Chebby Bomber

[ajmopar]

I was driving to work this morning and I heard a commercial for a "Super Chevy Weekend", you know the BEEEEEE THEEEEEERRRRE! Yelling idiot kind of spot, coming to our area. My first reaction was to vomit, but then my mind started clicking...
This is supposed to be the largest gathering of Chivvies in Canada and Chevrolet Motorsports is supposed to be there. Hmm.
At the airport in Hamilton there is the warplane heritage museum. They have a fully restored and very flyable Avro Lancaster Bomber (you have to hear 4 Rolls Royce Merlin 1200 horsepower 12 cylinder engine fly overhead. It is amazing). You see where I'm going here, don't you?
We (all of the Mopar freaks in Southern Ontario) get ahold of a few dozen blown up small block chevies (should take about 20 minutes), load them up in the bomb bay of the Lanc, fly over the Chevy Knobs and bombs away! We could have a lottery for the tailgunner spot to watch the destruction from the best view.
There would be at least a hundred red Chevelles with the black SS stripes with cheby parts embedded in the hoods, roofs and trunklids.
I guess the drawback is that some people would get injured and killed, but I don't always think rationally.

[454Chevelle]

Scared of HORSEPOWER COMING AFTER YOU?? Did you not think there is a few CHEVY guys that read this site and buy parts from Don? Now atleast you could have said that stuff about the blue oval group!!!!! Yes I am a Chevy Guy with a Chevelle as you mentioned in your message,I do like Mopar also (Just Can't afford to build one!) ;D

[ajmopar]

Sorry man, wasn't meant as a personal attack. Just my sense of humour, and loathing of Chevies.

I think you said it best when you said "power coming after you" I saw many Chevelles, red with black S/S stripes, come throught the traps after my Duster.

Having worked on Many, many Chevies and Fords, I say thank god for Mopars. Pull the oil pan off your average 318 and then do the same to any small block Chevy and tell me who knew how to engineer a tough engine.

I know you do the best with what you've got, but never, ever, try to tell me it's better to build a Chevy than a Mopar. Is it really cheaper when you have to replace most of the engine to get it to hold together for more than a month? Ever snap an axle in a 12 bolt?

As for Don selling parts to chevy guys, I don't think his customer service ethics and the fact that he has only the best parts at great prices is going to be in danger just because I am riffing on Chevies. He loves chevies, he feeds his fish with them!

[Coil]

Just so yall know, Bigdaddy owns a Chevy powered machine. In fact, when I first met Don, he not only had the Fish (looking almost bone stock, like he stole it from his Grandmother).....but also owned 2 Nissans.....thats right, TWO Nissans AND a Ford..........

Everyone has skeletons in the closet.........


HAHAHA..........all in good humor Don

[atoetly]

Heck I own a chevy. I wish I could afford to UP GRADE to a nice Dodge truck. But since I own one I will bad mouth them all I want. I wonder if that is why my race car says RAT POSION on the hood?

[Don]

Now Now Kids, lets not get carried away here, the facts are we all love AMERICAN Classic Muscle Cars, doesn't matter if it's a Chevy, Ford, Studebaker, AMC or Rambler as long as it's a V8 and does't have a fart pipe and front wheel drive it's OK by me. Most of us here love our Mopars because we like being a little different, some prefer a AMX or a Chevy, that's fine with me we work on them all, they all help pay the mortgage.

My Motorhome is a Chevy, Mrs. Cuda still drives her Nissan, I sold my Ford Pick-up and bought a nice older D150 and we even own a HONDA!....175 pit bike. ;D

I raced Chevy Sprint cars for 17 years, my Dad worked for Ford for 25 years, my Brother races a 6 second 66 Mustang and just finnished a 10 year restoration on a W32, 455, Olds, 4 Speed, Convertable....and who here wouldn't like to own this Baby!




Point being no matter how much we raze each other if it came to a crunch we'd all help anyone who needed it...except a maybe Rice Burner.

[rumblefish360]

Now that is 1 very nice Olds. I had 3 Olds in my time and they were just excellent drivers and runners. I miss the 71 Cutlass.
I do get tierd of the Chevy crowd. Nasty attitude. I do not need a holier than thou thrown at me. Glad it's only a few of them.

