[manaboutown]

Back in the day I had a blue with white top 1967 Camaro RS/SS convertible. It had the rare 375 HP 396 L78 rat motor, four bolt mains, solid lifters, a huge double pumper three barrel Holley, 4 speed Hurst shifter and a 4:10 rear end, all factory equipment. It only got six mpg around the DC area and I had to use Hess 100+ octane gas because it had a 11:1 compression ratio. It had no A/C or power steering. It was made to go. That same model (not my own car) was chosen as the pace car in the Indianapolis 500 that year. Wish I had kept it.... I miss driving it to this day.

[The Great Fumar]

A 1955 plymouth belvedere convertable..........a class ride.....I now have a Lincoln towncar and if I had a can opener big enough I would take the top off.

fumar with a rag top ......

[villager]

280 ZX! Was just saying the other day how much I missed that care.

[casita37]

That's an easy one. My first car was a 1970 Porche 914-6...rather rare and HOT! Gave it up for a Ford Club Chateau Van when I had twins. Dang....really wish we could have kept it.

Haha....didn't mean to imply I would rather have the car than the twins......LOL

[Shimpy]

1967 Olds 442. 400 CI, 4 bbl carburetor.

[CFrance]

I had a 1972 TR6. Burgundy. I really wanted a TR4 or 4A--fire-engine red--but they had quit making them. Loved that car, but it broke and broke and broke. And broke some more. We had a guy who worked on foreign cars. My husband would call him and say, "This is Ron," and the guy would say, "Where is it now?" He once joked we sent him to the Bahamas.

But I still sigh every time I see one, even though I would probably need one of those eject seats to get out of it, it was so low to the ground.

[JoeC1947]

Black '69 442 W30.

[JoeC1947]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

Back in the day I had a blue with white top 1967 Camaro RS/SS convertible. It had the rare 375 HP 396 L78 rat motor, four bolt mains, solid lifters, a huge three barrel Holley, 4 speed Hurst shifter and a 4:10 rear end, all factory equipment. It only got six mpg around the DC area and I had to use Hess 100+ octane gas because it had a 10.5:1 compression ratio. It had no A/C or power steering. It was made to go. That same model (not my own car) was chosen as the pace car in the Indianapolis 500 that year. Wish I had kept it.... I miss driving it to this day.

Sweet ride! Did it have aluminum heads?

[tucson]

My 1969 XKE !!!

[mainlander]

1969 burgandy Corvette Stingray convertible, 350 c.i. pushed to 400 hp, stick, custom headers, the works. Loved it.

[Coconuts]

1975 Chevrolet Malibu--V8--Black on the outside, black on the inside and chrome all over. Sweet.

[Mack184]

I'm fully torn between my 1st car..a 1968 Buick Skylark and my 1990 Suburban. I'd have to flip a coin.

[billjay23]

White and red two door Mercury with push button transmission -- late 50's or early 60's.

[jblum315]

My favorite car that I owned was a '58 Chevy Impala convertible in turquoise. But my favorite car was my husband's '52 MGTD that I gave him for his 40th birthday

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by JoeC1947

Sweet ride! Did it have aluminum heads?

I am not sure since I never took them off. The car was amazingly maintenance free. About all I did was change the oil, the oil and air filters and lube it, put in new spark plugs (frequently) and adjust the timing. I bought my tires from a company called Market Tire, I think, which warrantied them for miles. I always wore them out long before the warranty ran out and had them replaced at whatever discount applied. The following paragraph is from Wikipedia. Apparently the compression ration was 11:1, not 10.5:1. Senior moment, I guess.

L-78: produced 1965-9, had 800 cfm Holley carburetor, 11:1 compression, forged pop-top pistons, aluminum high-rise intake manifold, steel crankshaft, solid lifter cam (same as the L-72; except in 1965 Z16 Chevelle), rectangular ("square") port closed chamber heads, and four-bolt main caps. It produced 375 hp (280 kW) in mid-size cars, 425 hp (317 kW) in Corvettes.[3]

I put in a Geharty(sp?) dyno tune kit which supposedly raised the HP to 425.