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Old 11-29-2024, 09:37 AM
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Mickey Thompson Challenger engines
Exhaust gaskets are a real B!$#@.

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Old 11-29-2024, 12:56 PM
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Old 11-30-2024, 12:35 AM
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I wonder if the four gauges are oil pressures?

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Old 11-30-2024, 12:44 AM
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Among the pieces I bought from Mickey (40 years ago) was a Cragar timing cover. According to Fritz Voight the strange 5-bolt pattern on the front of it was for a Harman-Collins mag that they used on each of the unblown Challenger.'s engines. Did H-C mags have 90-degree drives, as shown in the picture? The ones I remember from flathead days mounted flat at the front of the cam, just like the Ford distributor did.
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Better when blown!

4 of those sumbiches . BadAss x 4 = Mickey Thompson

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I wonder how this happened? I think the convertible top is still raised and attached to the front half of the Vette?
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That is pretty wild carnage..
Even ripped the chassis in half ?

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My uncle had new vetted every two years (the family bachelor) through the 60’s and 70’s. He crashed a few of them (he has narcolepsy) and it didn’t take much to total those plastic classics.

He managed to not kill himself in those crashes somehow but the cars sure disintegrated even by lousy standards of 60’s car safety.

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I wonder how this happened? I think the convertible top is still raised and attached to the front half of the Vette?

Like Baron said, it ripped the frame in half. Where it tore away (forward of the "kick ups" that are rot prone) there are body mounts that secure the body below and behind the door jamb. The mounts for the top frame are above that body mount, so when the frame broke away it took door jambs and the body portion that the top frame attaches to. So the entire top assembly stayed with the main body.

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I think that lady worked in the cafeteria at my elementary school

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I still think of vintage as pre-mid-70s. However, I ran across this from '86 and being almost 40 years it is becoming vintage. My first GTO after paint, August 1986.
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I never realized that the Bob Cat name originated with factory letters.
Here’s the “first” Bob Cat.

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I didn't have the '62 version handy:




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Here’s the “first” Bob Cat.

That was a really cool touch of finesse.
Combo of Bonne and Catalina letter emblems.

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This one is just so wrong I like it!
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