Being most Eastern Europeans do not speak English as a first language, it is not common to hear perfect English from them. Remember the written words are different than spoken words. It is a cluster.
@davidclemens1578 ummm thats why I was polite and respectful when I corrected him. I know English can be difficult to read.. Besides that, he knows far more of my language than I know of his, so there was no need to be rude to him..
Portuguese was not an easy language for me to learn. I lived in Porto for a year but I could only speak only the basics. A lot of my Portuguese friends spoke very well. They said that they learned how to speak English by watching American movies with subtitles. Andre' your English is almost perfect and getting better. When you learn some "Americanisms" you'll be just like us. More car reactions, yes. 5
@@Ubotit_Unaymit I looked online, and it turned out that the majority of the vehicles that were used in the movie, were '76 models, with 1977 nose clips on them to highlight the next year of production. Gotta love marketing! Lol
Bandit was a 77' with a 78' nose put on . I had a 76' & 77' with seriously built engines and trannies & rears . I shocked a lot of mopars and big block chevy's with my 76'
These cars are really beautiful. The look on your face was priceless when they announced the $5 million price tag for the Cobra. Great reaction on the muscle cars. 👏👏
A good portion of my High School’s parking lot was full of ‘76 Trans Ams in 1976. The rest were other muscle cars mixed with what we called “beaters”, ( old beat up cars from the mid 60’s, usually given to you by your parents.
If a good portion of your high school's parking lot was full of those cars in '76, you were very fortunate to have grown up in a highly affluent area, even if they were teacher's vehicles. I graduated in '93, and the car I drove through highschool was an '81 Ford Escort station wagon that I bought from a friend's parents. It was $350, and they didn't let me take it until it was fully paid off.
@@smarttvhome335when I was in school in the 80s yes the car lot was full of these cars. Kids worked after school and were able to afford these back in the day. Not an affluent area one bit. We moved when I was in my senior year to an affluent area and those cars were insane! Cadillac, Buicks etc.
@@smarttvhome335ford escorts were awesome! I hope I didn’t come off as rude. Lots of us back in the day worked instead of doing well in school, and I am older so I am sure you probably had more of an emphasis on school work and are therefore very successful!❤❤
I'm not knocking anything, I'm just saying that it wasn't the average income level. To actually own a vehicle the same year of it's production year, especially if you were a high school student, is affluent. Even if the car was owned by the parents, that family was doing pretty well.
@@smarttvhome335 No, not affluent. In the 80s, a car from the 70s was just an old used car... until someone decided it was going to be souped up and describe it as a muscle car. My brother had a 1970 nova that my father drove daily then gave to my mother to drive daily. By the time brother got it, it was a beater!!!
Don't think he understands what the Shelby was. It was an affordable 1960s super car anyone could buy, just most didn't. About $60-70,000 adjusted for inflation. Original sticker was 6,000. A Lamborghini Miura was 20,000 original, and the Shelby would beat it all day long on a track. A Ferrari GTO 250 was 18,000. The Shelby would beat it too. And unlike either of those it holds up. Bruce Canepa did an event a decade or so ago where he left a bunch of qualified press that could drive take his collection for a spin, compare and contrast the old vs the new. Every write up I saw had people who'd driven everything under the sun rave about the Shelby. They all said on modern tires it is one of the best handling cars they had ever driven. These are people who put modern McLarens and Ferraris through their paces. People who've pushed an Elise to the edge, considered by many to be the best handling car of all time. And an FR layout car from the 1960s shocked them with how well it handled. They called it a 400HP Miata with how well it handled and how forgiving it was at the edge, putting it through a corner wasn't a white knuckle experience. They smiled and laughed while driving it.
My friend had a Road Runner Superbird and it was in a color called Crazy Plum Purple. The horn was the Beep-Beep from the Warner Brothers Road Runner cartoons.
I am now 71 years old. About 2 years ago a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go to a local car show and I said sure. As we walked through the Mustangs, Corvettes, T-Birds, GTOs, Chargers and Chevelles I said to my friend "This is like being sent back to my high school parking lot!"
