When the original Z28 came out - 1967 - they claimed 275 hp. Now I had a camaro with a 327 - and claimed 275 hp and when listening to a Z28 - particularly one with high revs - it sure didn’t sound like 275 hp.

Wonder if the bus stalled or was stuck on the tracks? Looking at its design if the tracks were on the slightest hill with that long wheel base...

Depending on whose version of the story you heard one reminds me of this Seinfeld episode:

Bad bearing (screech!) noises are common - a bearing freezes and you are dead - whether a wheel bearing or along the serpentine belt. Or alternator bearings, water pump bearing...

Until we start criminally charging the bozos who value saving money over deaths, nothing will change.

What I think is cool about these historic races is that people bring these cars - some worth millions - and drive them.

Enzo, Ferry , Sir Wm and Carroll have to be smiling somewhere.

I remember reading an old 60s issue of Road & Track and in the classifieds was one Daytona Coupe - modifierd for the street - for $11,000.

Styling is obviously subjective; I think everything about the car is beautiful except for the back end.

AFAIK the only think Cosworth did was engineer a new head - like the Mercedes 190E-16.

In CA you better have a MT license to go with those plates or the CHP will get you

The biggest problem the Vegas had were the aluminum bore - which - by 40,000 miles, you were going though oil as fast as gasoline. The aftermarket solution was to put cast iron sleeves in.

If you see any Vegas today chances are they have a small block Chevy shoehorned in.

Well, I found this just to suggest something I’ll bet nobody has thought of - used to be a shop in town that specialized in these - talk about a niche market

The S Class has a lot of complicated systems on it - starting with air suspension - and probably because of the fact that many are leased and there really is no customer shortage in getting one - no waiting lines - they depreciate. Supply and demand like anything else determines price.

There really wasn’t an official “S Class” until the 1970s and the W116. And because of a decent reputation, and a lot of product placement in the movies as “the luxury car” the S Class has attained the status Cadillac had through the 1960s.

A great book on 9/11 from ATC’s (Air Traffic Control) perspective is Touching History - it is chilling and you get the idea that not for the alert handing by some pilots there would have been 1-2 more in the air

wonder what that did to the engines

I had a business partner from Finland; she came to CA when she was 18 and loved in Redondo Beach. Somehow she became friends with Jones and said that he was just as nice off screen as his screen persona

Partly because of California’s budgetary problems, thed CHP had been rebuilding these cars - you still see them on the road.

Dan’s the man

Fly Yellow always looked good.