1978: High-Performance Street-Driven Muscle Cars

[Bob Riebe]

I still gives me grief to think , what to me was yesterday, was 48 years ago, Lord Jesus, I am waiting for the big one. 

https://www.motortrend.com/features/the-wild-bunch-super-street-section-november-1978-982-1374-26-1/





Of all the cars the 1961 Starliner is the one I would LOVE to have, but , the chopped top Corvette really takes me car show days of the seventies.
Chopping tops is a LOT of work, but what I often think about first is the windshield; either they have a custom one made or they have to some how chop the stock wind shield.
Some day I am going to go to ask some one who has one, how that is done. 

[Lloyd Smale]

remember the big flares and wild paint jobs that, yup, i thought were cool back then but about make me gag today

[ulav8r]

[Bob Riebe]

http://www.corvettereport.com/updated-hanspeter-boehis-reborn-1965-mako-shark-ii-corvette-video/


Hanhspeter Boehi , of Switzerland, build as close, as posssible,  to an exact replica to the non-running Mako Shark that was displayed before they built a running version without the exotic side pipes.


His car runs.

[Lloyd Smale]

oh the shame!!! to do that to a 65 vette. if you did it today the local vette club would come over and burn you on a cross

[Bob Riebe]

oh the shame!!! to do that to a 65 vette. if you did it today the local vette club would come over and burn you on a cross

For a living he restores basket case Corvettes of any age.
This one started as a 1969.
As it is based on the non-running 1965 show car that has not been seen since its one showing in 1965, and probably is long scrapped, that makes it unique for those who were not around in 1965 to see the original Mako Shark II.

I wonder about some car people today, back then and into the seventies, an automobile was a thing, meant to be used, not some thing to be treated as an art show display.
Up until ten-fifteen years ago, old race cars were just that old race cars, that were still being raced and/or driven on the street.
Now they are treated like million dollar whores.

I very much like the car , but then, I find unmodified Corvettes to be boring same old, same old.

[Lloyd Smale]

yoiu should have drove my c6 zo6. boring is a word youd never use when the peddle was on the carpet. none on the nanny traction control or stability control to drive 4 you. you could kick the back around at will in the first 4 gears. yup all the c6 zs were sticks too. they were about dead on even in the quarter mile to a hellcat. i always tell people my 392 challenger is fun but that z was about scary fast. yup the new ones are quicker but they have so much electrnic controls that drive for you that even a soccer mom could drive on fairly fast