Why are we all Nutz........

[turbomangt]

about this car? Speaking for myself, I was a part of the Muscle car/hot rod generation. I got my drivers license when the ever popular Skips drive in was the hot place to hang out. At 16, I bought a 69 SS 396 Chevelle/ bored out 427 solid lifters/cam/ hurst ****er/ and the limited production 400 transmission, which GM made less than 500 units of. We would hang at skips for hours, watching Hemi Road Runners/ Challengers/ Super B's/ RT's/ Camero's/ Nova's/ other hot rides. My friend had a GTX Hemi, and could lift the front wheels off the ground. Those were the days. I remember blowing the doors off the 440 Magnum Charger and having people tell me I had flames coming from my lake pipes. My car would give you wip lash when it shifted gears, similar to a rocket experience. But those days are gone. Now, with my Cruiser, sometimes I find myself back there, even if for an instant. This car has just enough retro to relive the old times. The times when customizing a car was part of our life. Perhaps that why I'm a little obcessed about my GT Turbo. This is the first car (since my Chevelle) I ever got excited over. Maybe when my kids are older, and I'm in a wheel car, they will have their own hot car, and they will tell stories about their Dad's Cruiser. If I'm smart enough, I'll hang on to it. Gary

[CREWZIN]

Gary,

"Your preaching to the quire" as they say. We wouldn't be here or even have this forum if there wasn't a passion for this car. Come to think of it, I'd be a whole lot richer if I hadn't joined all these forums and seen what could be done with out PTs. I still would have bought the car, paid the premium [xx(] and been pleased as punch to own it...but it probably would have stayed somewhat stock in appearence.

[turbomangt]

Crewzin, I can't wait to see your car and meet you when I'm in Florida in a couple of weeks, Gary

[KingKole02]

When I get in the PT to clean the inside windows and sit in the rest of the car, I feel as if Im in an old gangster mobile, like Bonnie and Clede. That is a good feeling.

My PT isn't nearly as special as CREWZIN's but to each his own, and to me it is special and my little hobby, or should I say big hobby, just got my credit card statment. [:0]

[2sb]

The days may be gone....but the cars aren't. You just drop the CR to 9:1 and add valve seats. I'm currently trying hard to resist the urge to get chrome headers for my baby hemi. They'll hurt performance, be noisey, be a maintainence pain, and not even be visible in the truck....but they're so purrrtty! And I saw a Hilborn stack injection using electronic injectors for only $4800.[}]

[DREAM2]

I thought it was bad enough when I had my Jeep. I bought my DC2 thinking "what more do I need to do, it's decked out already?". Two days after taking delivery of the Cruiser, a catalog came in the mail. My wife just looked at me and said " you've got to be kidding". Let the games begin - again!

[Hooligan]

Just finished putting "chrome strip molding" on my grille. Just a little more "bling-bling"!!

[Jimbo]

Dream2, I know what you mean. I just got my credit card
statement in the mail.Wow though mods really add up.Good
news though,there not maxed out yet![}]

[Blade]

When I was 18 I bought my first rod, it was a 68 Dodge Coronet R/T 440 6 Pack...I loved that car, I had 2 cousins that had a 67 GTX 440 and the other had a 68 Roadrunner 383, those were the days![8)]
I've been a big Chrysler fan since then (even through the late 70's and early 80's)
Finally I think Chrysler is back on track again. Sure love my PT[|)]

[quicksilverdon]

I had only foreign cars from my first in 1970 (1966 Porsche 912 5-speed) until I got a new '85 Dodge Caravan to replace Volvo wagon. For many years only foreign cars had engineering advances - overhead cams, fuel injection, disc brakes, independent suspension, etc., on cars I could afford. I feel American cars are now on a par worldwide, and I prefer to buy American (okay, North American).