I just love going to car shows❤❤ cars were absoloutly beautiful back in the day. I just love seeing the real old ones from the 30s, 40s, and 50s too! I'm 54 and the 80s were my teen cars, but I love the older ones most (60s, 70s) muscle cars!❤❤ I'm in Indiana, and every year we go to the James Dean car show in Fairmount where he was born. They play 50s 60s music, and it's like stepping back in time!❤
The funny thing is that wasn't even a 1976 Trans Am they showed in the video. The 76's had single headlights, everything else pretty much looked the same though. Smokey And The Bandit didn't even come out until 1977.
the narrator is wrong about Elanor, the first Elanor is from the original Gone in 60 seconds (1974), the original Elanor is yellow and on display in the condition it was in at the end of the movie, both sad because of the condition and a testament to the skill of the driver and the durability of the car. Directed by H. B. Halicki Written by H. B. Halicki Produced by H. B. Halicki Starring H. B. Halicki Marion Busia Jerry Daugirda Ronald Halicki Markos Kotsikos the Nick Cage is < the original
I was happy to have been born in 1960, to be able to experience the old cars until the early 2000's! At least, they could be bought until the early 1990's for not much money, our last one was a 1965 Chevy Malibu SS 4 speed that we bought in the early 90's for $1500!
Something to understand about the US musclecar market for the 60's cars is that there was a "great filter" event shortly after. Ever wonder why most marques only have truly high performance (for the time) up until 1972? The 1973 oil crisis and embargo happened first. Oil prices more than doubled and fuel costs followed, and there were shortages to drive the price even higher. Where the muscle car was an obtainable thing before, now people couldn't afford to drive them... and the manufacturers stopped making them because not enough people were willing to foot the fuel costs. Add to that new emissions rules taking effect in 1974 that literally choked engines, and the manufacturers were pretty much done with 'muscle', save for a few holdouts. On the used markets, muscle cars ended up white elephants, nobody wanted them, and quite a lot of the existing numbers ended up run into the ground or abandoned and scrapped. And with that, original muscle cars became rarities and those that survived often needed full restorations, and with that rarity and level of work come the prices you see.
The GNX was amazing, but, honestly, most people wouldn't get a 0-60 of 4.5 seconds out of it in normal driving. That was an achievement discovered by one car magazine (Car and Driver, I think) with a certain trick. If you hit the gas while holding the brake and let the rpms build up, while the torque converter kept the car from moving, you could get the turbo spinning to full power before you took off, so you would achieve close to peak horsepower as you let off the brake and accelerated. Good for drag racing, but not normal traffic.
This is a rabbit hole you will love! Rat rods, hot rods, resto mods, restored, muscle cars and heavy modded cars. These were the cars I grew up working and learning on! If you have minimum skills in automotive fields then these are the eras you want to find and restore!
I lived thru the muscle car era. And your video was great, especially to see these cars of yester year! I love your enthusiasm! When I got married, our first car was a 1967 Pontiac Tempest, which was essentially the same car as the Pontiac GTO, only with a 326 cubic inch V8 engine instead of the high performance 389 with considerably more carburation, and a very different suspension. The 1965 Pontiac GTO was the first ever muscle car, and all GTO's had a 389 CU engine. Back then, all engines had carburetors, and not fuel injection. Carburetors relied on airflow sucking in the gas into the intake manifold from the carburetor where the furl was dumped from the gasoline tank via an electronic pump, so the more air forced in, the more gas and air, and hence more power. Regular cars came with a 2 barrel, and sometimes with low flow 4-barrel carburetor, as my 1976 Chev Station wagon did, with a 350 engine. 