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[Cynthia12]

I bought the same car around the time I joined this forum back in 2001, $600. Same wheels an same color but was not a TA. I shoehorned a 500ci Big block in to it. The engine stuck threw the hood. Meanest car I have ever owned. Would pass everything on the road except a gas station an a tire store.

I loved this car. It was a 6.6L Funny thing happened one night..back in the 70's. Mind you now..my former husband was driving the Pantera as we were getting onto the freeway, when all of a sudden, we had a white TA pull up beside us..egging us on. We had the TA and this Pantera at the same time, we knew what the TA could do. I did NOT want was about to go down, go down..but it did, and the TA of course, lost. There was a bit of loudness coming from inside of the Pantera as we were starting the race, and them even louder as we slowed down. I told him if he ever wanted to do that again, do it without me in the car. Man that car could pick up and go. They have a Mustang engine in them. But yes, that TA of ours was a pretty fast car too. Did I ever go over the speed limit myself? Ummmmm.... Oh man, I can't let my kids ever read this post.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I loved this car. It was a 6.6L Funny thing happened one night..back in the 70's. Mind you now..my former husband was driving the Pantera as we were getting onto the freeway, when all of a sudden, we had a white TA pull up beside us..egging us on. We had the TA and this Pantera at the same time, we knew what the TA could do. I did NOT want was about to go down, go down..but it did, and the TA of course, lost. There was a bit of loudness coming from inside of the Pantera as we were starting the race, and them even louder as we slowed down. I told him if he ever wanted to do that again, do it without me in the car. Man that car could pick up and go. They have a Mustang engine in them. But yes, that TA of ours was a pretty fast car too. Did I ever go over the speed limit myself? Ummmmm.... Oh man, I can't let my kids ever read this post.

Yea, factory they are pretty fast cars. Mine was not though. It had the 5.7L when I got it. I got most of the way threw a cross country trip an the engine gave out. Limped it home from Florida blowing flames out both ends. My dad had just scrapped a limo an kept the 500ci/8.2L engine. I took it an had it bored .060 an I ported an polished the heads by hand. We actually had to do a lot of cutting to get that engine down in that car. First day I drove it I found a strait stretch of highway to see what it would do. From a dead stop I buried the gas peddle in the carpet an held on. It roasted the tires all the way till the car got to 70MPH then it hooked an really took off. It was a death trap an I had just crashed my last car so it sat parked most of the time. I let my cousin drive it once though an he worked it pretty hard. The road up this mountain is a 30% grade with two switch backs. He said he got it to 140MPH an slowed down again between the two switch backs. Thats going from almost a dead stop to 140 an back to almost a dead stop going up a 30% grade in 3/4ths of a mile. I did not let him drive it again. If someone was dumb enough to do it, that car would have been a 200MPH+ car. I got rid of it an sometime later the transmission got killed in it an I bought the engine back. Never did put it in anything else though an sold it again.

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[Cynthia12]

I have to say it Rebel..sounds like it was a fun car.

 

[drumstick diva]

Didn't have airbags did it?

 

[drumstick diva]

Why do men love to flirt with death?

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Didn't have airbags did it?

Nope...

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Why do men love to flirt with death?

Safer than flirting with women...

 

[tntchix]

The good ol days. What I drive now..hasn't got quite the pick up either of these had!

This is mine these days and yes she flies. But I would love to have my Suburban back. lol

 

[tntchix]

Gorgeous!

When I used to walk a lot, about 10 years ago, I stopped at a library in another suburb. I was flabbergasted when I saw almost NO BOOKS on shelves, instead they had computers, and discs and tapes and stuff you could borrow. All I could recall from school was that dog books used to be 636.9 or something like that. I headed to a corner that had some books - couldn't find anything.

At that time I didn't even know how to start a computer- I honestly felt like I was on the wrong planet. We don't have a library in our village, and to get a card in the surrounding suburbs is BIG BUCKS is you are a non-resident. After what I saw, I didn't even want a card. I don't blame you, that must have been awful to see

So I used to buy books - the hardcovers were way too expensive, and the paper backs that used to be my salvation were now priced just a shade less than hard cover. I had to visit the book exchanges but, hardly ever found something I wanted. They had tons of "bodice ripper," stuff and kids books.

I like to hold books, I like the fact that I can go back and read a page over or go and take a peek at the ending - it's not the same when you have to click and click only to read "this page cannot be displayed." etc. Or when you have that eureka moment and must go back to when you read it but didn't quite know yet?

I'm on here because it's making the best of a bad situation. When you folks tell an interesting tale, it won't be out on kindle or whatever those things are called.
So I am here to read them despite the many times I hit the wrong key and the whole page disappears.

I miss the big catalogs retailers used to send out before the holidays - people called them dream books. They were filled with things most of us could never afford to buy but, we could dog ear the pages and go back and look again. We could circle them and hope someone in the family noticed we really wanted that. Oh, memories.

Yep I'm a relic of the stone age, no cell phone, no ipad or tablet or kindle or google glass , no laptop. I've got a computer because when my brother gets a new one, I usually get his old one. To each his own.