Dumb question, but why pre-65?

So where does that leave all of the Super Stock Drag Cars? Which by the way were the absolute biggest draw in Drag racing in the 60's.

 

How many of 'em lined up in dealer stock?

 

Well only the bear minimum of 100 needed to be built in order to qualify for S/S Drag Racing...But I just wanted to make sure those werent being lumped into the "Muscle Car" Batch of Brand X Chevelles,Camaros,Novas,Mustangs, etc etc...

 

Because it's the year I graduated from High School......

 

cause we dont like the Camaro, Firebird,Chevelle, ect. muscle car, mullet wearing, sister screwing, coors drinking interbreds around here!!!!!!

 

Traditional guys, "BUILDING" traditional hot rods. Not buying hot rods. Cutoff in my opinion should be pre-64.

 

Mandated since 1964.They came as an option in 1963,but not mandatory.

 

Shit, I screwed your sister one time and you never got over it. LOL

 

Why not?

 

Dammit, that made Diet Coke come out my nose!

And nothin' beats a refreshing tall boy of Coors Original when you need beer and can only muster up $1.37.

 

Better check that again... my '65 Rambler did not come with seat belts. never had to have them.

 

Ryan is the man that started the H.A.M.B. so what ever rules he wants to make is fine with me .

Now pass the popcorn & beer , it's going to be a long night !

 

Basically its for "Traditional Built Rods and Kustoms" There are tons of Muscle Car boards out there for the catalog rodders to hang out on and talk about their 20" Bling Wheels.

 

Why is it the "newbs" always come and ask the same stuff?

Why is....
How much....

and I just made some popcorn. The traditional way, in a pot with oil and corn kernels.

 

Come to California,instant ticket

 

they made cars after 1964?

 

Actually,my '63 Cadillac can be locked without using the key.All I have to do is push the lock down,hold the handle button in and close the door,and viola,it's locked.

 

Where do you think Ford got the idea ... Needless to say, my Galaxie is never locked (and I thought it was just broken, LOL! I spent like 3 hours trying to "fix" it before my friends dad broke the news to me...).

Ford: Making the biggest shitbag locks for over 50 years! We build 'em to suck, and we ain't stoppin' til theres a lawsuit!

 

The best answer yet.....

 

no thanks... I'd rather stay in North Carolina. But if you're gonna spout off facts get them right. "By 1964, Most U.S. automobiles were sold with standard front seat belts; rear seat belts were made standard in 1968."
And that includes California. A car that did not come with them is not required to have them.

 

I think it's because www.pre66.com is already taken...
(sorry, just spamming my shit a bit before this one gets locked, moved or vaporized into cyberspace)

 

Actually it's because cars with curved side glass look stupid with wide whites, and the way the air flow is inside the cabin of anything with them messes up a Pompadour.

 

it is what it is!

 

No real cutoff. If there was why was there a 1969 drag racing post on the Jalopy Journal, by Ryan, last week? Wake up and read.

 

The Pony Car era actually started in the '50s with the Lowes Coupe. Pony cars were built to compete with the European Sports car market. The Corvair was actually considered to be a pony car.

Sorry to cause any consternation I did a major essay on Pony cars when I was still in school. Lots of research and kickin' a few old cows.

'64 is just a good cutoff date. Maybe it could have been '63 and a half or first mont of '65.

 

So, why are they called Pony Cars? I thought the name was based on the Mustang.
As far as the 64 cutoff, Ryan didn't come up with the date out of thin air, it's a pretty standard cutoff date that has been used by lots of organizations.
Larry T

 

Shit !!! I wondered how she ended up with that waterheaded, tatertot eating kidlet!!!!

 

HELLO!!!!! It has something to do with dryer sheets.
Come on get right....

 

you might be wrong on the parking/headlight thing.....Chevy trucks parking lights turn off when headlights are on thru 66
but I would agree on the consensus of the muscle car year been 65-6 the start of a new era.....

 

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I have 2 tickets for no seat belts, both from different states. Got em' in a 62 Nova, pulled the carpet back and showed the kind officers that there are no holes for the bolts for seat belts. Got basically the same answer from both kind officers - "the law states you are to where a seatbelt". So you can argue with the nice officer all day on mandates and what year the cutoff was and you could even change the subject of the thread and start talking about your nonstock dual exhaust that is louder than it should be. Bottum line is, if the kind officer wants to give you a ticket a ticket you will get.....