Thread: World's Biggest Muscle Car? (^-^)

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Originally Posted by shine

the smog vettes . those turds are still hard to deal with. if you want a driver they are in that rocking chair of price.

My 76 probably falls into that category though all of the smog junk is gone including the single cat. I put true dual exhaust on it designed for a 73. Fortunately it didn't have a smog pump, an absolutely worthless piece of junk.

they broke my heart with the nader bumpers. i have been working on vettes all my life. love them. during the nader years i pretty much lost interest. sad part is the nader cars are the same car just ruint with the nader bumpers and detuned engines. i remember in 84 they were putting 350's in 1ton's to get the mpg average for the year. but those vettes can still be bought right and with a little southern engineering they are fine. hard to restore because the value and cost of a resto are too far apart .

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

a smog pump, an absolutely worthless piece of junk.

This is not quite true, a neighbor of ours years ago raised exotic fish in a 500 gallon aquarium, a aeriator pump was outragously overpriced for the thing so a smog pump driven by a small electric motor worked like a top!! OK on a car they where junk, like the '81 pickup I had with a detonation retarding HEI on it, that piece pinged so dang much with the 305 & smogger heads that you couldn't even get up a hill, tell I yanked it and put a standard HEI in it.
Roger, I restored a '72 SS Chevelle, just at the start of the smog equipment, it actually was ordered without the EGR & smog pump but had 5 lines to the gas tank for venting and recirculating/reburning the fumes, I couldn't find a replacement tank with enough lines coming out so we had to salvage the original! Yeah, real glory days..

Originally Posted by DennyW

Back then, they were known as a top end cruiser, with a little work, you could bury the speedo.

Originally Posted by Matthyj

Roger, I restored a '72 SS Chevelle, just at the start of the smog equipment, it actually was ordered without the EGR & smog pump but had 5 lines to the gas tank for venting and recirculating/reburning the fumes, I couldn't find a replacement tank with enough lines coming out so we had to salvage the original! Yeah, real glory days..

I think it would be quite interesting to understand the (legal??) details involved with the "...little work" that would let a guy bury the speedo on one of these "top end cruisers". The only way I could bury the speedo on my '78 T-Bird was with a shovel, or maybe on a looooooong downhill slope if it was steep enough.

MattC, thanks for posting your comment and picture! It's generated a lot of discussion, and poked a few memories, too! Not necessarily GOOD memories, but memories just the same.