Burt is lookin' old but the car is damn cool!

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

The car is hideous. Turn it down a few notches and it would be extremely cool. Looks good from the side and the rear. The interior looks to be the result of a ricer crashing his Honda racing a minivan and getting amnesia. Then he gets trained in automotive interior design during therapy and he starts getting flashbacks of painting his dash vents and sewing Vtech in pink on his headrests.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Burt is still better looking than me, always will be.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

How can they put the Pontiac badge on it?

 

[MarAzul]

What is the man talking about, 185 horses in 77? I took 67 Z28 out for a long test run when Weiler Chevrolet got one in. The thing had a 302 V8, 450 hp at abut 9000 rpm straight off the show room floor.
Hot damn, it was a hoot! But holy hell, it was close to being un-drivable, with the clutch they put in it. So damn stiff to harness that high winder, you actually needed a board behind you ass to get the clutch down. No way could you run that thing around town all day making your rounds.

I ran it down to Manzanita and back, like I said a hoot, but I didn't buy it.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

How can they put the Pontiac badge on it?

The badge is the right shape but looks different, has some writing on it..TA something or other.

If GM doesn't know about this and is looking the other way I'll be surprised.

What is the man talking about, 185 horses in 77? I took 67 Z28 out for a long test run when Weiler Chevrolet got one in. The thing had a 302 V8, 450 hp at abut 9000 rpm straight off the show room floor.
Hot damn, it was a hoot! But holy hell, it was close to being un-drivable, with the clutch they put in it. So damn stiff to harness that high winder, you actually needed a board behind you ass to get the clutch down. No way could you run that thing around town all day making your rounds.

I ran it down to Manzanita and back, like I said a hoot, but I didn't buy it.

You could get 200 hp in 1977, but that ain't much more than 185. I'd have just swapped in a pre smog era 455 and been done.

 

[MarAzul]

The badge is the right shape but looks different, has some writing on it..TA something or other.

If GM doesn't know about this and is looking the other way I'll be surprised.

You could get 200 hp in 1977, but that ain't much more than 185. I'd have just swapped in a pre smog era 455 and been done.

What are you talking about? Is there something special about 77? Hell some guys had those 302's testing out at over 900 hp

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

What are you talking about? Is there something special about 77? Hell some guys had those 302's testing out at over 900 hp

I was 3 in 1977 but emissions laws neutered horsepower with lower compression as well as the hp rating being changed from gross hp to net. It was SAE or society of automotive engineers or something like that.

The camshafts in those pontiac v8s in the mid 1970s had almost no lobe. Just enough to barely open the valves.

No cam and no compression means no horsepower. That was from the factory, if you swapped intakes and cams and pistons you would get your power back.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Car Craft or Hot Rod did a test on a smog era 455 years ago and they did an intake swap and I think headers and basically made no extra power. The cam was so puny it limited the engine.

 

[jlprk]

Hot damn, it was a hoot! But holy hell, it was close to being un-drivable, with the clutch they put in it. So damn stiff to harness that high winder, you actually needed a board behind you ass to get the clutch down. No way could you run that thing around town all day making your rounds. I ran it down to Manzanita and back, like I said a hoot, but I didn't buy it.

A new owner gets used to a stiff clutch (which is necessary for fast takeoffs). Your 170-mile road trip didn't have enough shifting to do so. I've had the same stick shift for 17 years and it seemed resistant the first couple of months, but then my left leg got stronger yet gentler and I've loved it ever since.

 

[jlprk]

The only times that Burt Reynolds stands are at 3:30 and 4:07, and he's being supported. To be old and handsome, all you need is 2 things, to be slim and to have all your hair, but he has more. He still reeks of masculinity with the massive wrestler/football player head and hands. The sexual revolutionary who made us all notice him, Helen Gurley Brown, died in 2012 and I was the only one who grieved. The asshole feminists still hated her and I read obituaries criticizing this great woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gurley_Brown

 

[ripcityboy]

