I got my Truckmount that would get me out of the Porty mode.
7 years ago today
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hogjowl
Idiot™
Have you always been a rebel?
Kenny Hayes
Member
And you’ve been going to meetings ever since.
Steve Lawrence
Member
Which TM is that? BTW, congrats, big boy!
That was my Amtex Dragon 30/47. Diesel 360k BTU burner. It will cook your ankles in nothing flat. I have stories.
Steve Lawrence
Member
30 hp, 47 blower? Nice!
Yes. It was a wild ride. Got an 870 now.
F
FB7777
Guest
Friend had one in high school that was a badass car back in the day
don’t listen to Matt short Wood, his friends drove Pintos and Opels
Mikey P
Administrator
I was scared of the "Grouchy guy from Santa Cruz"
Kenny Hayes
Member
Please don’t embarrass all of us here by dragging that POS home and trying to make us believe it’s the deal of the lifetime
Please don’t give that Idiot (present owner) the pleasure of saying, “I knew carpet cleaners are idiots.”
Dolly Llama
Number 5
My brother had two new ones
'74 w/455 and '78 w/400
Pretty badazz back in the day
I had a dUdge Omni
.L.T.A.
Cleanworks
Moderator
If you had the Shelby Omni with the turbo, it would leave both of those in the dust.My brother had two new ones
'74 w/455 and '78 w/400
Pretty badazz back in the day
I had a dUdge Omni
.L.T.A.
Kenny Hayes
Member
My brother had one too. Brown, with the big eagle on it. Eagle emblazoned on the seats. He had it all.
Planes, trains ( I mean motorcycles and boats), automobiles.
Planes, trains ( I mean motorcycles and boats), automobiles.
Dodge omni was my first car. Loved that thing.
I've been looking for a Shelby Omni glh. The non turbo 2.2 was pretty quick but with the Garrett turbo it Goes Like Hell. Hence the glh. Shelby had a few that he made even faster but very expensive.
The 1.7 Volkswagen motor was a useless pos. Head rebuild every 30 k. I had one with the vw motor that I swapped out for a 2.2. A major pain in the ass to swap.
Willy knows omnis
Dolly Llama
Number 5
this thing?
I'd take that bet it wouldn't (assumes equally capable drivers behind the wheel)
I built them
Bought an '84 brand new Charger 2+2
friend at the shop had the Shelby.
It was peppy and sticky, but a pretender compared to GM's F-body muscle variants and Ford's Fox body 5.0 'Stangs
It was falling apart and a rattle trap at 20-30K miles (most were)
He dumped it at 40K miles
mine went 125k miles before I sold it .
CV-joint crapped at 40k was only semi-major repair.
the "2-2" package option gave it racing stripes and low-profile sticky Goodyears over the standard.
but it was nothing more than a sporty looking bee-bop mobile .
which was fine for that
butt....certainly not a platform to build a "real" performance muscle car on
It was a "fake" sports car
..L.T.A.
Mikey P
Administrator
Mikey P
Administrator
Same
FredC
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This
Shelby GLH-S - Wikipedia
I had an ugly ass brown Omni for a bit........grew to love the thing
no not nice
That orange time bomb was like a 454 big block engine powering a kid's go cart with the same size chain of a 5hp. Total disaster
This
Shelby GLH-S - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I had an ugly ass brown Omni for a bit........grew to love the thing
Thats what Im talking about. The GLHS was a limited edition that Carrol Shelby built without Dodge.
Dolly Llama
Number 5
f'n canadians....
did any of you Omni sedan loverboys own one subjected to cold winter temps?
Door latches that would open, but not latch shut was common and ubiquitous til the cabin warmed up
Most of the other latch hardware (hood, hatchback ) was crap too.
Made 'em all at Chrysler Twinsburg Stamping in a section called the "toy factory" .
a cherry job, not only because the parts were tiny and light and you sat down at turn table
but most of all, you could run an hour's production numbers in 20 minutes ...meaning you hump for 3 1/2 hours and done to dikoff, sleep, get drunk or leave at lunch time for the day
side note;
the guys that left for the day at lunch (verboden BTW) paid a weekly fee to a guy that would punch out your time card at the end of shift.
Some of those card punchers made a tidy sum every week as they had 20-30 "clients" deep list they punched out every day
one thing not in question, Lee Iacocca is credited with (and should be) for saving Chrysler.
Making transverse mounted engines and FWD the standard to follow as well as his great marketing skills of "America's car" the K-car .
and lastly, an out of the park grand slam with the minivan
..L.T.A.
did any of you Omni sedan loverboys own one subjected to cold winter temps?
Door latches that would open, but not latch shut was common and ubiquitous til the cabin warmed up
Most of the other latch hardware (hood, hatchback ) was crap too.
Made 'em all at Chrysler Twinsburg Stamping in a section called the "toy factory" .
a cherry job, not only because the parts were tiny and light and you sat down at turn table
but most of all, you could run an hour's production numbers in 20 minutes ...meaning you hump for 3 1/2 hours and done to dikoff, sleep, get drunk or leave at lunch time for the day
side note;
the guys that left for the day at lunch (verboden BTW) paid a weekly fee to a guy that would punch out your time card at the end of shift.
Some of those card punchers made a tidy sum every week as they had 20-30 "clients" deep list they punched out every day
one thing not in question, Lee Iacocca is credited with (and should be) for saving Chrysler.
Making transverse mounted engines and FWD the standard to follow as well as his great marketing skills of "America's car" the K-car .
and lastly, an out of the park grand slam with the minivan
..L.T.A.
hogjowl
Idiot™
Good lord that was long
Soooooo - you like the fact that the ugly little ducking was a fast little fox that kicked the ponies azz?
Dolly Llama
Number 5
that thing?
Ron, you think that would blow away a Z-28 or TA and the 5.0 stang in a road race ?
or even light to light on the boulevard for that matter....
like said ....f'n Canadians......
..L.T.A.
Dolly Llama
Number 5
Better hope I don't ever GAS enough to learn how to do vids.
Or I'd demonstrate how to make Mickey Mouse pancakes
..L.T.A.
