I don't know what this means. I am confused. But that's one nice lookin' escort. If you don't want her, I'd jump on her and hammer the heck out of her. She may have a few miles on her but that's OK. Just means she's well broke in and knows how to handle gettin' the pedal to the metal. She does have great curves. Wonder what her rental fee is.
I'd love to get my hands on one of those old muscle cars. It's funny how small they look compared to the modern cars, though. When I was younger, they looked huge.
I'll tell you what, though. If I got one, I would seriously consider dropping in a modern fuel-injected system with a modern 5-speed transmission. That would be one heck of a sleeper.
That old automatic in the Riv. was bullet proof! I used to do burn outs and slam shifts with that thing and just couldn't hurt it (dumb kid shit). The SD came stock with a Muncie Rock Crusher 4 speed that was the same way! That wasn't fun to do stop and go driving with though, it was made to be rough shifted!
The drivers on the wrong side and those idiots don't know how to spell tires! Back in the day California wouldn't allow standard transmission vehicles because of a puff of pollution that might happen between gears. Yay California
You, I do believe that there is no replacement for displacement, but I also think those really small V8 engines are awesome. That didn't look turbo-charged, but it was friggin' moving out! One thing about tiny cylinders is that you can really run up the RPMs. With eight of them, you don't even need the turbo. Have some low gears to start, and you'll fly off the line, with plenty of room to go before you even have to do your first shift. Pure awesomeness.
Nothing wrong with a 30 year old Escort. I drove an '88 Escort as a daily driver until just a few years ago. When I quit driving it it was still running but, needed work and with chronic back pain I didn't feel like doing the work and wasn't going to pay someone $50-100 an hour to work on it. When I parked it had 518K miles and had never had a rebuild. The Escort was my work truck when I worked construction often driving it 200 or more miles a day and getting 40+MPG.
#4's brother used to have some fast cars back in high school. He always said, "automatics are for women and children." Had a friend back in 2004 that had a Dodge Ram long bed with the factory Viper motor and auto. His back problems didn't allow him to clutch stuff.
Automatics have their place. With the newer 7, 8 and 9 speed tranny (is there a 10 speed yet?) in pickups and SUVs to bump MPG up, it’s hard to complain too much.
My Nissan has a 7 speed, it has a manual button to change gears up or down, so there’s no “low” in the gear shift, plus the electronic “tow” mapping to change shift points. I’d prefer a manual for a sports car to run mountain roads and curves, but for most driving, the autos get it done pretty well.
I prefer a manual but as Trashy mentioned, back issues can make a clutch really suck at times. My new to me Escape has the paddle shifters and sports mode on the trans. Kinda fun and a peppy little engine with the turbo
Automatics have their place. With the newer 7, 8 and 9 speed tranny (is there a 10 speed yet?) in pickups and SUVs to bump MPG up, it's hard to complain too much.
Ford is putting their 10 speed in the F150 and up line now. You can even get the Ecoboost 3.5L AWD with the 10 speed on the Transit 350HD's now. Pretty cool setup.
A guy used to race a Rambler Rebel at the Brooksville, FL dragstrip in the late fifties. I was always tempted to buy one...but just never pulled the trigger. I always thought of the Rambler Rebel as the first muscle car. I know most people give that nod to the Pontiac GTO; but the Rebel was a little car with big V8 seven years before the first GTO hit the streets.
Chrysler was making high horsepower sleepers and hemi's long before the Rebel came out and the word "hemi" got popular. Today, "hemi" means the cam will need replacement due to oiling problems and variable cylinder useage means it just doesn't work well. Fiat/Chrysler is another failure. Second try for Fiat. Hopefully, the last or get their Italian act together. Don't hold your breath.
I wasn't aware of this Rebel. EFI was the same basic flawed system Chrysler tinkered with. There is one or two of those running. 327 is not a big block in my book.
You're correct about the early EFI systems being flawed; but if they were set up right at the track, they were pretty impressive. The first generation Rambler Rebel wasn't a big block as we think of them today; but it was a big engine in terms of cubic inches compared to others in 1957. The largest engine offered by Chevy was 283ci; while Ford had the 312ci Thunderbird engine in 1957. The Plymouth Fury ran the 318ci engine; but it wasn't especially impressive at the track.
Well no duh, the 327 is a small block. Muscle car doesn’t mean big block. And that flawed FI system was the first to hit the 1 HP per cubic inch mark, in the 283, IIRC.
BTW, the fastest top speed production car of the early 60’s era was a Studebaker Avanti, they used a supercharged 289 to do over 170 mph. 2 door, 4 seater. But not a muscle car, because....it was marketed as a luxury sports car?
The FI 283 was a mechanical system. It worked really well. Originally on the Corvette, you could get it in the Belair too. It was capable of some good economy too. The GTO was a big block compact. That's what you were alleging the Rambler was. It wasn't.
The Bendix EFI was a valiant attempt to make injection a mainstream item. Desoto and Chrysler had versions of it on their respective 392 Chrysler, and the Desoto Firedome engines. I think there is a running example of one of them in Murfreesboro TN. He had to sort out the quirks and add modern upgrades to filter out stray frequency influences. They were replaced with carbs. It actually had vacuum tubes like our old radios and TV's. I did look at a '58 Imperial owners manual once upon a time that showed pics of the EFI system.
No one outside your head alleged that. The term "muscle car" doesn't always mean big block, it doesn't always mean compact.
Again, from WIKI.
"The Rambler Rebel, introduced by American Motors Corporation (AMC) in 1957, is the first mid-sized car to be available with a big-block V8 engine.[31] The Rebel followed most of the muscle car formula including "make 'em go fast as well as cheaply."[32]It is therefore considered by some to be the first muscle car.[33][32] With a 327 cu in (5.4 L) V8 engine producing 255 hp (190 kW), its 0-60 mph acceleration of 7.5 seconds made it the fastest stock American sedan at the time.[34] Only the fuel-injected Chevrolet Corvette beat it by half a second.[35]"
There was a guy at a local Mopar show once with a 2x4bbl supercharged 241. 400hp!!! :lol:
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