Dream cars

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O.K. guys here's the deal. Mark D. and I were discussing what would be our dream car collection. The rules, simple....you get to go back to 1962 and get a new car no expense spared, every year until 1971. Oh yea, in 1970 you get 2 cars.

Let's see what you guys come up with!

Here's my list:

1962 Chevrolet Bel Air Bubbletop 4-speed, dual quad, positraction 409. Color - Honduras Maroon. Wheels chrome reverse with 9" Casler slicks in the rear. Oh, yes the Beach Boys used my car for the sounds on the intro to the song. I would go on later to produce the legendary Flowmaster muffler in the 80's.

1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, Split window coupe with fuel injected 327. Silver exterior/ black interior. We'll keep it with stock knock off wheels, but cheater slicks for taking on a little old lady from Pasadena that has been roaming around in something called a Super Stock Dodge. My vette loses a race to this lady one afternoon on the way home from the store and I go down to the Dodge dealer the following model year to check one out. So much for the Beach Boys song Shut Down. They lied about my Stingray winning that race.

1964 Dodge Polara 500 Super Stock Max Wedge Hemi, Black on black with torqfight auto, lightweight components, and American torq-thrust mags. After an appointment with Dick Landy Industries (Mopar drag Guru) in SoCal the car is dialed in and becomes the fastest street car on the planet running high 10's and setting every NHRA national record that year. Me and Don Pruhdomme become good buddies as he goes into Top Fuel history.

1965 Pontiac GTO Hardtop 4 speed, Hurst wheels (gold) with black interior - I enter the GEETO Tiger Sweepstakes and win the famous Tiger Gold car after correctly guessing how many times GTO is sung in the song GEETO Tiger. Being good friends with Milt Schornack and Royal Pontiac, we have the car delivered from the factory to the dealership where the engine is crated for safekeeping and an experimental one off 421 Extreme duty engine is assembled. It dynos at an unheard of 615 horsepower. Jim Wangers is allowed to use the car as a ringer in exchange for the engine work. All the major magazines get a test in the car as it is the first car ever tested (in Hot Rod, Car Craft, Car & Driver, Poular Hot Rodding, and too many others to count) as a "stock" street car with headers and slicks to run in the 10's. My car graces the cover of many magazines that year. It is retired to street duty on Woodward Avenue where it will be forever known as the GEETO PISS SHIVERING TIGER. Oh yea, Car of the Year, like it was a contest?

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1966 Cobra SC 427 - guardsman blue, black interior. Carroll Shelby gets wind of the Polara and now the GTO, and vows to build me the king of all beasts. The car is built with a one off chassis that brings the cars weight in at a featherweight 2400 lbs. The engine is a 427 side-oiler with hilborn fuel injection and some secret stuff known as NO2. The engine is dynoed at 627 HP on the motor and juiced comes in at 801 HP. Carroll decides to update the suspension to handle the enormous torque and dials everything in by Dec of '66. We take the out to Pomona for the Winternationals where the car is placed in an experimental class because it qualified with times that rivaled the Top Fuel dragsters. The car ran a squirrely 8.95 seconds at 178 mph, smoking the tires most of the way. This car became known as the Fuel Altered Cobra.

1967 Corvette L-88 Stingray Coupe. Marlboro Maroon, with black stinger, sidepipes, rally wheels, 4 -speed. By now I get alot of favors with all the automakers and they can't wait for my order. This vette will get a very special L-88. With connections to Can Am racing, they deliver the car with a 427 race motor that winds to 9000 rpm and makes around 750 hp. This engine was too much for NASCAR and they gave it to me for the car as a favor. All I had to do was let a few magazine writers take a ride in it. This led to a side business that you may have heard of: DEPENDS diapers for adults.

1968 Plymouth Barracuda Super Stock - 426 Hemi dual quad tunnel ram. This is one of the handful built for Pro Stock, but they added a few ammenities so I could drive on the street. I finally had to invent wheelie bars as I kept scraping my rear bumpers off at stop lights when the car would launch six feet in the air. Bumpers were replaced under warranty.

1969 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds, 455 - Dr. Olds (Doc Watson) and I became good friends and he decided to surprise me with a special car. He had Miss Linda Vaughn deliver it in a topless bikini. The doctor put in a hand-build masterpiece of an engine based on the 455 that had special Mondello heads, and many top secret pieces. It was the only car they had seen go completely through a set of Good Year polyglas G-60's in a quarter mile. It may not have been as fast as some of my other cars but it would put on some smoke show. Linda stuck around for awhile until I got the itch for another car.

1970: Rule change for 1970 we get to select 2 cars: 1970 Plymouth AAR Cuda. Dan Gurney had a special Trans Am engine built for it. 340 engine was "tweaked" to produce in the neighborhood of 590 HP. Special Dana rear, 4:11's, pistol grip hemi 4-speed, painted B5 blue. This car was taken out only on dates with my latest girlfriend Rachel Welch. You may have seen this car on the movie Two Lane Blacktop. It is off to the side as it was too fast to run in the street racing opening scene. They didn't want me to show up the '55.
1970 Challenger R/T 440 six pack, 4 -speed, Dana - black with white bumblebee, black leather interior. I left this one stock for some reason.

1971 OK end of game. I had to buy a 1971 Plymouth 4 door wagon to haul a family with. That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch, the Brady Bunch, Thats...........the way..........we.........became...........the...... ...............Brady Bunch!

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Hilarious ;D
Wow whatta great story !
Okay time to put our lists together, hard to top this one though!!

[MikeS]

??? Now I have to do my homework. First instinct is to go down the line picking GTO after GTO, but I think I would miss some other great selections. Hmmmmm..............