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    Remember Snake and Mongoose.
    Saw them race back in early 70's at the Dallas International Motor Speedway just east of Lewisville. Man it was awesome! Mattel had so much stuff set up at the track really promoting the Snake/Mongoose Hot Wheels sets. You've never had a whooping until your momma has beat you with a yellow section of hot wheels track. That shit hurt!
     

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    Funny looking back now how little power they actually had, in these days of 400 hp sedans. A neighbor has one of the DPS notchbacks. 5 speed manual and heavy duty everything.
    A lot less power @ 225 gross, but also a LOT less weight. My LX hatchback (the only one I ever put on the scale) was 3105 lbs. Before I started modifying, I ran a 12.84 on street tires. Never did put it down the track after heads, cam, intake, MAF, tune, gears, axles, tires and nitrous but it ran ok.

    Wish I would have finished it up before I sold it as a roller, but I was working on a pretty stout ex Kentucky DPS notchback project. Gutted it down to the bare body. Patched all the holes and had it painted, welded in a Wolfe thru-floor subframe kit, 6 point roll bar, smoothed everything under the hood, tubular AJE K-member, etc. Oh and a turbocharged forged 5.7L LS1 setup ;)

    I still like Foxes, wouldn't mind another. I think I've had 5 so far.
     

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    My uncle "Carl" bought a brand new "Gentleman Jim" back in 1975 when they came out, after it sat on the lot of the local Pontiac/GMC/Oldsmobile dealership for several months and hadn't sold and got a huge discount on the price.

    They were half ton GMC Sierra's with all the available options, and painted black and gold with lots of gold trim, and "Gentleman Jim" in gold decals on the rear bedsides. I know the truck quite well since I drove it quite a bit running parts at my uncle's shop when I worked for him while still in high school.

    Never new how scarce these trucks were until many years later, when my stepmother's younger brother found the one my uncle had owned many years earlier and got it back to being road worthy.

    From all the information I have found, they were only made one year, (1975) and they offered the "Gentleman Jim" and the blue and silver "Beau James" through GMC dealers. About 2500 "Gentleman Jim" and about 4000 "Beau James" trucks were made from what I have gathered.
     

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    From my local NAPA auto parts calendar.

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    I think you hit all the points, I'll add that some cars are just timeless designs, they don't look dated as the years roll by.

    Just a few of my favorites, I think I could fill this entire forum with car porn, lol. I'm admittedly biased toward Chevrolet, love them all though.

    Ferrari GTO
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    Any tri-five Chevy.
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    E-type Jags.
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    67-68-69-70 Camaro.
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    The entire 911 series.
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    The 67 Chevelle, I just adore this car.
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    One of the most iconic race cars of all time, the sound of which is unparalleled in my opinion. The Porsche 917K.
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    BMW 3 series, the older ones are just beauties.
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    The small block Chevy powered Lola T-70. Modern carbon fiber and plastic race cars just can't hold a candle to vintage race cars that were hand made. I'll quit now before I blow up the thread, lol. I didn't even get to the open wheel cars.
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    67 Chevelle is also my favorite year. 56 is my favorite tri five.

    Also wanted one of these when I was a kid
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    The cop car Mustangs were not really that much higher in horsepower than the civilian Mustangs, (maybe 10 to 15 more.) but where they shined was upgraded cooling, braking, suspension and electrical systems. They usually took a stripped LX since they knew they were going to add weight from all the police equipment. With it being a Ford small block, they also were very easily upgraded for more horsepower.
     

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    The cop car Mustangs were not really that much higher in horsepower than the civilian Mustangs, (maybe 10 to 15 more.) but where they shined was upgraded cooling, braking, suspension and electrical systems. They usually took a stripped LX since they knew they were going to add weight from all the police equipment. With it being a Ford small block, they also were very easily upgraded for more horsepower.
    None were factory performance modified that I'm aware of. Upgrades were more for endurance/longevity or equipment needs.

     

    Axxe55

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    None were factory performance modified that I'm aware of. Upgrades were more for endurance/longevity or equipment needs.


    An article I read in some car magazine many years ago, they discussed this. From my best recollections of the article, the the change was the camshaft. They changed the camshaft not so much for performance upgrade, but to move the peak torque curve of the engine to make it better suited for police usage. Upside was it did add a few more horsepower to the engine. But essentially, they were stock Ford engines.
     
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