That does look quite good !

As long as it’s not black...here are some of my favorites :

Those were damn fine cars for the money, there was no european or japanese equivalent in the same price range. Yes, F-Bodies were pretty crude, oldschool designs and somewhat tacky visually towards the end, but I’d take that over those over engineered, awfully expensive to maintain, and generally boring looking german…

It’s neat for sure, I’d eat on that motor ! But chrome doesn’t belong on an 80’s sportscar.

I managed to get rid of most sources of squeaks and rattles in my 84 T/A during the restoration, most of them come from poorly tightened screws at the factory, and cheap hard plastics rubbing each other due to wear or, again poor tightening. Where fitment and adjustements aren’t the best, I put some strips of adhesive…

The system was allright, nothing special, two TBI units on a crossram intake. The problem was the whole engine was severely castrated, from the intake to the exhaust. The camshaft was flat, the pistons were dished. Add to that the pathetic TH200C transmission which was mandatory with the CFI 5.0L. It wasn’t until…

Yeah most of them were slow, but there were some decent engine options after the early years : L69, LB9, L98 and the almighty LD5 for the TTA. Those were all between the high 14s to the low 13s which were good numbers back then.

Saw two british licensed Spyker C8 (one orange, one white) following each other while entering the highway in the industrial area near my hometown. I have never ever seen another Spyker. Made my day, or my week should I say.

Also, when I was a kid, there was my neighbor’s Ferrari 328GTS parked in front of the school…

What were they thinking ?!? Who in their right mind would think “hey that’s worthy of the name Monte Carlo for sure”.
Glad we don’t see these around here. Terrible design.

They’re over 15 years old already...no wonder they aged pretty badly.

I lifted a very clean looking Porsche 944 on the proper lifting point under the driver side floor with a floor jack, then went to pick up a jackstand, on the way back, I saw the car fall back on its wheels, the jack hadn’t moved one bit.

A manual car with an idling problem is a terrible experience in traffic. Got to constantly press the accelerator pedal just enough so it doesn’t stall, and the brake pedal and the clutch pedal too, with two feet.

The 5.7L 3rd gens never had a manual, hah !
The clutch in my ‘84 T/A has a very long course, not sure if it’s only due to the clutch master cylinder or just a silly design., but I have to press the pedal to the floor to change gears. It gets old quick.

I painted my T/A light gold, because it matched the car and the light beige interior, and looks correct for an 80’s car.
My older ‘74 Formula will be lime green to match the eye popping lime green interior and white interior I’ll make for it. Fun 70’s colors.
As for my commuter cars, I don’t care: My ‘94 Fiesta is a…

That sums it up nicely, fun car all around and you can put some (small) buddies in the back. My brother has a 1981 Mondial 8 with a 3.2L engine. It likes to go fast, but it takes some time to reach high speeds.
Terrible interior design though, they couldn’t even place the gauges “cap” correctly so you can’t see the…

The catalytic converter has been mandatory since 1992 here in France. I still have never seen an AIR pump on cars ever since, Ford, Mercedes, Citroen, Peugeot, Toyota, Mazda, diesel or gasoline. Maybe new-ish cats donc need an AIR pump ?

Makes more sense now. But how come they were never installed on european cars on our market, that’s a US car and imports only thing apparently.

Last july I bought three ‘79 Mustangs that had been stored in a dry and clean hangar since the early nineties according to the seller, and confirmed by the “artefacts” found in some of them.
I didn’t try to turn the engines by hand where they were, it could have been a terrible mistake but luckily all of them turned…

Good old AIR pump, correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t see the point instead of forcing air in the exhaust to artificially lower the emissions. I heard it was to cool down the catalytic converter, but I see it on car that never had a catalytic converter.
On all the cars I have that have it, it’s not related to anything…

The 74-78 tail lights were never smoked indeed. And I can’t say for sure about how 4th gen tail lights are built, but I guarantee you, the 79-92 smoked tail lights are made of a dark clear plastic lense covering an internal red lense :