Cars you absolutely never see stock
That fucker cut me off today
High stock failure rateCommonly modded without knowledge of the concept that more air needs more fuel (stoich).Massively high modded failure rate.
>>29026355The fastest and most powerful turbo cars least likely to be moving under their own power.
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>>29026383I never see them, period
>>29026348You never see these "stock" because they still had structural wood components and solid linkage for brakes from the pedal to the drums- both aspects were highly susceptible to failure, especially from age.Everybody after Gen X takes modern car engineering for granted.
>>29026383I actually saw a stock FD on the road (well, it may have had an exhaust, but it was quiet) this past Saturday and was floored. I don't think I've ever seen one in person that wasn't visibly modified.
>>29026435or maybe you never see them stock because every single one has been chopped up to make a hotrod.
>>29026531I dont think you understand how primitive they are or how expensive it is to restore one.The door frame was wood.The cowl/dash and most of the interior were wood.Im not talking about pretty wood inlay.
>>29026679Sure but you never see one restored to a stock appearance either, they all look like picrel
>>29027225>Side mirror mounted to upper door.Huh, neat. I want to experience this now.
>>29026389Coworker had one he used as his daily driver, was a basic bitch model and the engine apparently seized one morning, so he kinda just left it there.
>>29026348>Critical four-cylinder engine failures, lack of replacement and repair parts and the lack of assistance from Willys turned many Americars into targets for the nascent hot rod community>The Go Devil engine was replaced with many other alternatives, some weaker, some much stronger than the original specification. It became so commonplace that today finding a stock Americar is rare.
>>29027227You don't. You can't see anything from them.
>>29027225Can confirm, went to a Ford show on Sunday, and amongst the ocean of chopped and SBC swapped hotrods, there was but a single bone stock Model B.
>>29027225Funny example.Thats a tribute build to American Graffiti (1973) which was a film set in the summer of 1962.That style itself became popular post WWII when returning G.I.s used their motor pool skills to usher in the Hot Rod era.So something like that would have been built in the 50s when the car was only 20 years old, which is now 70 years ago.So since we've covered how the engineering was actually dog shit I guess youre wondering why we dont see more restomods that still retain the original look (?)
>>29027422>I guess youre wondering why we dont see more restomods that still retain the original look (?)Because proper restomods require an /o/tistic polymath or an entire team of engineers and fabricators to modernize a shell, which is ridiculously expensive. It's a coachbuilt car essentially, and it's been a bit of a rich folk flex because automakers fucked them over with defective tech and powertrains in new trucks and SUVs.
the mini-camaro