'Low flow' means that it was not sucking in very much air, so the power was greatly reduced. But the first muscle car, the Pontiac GTO, had three dual carburetors (a total of 6 barrels) , called three deuces. Subsequent muscle cards switched over to dual quad carburetors (two 4-barrel carburetors). Eventually, carburetors were converted to fuel injection, which I think was first used in Europe. Fuel injection does not use carburetors any longer, and the fuel is injected into the piston directly electronically, making for a much better performance. Incidentally, 389 CU is about the same as 6.5 liters. The size of any engine is determined by its internal volume - which is the calculation of the bore (the piston diameter) times the stroke (ow far the piston moved up and down). So, the size of an engine (its volume) can be increased by either increasing the bore (making the piston fatter with more diameter), or by increasing the stroke (making the piston move up and down inside the engine further. If you increased both of these, the engine became considerably larger. Real muscle cars had engines from the GTO 389 up to the 440. All but the Chrysler engines had flat top pistons, which meant that they could not use all of the fuel properly in the chamber because the vales (used to intake the fuel as well as remove the spent gases), were always cylindrical, thus leaving a gap. But the Hemi engine (originally just with the 426) had domed pistons, so it could get a bit more out of the internal explosion in the cylinder, and thus was more powerful. So, to this day, the most powerful manufactured engine ever that was manufactured regularly was the Chrysler 426 Hemi. Today, that company still make Hemi engines in many engine sizes. Furthermore, mustangs were almost NEVER considered a muscle car, until Ford tried putting a 427 into one from the factory, but this was done towards the end of the muscle car era, although individuals had done it prior on their own. Mustangs usually had a 289 V8 or a 302 V8, The Mustang was just too small to put a big engine into it. The real muscle cars were made by Ford (with a very powerful 409 and a 428), Chevrolet (with a 396 and a 427), and Chrysler (with the 426 non hemi and 426 hemi, and a 440), and Pontiac (with a 389 GTO), and Oldsmobile 442 (400 CU engine, 4 speed manual transmission, and 2 Quads). Back then, it was near impossible to get 1 HP per CU, but since then things have changed drastically. For example, I have a 2013 Chev Impala sedan, and it has a 3.6 V6 that delivers 300 HP, which is at the very low end the HP for muscle cars from the '60s & '70s, but my car really gets up and goes. My car is built for low gas usage and for highway driving where the speed changes very little, and if I keep it that way, I get 30 miles per gallon (MPG), which is outstanding for a full size car! And this is traveling at a steady 80 miles per hours (MPH) or at 130 KPH. But muscle cars were not engineered to be good on gas consumption, and had gearing built-in to be able to start up real fast and accelerate quickly with low speed rear ends (engine turns quite fast for a given tire rotation) vs. a high speed rear end (engine turns slowly for the same amount of tire rotation). Muscle cars were able to attain high speeds, but this was done due to their high power AND the high engine RPMs (rotation per minute), getting up to high RPM numbers that the engine could safely do. In my sedan (not a muscle car at all) at 80 MPH, the engine is only turning over at 1,850 RPMs, which is VERY low! If you extrapolate that, then my car's speed would be 160 MPH at 3,700 RPMs, but this progression is not linear due to wind and road resistance, and tire reliability. My guess is that I could get my car between 150-160 MPH at around 5,000 RPM, but I have gone over 100 MPH only once, and for a short distance. Just about all muscle cars can do that speed, and the really powerful ones can go maybe 200 MPH. Their uniqueness is that they all accelerate VERY fast! Another way to get more power out of an engine is to force air into the intake manifold. This is done by using blowers, which is usually done by using a fan that electronically runs it, changing its speeds as the car goes faster. This is called 'Turbo Charged'. Originally, drag racing bars with have an opening in the hood, and the air flow was channel to the carburetor, so the faster the car went, the more air was forced in. But this was not enough, so the opening in the hood became a place to set the fan, and turbo charged was started! My other car is a 2014 Chev Cruze which has a 1.4 L engine (very small), but it is turbo charged, but the blower does not sit on the hood. It is just built-in down below in the engine compartment. And it really works! For a small car and a small engine, it gets up and goes pretty fast.
Yes, some of us are NASCAR fans. I didn't become one until I was an adult - I didn't grow up with it. But I'm watching today's race in the background as I watch this video. They're still doing opening ceremonies.
the "air ducts" on the fenders of the 1969 Dodge Dayton and Plymoth Super Birds, was not an air duct. it was for clearance in the fender for the top of tires when driving at over 200mph. the down force on the car at that speed would push the can down on its suspension and the tires would hit the top of the fenders. so the "Air Ducts" were added to the tops of the fenders for clearance. also a real Daytona or Super Bird is closer to 300-400k depending on the engine and it originality. original numbers matching hemi cars are pushing 1.3 mo; - 2 mil.
