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And you do......?.........😂 Any thread, especially motoring, is about learning something, read a question, think about it, to try and help others, but sadly, with some of you EV folk, for some reason, think you are above everyone, if it wasn't so sad, it would be funny......🤔

Couple of "confused" things on this post, what is confusing you, will be pleased to help you.............

When I bought my Pontiac in 1984, I was just looking for anything in my budget American with a V8. Didn't have a clue what I was buying except for noises and rust. Looking back, I wish I had found a Mopar, for me an early Cuda, Roadrunner or Charger would have been great. I bought my 1976 Trans Am as a 455ci, I later found it was a 400ci with a ridiculous high geared rear end, and HP that made me 😥, oh well. But, a few years on, found, early 400 block, 68 heads, 69 crank, forged alloy rods, 3.90 rear gears and a load of other goodies transformed it into a flying street racer.

Before my V8 thing, I had an MGB Roadster, soft top with wire wheels, it was fun...

To me, that is a lot of money, and to an owner that bought it for a few thousand $, it is a windfall....

Great............ I flew over for the Daytona 500 in 1995, got 4 tickets off a friend's friend who had a British Bike shop in the USA. Of course, we made a 2/3 week trip of it, that was fun....

Absolutely.........

Really, it depends on the old car, surely you know that..........🤭 In the UK if you have a car over 25 years old it doesn't need road tax or an MOT test, they can be repaired easily, and parts are usually available. One can get "club" membership cheap insurance too, my 7lt Pontiac cost less to insure than my run around....Of course, I have been away for many years, and things may have changed... Try reading up on classic car sales or auctions.....😋

The new Hemi crate engines have engine mounting holes now in a preferable position. But, I have been out of the scene for a long time, who knows what is out there now. They even have after market alloy Pontiac Engines, not the big block Chevy engines with valve covers with Pontiac script...... The last Pontiac 400's were not even Pontiac engines, they were Oldsmobile 403, then sadly everything small block Chevy.....😢

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......😱

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.........🤣

I knew both, and your SS was Super Sport, and the 396 was a big-block, though I reckon you knew that...........🤭

You don't seem to have one good word for Thai folk, do you....? 🤔 Do you actually live here........?

Yes, I thought it was.......😋

Yeh, riiiiight, they all tell BMT about their sex life.........🤣 How about, it just happened to you, so you moved on..........🤭

Is that a Pontiac..?

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...🤗

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......😬 ........

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....

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...🤗

Yes, and the UK, and your birthplace......

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....... 🥴

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........😋

The under hood space was very tight for the Mopar big-block...

It probably had a Carter AFB 4 barrel carb....🤗......Folk did fool around with changing to a Holley carb...😋