What would you say the best & fastest street car was.

[MarPar]

I liked my old silver bullet better.

Whatta Dick...

we're talkin' bout METAL and IRON, not plastic!! :jerk:

 

[Bruzilla]

I heard about an interview Petty gave in the 1990s when some outfit was going around to NASCAR drivers and asking them what they would do to their cars if NASCAR allowed them to do anything they wanted, and Petty said "I would want my 70 Superbird, exactly like it was." Who needs a gazillion bucks in suspension when you got body elements that are generating close to 8,000 lbs of downforce and a 426 Hemi? Fastest street car was the Hemi Superbird.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Whatta Dick...

we're talkin' bout METAL and IRON, not plastic!! :jerk:

Aluminum isn't metal?

 

[67coronetman]

ink banana:ink banana::violent1::violent1::thinker::thinker:

Aluminum isn't metal?

 

[MarPar]

Aluminum isn't metal?

oh sorry, Dickie, it looks all plastic to me...imp_daddy:

 

[Budnicks]

I think I just remembered the name. Rod Banna?

The coupe...

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The Cobra that scared the crap out of Bill Cosby might make the cut. 68 R code Mustang (428 CJ SS car). 68 SS hemi Dart or Barracuda? T Bolt Fairlane? LS6 Vette or Chevelle? 427 ZL1 Camaro? Around Concord CA area there was a T bucket with a BBC I think and I can't recall the guys name, but that car was a famous local hot rod. I don't remember ever seeing it but heard about it. Budnicks probably knows the famous race in the late 70's out at Solano.

are you referring to the race with the BB V8 Vega & Rod's BB coupe.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JQksYxgM0 ........... that 67 Cobra Super Snake was a fast car 0-100 & back to 0...

 

[Richard Cranium]

oh sorry, Dickie, it looks all plastic to me...imp_daddy:

That's ok, I made a mistake once.

The nose cone, tail panel & hood are plastic. The rest of the body panels, engine transmission & frame are all aluminum.

 

[Meep-Meep]

The coupe...

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are you referring to the race with the BB V8 Vega & Rod's BB coupe.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JQksYxgM0 ........... that 67 Cobra Super Snake was a fast car 0-100 & back to 0...

So you do know. All I remember was standing in Jim Molino's living room as he was talking up this race to my neighbor Mike McIntosh (who is about your age). I never saw either car but for some reason I thought Banna's car was more of an open car like a T bucket. Could have been a coupe. I just heard it was bad ***. Don't remember the other car but V8 Vega would make sense. I also heard the other car crashed? This was probably 76 or 77.

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Be it al-you-minium, plastic or kryptonite. I don't care what anyone says but that GT is one bad *** ride, even if it is a reskinned McLaren. And they seem to be holding their own in the used car market.

 

[67coronetman]

:headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::jerk::jerk::jerk:

 

[MarPar]

Be it al-you-minium, plastic or kryptonite. I don't care what anyone says but that GT is one bad *** ride, even if it is a reskinned McLaren. And they seem to be holding their own in the used car market.

I agree 100% Meeps...the plastic comment was my feeble attempt at taking a good-natured swipe at Dickie lol

 

[Budnicks]

So you do know. All I remember was standing in Jim Molino's living room as he was talking up this race to my neighbor Mike McIntosh (who is about your age). I never saw either car but for some reason I thought Banna's car was more of an open car like a T bucket. Could have been a coupe. I just heard it was bad ***. Don't remember the other car but V8 Vega would make sense. I also heard the other car crashed? This was probably 76 or 77.