My favorite type of motorsport to watch is Sprint Car Racing. I love the sprint car races on dirt tracks and the winged sprint cars the most. NASCAR is ok, but it's more of an endurance race. I'd rather watch our version of F1 called Indy Car or the Sprint Cars I mentioned over NASCAR. NASCAR has many good drivers and a fascinating history, and in many ways, it was the birth of American motorsports. Still, being an endurance race, it cannot be very interesting for long periods.
My uncle has a gto judge that he got when he was 16...still as beautiful as the day he got it....and me and my other uncle..between the both of us we have 5 mustangs❤❤❤
Growing up in the 80s my dad had a 76' Trans Am Firebird that was black with burnt orange interior that he upholstered himself. My mom drove a black 1971 dodge charger with black leather interier. We were the house on the street with the badass cars 🤣 My dad also had a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury he build with his dad....just a garage of beautiful cars....
I’m sure that five million they mentioned is for an original cobra. For a replica you can get one for a much more reasonable price around $150,000 or less.
Love the videos man. Enjoy seeing the outside perspective. Look up Massachusetts and the Portuguese community there, I think you will really enjoy seeing the Boston Portuguese festival and the feast of the blessed sacrament.
All summer there's car shows about every weekend. Some times they gather at a local fast food place, and some times there's ones with hundreds of cars and thousands of people checking them out. They can be cars from the 1930's to today. It's really fun.
My father worked for Chrysler, he was sick of the huge company cars he had to drive and let it be known he wanted the next one to "have some guts!". He was sent a weapon!, virtually undrivable on the street, it was a near fully race prepped Challenger T/A Chrysler was going to campaign in a North American road racing series. It never ran properly for street use and was sent to a dealership for a bit of TLC on the 'Six Pack' (3 two barrel carbs). Overnight, someone broke into the compound and stripped it clean down to the lug nuts. Chrysler replaced it with a Charger 440 R/T
*5* As a car guy, I say def keep doing these vids. To explain some of the prices, you're mostly paying for the restoration, you can still buy road worthy versions for a lot cheaper and do the work on it yourself. Some of these, like the Cobra, are down to only a few original cars left and $5mil is for an original car; while they were showing video of replica cars that only cost around $80k already built and much less if you do your own work.
MY ex owned two of the 70's model Trans AMs. One was dark blue with a gold phoenix on the hood and the other was white with a gold phoenix and turbocharged. I had no problem driving the blue one but the white one had such a powerful engine that I found it too difficult to drive. I had only been driving for 2 years at that time and not used to such a powerful car.
The real Muscle cars were like $4-6 thousand brand new back in the 60's to the end in 1971 . Mustangs ,corvettes and Camaros were more sport /pony cars . Muscle cars were usually mid sized family coupes with huge engines and other upgrades
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman Check Road and Track magazine. They are the ones that timed the cars. The Pontiac Catalina Ventura that we had was a 65. At 80 mph if you hit passing gear it would smoke the tires. Ifcyu check the actual times ; the Pontiac was faster from 0 to 60 than the 427 Cobra. I have driven AC Cobras, 289 and 427. I have driven Shelby mustangs. Our 421 Pontiac was actually faster than a freinds GTO. A freind of mine owned the fastest 289 Cobra in SCCA at the time. Another freind owned the 2nd fastest. At the time you could get one for $5000 or so. One of these guys also owned the Allen Mann GT40 that was one of the four they raced at LeMans. It was a standby car, it wasn't raced but they used the transmission out of it in one of the cars that was racing when it broke. In 1970 I could have bought a Lister Vette (one of 3 or 4) for $2000. It was in the original livery the Corvette engine was still on a crate, having never been installed. Being young and stupid I passed on buying it. A buddy installed the engine and it was sold. Some guy came by and built a wooden crate around it and it was shipped to England. It has since returned to the states. I couldn't decide between the Lister (not running) and a Lotus super 7 that had a Ford 1600 in it. By the time I decided (on the Lotus) I lost both to someone else that bought them.
You can find a video on RU-vid where a guy in a dodge hellcat is running from the cops on the highway in Texas, and the police were chasing him for over a half hour. The News Helicopter was flying at 120 miles per hour, and they couldn’t keep up with him even using their telephoto lense (you see him eventually vanish at the horizon). Unfortunately the guy eventually ran out of gas and got arrested but his car chase was definitely epic.
