Newbie - My first car!

[eureko]

Hi guests. Newbie here. Just joined today

You always remember your FIRST auto isn't it... mine was a hand-me-down from my mother... her '67 Park Lane. This car was a BEAST... a TANK... a BOAT! Yeah whatever. Big and green like the Hulk. The hood was about 4 foot in length, as well as the trunk. You could easily fit 4 to 6 people in the trunk... great for sneaking people into drive-ins. This hoss had an enormous engine... the Mercury 410 Intercept. It was fast!

It got it's police intercept rating from it's high compression ratio, 13:1 (most cars are 6-9:1). It also really pumped gas into it... it had a Holly 650 4-barrel dual-pump carb. It basically poured gas into the engine . If I didn't use high-octane gasoline the engine would really pop... so high-grade leaded gas it was!

I think that when this car was made it was a very high end luxury car... it had everything... 4 power windows, wing-wings, bench seats with 6 way power, power steering, power brakes, pleather interior, and air conditioning. Doesn't seem like much to today's standards, but I have never seen another car that old that had all of those amenities. All four corners were dented...

some worse than others but all four had some type of damage (none of which were inflicted during my ownership of the car!). The padded vinyl top was gone. Just remnants of glue that once held it on and a few spots of "fuzz". Also... the most annoying thing was the headliner was sagging. I got pissed one day from it falling on my head all of the time and just ripped it all out. I would take this car everywhere... I used to take it out to the desert and lake Mead and use it as if it were a 4x4. Me and a bunch of friends would pile in, throw some wood pallets into the trunk and find some secluded spot to have a bonfire party.

I think I took it some places that were never seen by man before. And the speed was unbelievable! This 2 ton machine would get up and go! I gave many a person a headache by whipping their head back against the rear deck. It did great both from the line and once you got really movin'. During normal use, the Holly carb would only use two barrels, but when you hit 60-80 MPH with the pedal down, the 2 additional barrels would open up.

The engine would suddenly go quiet, and the car felt like you were off of the ground. It was a real surreal feeling... most car engines would be roaring loudly... but for some reason at high speeds this one would get silent. The speedometer went up to 120MPH... it would stop then. I think I got it up to about 140. This was definitely the fastest car that I ever owned.