It is a Holden LC Torana. I dont recall the exact year he bought i, but i think it was late 80's/early 90's and it started out as brown stocky LC torana that he bought over in melbourne. When he brought it home he basically turned it into a drag car, he put mini tubs for the drag slicks, a 9 inch diff, and a 3 speed trimatic with a high RPM stall converter. Later more money was spent on the car, to make it faster and it eventually ran a 9.7 at 135mph, using 150hp of nitrous for the whole track.
That makes me think it may have a Chevy-6, or at least something similar to one, say a 230 or a 250. A 9.7, Holy hell. This truck belongs to a guy who I've bought some parts from in the past, It's a clean as hell 83 K20, with a 468 BBC with forged pistons, some Summit heads I can't remember the details of, a solid roller cam, Victor Jr.intake, and a 950 CFM double pumper. He's never had it on the dyno but we've had some educated guesses near the 650-700 HP mark.
I want to buy this Yukon but my parents say I've already bought too many junky cars in the past year. haha aren't my parents just the worst i'm gonna cut myself
Hey you can never have too many junky cars. Unless you have a lot at once then you might have problems.
Huh I guess I have. I assume he meant end of life cars. Since we are talking about awesome non v8's. They even come in boosted flavors (modified of course)
Resort to deception and the withholding of information. lying is OK so long as its only ever used to achieve personal gain. my parents have no idea I own a motorcycle and that it's sitting In the shed they no longer use and that I have access to on weekends.
Oh, I could no doubt buy it and they wouldn't know, but it'd be kind of pointless. It's not really worth owning a car that I can't even keep at home and have to hide from my family. It does really piss me off, though. I've been saving money for a long time to be able to do stuff like this. My parents want to spend $10k on a nice, dependable car that I can "take pride in" instead of letting me spend my own money on beaters to have fun with. It's really weird. I don't get it. I have no debts and virtually no expenses, let me have some fun with my money.
Just to show some love for the inline engines of the world. 29 seconds for this one He flys at 53 seconds on that one ^
I agree with you whole heartedly. being young is for doing shit like that. when I see rich guys at the track racing f458 challenge cars who are in their 50s, I wonder if it's because they were talked out of getting that old piece of fun when they were our age and are just making up for it.
Jesus. I've heard this enough in the past few months to last a life time. "Why don't you get a real car?" What's a "real car"? I have a fully load Grand Marquis that I only paid $2700. I'd rather do that than have bought a 2006 base model Corolla and a loan. I'm looking at 2007 Legacy GTs still and it's the same thing. "Why not get a new car?" Cause I don't want to spend $8500 on a base model 2014 Ford Fiesta.
I kinda have the opposite of this problem, my mom is trying to get me to get a car that I want rather than something dependable, practical, reliable, and cheap that gets more than 10 mpg... If I do end up getting something like that then I'm going to drive her suburban more often than not just to save money on gas! Not only that but I would probably never want to drive it more than necessary for maintenance for fear of crashing or damage caused by other things. I'd actually prefer something like a base model corolla in a way just so I'd have a car I would be willing to actually drive rather than just a expensive garage decoration. Edit: although in many ways it's actually the same problem of getting something I can take pride in(and actually would) rather than just a car that is for purely practical purposes.
Apparently, there's a Chevrolet engine that's 572 cubic inches, which makes it a 9.4L V8...that makes 620 horsepower.