I had 2 tans am's back in the day. My first car was a 1966 Thunderbird, Later I married a machanic so we had a ridiculous amount of cars. We had the 76 and 78 Trrans Am's, 72 Pontiac Grand Prix, a 1981 Firebird Indianapolis Pace car, 1968 Mustang and a few others. I wish we hadn't sold them.
there was a firebird trans am that used to park next to our bus stop (which was next to the dentist office lol) and i would look at it every day walking home.
My first car was a White, 1971 V8 Mustang T-Top (sort of a hard-top convertible). It was a great car. I KNEW I Was Driving, because I could really feel the moving over the road under my seat. It was like I was soaring up the highway on my butt - but not in a bad way.
There's actually 2 classes of muscle cars: Pony Cars (e.g., Ford Mustang, Chevy Camaro) which use V6 and small-block V8 engines, and true Muscle Cars, which use large V8s, such as the Pontiac Firebird, Pontiac GTO, Chevrolet Corvette, and Ford Torino.
I don't know how true it is. But one fun fact I read about the Pontiac GTO over the years was that Pontian actually named it after the Ferrari 250 GTO. They had to go and get permission from Ferrari before naming it GTO. GTO stands for Gran Turismo Omologato. :)
Basically the AC Cobra was considered a Ford since it had a Ford 427 engine but was not sold by Ford, it was sold by Carrol Shelby out of California. You can tell if you have an original by the VIN number saying CSX for 'Carrol Shelby Experimental'. The bodies were made in England and imported by Shelby. Yes, it's a British car originally made by Bristol. Look it up.
I love all brands of American muscle cars but my choice was a 2014 c7 corvette stingray with 3lt trim carbon fiber package a z51 track suspension . I added a cold air intake and a performance programmer. It pushes a little over 500Hp I have done 3.5 second 0 to 60 and it handles like a dream
cobra means snake here in detroit too. the shelby mustangs are built by a specific branch that ford works with. if you look at the emblems on front and back its a snake.
I wish I could send you pictures of my brother in laws cars! He has won several awards and has crazy amount of beautiful cars! He has one that they only made 3 of. It is so amazing! He also has one that was the one from American Graffiti (the movie) and my niece has one that they used in the movie Detroit. I would kill to show them to you! ❤ He even has a car elevator in his garage!
My parents bought the Trans Am and it was our family car. Even though I was only 12, my dad let me drive it on private roads. So, yes, I learned how to drive in that car.
Back in the early 70s my friend raced figure 8 stock cars his favorites were 55,56,&57 Chevy's because they were tough as nails and most of the parts were the same and you could find them cheap when all you want is the body and frame, I bet he totaled a dozen or more over the years
18:03 Modern Challengers are all over the place here in the US. The Hellcat version is still expensive, but the standard Challenger is a very popular and relatively inexpensive car.
9:46 Ironically, the Pontiac Trans Am could never compete in the Trans Am racing league, because engines were limited to 5.0L displacement, and the Trans Am had a 6.6L. Smokey and The Bandit was the big-budget Hollywood blockbuster with famous actors and big stunts. It got blown out of the water by Star Wars.
In 1995 I was driving through Toronto Ca, and saw a cobra in the window as I was looking for a car I called to see what it cost. it was a kit car and they were asking $150 000. it was a miata frame and engine if memory serves
A regular classic mustang of that era is far more affordable so you could easily get one of those and fix it up! You can also get a Cobra 427 kit car for far less.
#5 Hi Andre, I hope your Easter has been wonderful. I used to have a Pontiac Trans Am, it was a nice car and very fast. It was a 1978 black with gold bird on the hood,it looked a lot like the one in the video😊
I was behind a Dodge Helcat in a restaurant drive through. My car was vibrating from the sound or it's powerful motor. Most of the Hellcat's I've seen for sale that were used cars had been wrecked before. Most people that buy them just can't handle the power.
Cobras are expensive, but there is another option. A company called Superformance makes a kit that you can build and your own cobra for a lot less. Also, you need to hear what those muscle cars sound like, just seeing them isn’t doing them justice.
