Sightings 2, the not a datsun but... Thread

[Jesse C.]

On 10/21/2023 at 6:54 PM, angliagt said:

   I think I need to clean my camera lens.

 

Or buy a better Potato 

 

 

[angliagt]

      Went to Duncan Imports in Christiansburg today.Some interesting cars & trucks there.

[angliagt]

    The 928 had a Boeing jet engine from a helicopter.Clean conversion.

 

[angliagt]

         Took a drive to Bristol,TN in the Celica to see Dave & his Capri today.

Capri has a Ford V8 in it.Very nice looking car.

[Crashtd420]

This got park next door this afternoon...

I heard about it, as far as I know it's refinished back to factory specs....

Pretty sure I heard a diesel it to.. .

 

 

[datsunfreak]

Had to run up to Home Depot for some stuff on Saturday and spotted this F150 in the parking lot. Don't see many clean restomod square bodies around these parts...

 

[datsunfreak]

Another restomod truck sighting at my FLAPS...

 

[angliagt]

    Saw this '71 Corolla near Petersburg,VA.I had one just like it that I bought around 1975.

Mine was a 1200 that i paid $1200 for.It was fairly gutless,but it would get over 50 mpg

back in the 55mph days.

          I later put a 1600 Corolla engine in it ("Yeah,it's got a Hemi!"),had it painted a bright

Corvette Can Am White & put the '74 SR5 metal flares on it.I left the flairs Black,& painted

the lower part of the body black too.It also had 4 spoke mags with Radial T/A's.

        It'd probably be worth a small fortune now. 

[bananahamuck]

Not sure where this goes, but it definitely aint no Datsun ..  FAT was changing his plugs the other night after fighting his girlfriends Honda fit rear drums forever .  

 

   it's advertised as 412 hp,,  i assume that's still measured at the crank,  but i dunno

 

 

it does pull pretty hard 

 

Edited Tuesday at 01:58 AM by bananahamuck

[bananahamuck]

  For the record Honda Fit rear drum brakes are a mutherphuq-er 

[datzenmike]

Seems a bit high for NA. The 2013 Shelby 500 was 550 and it was a supercharged 5.8 liters.

[bananahamuck]

6 hours ago, datzenmike said:

Seems a bit high for NA. The 2013 Shelby 500 was 550 and it was a supercharged 5.8 liters.

internet says your a bit low on numbers 
 

2012 GT CS - 412hp 

2013 Shelby GT500 - 662hp 

 

Fat510 has only rode me around in it once , but it did put your head back for such a heavy vehicle. 

 Dude I went to college with had a pretty mean 72 Pinto hatch with tunnel rammed 302 , and it seemed at least as fast as that.    But that thing was probably geared to go very short distances 

 

 

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Edited Tuesday at 07:11 PM by bananahamuck

[datzenmike]

This one had been send down to Las Vegas? for a $39,000 additional 300 HP Super Snake package to be added. So 850 HP? It included a larger SC but I think better tires and brakes were included. First second and third felt the same as the tires were at the edge of their grip due to the ABS traction package holding it back. This was outside Calgary where the roads would support high speeds. It went well over a buck fifty but the speedo was in KPH and maxed out at 200. I was well into sixth  when I let off and it was a long long time before it was reading below 200KPH. I think you could switch to MPH but I was really scared to look away from the highway to find it. I added this to my bucket list and checked it off.

 

 

[pidge]

Haven seen one of these in time…

 

Edited Thursday at 08:54 AM by pidge

[angliagt]

          Since we moved to Roanoke,I've seen a lot of them still running around.