Great Back in the Day Pic (another)
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Grady Cain
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That is hot on multiple levels! The photo epitomizes that era - thanks for sharing!
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Great picture!! Always good to see bikinis and shaker hoods together !!
This pose reminds me of an incident that I observed many years ago involving chicks and a Mopar engine compartment. Pardon me while I reminisce, if you don't mind.
It was mid summer in 1971 and I was a young lad working in the HVAC service business. I decided to stop for a coney dog and a Coke at a local Dairy Queen in the downtown area of my small Ohio hometown. As I was waiting to be served, I smelled the strong aroma of starting fluid wafting through the air. I turned around and there at a parking space across the street was a 69 Road Runner 440- 6Pak with the fiberglass hood propped up against the parking meter and three gals in jean shorts and hair rollers leaning over the engine bay and drowning the three carbs in ether. Finally, one jumped into the driver's seat and was told to try to start the car. At that point I eased behind a small pole holding up the canopy of the Dairy Queen because I didn't want to be hit by shrapnel if that big block blew! After several cranks ( and more ether from the gal operating the can ) that 440 fired up with a roar at about 5500 RPM. The engine was screaming as the two put the hood back on and jumped into the car. When the driver dropped it into drive the Road Runner burned rubber for at least 200 feet as the driver tried to maintain control of the angry RR. They were stopped by a redlight about a half a block away and I could hear the engine still straining to blow from that distance. The light turned green and they laid another patch of rubber. Never saw the car again. Guess she had a story to tell her significant other about his damned car!
This pose reminds me of an incident that I observed many years ago involving chicks and a Mopar engine compartment. Pardon me while I reminisce, if you don't mind.
It was mid summer in 1971 and I was a young lad working in the HVAC service business. I decided to stop for a coney dog and a Coke at a local Dairy Queen in the downtown area of my small Ohio hometown. As I was waiting to be served, I smelled the strong aroma of starting fluid wafting through the air. I turned around and there at a parking space across the street was a 69 Road Runner 440- 6Pak with the fiberglass hood propped up against the parking meter and three gals in jean shorts and hair rollers leaning over the engine bay and drowning the three carbs in ether. Finally, one jumped into the driver's seat and was told to try to start the car. At that point I eased behind a small pole holding up the canopy of the Dairy Queen because I didn't want to be hit by shrapnel if that big block blew! After several cranks ( and more ether from the gal operating the can ) that 440 fired up with a roar at about 5500 RPM. The engine was screaming as the two put the hood back on and jumped into the car. When the driver dropped it into drive the Road Runner burned rubber for at least 200 feet as the driver tried to maintain control of the angry RR. They were stopped by a redlight about a half a block away and I could hear the engine still straining to blow from that distance. The light turned green and they laid another patch of rubber. Never saw the car again. Guess she had a story to tell her significant other about his damned car!
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Now that is an awesome story!
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Now I really enjoyed your story, but I have to say I think you may have "embellished" or "added a little flavor" to it. I happen to know that dropping a 727 into drive at 5500 RPM with the car standing still is not going to "lay rubber for 200 ft". In fact, it won't lay rubber for ANY distance. I can vouch personally for this bit of information as I have done it. (maybe I had "one" too many?) Anyway, what will happen is, the rear differential yoke will "snap" right off and your driveshaft will be slapping the H**L out of the underside of your B body until you finally let off the gas and it stops. Although your version is perhaps more "colorful", my money says it didn't happen quite that way. 
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Now I really enjoyed your story, but I have to say I think you may have "embellished" or "added a little flavor" to it. I happen to know that dropping a 727 into drive at 5500 RPM with the car standing still is not going to "lay rubber for 200 ft". In fact, it won't lay rubber for ANY distance. I can vouch personally for this bit of information as I have done it. (maybe I had "one" too many?) Anyway, what will happen is, the rear differential yoke will "snap" right off and your driveshaft will be slapping the H**L out of the underside of your B body until you finally let off the gas and it stops. Although your version is perhaps more "colorful", my money says it didn't happen quite that way.
" Embellished" or " added a little flavor " is a different way of saying I'm lying. Guess you would have had to been there to see it.
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No, not saying your lying, just saying I actually did that (a really dumb move on my part) and the car didn't move at all, just snapped the yoke and banged up the underneath of the car pretty good. I guess that Road Runner must have been put together better than the Dodge I did it in. Mine was a 383, 727, with 8 3/4" rear gear.
As for being there, yes it would have been fun to see that and not see the driveshaft flailing around like I saw when I did it. Please accept my apology, I believe you. I should have related my version in a different way.
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