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Pastorbottle
·Remember Wolseleys had the illuminated grille badge.....yep the last word in luxury was to have a little light globe shining through the badge! 🤣
Classic car spotting this week.
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Spruce
··Sunburst dial fanIn my first regular job after apprenticeship we had these as company pool cars. I hated them so much I tried my best to blow up the engines so the company would perhaps get something more modern. I failed to wreck even one. The engines would not rev past 4000 and I needed to get them above 5500 to do any damage (BMC 5-bearing "B-series" engines were tough, I'll give them that). Even my first car from years earlier, an Austin Mini Van with the "low-compression" 848cc engine, was faster.
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Pastorbottle
·In my first regular job after apprenticeship we had these as company pool cars. I hated them so much I tried my best to blow up the engines so the company would perhaps get something more modern. I failed to wreck even one. The engines would not rev past 4000 and I needed to get them above 5500 to do any damage (BMC 5-bearing "B-series" engines were tough, I'll give them that). Even my first car from years earlier, an Austin Mini Van with the "low-compression" 848cc engine, was faster.
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Scarecrow Boat
··Burt Macklin, FBIHung out with my dad and his ‘68 GTO. Recently dyno’d @ 460hp and 500ftlb’s of torque. 4 speed and a blast to drive.
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Pastorbottle
·Hung out with my dad and his ‘68 GTO. Recently dyno’d @ 460hp and 500ftlb’s of torque. 4 speed and a blast to drive.
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Foo2rama
··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.Hung out with my dad and his ‘68 GTO. Recently dyno’d @ 460hp and 500ftlb’s of torque. 4 speed and a blast to drive.
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··Burt Macklin, FBIThat a lot of power even for a 455. What has he done to it?
Apologize for the quality of these pics as he screenshot these off his Facebook to send to me. When he said it was dyno’d, I didn’t realize it was just the engine, which makes the bhp slightly less than the figures I gave above.
These are from the shop that rebuilt the engine:
