Your new musclecar

[GUMP]

I was way too young to buy a new car in the muscle car era, but in 1995 I put in an order for a new Formula. It's only option is AC-delete. It has 186 original miles and has always been raced in Stock. I guess all of the stories of guys racing new GTOs right off the lot had an impact on me.

Daren

[John Leichtamer Jr]

1969

BURKHART MOTORS Waynesburg Ohio Walked in, there set a new bright red(orange) Dart Swinger 340 4speed ofcourse. radio, posi the only options on it. Paid $2650.00 out the door.A few changes had to be made.Yank the engine do a piston & cam swap,set of hooker headers, out back a set of slapper bars & 4.56 gears. Low 12 sec street car ,not to bad for the late 60s early 70s.Did alot of street racing had a real good win/lose ratio.

Hammer

PS I'm a chevy guy

[Doug McCue]

I just went out to the local chevy dealer and ordered a l-88 427 camaro. I thought the ZL-1 was too pricey then $4900.00 plus shipping. The L-88 was a better price, however the sales man had to do some digging to figure out the opions I thought I wanted. Total price was $3900.00

[Jeff Lee]

My only new muscle car was a '94 25th Anniversary T/A. I always wanted to buy a new car and do a sideways burnout off the lot. Finally got my wish. It was a spectacular burnout on a car with 7.2 miles on the odometer! Car ran 13.95 with nothing but a Borla cat-back.
I have a friend that just inherited $40K and wants to buy a new muscle car. Once the 6-speed Challengers, Camaro's and the new 5.0L Mustang come out we're going to have a lot of fun test driving some new hot cars!

[Stewart Way]

Got a call from a racer named Larry Abbott in 1971 from Kelly Chry-Ply in Marietta, GA. Said a 70 Hemi Cuda Convert was just traded in. My soon to be racing partner and I went up and $2400 later we had an original Hemi Cuda Convert. It was on the street about 5 months including in my college homecoming parade. Then it was off to Barnett Race Cars in Norcross, GA for a build. 13.60 atb 100+ mph on skinny polyglas tires before the build. Fast as 10.87 after setting the National record at 11.17. That was back when a college student and a guy working in a tire store could field a record holder.
It was all black, leather, power windows and a rim blow horn. 1 of 9 automatics. 14 total.

[Sean Ward]

Ok i was not around then but the first car i ever dumped the clutch on was my dads 62 max wedge i was 7 years old and that is all it took it has been fast cars and faster women ever since

[Frank Castros]

My father bought a new '69 Road Runner 383-335 4 speed new and I got my license shortly thereafter..........
what an adventure that became! We are still talking about it!
Then I bought a '69 Camaro SS 350-300 4 speed (I was banned from the Road Runner) and promptly replaced the 350 with a 427, more stories! That was followed by a 428 CJ Mustang (I didn't discriminate). Then a '63 Max Wedge Savoy and finally a '64 Max Wedge Belvedere (A/SA). I then got married, had 2 kids and sold everything to devote my life to my family and career. I still dream about resuming my addiction to speed. I envy you guys every day.

[Myron Piatek]

My 10 year older brother had a couple of '65 GTO/Lemans' over the years that he always stuffed a later model 400 RA engine in. He took me to some street races, drive-ins and junkyards a coupe of times. That planted the seed.

My dad, knowing about my brothers urge to go fast and tickets, told me that he would help me get a car if it didn't have an engine bigger than the 383 he had in his 1965 Polara, which was a 383 2 barrel. Well, I got lucky! While my dad was a smart jack-of-all trades handyman, he wasn't particularly up on auto mechanics. One day I found a good deal on a used '72 Challenger Rallye. Yes, it had a smaller engine - a 340 4 barrel/auto/3.23 open rear! Rallye Red, black vinyl top, side strobe stripes & black interior. Red wasn't my favorite color, but I wasn't going to complain. Bit by bit, I was fixing it up with wider tires, Holley carb, headers, etc. But after some close calls, tickets, almost being banned from driving it to school because of local complaints and me ending up in a canal once, I finally wised up and decided that if I was going to go fast, it would be legally at the track. First year out in 1978 at Orlando Speed World, I won the Street class track championship running 14's and went on to win many more in other classes, including Div. 2 Pro ET in 1980 while Lex Dudas was director. Got to go to Ontario, California with 2 other division class winners from Orlando. That was actually the first year NHRA had an ET World Champ, but then shelved the concept till many years later. (At the Division 2 banquet, I got my pic taken with Miss Winston, Tina Gayle (C.H.I.P.S. and a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader). I'm still mad that I never got to have or even see a copy!)

By 1985, the car was literally worn out, especially after being cut-up, lightened, etc. After stripping it, I shed tear after hauling it off to a scrap yard. Too bad I didn't know then what I know now.

[Curt Rees]

I still have 13 trophies won in Pure Stock with my purchased new '68 Road Runner and my purchased new '69 '340, 4 speed, 3.91 geared Cuda. I dug the trophies out this summer and cleaned them up.

Most were won with the 'Cuda. I had a chance to buy the 'Cuda back a few years ago. I passed, that was a mistake.

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Curt Rees

[mtkawboy]

After owning a 427/425 FE 4 speed powered 57 Ford Custom 300, at the age of 23, I bought a new black 67 GTO hardtop, 400HO/360 HP, 390 gears, close ratio 4 speed for $3050. The thing was beautiful but also a flaming turd running 15.25. I put the Chevy adjustable rocker nuts on it and set them, blocked the heat risers, rejetted the Q-jet and put an advance kit in the distributer and got it down to 14.01. Not spectacular but it would run off & hide from most factory stockers at the time {untouched} on street tires. Looked pretty good too with American Mags on it. Unfortunately I worked on Miami Beach and 4 years of salt air renedered it a major rust bucket even though I washed nearly every day. The insurance on it at the time would still be a ton today but I had to have it. Never regretted it either.