woodchuck361
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66 mustang 289 hi-po, pony int. and dealer add on air... still have her... she has seen alot..... and is the only girl that has stuck with me through it all.....
My First car was a 67 Dodge Charger with a 383 4speed. Gas was something like 38 cents a gallon.. This car had the fold down rear seats, with a fold down piece into the trunk so you could lay in the back when you went to the drive in.
I later sold it a couple years later and ended up with a 1970 Ford Van. Re did the interior with 8 track car stereo, shag carpeting and curtains on the windows. That low rider van was a real chic magnet.
Here in the states the 1970 Beetles had much larger motors. I think they were 1500 cc, not sure of the horsepower.
I had a 72 super Beetle that had the 1600cc motor and dual port heads. It would actually run with most traffic, but I blew it up on the expressway. The connecting rod came right through the base of the generator tower and messed up a lot of other moving parts with the shrapnel. There was bits of stuff locked into the timing gears that wasn't supposed to be there.
I replaced it with a 1200 motor I had laying around. That motor used a 6 volt starter, it would sure spin up fast when I hit it with 12 volts. I had to fab a bushing for the end of the starter shaft to get it to all work together.
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