Corvette vs Mustang

[Roscobbc]

I well remember going to a local scrap yard with my mates to take the leather front seats and rear bench seat out of a Mk 2 Jaguar to fit into an old Commer 15cwt van we had bought between us to go travelling through Europe in .

Ha! - did the same thing a couple of years later with a Mark 3 Zephyr Six. Put 7" wide 'banded' steel steel wheels on it and a Raymond Mays 12 port ally head and carbs - the car was so rusty that the seat mountings on the rear of the front bench seat fell through the floorpan.......eventually sourced a pair of leather front seats out of a Mark 2 Jag, fabricated some seat brackets that fixed to 'good' metal on the floor pan. Car was 'only' 10 years old and totally 'rusted-out'........

 

[Chuffer]

About like my HB Viva , Roscobb . That was when Vauxhall`s had a reputation for decomposing before your very eyes The Viva had so much tin worm that one day I lifted the bonnet and the hinges collapsed straight through the inner wings A that point I knew it had to go to the knackers yard !

 

[Nick B]

All these 'old timers' (me included ) memories on here makes me wonder what the average age of a club member is?

 

[Chuffer]

Answer = 18 and a half . We are are all aging juvenile deliquents !

 

[TimP]

I think the Bullitt car was Highland Green but I could be wrong. The 390GT Mustang Fastback is one of my all time favourites. I have the Bullitt film on DVD somewhere - a good film with some great cars and some terrific driving.

 

[Roscobbc]

I think the Bullitt car was Highland Green but I could be wrong. The 390GT Mustang Fastback is one of my all time favourites. I have the Bullitt film on DVD somewhere - a good film with some great cars and some terrific driving.

The Bullitt Mustang must have been the first car to have a 6 or 7 speed manual gearbox..........listen how many times it changes gear

 

[antijam]

The Bullitt Mustang must have been the first car to have a 6 or 7 speed manual gearbox..........listen how many times it changes gear

...and every change - up or down - sounds like he's double de-clutching. Apparently the engine sounds were dubbed from a GT40 though, so perhaps the sound is just dramatic license....

 

[James Vette]

James sounds like a youngster compared to many of us oldies, and as such will possibly make mistakes regarding these old cars that we seem to love. He has plenty of enthusiasm for them tho which is great.

Very enthusiastic!

 

[Chuffer]

The Bullitt Mustang must have been the first car to have a 6 or 7 speed manual gearbox..........listen how many times it changes gear

And Bullitt drove round and round in circles ! He must have passed the same parked up VW Beetle at least 4 times !

 

[Chuffer]

I think the Bullitt car was Highland Green but I could be wrong. The 390GT Mustang Fastback is one of my all time favourites. I have the Bullitt film on DVD somewhere - a good film with some great cars and some terrific driving.

As an impressionable youth when the movie was first released , I couldn`t make up my mind which I fancied more , the Highland Green Mustang or Jacqueline Bissett
Then I figured out that with one , you could always get the other !

 

[Roscobbc]

Irrespective of the fact that the car 'action' in Bullitt perhaps looks a little 'cheesy' to some with 'todays eyes', and despite the questionable dubbed sound effects it is still a landmark film in terms of car action. The 'reality' of the car action was perhaps was equalled back in the day by other films but has never been improved upon IMHO. All of the modern car action films are total, unrealistic and pathetic fantasty. Watch Bullitt on a large screen cinema or TV screen and your stomach still turns over when the cars go over the hills in San Francisco. Can't be many any other film that have that effect. Seven Ups had the same team trying more or less the same formula but with boring cars instead and a different ending

 

[Chuffer]

Totally agree with you about modern car chase films being OTT and unrealistic . Bullitt era films worked because they had real cars on real streets driven by real drivers and didn`t rely on CGI to over egg everything .

 

[Vetman]

My old, stolen 1968 Mustang GT 390.

 

[Roscobbc]

Those 'period' exhausts............

 

[Vetman]

The exhausts came with the car, and left the same way.

 

[Nassau65]

Side pipes were all the rage in the mid/late 70’s to early 80’s. fitted to everything. Remember Thrush outsiders. I fitted some to a friends 1600E cortina, he loved them. Only one worked the other was for show. Also fitted them to a Ford Transit. Great memories.

 

[Nassau65]

Anybody remember John Wolfe racing at staples corner, loved it in there.

 

[Nassau65]

Re bullitt, I remember Jackie bissitts little Porsche. Again, worth nothing stateside in 1968, a bloody fortune now.

Re Miss Bissitt, like her more much more in the Deep.

 

[Nick B]

Anybody remember John Wolfe racing at staples corner, loved it in there.

Absolutely, I lived in Mill Hill and had a girlfriend in Kingsbury, I loved that shop!

 

[Roscobbc]

Anybody remember John Wolfe racing at staples corner, loved it in there.

Yes - bought a few items there - didn't last long there though?