[littlecampbell]

Hell, my daily driver is a 93 Silverdadooo for no particular reason other than the price was right. Now if you took that reasoning and extrapulated(eeks) when that moldsmobile was around compared to the rest of the cars in the late 60s and 70s and I inherited it or someone gave it to me there would be a "For Sale" on it immediately. I'm sure I could get a half assed 60s to early 70s mopar with the proceeds.

[ajmopar]

;D
I agree with Littlecampbell. Yes it is a very nice car, but not what I want in a street machine, that's all.

My back and forth to work car is currently a Nissan Sentra with over 260,000 kms on it that I bought from my brother in law for the price of the new tires he just put on it. Gutless automatic that you have to wind the pee out of to get it to move, will not shift into high gear without totally lifting out of the throttle and about as comfortable for a 6' 5" 320 lb B.M.F. like myself as a straight jacket but the price was right and it burns less overpriced gas than my van.

Having lost my job last fall and picking up conract work, funds are low and I can't afford to have pride in my daily driver.

As soon as I can afford it this piece of $hite is going to the shredder, but for now it will do what I want it to do, help me to make money.

There, I got that off my chest. I still think GMs are poorly engineered cheaply built junkers, but that is just my opinion.

[Don]

Hey Campbell....you'd get more than one good Mopar for the price of that car....455 CONVERT. W32 package and a 4 SPEED, one of 13 built and probably one of 2 or 3 left known to exist.

It falls right in there with the 70 Hemi Cuda Converts with a 4 speed....like 5 made?

That Piece of iron is probably valued in the $100,000.00 +++ range so I doubt big brother will be using as a daily driver.....LOL

He has spent 10 years on the resto and it's probably one of the nicest pieces you'll ever see...definately a Concours winner, he may bring it to Mission this summer and you'll get to lay your eyes on it, you've got to respect the car for what it is. I'm just glad he didn't spend all that time on a Chevelle or Rustang.

Me I like all Muscle Cars, big V-8's, the more tire the better, loud as hell, tire smoking, neck snapping American Muscle Cars..Yaaaa! baby that's for me!

BTW: If you do get to meet him, ask about the 68 Road Runner 383 4 speed car he traded for a 66 Ford Failane 289........34 years later he's still kicking his own ass over that deal....LOL

[littlecampbell]

Okey Dokey...didnt realize it was one of 13 made. ;D Must have been a labor of luv. Its a sweet ride. I dont remember seeing too many 4spd 442s around years ago, considering one of the 4s stood for 4speed. I wave at all the old muscle car drivers around here....funny how we're mostly over 50, some in the 60s ...Ya know what I dont like is all them 5.0s running around(like thousands) and the drivers thinking they have the fastest thing on the planet. Kinda reminds me of some folks I knew back in the late 60s early 70s
Hey I saw the SS Hemi Barracudas in Mission a couple of weeks ago...that was immpressive...no Hemi Darts though.
So how many brothers you got? I believe I met two of them at Mission last august.
Oh by the way I got the boot off moparts for bugging the bunkster...

[454Chevelle]

Aj,
I can't remember changing much on my bottom end and it has been together since April of 1995! I have a ton of time slips in my tool box and shift it at 6300 every time out??? I guess it all comes down to WHO builds it! And NO I have not broke one axle in my 12 bolt. Plus I drive my car atleast 3 times a week durning the nice time of the year and it will run it the 11's. I guess that is bad engineering huh??It's all good though as Don has said AMERICAN IRON RULES !!!

[ajmopar]

Hey man, an 11 second c ar is something to be proud of. Chev big block bottom ends are a little better, so you shouldn't neet the shovel and dustpan for a while (Chevelles have a bracket built into the trunk for the shovel, dustpan and a bag of quick dry right from the factory)

As long as it is driven and driven hard, I have respect for a musclecar of any stripe. I even respect that Olds rag top for it's rarity even if it is not driven very much.

The reason I ask about the 12 bolt is that when it does break an axle, the wheel will come right off as the sideload of the axles is retained by a C clip in the diff.

Just ribbing you about the cheap chebby, man. I don't like them, but what the hell do I know.

[Don]

Now Now Boys lets all try and get along....we here to slay the ricers not each other....LOL