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The American muscle cars of the 60's and 70's and early 80's will always be the most remembered as classic cars. The imports you are talking about will never hold a candle to th Novas, Chevelle, the camaro, roadrunner, charger, mustang, these to me are the real classic cars. No rice burners, because what is so classic about them. these cars would tear them up.
How many rice burners have you seen on Barret Jackson auction.
The old guys who have money now grew up with the American muscle cars of the '60s and '70s. They spend big $$ to try to recapture their youth. What will the auction scene look like when the kids of the '80s and '90s grow up to be old guys with money? I suspect there will be a lot more rice burners on the classic car auction block. NSX, 300Z, RX-7, Supra, etc.. might even be more sought after than American muscle in 15-20 years.
.... I suspect there will be a lot more rice burners on the classic car auction block. NSX, 300Z, RX-7, Supra, etc.. might even be more sought after than American muscle in 15-20 years.
NSX, 300Z, RX-7, Supra
When I think of rice burner, these cars don't come to mind.
Those cars were junk all the 2.2 cars of that time leaked oil. I had a dodge shadow always leaked oil from the valve cover , did not matter how many times repaired always leaked.
I had a half-dozen 2.2 Chrysler products, none of them leaked oil.
The only one I can think of in the more mainstream category is not a US brand, but a Nissan 300ZX twin turbo. Advanced for 1990 and a classic if in great condition.
The thing I hated about this was the 2 piece drive shaft... We went to a custom 1 piece on my son's car
I had a half-dozen 2.2 Chrysler products, none of them leaked oil.
An engine designer wrote: "We had a problem early on with oil leaking out of firewall side of 2.2/2.5
valve covers after RTV was eliminated in favor of a gasket. The attaching screws were not shortened to compensate for a thinner walled valve cover, which resulted in the screws bottoming out. They 'torqued up' all right, too bad it was against the bottom of the hole instead of the valve cover………a dab of RTV was still necessary at the inner bend above the bottom boot (near cam cap parting line) Also had a 1981 K car same thing. Me not the engine designer use to work at he Newark Delaware assembly plant we made the 2 door and the station wagon K car.I worked there in 1981 when they first came out putting 75 an hour out.
I had a 1992 dodge shadow that leaked all the time regardless on how much rtv I used and the rubber or cork gasket was no better.
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