On the road!

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Outside of the courthouse in Fairfield the other day. I was looking for a guy dressed all in army green, with a green mat under his feet, that walked like he had both of his feet in a snowboard.
 
very cool. those are hard to tell the difference between a Jeep MB model and the Ford GPW model. they both had contracts with DoD to produce "jeeps".
 
We went for a ride down to Yardley to grab lunch on Sunday and saw an absurd number a ridiculous cars and bikes along the way. Later, I got a parting shot of this bit of insanity:

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Narrowed rear w/ massive steamrollers, blower sticking up out of the hood w/ the scoop at the roof line and giant wing. Sounded like Saturday night at Atco.
 
those are called "Pro-Street" machines. (in case you didn't know). i've known a few guys who used to build them. the best one was Billy's '64 Pro Street Fairlane.
the whole front clip was tip up front end and exposed the entire engine bay and front suspension. it was a 520 Super Cobra Jet, high rise dual 900 cfm 4 barrel carbs. around 750 HP. wheelie caster AND drag shute in back. with cheaters it would pull 10's in the quarter. riding with him was a BLAST. we'd be toolin along at around 30 mph.....and he'd punch it and the front end would start coming up off the ground. :grin:
 
Lerxst said:
This was a couple notches past the typical pro-street build.....and closer to drag car w/ turnsignals and headlights.
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yea.....Billy's Fairlane was pretty close to a drag car with license plates. the wheelie casters were NOT there for show. when he would mount the Racemasters on it and run it at the strip......he'd get up on the casters during the launch. the drag shute was functional also.....tho i'm not completely sure it was REALLY necessary.

like i said.....when he'd get the slicks out, he could get down close to high 9's. he had a timing control knob below the dash, so he could get it started without killing the battery.....then adjusting it to "run".
 
i like it.....sort of.....i know, i'm a snooty tooty when i comes to performance fords.

a 351 wouldn't get it for me. 427 or nuthin'
 
I went to Sweetwaterfest today in Fort Wayne. I guess besides having a musical instrument warehouse company, they also have an exotic car dealership, SweetCars.

I forgot to bring my camera with me, but they had a yellow Lamborghini Gallardo there on display :cool:

This link has better pics than I could take, anyways.

http://www.sweetcars.com/inventory_detail.php?id=11455

I don't see a shifter. I'm assuming it's an auto with paddle shifters?
 
Ran across a yellow pop-up headlight 365 GTB yesterday in light traffic...asked my wife to snap a pic of it while we were along side it but she couldn't muster the nerve. Yesterday was crazy nice and there was all sorts of exotic hardware on the road.
 
so.....i'm coming out of the liquor store and this guys is getting parked. if you notice above the gills.....there is the "blue oval".....it's a REAL FORD COBRA!!!
and it was DEFINITELY the big block....i'm going with 428 P.I. because that's what the "street" Cobra's were in the late 60's.

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Witnessed a whole parade of 20 or so classic Mercedes SL's driving off of post today. I tried to get a video shot but halfway through my batterie died. :facepalm:
 
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