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Define classic.

Currently own an 89 bimmer e32, 735 but it's a daily driver along with the suburban. Summer driver 99 bmw e39 540 with supercharger.

In the reasonably interesting former cars, have owned 68 427 stang (very barely street legal ssb record holder 10.79 123 at englishtown), 69 torino 428cj x 2, 67 fairlaine 390, 65 galaxy 428, 86 mustang 5.0 coupe, 86 sirocco 16v (aka the atomic door stop), 79 fiesta x 3 (closest thing you can get to a street legal go cart), 89 jag xjs (thank god I do my own wrenching) , 76 dodge maxi van parts, materials, and sporting gear hauler owned for god only knows how many years , 3 (or 4 I lost count) first generation (mid 80's) integras.

Plus a good number of more plebeian vehicles of the corolla/taurus auto appliance variety.

Was a car nut for years,started riding "FAST" motorcycles & gave up the boxes.

bob2356 says

Define classic.

have owned 68 427 stang (very barely street legal ssb record holder 10.79 123 at englishtown), 86 mustang 5.0 coupe.

It's a grey term, I know. But let's call 30yrs and older, putting us out to 1987 down.

Any pics of the '68? 10.79 @ 123 is efficient. Must have left the line hard. And Englishtown, doesn't get much better than that!

You mentioned the '86 coupe. I've owned several fox Mustangs and love the coupe body style.

I owned a Griggs equipped '93 notch. Probably the funnest car I've ever built. Handled like it was on rails with the forward offset K, Delrin/solid bushings, panhard, etc etc

HEY YOU says

Was a car nut for years,started riding "FAST" motorcycles & gave up the boxes.

Ah yes, if you are a speed demon, you can't beat a bike. My bike buddy's call us "cagers" lol.

My uncle was killed on a bike and given that I'm a dad now, bikes are just not an option.

BayArea says

Any pics of the '68? 10.79 @ 123 is efficient. Must have left the line hard. And Englishtown, doesn't get much better than that!

Pics are buried. It was a notchback 67 with a 68 pony grill emblem (the flat one) to make it class legal for the 68 only 427. Didn't leave the line hard at all. Way too much cam to have any real low end torque. Good thing actually, traction was very very marginal on big block coupes. I could pretty much dump the clutch at mid rpm's below the cam and be rolling when the real power hit. Taking off on the cam would just annihilate the tires. The 427's were almost like 2 strokes. You were on the cam or off. Had ripples around the C piller from the body twisting around.

BayArea says

You mentioned the '86 coupe. I've owned several fox Mustangs and love the coupe body style.

I owned a Griggs equipped '93 notch. Probably the funnest car I've ever built. Handled like it was on rails with the forward offset K, Delrin/solid bushings, panhard, etc etc

Fox's were really weak structurally and needed lots of beefing up to handle reasonably well.. Mine was stock and I didn't push turns hard. Lots of fox 5.0's ended their lives going off the road backwards at speed. Once they came loose they never came back. Brakes were really weak also. Scary weak, you could fade them with 1 hard stop (at least as hard as a fox could stop) from 80. On the other hand you had a low 14 second car for 10k brand new. I bought mine new from a dealer late fall 86 (it was one of the last 86's off the line) and had something like 8k miles with bald rear tires. They claimed it was a demo (end of the production run demo? sure right). I asked if they demoed it anywhere other than raceway park

10.79 @ 123, and it didn't leave the line hard at all? What 60fts were you cutting?

I'm a drag racer (former) too and my calculator is telling me that your 60ft would have had to be in the 1.4-1.6 range to run those times with only 123mph?

And yes, the foxbody cars were extremely flimsy. Not to mention that solid live axle cars can get pretty unpredictable depending on the condition of your rear control arm bushings along with the condition of the trac-lock in the rearend. Youtube is absolutely packed with guys getting cute and winding up on the curb, around a telephone pole, or worse.

Does my 1995 Ford Escort that I use as a commuter car count?