Old Cars V New

[John K]

  cobrav8 said:

cool mate - looks very similar to mine, I had a black vinyl roof - and twin bench seats.

I remember a 120 odd mile an hour squirt once - and noticed the traffic stopped ahead - my god I ended up with brown pants trying to stop - it slowed fine at first, then worse and worse. Stopped though (so did my heart I think).

I had to sell the beast to pay for a garage and a wedding.

Those were the days.

I remember a mate with a '64 Riviera that he wound up to close to terminal velocity on General Holmes Drive (under the runways at Sydney Airport). In the distance he saw a traffic light change. He tried his best to stop. He rolled through the lights at 50mph, brakes smoking

The sound of a V8 rumbling under the bonnet is still special and I can't tell you the number of faces the Impala put a big smile on when it kicked down to low gear at about 45mph. But the XR6T kills it in every way except for boot space and of course, the chick factor.

[Rudiger]

Guys, I gotta tell ya.

I picked up my XRT last night. Went for a few small drives, even let my daughter drive it. MMM Sweet.

But I have to se the scene here fist.

There are certain sounds that are like music to your ears:

The sound of a wopping V8 under acceleration. (Oh yeah)

Your wife saying, "Lets have sex tonight"

The cop who just pulled you up for speeding saying, "I've actually run out of tickets so I'll have to let you go".

Or yours may be rain on a roof, or the birds song of a morning.

But the point is there are just some sweeet sounds.

Well today I had to drive to my sisters and on the way back I found myself on a two way country road behind a couple of cars, so I booted the XRT.

The sound of the exhaust (what I could hear) the engine revving and the turbo building up, man is that a sweet sound. The sound of machinery doing what it wants to do.

I pulled in front of these cars and looked at the speedo. Wasnt a lot of movement left to go in the needle, and it did it sooo quickly and easily.

Yep I love the old cars too. The red Corvette is to die for.

But this is one sweet ride and Im hooked.

[Maximus]

  Rudiger said:

I never got a chance to drive a Charger. I knew the Hemi made for a quick car. Was it true they wouldn't turn corners though? They werent a bad looking car either.

All the old cars couldn't corner for and had brakes that went away after a few hard dabs of the pedal.

that's why they used to corner like this.

The Charger would have won bathurst back in 1972 but a wheel nut that just wouldn't loosen off caused it all to fail for the Beck/Chivas crew.

For a big coupe they were quite light and handled alot better than the front heavy GT's of the day.