Building a Pro Touring muscle car.

COPPERHEAD42 · Jul 21, 2011

doctordick said:
DAMMIT MAN!! I got kids almost as old as you :****: Late 80's I was raising kids and doin' the 9 to 5 in the big city. The square in P-town and 6th street in Oz were like a big old car show on saturday nights. Anyway, love your project, sounds way cool. You don't see near as many 'birds as Camaros. Adds to the cool factor!!

This bird cruised the square a few times but im to young to have seen any of that. Ya there is about 20 camaro's for every 1 bird.

InDaShop · Jul 21, 2011

doctordick said:
DAMMIT MAN!! I got kids almost as old as you :****: Late 80's I was raising kids and doin' the 9 to 5 in the big city. The square in P-town and 6th street in Oz were like a big old car show on saturday nights. Anyway, love your project, sounds way cool. You don't see near as many 'birds as Camaros. Adds to the cool factor!!

I was in that group that was probably some of the last to have nightly cruised the Square and Oz. By 1995 it was done, the cops had shut it down. Paola City Council passed the no parking after 7pm on the square, and the cops where all over it.

Lap around square then up to Sonic turn around and do it again. After a few head to Oz, do a few laps up down and around Sonic, Every now and then mix it up with a run to Olathe to cruise "the Fe" or head down to Garnett for some farm girls.

bigsilly · Jul 21, 2011

InDaShop said:
I was in that group that was probably some of the last to have nightly cruised the Square and Oz. By 1995 it was done, the cops had shut it down. Paola City Council passed the no parking after 7pm on the square, and the cops where all over it.

Lap around square then up to Sonic turn around and do it again. After a few head to Oz, do a few laps up down and around Sonic, Every now and then mix it up with a run to Olathe to cruise "the Fe" or head down to Garnett for some farm girls.

That is funny, the small town I grew up in was the exact same. You made a lap around the sonic and hooked a right turn up the hill and took a left by the bank and then made a loop around the square and back down and did it all over again. This was in the 80's and early 90's. And you could always pull in the bank parking lot and hang out. Every now and then a fight would break out in the parking lot. Now you can drive through town on a Saturday night and it is a ghost town, there is not a car in sight. 20 years ago there would be a traffic jam around sonic all the way up the hill around the square :****: I have no idea what these kids are doing these days.

WHIZARD · Jul 21, 2011

bigsilly said:
That is funny, the small town I grew up in was the exact same. You made a lap around the sonic and hooked a right turn up the hill and took a left by the bank and then made a loop around the square and back down and did it all over again. This was in the 80's and early 90's. And you could always pull in the bank parking lot and hang out. Every now and then a fight would break out in the parking lot. Now you can drive through town on a Saturday night and it is a ghost town, there is not a car in sight. 20 years ago there would be a traffic jam around sonic all the way up the hill around the square :****: I have no idea what these kids are doing these days.

Probably Crystal Meth. skully

Kids now days don't hang out and cruise like we did in the 90's, in my town they are too busy with drugs.

bigsilly · Jul 21, 2011

WHIZARD said:
Probably Crystal Meth. Kids now days don't hang out and cruise like we did in the 90's, in my town they are too busy with drugs.

Kind of my fear. Even back then there may have been the occasional beer drinking/joint smoking back roads or pasture deal every now and then, but cruising was BIG. Now it is non existent.

Bones · Jul 21, 2011

My home town kids are staying home more from what I have been told. Surprisingly few are drinkers, they just hang out and play games.... :gay:

Glad I got out with a race prepped liver and knew what a slut was before college. laughing1

race_jeep · Jul 21, 2011

bigsilly said:
Kind of my fear. Even back then there may have been the occasional beer drinking/joint smoking back roads or pasture deal every now and then, but cruising was BIG. Now it is non existent.

Before I graduated in 04, it was starting to dwindle down, but the main reason was we were just getting hassled by the cops for hanging out in the parking lots

Budget YJ · Jul 21, 2011

Was the same thing in my town too in the early 90's and we had a blast :woot:

Calhoun ga was like pc beach on spring break every weekend :driving:

Now there is NOBODY in town due to the no parking/cruising laws they passed

uke:

Im sure the businesses thank them every weekend for nobody being there anymore too :wtflol:

doctordick · Jul 21, 2011

That blown SBC would look good in that '68 Fbird :dblthumb:

Thought about running down to the Sonic in the Willys on cruise nite :driving:

, but I'd probably just wind up running over some flatbill in a Civic ;D ;D

blacksheep10 · Jul 21, 2011

I think it is risk of dui around here. They will absolutely throw your ass in jail STAT if you have a few beers and are a kid. until 21, .02 is the limit and one has you over that. :gay:

Rich, I agree that old shcool would fit better for nostalgia reasons, but I just love the though of remote start and maintenance (adjustment/tweaking) free driving until his boy is 21. gotta love gen III stuff.

COPPERHEAD42 · Jul 21, 2011

I have kinda been thinking of doing a carb kit on the 6.0 just so it would have the old school look when you poppwdv the hood but be the newer engine. :dunno:

also thinking it may sound better with a carb.

Bones · Jul 21, 2011

COPPERHEAD42 said:
I have kinda been thinking of doing a carb kit on the 6.0 just so it would have the old school look when you poppwdv the hood but be the newer engine. also thinking it may sound better with a carb.

Horribly gay statement right here. Please don't. Mix old school n new school, but don't do a damn carb

COPPERHEAD42 · Jul 21, 2011

I dont think I will. It would be no difference in cost.

doctordick · Jul 22, 2011

Let's not start that whole LS vs SBC sh*tstorm again.....altho everybody knows that blown SBC would be killer, nothin' like looking out the windshield at the back end of a blower ;D ;D ;D ;D