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CSX1000, 4000, 7000, 8000 / Re: CSX4779
« on: December 26, 2023, 10:01:33 PM »
As for the electric fuel pump:  Unless you also have a mechanical pump on the engine, you'll need to run it 100% of the time. No other way for the go-go juice to get to the carb. 

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Thanks, I'll give Jeff a try.

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Thanks, Rick.  No state, name, nuthin'?  Damn.

Thanks,
Van

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Ford GT / Re: Anyone with a registry and can look up a 2006 FGT for me?
« on: December 24, 2023, 09:54:01 PM »
Hey Don, sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I'm referring to a 2006 Ford GT. (aka GT40.)

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Ford GT / Anyone with a FGT registry and can look up a 2006 FGT for me?
« on: December 24, 2023, 05:31:09 PM »
Hey guys/gals,

Is there anything on 1FAFP90S76Y400410?   Tungsten with stripes, all 4 options.

A photo of the registry listing would be much appreciated. 

Thanks,
Van

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1968 Shelby GT350/500/500KR / Re: Vintage Engine Pic
« on: December 23, 2023, 05:25:01 PM »
Thanks, I was looking at it on my phone and couldn't read much of the article. 

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1968 Shelby GT350/500/500KR / Re: Vintage Engine Pic
« on: December 23, 2023, 04:29:45 PM »
Thank you

Yes on tilt. That almost looks like a Koons decal on the decklid.

Where was this magazine published?

It's Super Stock and Drag Illustrated. It was part of Petersen Publishing but the cars and articles came from all over. So the 428CJ Cougar was tested in Michigan, but the Shelby could be from anywhere. Judging by the smog system it likely was from LA or Arizona. My guess would be LA.


Not a Petersen publication. SSDI was headquartered back east somewhere.  I knew Jim McCraw (the article’s author.) He later worked for Motor Trend before being hired by Ford’s west coast PR office in the early ‘80s.  He passed away quite a while ago.

Any idea at what drag strip the runs were made?

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The Lounge / Re: Do you like the direction SAAC has been going?
« on: December 23, 2023, 12:39:25 AM »
I agree, but I'm hanging in there. Waiting to join the palace coup.

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The Lounge / Re: When will Farley get his walking papers?
« on: December 23, 2023, 12:37:53 AM »
Ford's experiment in failure from the word go.  Worse debacle than the Edsel.  At least the Edsel was a decent car.

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SAAC Forum Discussion Area / Re: Random car pictures
« on: December 23, 2023, 12:34:25 AM »
"Hey look, Wilma, we can buy a 1960 Peugeot for only $288. Whatever the hell a poo-joe is."

"I agree, Horace. We could have a dozen of those for less than one of them ridiculous Shelby thangs."

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The Lounge / Re: Do you like the direction SAAC has been going?
« on: December 22, 2023, 08:08:58 PM »
Funhy stuff.

I thought Rick's/Adolph's last line was going to be "Why can't I even have one convention like that?"

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SAAC Forum Discussion Area / Re: And They Keep On Coming
« on: December 21, 2023, 03:09:24 PM »
Well, we are a dying breed.  Just waiting for our one-way trip onto the ice floe.

A couple of years ago, when the top-dollar sales in "midyear" Corvettes started changing from perfect concours-level cars to resto-mods, the transformation had begun. I still wouldn't pay concours prices for a modded/rodded Corvette, but more than a few people are. Same with many other marques. Singer-modified 1960s Porsches are waaayyy more $$$ than the nicest restored one. 

Younger guys want the look/romance/fantasy of a vintage car, but not the reality. Damn few of them know how to check the oil, let alone change spark plugs, so the engine only has to look shiny...who cares if it's a 427 or an Ecoboost four?  Or if the chassis and interior have been replaced with nothing even resembling stock components?  It irks me, but it's reality.

Just hoping that some bazillionaire doesn't take a real Cobra 427 and donk it out...or whatever the term is these days for an urban clown car.   That would be worth staging a revolt.

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SAAC Forum Discussion Area / Re: “Word Jumble”in todays newspaper
« on: December 20, 2023, 11:10:11 PM »
No tach bulge.  But, yes, pretty good for something like this.

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The Lounge / Re: Saac Hq new server
« on: December 20, 2023, 10:59:50 PM »
Must be a lot of radiation coming out of that thing.  Look at her arms!

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^^^ Another guy, back in the day, who scraped off the "H" on the side stripes.

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