Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 11, 2025 ...

(Doing my best to run this thread off the rails)

What's that blue car on the lift, under the tarp?  Perhaps a GM "A" body?

...that would be a 73 B5 Cuda,  Here is our flock.

Beautiful! You could hold your own car show!  In my hobby car days, I could only afford to have one at a time - poverty sucks.

I'm drooling over the Camaro.

Is the '69 a clone or was it a true SS? I know it is not the original hood.

Everyone loves that darn Camaro. They lean against my cars to droll over hers.

If it makes you feel any better, I would walk right past the Camaro with only a casual glance, and then spend the next hour dribbling spittle on your B5 Cuda.  I always loved that color.  In late 1969, the week before I shipped out for SEA, I stepped into a Dodge/Plymouth showroom in Abilene, TX.  They had a B5 Hemi Cuda on display in the middle of the showroom, and I fell instantly in lust.  Couldn't afford it, of course, and anyway no place to store it while I was gone overseas.  But for the next year, that car was a major player in some of my most memorable wet dreams...

I'm drooling over the Camaro.

My ex race cars

So I lived on the dark side once.

OK, you have my curiosity going.... what was under the hood of the Vega?

You want to talk about the "Dark Side"...I was into BUICKS.  My last street/strip car was a '71 Buick Skylark GS (clone).  Pump-gas 468 Buick, manual-shift TH350 with 10" converter (3500rpm stall), 12-bolt 4.11 posi-track.  All the good engine and suspension stuff.  I liked to remove the hood and drive it around town - gave all the ricers a hard time.  It was STRONG off the line and across the intersection!

Jerry Jardine made my exhaust for my 427 installation in my 58' vette in 1967.  Moved the battery to the trunk and the headers were not visible as they did not cut the inner fender.  Stealth car.

2750 pounds and a 57 Pontiac 3:08 rear gears housing.

50 in first. 100 in second.  150 in third.  I stopped at 165 in fourth at 5,700 rpm.

Xrayed race tires.  Body off frame.  Velvet touch metallic brakes