[55chevy]

Ok.. Here is my story.. I know this doesn't involve the car in question, but maybe a reader out there knows the car I'm about to talk about. Back in 1990 I was a senior in HS and owned a 71 Chevelle. Long story short, crashed the Chevelle (rolled it 3 times).. few months later financed and bought a 1984 Trans Am (the blk/gold 5spd H.O. one.. Oh..baby... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]) Anyway, 2 months after that I drove by a 1970 GTO Judge on a piss ant car lot in Bedford, PA every day for about 2 weeks.. Then one day I got the bright Idea to stop in and look at it. The car was a light brown/tan color.. had some previous body work done on the quarters.. original Fawn color interior. buckets. 4 spd. Ram Air IV hood and designation.. square piece of sheet metal screwed over the hole covering the missing hood tach. Needed paint.. Interior wasn't bad. Looked mostly original all over.. Missing Ram Air underhood stuff (had a chrome 14" open element). Anyway, I asked to take it for a test drive. And we did....... I drove it, and Jesus H Christ that thing was the STRONGEST thing I have EVER driven or even been in to this day... (other than the Motion Cars I got to ride in at SCR6)... I hope someone out there owns this car or knows where it is today.. But here's how it went.. When I drove it, it had a REAL heavy spring on the accelerator pump and made the pedal feel HEAVY.. So you had to give it some force to open it up.. On the ride out of the dealer I grannyed it.. 1...2...3...4.. Freaking chirped EVERY gear up to 60mph. (part throttle) The guy along for the ride didn't know the rear end ratio... So I drove down the road about a 1-1/2 mi and turned around in the parking lot at Burger King at the Bedford Turnpike exit. (I'm sure some of you know where that's at, CamaroJoe? SK? well.. used to be a BK, it's a Parking Lot now). Anyway. I pulled out on the road in 1st to head back and I thought to myself I'm going to see ALL this thing's got... So I MASHED it to the floor and the thing DIED.. I flooded it just like that.. So I coasted off to the side and held it to the floor cranking the engine till it sputtered back to life.. I gave it a few sec. then pulled out easy and short shifted clear to 4th.. Went under the turnpike tunnel and saw I had a good 1/2 mile of open road.. Going about 40mph I banged it up to 3rd and gave it EVERYTHING it had.. From 40-45mph going from 4th to 3rd that damn GTO stood straight up, I swear the front end came up a foot... I put down 40ft of rubber on the road and the guy in the passenger seat got his neck snapped as did I.. I stayed in it and hit 4th at about 80mph (not much later) and it layed down another 5-10ft of black marks. All I could do was look at the guy and say , Damn.. thing has some power huh? All he did was shake his head yeah.. lol... I could have bought this car for $2,000 at the time and BEGGED and BEGGED my parents to let me.. But of course I had JUST bought the Trans Am.. So I had to let the GTO be a memory.. I still rub that in to them to this day.. Anyway, in talking with the seller, he told me some other people had looked at it including a well known GTO guy and that guy told him it had some rare experimental Heads on it.. That's about all I remember.. other than when I hit 3rd with the Hurst shifter my knuckles contacted the dashboard. Anyone else know this car? Would love to see it again. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/scholar.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]