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transam

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  1. Like most things, if only we knew. Just look at the prices of any Mopar with a 426 Hemi elephant motor in it......A gold mine......😱
  2. I think you will find that the West held back to let the Russians do the final take.. But of course you will dispute that.........🤣
  3. I knew both, and your SS was Super Sport, and the 396 was a big-block, though I reckon you knew that...........🤭
  4. You don't seem to have one good word for Thai folk, do you....? 🤔 Do you actually live here........?
  5. Yes, I thought it was.......😋
  6. Yeh, riiiiight, they all tell BMT about their sex life.........🤣 How about, it just happened to you, so you moved on..........🤭
  7. That's the one, it had an overheating problem because, if I remember correctly, the water pump was higher than the rad cap....🤪 Many destroyed their engine, so in went either the Rover V8, which it should have had in the first pace because British Leyland were putting it into loads of cars, even the MGB had a Rover V8 version, or the Ford 3.0lt V6, which was a cheap get you out of trouble fix...🤗
  8. The Triumph Stag V8 was a disaster, though my brother-in-law has just bought one in the UK, I said, I hope its got a Rover V8 in it, he said, no, but it is all OK......😬 ........
  9. Every country has hotrods, in Europe, Sweden, Germany, hundreds. I went to a friend's in Hat Yai, he said come and look at this, jumped in the car, drove through some wild country to a shed, in it was a 1940's Ford with what looked like a Ford 289/301 V8 with 2 x 4 barrel Holleys on a tunnel ram, a couple of Thai guys messing with it, wow, I thought....
  10. My friend's 1969 Plymouth 360ci had the original electrics, which was a bit questionable, plus a points' distributor, but then came a long PerTronix, they made electronic kits for anything, even complete distributors. I fitted one of their kits in the 360 dizzy, well over 20 years back, it is still working OK. A must for a Jenson 440...🤗
  11. Yes, and the UK, and your birthplace......
  12. I put my gardening hat on to find one of those in it, it was hanging off my head, very painful and the skin area has never recovered to this day....... 🥴
  13. The problem is a Trans Am second gen weighed a lot, that is/was the problem at the time. On my '76 it took 2 people to take off and carry a door, same for the back and front bumper, a trolley jack was needed, they were solid rubber with a girder inside.......😆 The big-block with a TH400 auto needed a crane........😋
  14. The under hood space was very tight for the Mopar big-block...
  15. It probably had a Carter AFB 4 barrel carb....🤗......Folk did fool around with changing to a Holley carb...😋
  16. Did you know that that car had less than 200HP. Looks like a '79, I bought a '76 400, it had even less, a far cry from the early stock '70's Trans, with well over 300HP....😢 It took me a while to get my now 413 to lay some rubber and get into the 11's....😋
  17. Mrs. T has got like that, I reckon menopause, what helped Mrs.T was increasing her intake of Estrogen, in her case downing those small pots of yogurt bacteria has helped a lot, my pharmacist told me about them.
  18. Don't worry, your prices will probably remain the same........🙄
  19. Didn't Ford use a hex drive, which I thought was a bit odd, as we all know about Allen key problems........😱
  20. Any interesting engine stories.....?
  21. Some on here can't help it.........🤔

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