yeah Rod's car it was a 30-31 Coupe, Dark green & Black IIRC {he was older than me by a few years, the car was painted different a couple times, he was a friend of a good friend Scott Holman}, with a trick highly modified LS7... no weight & lots of power, the Vega lost control, got wrapped around a telephone pole... he walked away, but limping I may add... it was kind of the hyped up street race of the era... IIRC Danny Massachini {name Spelling?/he had bad *** 70-71 Z28 LS7 4 speed 12 bolt car/was very fast also} had something to do with the rivalry, getting them together... yeah the year is about correct, maybe as late as 78... there was a guy Larry V. with another BB 454 Vega that was going to race, another car a Blown BB ratty looking fully caged ladder bar narrowed rear etc. 68 Chevelle, can't think of the guys name... obviously after the wreck no-one was going to race again... they ended up racing at Ygnacio Valley Rd. Larry Won, in a peddle fest... Danny M. also had a bad *** BB killer 70-71 Demon sublime/white with a wicked 340 w-2 headed 4 speed mini tubbed combo IIRC also... all those guys were older than me, by 3-4 years...

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I agree 100% Meeps...the plastic comment was my feeble attempt at taking a good-natured swipe at Dickie lol

he is fun to take jabs at, he is good at giving them right back too...he he ha ha

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There was an older gentalman that lived next to or close to Rod anyway, that had a white 1969 Charger 500 Hemi 4 speed Dana 60 car with Cragers, I use to drooled over as a teenager... when ever I'd go to visit my buddy Jeff Boggs, he lived down a cross street, who had a nice Bronze 70 Cuda 383 Gran Coupe... me in my 68 Charger R/T

sorry for the side track hi-jacking & walk down memory lane guys....

 

[67coronetman]

No worries.... !

 

[67 coronet]

I heard about an interview Petty gave in the 1990s when some outfit was going around to NASCAR drivers and asking them what they would do to their cars if NASCAR allowed them to do anything they wanted, and Petty said "I would want my 70 Superbird, exactly like it was." Who needs a gazillion bucks in suspension when you got body elements that are generating close to 8,000 lbs of downforce and a 426 Hemi? Fastest street car was the Hemi Superbird.

you are correct.as long as those stop lights are about 3 miles apart.

 

[Meep-Meep]

I agree 100% Meeps...the plastic comment was my feeble attempt at taking a good-natured swipe at Dickie lol

I hear ya! I was just commenting about how cool those cars are. And as far as taking shots at our Cranium, don't let me stop you. He needs to stay sharp and I can't think of a better exercise.

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yeah Rod's car it was a 30-31 Coupe, Dark green & Black IIRC {he was older than me by a few years, the car was painted different a couple times, he was a friend of a good friend Scott Holman}, with a trick highly modified LS7... no weight & lots of power, the Vega lost control, got wrapped around a telephone pole... he walked away, but limping I may add... it was kind of the hyped up street race of the era... IIRC Danny Massachini {name Spelling?/he had bad *** 70-71 Z28 LS7 4 speed 12 bolt car/was very fast also} had something to do with the rivalry, getting them together... yeah the year is about correct, maybe as late as 78... there was a guy Larry V. with another BB 454 Vega that was going to race, another car a Blown BB ratty looking fully caged ladder bar narrowed rear etc. 68 Chevelle, can't think of the guys name... obviously after the wreck no-one was going to race again... they ended up racing at Ygnacio Valley Rd. Larry Won, in a peddle fest... Danny M. also had a bad *** BB killer 70-71 Demon sublime/white with a wicked 340 w-2 headed 4 speed mini tubbed combo IIRC also... all those guys were older than me, by 3-4 years...

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You are a freaking walking Concord CA street race encyclopedia. This is exactly the info I was looking for. I went with Mike M. when he bought his 69 SS Camaro from a guy in Martinez for $900.00. That was in 76 and I was 12. And shortly after that we met Molino. Did you know that green house on the corner of PH Road and Boyd with the detached garage was where he lived? And that detached garage was full, and I mean full, of cool cars. Everyone in my neighborhood was about 4 yrs older than me and some even older than that. I was in every garage during every engine build, body work project, whatever. Good times for sure. How I never met you back then I'll never know.

