C6 Snowboarder

no valve job here yet Bill... but if a tick sound in my motor is a mile - I have about 376,272,000 miles on this old guys "motor"

As one of our hero's from yesteryear said "Happy Trails to You!"

orca1946

Yeah - 56 ford with hard to push brakes & hard to steer at low speed & cheap gas to refill dad's car.

joeking

I don't remember Corvette's as being called plastic pigs either.

Flame Red

Yeah, I remember buying gasoline at 29 cents a gallon, and the gas was available at 104 octane straight from the pump. Let us thank the Federal Reserve for devaluating the $.

69 L46 4 Speed

Never heard the "Plastic Pig" moniker before. Stovebolt most definately. Rebuilt a couple of those back in the late 60's and raced one in a 27 T Altered at Pocono Drag Lodge in 1969 and 1970. My 63 Impala SS 4 speed convertible and my 70 Nova SS 4 speed lived on Sunoco 260. I consider myself fortunate to still have all of my mostly working parts even after 22 years in the Army and then another 20 years in law enforcement. Retirement really is great. If anyone ever says retirement isn't what it's cracked up to be, they aren't doing it right.

I have driven a car with mechanical brakes, a 1923 Model T Touring Car. You have to push really hard but the good thing is that you don't get to go really fast either. As for non power brakes, the 69 Corvette Roadster was non power and my wife's 69 Camaro SS is non power 4 wheel disc.

boraxman

Never heard that term myself/

Johnathon59

I remember when you can pull into a station & just put two bucks in & you would be good for the weekend

hrt vlv

YES, and that too!

Cybernetic Medic

I remember that too. Of course I also remember my first job in high school where I made $1.25 / hr. And I even remember when new vettes stickered for under $5k.

... Now if I could just remember where I set stuff down five minutes ago I'd be doing good.

ZR1Cat

Definitely, I learned how to drive in a 1964 Chevy long bed pick-up truck with a 6 cylinder stove bolt engine and a 'three on the tree' shifter. It had a wooden bed and 4.11 gears. It ran like stink up to 50 mph then it ran out of rpms and just made engine noise. I regret I have no pics of that truck to share.

Boomer111

New term for me too. 1948 born date. First job in HS was 90 cents hour at a 76 gas station.

PA_BLUE_C6

I did not file my rods, but I knurled pistons to subdue some piston slap. Is that the idea behind filing rods?

C6 Snowboarder

not really -- you'd take the Rod Bearing Cap off -- put it in a vise and use a very large file and take off a bit of material equally from both flat faces where the cap bolt hole is ... then take the filed rod cap and crawl back under the car - install the cap - tighten and see how the rod slop is. still a little sloppy?-- take it off and repeat the process. best fit if I remember was once tight if you'd tap the cap back n forth with the hammer handle and it moved -- it was just right.. if you could move it back n forth by hand it was too loose. You always new you did a good job if it sounds good when you started it up and you did not have to use any shims cuz you took off too much material.

Nice thing is you could do all rods without removing the motor. same for the main bearings but Rods were more of the problem back then.

miss the good ole days when this how you kept your car running. between that and riveting brake shoes, honing cylinder walls with an electric drill, filling points, and using a timing light, rebuilding carburetors - one could run all week and work on it again for your Saturday night date.

RJRSW

I bought my first vette when I was 17 in the early 1960's and have been driving them ever since, now on my 25th vette but never heard the term plastic pig until today.

Blazin383

Never heard the term, but when I hear it it makes me think of most C3 vintage vettes. (I apologize to 70s vintage owners). They are the only vettes in my opinion that fit that description and he only years that I have no interest in owning.

Walt White Coupe

In the 50's any car with a straight 6 (the only kind that was made) was called a "pig". Even my mother called our 50 Chrysler "the Pig".

How about when McDonalds first opened and a hamburger was 11 cents.

rsparks64

I think you are having a senior moment. I bought my first vette in 1971 and I do not recall ever hearing that term.

TxLefty

Called a really nice 67 427 a Plastic POS, one night while trying to get him into race. I almost regret that now. Didn't hear Plastic Pig, but there was a lot of stuff that we didn't hear about in South Texas.

J Vette

A senior moment is having a Schlitz banner under your moniker. Geez man. Have you no shame?
Ahhh well, it could have been Pabst or Ballentine I suppose..................all of which I have partaken....................but I usually don't say so in public...

csnow

I was feeling old at the gym this morning. Reading this thread makes me feel a lot younger compared to yall