So a gas freak out is going on?

Gilligan

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
RareBreed said:
Along with the Trans Am, my husband has a Cyclone, a Super Bee, and a Barracuda. Can't remember the years but I think the Cyclone is a 1969.
Click to expand...
Dang! All I've got left is an unfinished 1959 TR3A Triumph and an unfinished 1969 Bronco.... Well, and my '78 Bronco daily driver.

What engine in that Cyclone? 🤤
 
stgislander

stgislander

Well-Known Member
PREMO Member
Gilligan said:
I've owned a long list of what are now defined as "collector cars"...I'm soon 63 years old. While of course I wish I had some or all of them today, I was never "wealthy" and each one got sold or traded off for the next over the years....

At the top of my "wish I coulda kept them" list: 1970 Road Runner, 2-speed, 440-6 pack. 1957 Bel Air with 1967 Corvette 327-365, 4 speed. 1963 Cadlillac El Dorado convertible., 1972 Pantera, numerous 66-77 Broncos

On the flip side, I recently came across a 1927 Dodge Brothers "Fast Four" coupe up for auction that was identical in every respect to the one I restored back in the late 70s/early 80s. It sold for only $6500!...mine was valued at a lot more than that over 40 years ago. Values change as tastes and collector "wants" change over time.
Click to expand...
Don't forget all the rusty trailers.
 
PrchJrkr

PrchJrkr

Long Haired Country Boy
Ad Free Experience
Patron
JEFF69Z28 said:
1969 SS impala hard car to find these days I have only seen a few in my life time
Was it a 427 CID car?
Click to expand...
Indeed. You almost needed a big block to move that land yacht. His was an automatic, I believe, but that was a long time ago.
 
RareBreed

RareBreed

Throwing the deuces
Gilligan said:
Dang! All I've got left is an unfinished 1959 TR3A Triumph and an unfinished 1969 Bronco.... Well, and my '78 Bronco daily driver.

What engine in that Cyclone? 🤤
Click to expand...
351 Windsor, Comp Cams Mutha thumper hydraulic roller cam and lifters, Harland Sharp roller rockers, Edelbrock heads, Edelbrock intake, Hooker supercomp headers, Holley EFI sniper system. Engine was making 385hp, 410 torque before the headers and EFI were installed.
 
Clem72

Clem72

Well-Known Member
snowygirl said:
um no of course not, I guess I should’ve mentioned they were out of the higher grades of gas. But since I mentioned they only had diesel and regular it would be easy to understand, the others were out.
Click to expand...

Well for most of my life (and therefore most of human history) "regular" gas has meant RUG, regular unleaded gas (as opposed to leaded or diesel). It doesn't refer to a specific octane of gas. So I was confused when you said they had regular gas and diesel, because that's what all gas stations typically have. I didn't assume you meant they had only one specific octane (and which of those would you call regular, I bet it's different based on zip code).
 
Gilligan

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
Clem72 said:
Well for most of my life (and therefore most of human history) "regular" gas has meant RUG, regular unleaded gas (as opposed to leaded or diesel). It doesn't refer to a specific octane of gas. So I was confused when you said they had regular gas and diesel, because that's what all gas stations typically have. I didn't assume you meant they had only one specific octane (and which of those would you call regular, I bet it's different based on zip code).
Click to expand...
And for all of mine, "regular" always meant the lowest octane the pump would dispense.
 
PJay

PJay

Well-Known Member
RareBreed said:
351 Windsor, Comp Cams Mutha thumper hydraulic roller cam and lifters, Harland Sharp roller rockers, Edelbrock heads, Edelbrock intake, Hooker supercomp headers, Holley EFI sniper system. Engine was making 385hp, 410 torque before the headers and EFI were installed.
Click to expand...

I have no idea what that says...
 
Kyle

Kyle

Beloved Misanthrope
PREMO Member
The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremmie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.
 
Gilligan

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
Kyle said:
The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremmie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.
Click to expand...
 
Auntie Biatche'

Auntie Biatche'

New Member
Gas prices have been low for a long time. It stands to reason that they had to create a crisis to bump the prices up quickly. It's summer, covid is pretty much history, as far as it's importance in the big scheme of things, and people will be hitting the road for those summer vacations.

:howdy:
 
Gilligan

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
My brother reported that the pumps at Callaway Shell were all shut down when he went by there this morning.

Wishing I'd filled up the tank in my Bronco last week, when I was thinking about.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top