Does Linda Vaughn come with the HURST shifter ? Really cool car . I drove one bunch it had a LEAR 8 track tape deck ,state of the art ! Regards, Edward
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01-05-2021 09:33 AM #11Senior Member
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"DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ OR HEAR AND ONLY HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE" - BEN FRANKLIN
Endless Summer
1967 50c 12/71n DDA 525hp
ex Miss Betsy
owners:
Howard P. Miller 1967-1974
Richard F Hull 1974-1976
Robert J. & R.Scott Smith 1976-present
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01-05-2021 11:54 AM #13Senior Member
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Bill Lear,did invent the 8 track ,I think speciftly for his jets ! I think he started MOTOROLA radio .
Actually I think Linda Vaughn just recently passed away .She was quite the spoke person for HURST.
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I had a Formula 400 1976 vintage with a four speed and a hurst shifter. What a great car. Although my current car has almost 600 hp and 600 pound feet of torque, the Formula was way more fun. I modified it to put in headphones for the stereo — a big deal in those days. As far as I recall, it cost just about 6K new in 1976.
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01-05-2021 07:25 PM #15Senior Member
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miss those days. the raw power, noise, smell, you could tune a car with wrenches. love my new car, but miss my '67 gto. nice firebirds, both of 'em. back around 76/77, i knew a guy that traded in his 68 (9?) charger for a new silver trans-am. that ta was beautiful. your silver bird looks just like his old ta, very nice.
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01-06-2021 09:11 AM #16Senior Member
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Beautiful. Glws
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01-06-2021 11:14 PM #17Senior Member
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Both lovely cars. Sad day for me when GM killed the Firebird. Up til about 1973 Always better engines than the chebby, I had two 69 GTOs, one a convertible, the other a hardtop with desert gears and a built way over 500 HP+ engine, and high lift cam. Still dream about adventures in that car, 40 years later! It had the same Ralley II wheels as the red Firebird above. I current have a 96 Ram Air Formula, bought new and still looks it with over 200,000 miles on it! Have essentially the same twin engines in my go fast boat.
With a set of box wrenches and a few screwdrivers, you could fix almost anything on sixties muscle cars, they will always hold their value IMO.
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01-07-2021 10:23 PM #18Senior Member
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You guys should both buy copies of Jim Wagner’s book Glory Days. He was one of the real fathers of the GTO. I had a chance to get to know him a bit thru my friend Eric Schiffer who owned in infamous Royal Pontiac “Blackbird” Firebird for many years and he was a very nice man. The book is a must for anyone who loves Pontiac’s.
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Just drove it for the first time in about 9 months. She's a Rippa! Like others have said new cars have much higher HP but these old muscle cars are crazy fun to drive.
1966 34c
1982 46 HP
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01-11-2021 03:21 AM #20Senior Member
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Thanks for the tip on the book, very familiar name from all the old Hotrod magazines I used to read!