The values are surprising to an outsider. Keep in mind that rarity is the primary driver. So the Shelby Cobra is extremely rare as it was more of a boutique builder. The Mustangs are not rare, comparatively. Those MOPAR cars (Chrysler corporation - Dodge, Plymouth) with the long noses are very rare. They were a weird looking car whose appreciation has blown up over time. It was made for NASCAR racing, so it had time be built and sold to customers at a minimum of just under 2,000 units to qualify for NASCAR. But this isn’t really made for trips to the grocery store. Pontiac GTO, Trans Am weren’t particularly rare but were part of a glorious age of American muscle cars.
That mustang you love Eleanor was a Shelby cobra GT500 the car that was featured right afterwards was also a Shelby Carroll Shelby one of the greatest ever look that guy up
The original Mustang was brought out by Ford in the 1960s as an inexpensive but sporty car during an era when small cars were being poured out in response to new Japanese and German imports: Kind of a car for suburban families wanting a second car with sex appeal. When you went "$5 million . . . no chance" for the first time I was nodding along with you. 5
Andre, American HP figures have become insane in recent years. Standard family vehicles are getting upwards of 400 HP now. How? Well, many have added Turbos to the engines, which use compression fans that recycle the unused fuel vapor from the exhaust back into the main compression chambers for added "boost." Superchargers are also similar except that they just force more air into the engine before combustion in the cylinders. Unlike Turbos, the boost is instant. With Turbos they have to spool up and then the boost "hits." But when the Turbos kick in and you're accelerating, the more and more power you get the faster the Turbos spin. Ford came out with an engine line called the Ecoboost over the last 15 years or so that allows a V6 engine to act like a V8 engine when the Turbos kick in. The Eco-part of the name stems from the idea that you can highway cruise with the efficiency of a V6 engine, but get the benefit of a V8 when you were accelerating. The Ecoboost actually had more torque than the V8 within the Ford line of motors. The V8 had slightly more base HP, but Torque is what you need to get moving. The relationship between Torque and HP is a bit confusing, but I think HP has to do with the speed at which the engine can get the power to the wheels, while the torque is the power itself. I think that's the correct way to look at it, but I may have that backwards. Like I said, it's a bit confusing to explain. But anyway, just as a personal anecdote, my 2015 Ford F150 pickup has a 3.5L Ecoboost engine in it, right? It's the first gen Ecoboost variant. Had I waited another couple months for a 2017 model, I could have had the gen 2 Ecoboost, paired with a 10 speed auto transmission. My transmission is just a 6 speed, but most of the gears in the 10 speed are low end gears that the thing shifts thru pretty quickly anyway, so I'm not really sure why the 10 speed was necessary. An 8 speed would have probably sufficed. But back to my 2016 engine. It's rated at 365 HP with 420 ft lb of Torque. In Sport Mode (keeps the engine in lower gears longer and slightly changes the over feel of the power of the engjne) it leaps off the stop line pretty well. It's kinda odd to see Pickups with such off the block get up and go, but that's where we're at these days. The Gen 2 Ecoboost upped the HP to 375, but the Torque jumped from 420 to 480 if I'm not mistaken. I think you mentioned a Ford Raptor before? They started using an High Performance Ecoboost engine in the Gen 2 Raptors (2016+) that were even more powerful. Not sure of the specs in those though, but it was the same engine the new 2017 Ford GT supercars used. And speaking of the Ford Raptor, i think they're up to the Gen 4 Raptor now in 2024. Ford Trucks have changed this year and I think this makes for the 4th overall change in the Raptor models.
Since it is a Brittish car, you are probably aware of it. But I would recommend looking into the "Ariel Atom." It's a crazy car and looks like a ton of fun to drive. It's also "affordable" compared to a lot of performance cars.
When I was growing up are parents bought us these cars as are first cars. My sister had a 71 Ford mustang my brother a 68 charger. I still have my 1967 Pontiac my other brother had a roadrunner. I will pass my car down to one of my boys. I hope he will pass my Pontiac lemans down to one of his kids or his brother's kids.
the '89 20th anniversary turbo Trans Am had the same 3.8 V6 but different cylinder heads, crankshaft & stainless steel headers & it was a REAL muscle car
