? about Day 2 mods...

[68l30]

Hey Dave,Did you make it to the GM Nats in Carlisle? I saw a nice set of NMW orange Bars for a 68-72 A-body in the box $150.......A great "day two" start! I hope someone here bought them,they were nice..........Pick up a few old mags (65-78)and look at the ads,find the next swap meeet and start searchin.You won't find "day two" parts at the store anymore. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]Anyone see the new SW "classic" gauges yet?Another interesting attempt to cash in on their old product line... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsdown.gif[/img]

Steve [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif[/img]

[whitetop]

Steve
Did not make it to Carlisle but made it to Butler. Picked up a whole box of old mags 80+. Have some listed now on ebay under nfifty15 (hint, hint)Lots of Yenko, Baldwin, Harrell stuff with more to be added to ebay this week.

I still pick up some day two stuff at older speed shops now and then. I know of several old shops that have tons of old stuff but the owners won't part with it.
Dave

[zgator]

Don't forget HI-Jackers(can you put those on a coil spring car?) [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif[/img]

I am thinking about the ladder bar setup...Did the different mods have anything to do with regionality? I mean was a guy in NY more likely to do something different than a guy on the west coast?

[whitetop]

You bet.
NE and midwest was more drag/straight line orientated. West coast was more trans am, imsa look. What you used for speed parts was also based upon were you resided. Not all cases of course but good indicator. For instance Sun gauges were very popular in the NE and midwest but SW was used more out west.
Guys in the NE were jacking up their cars all around and running huge rear tires while guys out west even back in the early '70's were running fender flares etc.
Check out the New York mags from the era( Hot Cars, Chevy Action etc) vs the West coast mags, Hot Rod etc and you will definetly see a big difference.
Dave

[JoeC]

got to have a Hurst Shifter [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[whitetop]

Another thing why the cars were different between the coast, and this is my opinion, is the guys in the rust belt east/NE were more blue collar so their cars reflected their drag racing heritage. West coast guys were always of a different tune. Not as blue collar as the east so they tended to be more "refined" (in their opinion)so they steered toward the forgein cars which were not drag raced in their homelands but came from a Lemans/Imsa/Formula one heritage. You know the kind of racing were the male spectators wear a sweater around his neck. i.e. girly man stuff.

[MY70SS396]

Greg,
As original as your car is, I would leave it like it is and drive it. To me cars that haven't been off the frame "rock". They can only be original once. We still should get both cars together and do a photo shoot.
Mitchell

[Seattle Sam]

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Another thing why the cars were different between the coast, and this is my opinion, is the guys in the rust belt east/NE were more blue collar so their cars reflected their drag racing heritage. West coast guys were always of a different tune. Not as blue collar as the east so they tended to be more "refined" (in their opinion)so they steered toward the forgein cars which were not drag raced in their homelands but came from a Lemans/Imsa/Formula one heritage. <font color="green"> You know the kind of racing were the male spectators wear a sweater around his neck. i.e. girly man stuff. </font>

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Whitetop, are ya jabbing that fork in any particular direction?

-Seattle Sam