 

[Budnicks]

You are a freaking walking Concord CA street race encyclopedia. This is exactly the info I was looking for. I went with Mike M. when he bought his 69 SS Camaro from a guy in Martinez for $900.00. That was in 76 and I was 12. And shortly after that we met Molino. Did you know that green house on the corner of PH Road and Boyd with the detached garage was where he lived? And that detached garage was full, and I mean full, of cool cars. Everyone in my neighborhood was about 4 yrs older than me and some even older than that. I was in every garage during every engine build, body work project, whatever. Good times for sure. How I never met you back then I'll never know.

I vaguely remember that area & the house... It's been 8 years since I've been back there in my old stomping grounds now, sorry I'm racking my brain {sometimmers is kicking in} & just can't come up with anything... It'll come to me later probably... Both those guys name you mentioned sound very familiar, I'm amazed we never crossed paths, that I remember anyway... we knew allot of the same people...

hey I lived it, that was my life, Concord had a great car scene & when I was home or wasn't away at school, I was racing, bench racing or in someone's garage getting ready for racing or helping some buddy or friend of a buddy, to get out & go racing...LOL....

 

[67GTX440]

The 66/67 427 AC Cobra was a hot ticket back in the day. I remember riding with a buddy on the interstate with the speedo pegged at 120. Not expecting anything to come up from behind and got passed by one moving about 165. Also remember going to a shopping center parking lot pretty open gymkana course and watching the Corvettes go back and forth for first place by carving off tenths of a second all day. A guy shows up in an AC Cobra late in the day and shaved almost two seconds off the best time of the day his first pass. They were something like 7 grand new, which put them somewhat above a hemi car, but a nice one is 10X the price of a nice hemi car today. They were a straight off the dealer floor deal while the Silver Bullet had every trick in the book Mopar racing development could provide.

The AC Cobra 427 still ran 4.2 seconds 0-60 and the quarter in the low 12's at 118 or so. My 96 Viper GTS in pretty stock form did high 11's at 122 and a sub 4 0-60. Hell, I read today that the high performance all electric Tesla will run a sub 4 second 0-60 and a quarter mile in about 12.4 seconds. The best of the 60/70's cars off the showroom floor can't compare with the cars of today in performance, safety, handling etc. Technology has come along way.

All 60's and 70's cars are just plain cool, but most are not quick or fast by today's standards.

I was on the RK car sales site in Charlotte last night and was surprised to see one of the 100 factory Challenger Drag Pak cars for sale. Car still had the skinny tired delivery wheels, no miles and the 6.1 Hemi with no driveshaft and rear end, just as they came. I think they were asking something like 39K. These are very similar to the ones Gas Monkey Garage bought recently and is selling, except I think the never ones have Viper V-10 engines. These are built as pure drag cars and are not streetable as they have no vin an about 1,500 pounds shaved off by deletion of just about everything unnecessary to just run in a straight line. It seemed like these were about 85K and considered quite collectable at one time.

http://www.rkmotorscharlotte.com/sales/inventory/active#!/2009-Dodge-Challenger-Drag-Pak/134112

 

[snakeyes]

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[67coronetman]

I am really not talk about these cars that none of us will ever have its off point from my original Post / Thread

I know everyone will have a different opinion as to what makes a true street car so lets keep it on cars that are all motor..I will start it off with the 1967 Silver Bullet GTX Of Jimmy Addison so what say you. Well i am talking about the time period of the 60 & 70 era...

:headbang::headbang:

 

[67coronetman]

Mmmmmmmm

So you do know. All I remember was standing in Jim Molino's living room as he was talking up this race to my neighbor Mike McIntosh (who is about your age). I never saw either car but for some reason I thought Banna's car was more of an open car like a T bucket. Could have been a coupe. I just heard it was bad ***. Don't remember the other car but V8 Vega would make sense. I also heard the other car crashed? This was probably 76 or 77.

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Be it al-you-minium, plastic or kryptonite. I don't care what anyone says but that GT is one bad *** ride, even if it is a reskinned McLaren. And they seem to be holding their own in the used car market.

 

[Budnicks]

64 Fairlane 500 Thunderbolt 427ci Cammer or 64 Polara Hemi SS/AFX cars