1/2 cup for me or I’m peeing every freaking 20 minutes.
2017 Corvette C7 with 7-speed stickshift and a targa top to hear those 4 big center mounted exhausts.
It’s my daily commuter for the last 8 years, and 1k miles vacation trips at 39 mpg on the fwy and still have 465 lbs of torque on tap to zip around any car blocking the left lane.
In it’s time it was a daily driver. And people used to parallel park them.
My uncle had the hardtop. He could get it into the garage, but a couple feet of it’s behind would stick out the door.
I bring at least one Cadillac to all car shows and audio shows that I attend for that matter! That’s alot of american steel right there!
While not of interest to me, I have seen plenty at car shows.
A bit of Alfa in the front middle.
In the day a garage to house such a beast would have been half the size of the house it was attached to. I guess it might have been referred to an attached house rather than an attached garage.
I looked up the Fleetwood. Two and one half tons, over 19 feet long, 0-60 mph in 11 to 13 seconds depending on engine choice (even its 500 cubic inche V8 did not produce much power in those days.)
Yup 8.2 liter / 500ci with one massive 4 bbl carb.
5mpg.
Ahh, the good old days.
And let’s not forget 8 mpg, maybe 12 highway.
Should have added 400ci with Carter quadrajet
And let’s also not forget why they were not so lovingly referred to as land yachts.
I’m curious what others think about this. I graduated from high school in 1979, a time when high school kids could afford mid-late 1960s muscle cars. Fast, right?
Yet the 0-60 and quarter mile times were mediocre by today’s standards. And that was when cars were relatively light. Oh, and gasoline was nearly free.
On a separate angle, I grew up in South Dakota where handling was immaterial. All rural roads were at 90° angles. Straight line acceleration was all that mattered.
Enough fodder. Discuss!
1960s engines used the SAE Gross horsepower standard for measuring output. This engine output without accessories (like air cleaner, alternator, water pump, stock carburation, exhaust, etc.), resulting in higher published figures than the Net standard used today (engine with everything attached.)
Scary bad brakes, too.
I have never found 1960s muscle cars interesting, I suspect you need to have grown up with them.
I also graduated in ‘79 while living in an Omaha suburb. Put a 340 in the Duster I drove my senior year and it would have been a muscle car but the $150 I had got me 198 slant six that was slow but indestructible. I’m guessing SD may have been similar but a near necessity was suspension that would float over the ripples in the dirt road for those stupid enough to go that fast.
If I’m being honest I’m content with my memories. The only thing I miss are the body styles - and maybe the simplest HVAC controls.