of some sort. Haven't seen her since.
Power steering by Armstrong (apparently it was an option on F100's & standard on F350's but not the F250's. Go figger). Got caught in a 7-11 parking lot one time, took me 15 minutes to wrangle my way out.
Years ago when we used to cruise the strip in Lethbidge there was this guy in an E-type in front of me. He made a right hand turn onto Mayor Magrath Drive from 3rd Ave, I tried to keep up. I just missed the curb on the LH side as I understeered, he went around that sucka like the Jag was on rails.
When I hitch-hiked across Canada a guy picked me up in Ontario in a Lotus Elan. We were in a town trying to follow a detour and I suddenly noticed the sign that said go right. He had just started to turn left. Next thing I knew we were headed in the correct direction. The turn was like being on a roller coaster. Once moment one direction, then next in the other.
He dropped me off and headed south to Toronto and I continued on to Ottawa.