I had a 1960 ford something or other. Hardly any mufflers to speak of, and those had holes in them. Loud, yeah it was loud. My girlfriend was from a neighboring town, so I would skip class, drive over there and drive around the school blasting the pipes. The cars of today just don't have the right rumble. Know what I mean??
we had V-8 engines back then. whole different sound came from them. kids today have no idea of the sound a engine can make when the secondary barrels of your 4 barrel barb kick in.
ReplyDeleteback in the 1980's I stuffed a V-8 engine into a MGB-GT. talk about sound and power ! later on I had to swap out the "wires" for disc wheels due to the power of the engine in it.
Didn't exactly cut off the mufflers; more like, bypassed with a yank 'em gate and a straight pipe, maybe a glaspak. Ya wanted to be able to rumble, but get legal quick when the cops came by. Not that they didn't know exactly who had what, but it was all very friendly in my small town. "Y'all don't go wakin' up the babies after 10, now!"
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