I find Ive come to love But Reynolds, man. His movies are probably laughed at by critics now and he's considered difficult by Hollywood. But I love HOW he made films..... doing films with guys he respected like Jim Brown, Jerry Reed and shit, even Joe Klecko. He wasn't doing it for a percentage..... He was doing it because he could have a beer with his buddies. We are surrounded now by a celebrity of calculated nothingingness--modern actors have no real experiences or backbone, even their political views are part of their image. Give me a six pack, Burt Reynolds in Gator on the tube and vinyl on my turn table.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I find Ive come to love But Reynolds, man. His movies are probably laughed at by critics now and he's considered difficult by Hollywood. But I love HOW he made films..... doing films with guys he respected like Jim Brown, Jerry Reed and shit, even Joe Klecko. He wasn't doing it for a percentage..... He was doing it because he could have a beer with his buddies. We are surrounded now by a celebrity of calculated nothingingness--modern actors have no real experiences or backbone, even their political views are part of their image. Give me a six pack, Burt Reynolds in Gator on the tube and vinyl on my turn table.

Jerry Reed was the best part of the Bandit movies.

RIP

 

[ripcityboy]

Jerry Reed was the best part of the Bandit movies.

RIP

There will never be another Snowman, Sly. I grew up listening to his albums like The Man With The Golden Thumb, which is probably the greatest Muscle Shoals record ever. He was truly one of a kind.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Muscle Shoals

Have you seen the Muscle Shoals documentary on Netflix? Really good.

 

[ripcityboy]

Have you seen the Muscle Shoals documentary on Netflix? Really good.

Yeah. I thought it was decent not great. Rick Hall is an amazing, self made man but they left A LOT out of that story.

 

[jlprk]

Jerry Reed was both a great guitarist and a great singing voice. Like everyone in the early 70s, he simply openly used drugs, and disdained the police state. When he died a couple of years ago, the rotten media gave it little attention, the same as Helen Gurley Brown. All the anti-Religious Right Southern rebel heroes from the early 70s have been written out of the official history of America, including Burt Reynolds.

 

[julius]

What is the man talking about, 185 horses in 77? I took 67 Z28 out for a long test run when Weiler Chevrolet got one in. The thing had a 302 V8, 450 hp at abut 9000 rpm straight off the show room floor.
Hot damn, it was a hoot! But holy hell, it was close to being un-drivable, with the clutch they put in it. So damn stiff to harness that high winder, you actually needed a board behind you ass to get the clutch down. No way could you run that thing around town all day making your rounds.

I ran it down to Manzanita and back, like I said a hoot, but I didn't buy it.

They changed the way they rated HP in the late 60's or early 70's, so thats partly why the #'s are different. They also had to limit the engines a bit due to smog/pollution and government standards.

It's why Disco Vettes are gutless pieces of shit, and the mid 60 Vettes are significantly better.

Its why my brothers mid 80's stock Mustang would lose in a drag race to a 2014 Honda.

 

[MarAzul]

A new owner gets used to a stiff clutch (which is necessary for fast takeoffs). Your 170-mile road trip didn't have enough shifting to do so. I've had the same stick shift for 17 years and it seemed resistant the first couple of months, but then my left leg got stronger yet gentler and I've loved it ever since.

Just my impatience! Yeah perhaps you are right. Actually I don't think I could trust self to drive that thing around town. I opted for the tamer 327 version. Loved that thing, kept it for about
16 years, and traded it in for suburban. I drove that new 327 from West Linn to Cambridge Ma, sort of a quick version of route 66. Ha! the thing would really roll, opened it up to see what it would do in Wyoming. Had it pegged and still climbing when I noticed the little critters whizzing by! Holy crap! Right in a herd of antelope and I am doing about 140+! They sure are quick little beasts,
thankfully so. Survived another session to help put stupid away.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

This modified WS6 T/A >> that modified Camaro:

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

This is the second special edition Bandit.

The first tribute edition came from Year One -- $100k Bandit:

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Lesbians are four times as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to own a Subaru

 

[barfo]

So Burt Reynolds is a lesbian. I always suspected as much.

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So Burt Reynolds is a lesbian. I always suspected as much.

barfo

barfo ^