Re: GTO??????????

[harry skalla <moweepea@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Don, yea  I don't get it either. Went to a car show and they had a 
questioner, one of the questions was "what was the first muscle car?" You 
guessed it the answer was GTO. GO FIGURE....
Butch
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Dulmage" <big-d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:37 AM
Subject: GTO??????????


> The GTO was the first muscle car? Bull. Like the old Wendys commercial 
> Where's the B______?!
> Muscle car? What muscle "Where's the muscle!?" Darn things wouldn't pull 
> the skin off a grape. Enuf already.
> Back in the day when a GTO pulled to the line we went for hotdogs and a 
> coke. Seemed like we could be back to our seat before they finished their 
> run. zzzz,zzzzzzzzzz,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
> If an approx '3300 pound car with aluminum front end and a 13.5 to one 
> engine with 2 fours on a crossram and cast headers Like MAX WEDE 63/64 
> Mopar isnt a muscle car something is wrong with the yard stick. I have had 
> the conversation in person with GTO owners too. They get pretty quiet when 
> you open the hood on a Max Wedge . They dont park near me any morea cruise 
> nights but hide in their corner like a bunch of Beagles at a Rottweiler 
> convention.
> I know GM invented everything, i hear it all the time. If we had left it 
> to them we would still have wooden body frames , mechanical brakes , cast 
> iron pistons , generators and splash oiling. They used to be called 
> stovebolts because that is how they were made it seemed. They even had to 
> bring in Russian guy to show them how to make an engine. I believe his 
> name was Zora Duntov. Dont get me going. I love this stuff and i havent 
> even started yet.
> When I hear all the claims from the GM folks i think of an joke that 
> appeared in a magazine once.(Mechanix Illustrated) It said the USA found a 
> wire connected between two trees atttached to a a battery with a key on 
> both ends and claimed the invention of the telegraph . The Russians 
> searched and searched and couldnt find any wires so they claim the 
> invention of the Wireless or radio. So it is with the Gm crowd. The lack 
> of evidence does not concern them. Couse you have to forgive them. they 
> are obviously cerebally handicapped or they would be driving that stuff. 
> :>)))))))))))))
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