snatchslayer Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Awesome stuff. Watching hot rods and muscle car now.. watched a show earlier on the demise of the big 3 after the gas crisis and how they needed to step shit up. Forgot John Delorean was behind the GTO ,and remember Lee Iacocca saving Chrysler with the mini van . Neat show 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted July 10, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 10, 2018 1 hour ago, xcr700 said: Awesome stuff. Watching hot rods and muscle car now.. watched a show earlier on the demise of the big 3 after the gas crisis and how they needed to step shit up. Forgot John Delorean was behind the GTO ,and remember Lee Iacocca saving Chrysler with the mini van . Neat show That sounds good...I'll watch it on On Demand. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted July 10, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 10, 2018 Yeah, I watched it with my son, we both thought it was cool, should be some good stuff on the rest of the week too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anorkist Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 interesting show let younger crowd in on what happened back then with some of todays iconic cars.on the other hand the horsepower leads to idiotic driving street racing.I did same back then but the traffic was a small portion of todays. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 15 hours ago, xcr700 said: Awesome stuff. Watching hot rods and muscle car now.. watched a show earlier on the demise of the big 3 after the gas crisis and how they needed to step shit up. Forgot John Delorean was behind the GTO ,and remember Lee Iacocca saving Chrysler with the mini van . Neat show Wasn’t Delorean also behind sneaking the 455HD out behind GM’s back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snatchslayer Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 30 minutes ago, Rod Johnson said: Wasn’t Delorean also behind sneaking the 455HD out behind GM’s back? I'm not sure . But I seriously wouldn't doubt it. They portrayed GM like Hiltler lol. Treated John Delorean like total shit....according to the show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwytohell Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 John D. , had a huge impact on G.M. multi - car models long before his Delorean flame out. Plus he banged about everything in a skirt back in his days at G.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwytohell Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 4 hours ago, Rod Johnson said: Wasn’t Delorean also behind sneaking the 455HD out behind GM’s back? Yup, plus he told the upper brass at G.M. to fuck off and got the 400 C.I. Pontiac engines into the GTO / Lemans / Tempest when they had a industry ban on engines over 400 C. I. 's in everything but three ton rolling land yachts. Rumor is but unconfirmed , that John D. also had a big hand push for Oldsmobile to have the 455 C.I. 442's and the often way underrated low production Hemi killer , Buick 455 GSX back in the day. He also had a big hand into the redesigned Corvairs from 1966 - till end of production. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted July 11, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 11, 2018 This one about trucks is great! So much history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold War Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 6 hours ago, anorkist said: interesting show let younger crowd in on what happened back then with some of todays iconic cars.on the other hand the horsepower leads to idiotic driving street racing.I did same back then but the traffic was a small portion of todays. Going to have to start recruiting some younger generation or the hobby is going to die. I feel like a kid when I’m at the shows. Another 10 -15 years a lot of these guys are going to be dying off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted July 11, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 11, 2018 Tomorrow the history of speed, produced by Dale Jr....Looks like a lot of salt flat runs type stuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSFB Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 22 hours ago, xcr700 said: Awesome stuff. Watching hot rods and muscle car now.. watched a show earlier on the demise of the big 3 after the gas crisis and how they needed to step shit up. Forgot John Delorean was behind the GTO ,and remember Lee Iacocca saving Chrysler with the mini van . Neat show That show is awesome. I saw it before fore but watched it again over the weekend. Really interesting stuff hearing what went on behind the scenes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rw06GT Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 16 hours ago, Rod Johnson said: Wasn’t Delorean also behind sneaking the 455HD out behind GM’s back? He was one of my wife's patients and I spoke to him a few times. He was a generally affable old guy. Liked to tell stories of the old days. Can't believe he's dead 13 years already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmo Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 2 hours ago, Rw06GT said: He was one of my wife's patients and I spoke to him a few times. He was a generally affable old guy. Liked to tell stories of the old days. Can't believe he's dead 13 years already. We did some work in the executive offices back in the 90’s. Got to know a few of the higher ups at GM. We got invited to hang out at their box at the tigers game a few times. Those guys knew how to party. And most of them had smoking hot young secretaries they were boning on the side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 14 hours ago, hwytohell said: Yup, plus he told the upper brass at G.M. to fuck off and got the 400 C.I. Pontiac engines into the GTO / Lemans / Tempest when they had a industry ban on engines over 400 C. I. 's in everything but three ton rolling land yachts. Rumor is but unconfirmed , that John D. also had a big hand push for Oldsmobile to have the 455 C.I. 442's and the often way underrated low production Hemi killer , Buick 455 GSX back in the day. He also had a big hand into the redesigned Corvairs from 1966 - till end of production. Yeah GM had lots of HP limits and CI limits on all their brands so their top brands could be the biggest and best corporate made them cancel the RA V Pontiac’s too which were going to be nuts. They were pretty pissed off when he snuck out the super duty. Supposedly even other manufacturers were going to corporate GM about it complaining lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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