My car has a chambered exhaust system i like the sound it has a real good rumble to it . Usually when i pull in a lot with people in it the older folks will say boy does that sound good and ask what year etc. The other day i pulled in a lot and there was a couple newer cars tricked with kids parked with the stereos blasting . When i got out of the car one of the kids asked me what was wrong with my car does the exhaust have holes in it . I said no just smiled and went on my way , they were gone when i came back out . When i was there age a long time ago when i heard a car like mine i went up to it and wanted to know everything about it . The more it rumbled the more i liked it . And still do .

 

It's not the car, with this bunch, it's the sound system. A rusted out 71 Pinto, with a $1000+ sound system is more interesting to them. Many kids don't have the background, or interest, to understand what you have.

 

A lot of younger people are just never exposed to cars that sound like modified classics. I know for me - long ago before I got into cars, I didn't know any better either. I guess it's just the nature of current times because of how rare V8s are becoming, much less modified V8s. Younger people just aren't getting exposed to it how we all feel they should

 

its not just kids, its general ignorance. There is a guy i work with that is about 10 years my senior, early 50's, has never driven anything over 4-5 years old as long as i have known him.

my car has a rather rough idle with the way it is built, sounds beastly and turns heads wherever it is heard. i started it up for him one day at work and let it idle for a few seconds, his words "sounds like ****, why is it missing"

i shook my head and asked if he ever owned anything with a V8 in his life, he hadn't...

so its not just the kids out there that don't know what the sound of a real car is, just people that haven't been exposed to it.

 

Its just different priorities, for them all they cared about was stereos , for others its how big is their wing, how narrow of a tire can they stretch on a wheel, how high or low it sits, how big their wheels are, or how much their wheels point at the sky like satellite dishes. The crowds being loud with stereos or revving the **** out of the engines in parking lots are the wrong type of people. The people you are talking about meet at the track or remote parking lot locations, to avoid drawing attention to themselves, for spirited driving comparisons. Just have to know when and where to look.

 

Several years ago I pulled into a gas station with my '63 convert. a kid in his teens or early 20's come over and say "Wow man, nice car, this must be like a 1935 or something right?" I just looked at him, grinned and said "Yeah, you guessed it"

 

You need a blow off valve to impress kids nowadays. They have no idea what a 3/4 race cam is or what it sounds like.

 

I have young people commenting positively on my car and the way it sounds almost every time I drive it. America sounds like it's in a sad state, still plenty of young v8 lovers here... The 'tuner types' still appreciate it too (as I appreciate their cars - maybe that's the problem). I encountered some "kids with newer cars with stereos" who asked me to give it a rev as I drove past them in a carpark last week.

 

I know what you mean by 3/4 race cam but find the notion of it as ridiculous as an RV cam. Everyone will tell you they have one of the above but no idea of the specs on them. I always chalked it up to someone that didnt know what they were talking about and trying to impress someone.

 

I know what "3/4 race cam'' meant and how it was used back in the late 70's...and it makes me laugh my backside off when I hear it today.

My friends back in the day would constantly say that. Like it really made them seem like they know what they had...and some had a ''full race cam''.

DUB

 

Go ahead and shoot me but for the time to and from the office in heavy traffic, it would be nice to have the new Tesla like self driving capability if the C9 is your daily.

 

Virtually every time I get gas someone will approach me and I rarely mind (there are nitwits out there). Last year a young man with one of the newer Camaros came over and I surprised him - the night before I had seen a 'How Its Made' episode and it was about that car. I knew it was epoxied together in two halves, some other minor details so I actually had something intelligent to say and he was delighted. He did ask about the 'vette and appeared to have some knowledge.

Its fair to say if you want them to be interested in what you have then take some time to at least be familiar with what they have.

I worked with a young guy who has some sort of turbo Honda thing. His big problem wasn't the technology it was basic skills - I gave him a multimeter and taught him how to use it and to my surprise he did ! Some things don't change.

Once I was with my brother right after I bought my 69 and it went down in a bank of smoke, looked like Snoopy just shot me down. Stuck float, I forget what else, gas everywhere so I pulled into the nearest parking lot - a strip club no less. I ripped the hood open and my brother was standing there with a fire extinguisher. We were both sort of shaking for a minute when some doofy kid comes over with the weed whacker he'd been using and was all over it oblivious to what was happening, wanted to know how much horsepower it had, how many camshafts

My nephew's a 20 y/o 'car guy' it just looks different. In his case its all Mopar and SCAT pack and I have no idea what the hell I am looking at but I can lean over the fender and look like Gandalf or something and try to see what he's so ON about. Maybe I'm missing something ..............

Face it, in 1975 if someone showed you their 50-60 year old gadget how would you view it?

 

these days the cars have sensors that will stop the car from working if you modify it, so modifying cars is a dying sport.

 

These days all the kids want to hear is a swarm of mosquitoes going down the road with some BS flame thrower shooting out the back😂

 

Being an older adult I often wonder what will happen to my favorite toy after I am gone. I have a 1968 C3 which has a L88 Clone engine in it currently and it is not an engine for a newbie.

I have two kids and they are both Engineers. My Daughter is an Aerospace Engineer and has asked for my 1968 C3 after I am gone. Fewer people know how to drive a muscle this day and age. With ZERO Nannies in it the C3 with L88 power can get out of control very easily if you are not aware.

I have asked that my daughter take a Performance Driving Class before she take possession of the Corvette. I want her to be able to handle the power safely and if her Husband wants to drive the car he should take the driving class as well.

Should I remove the compression and cam and return it to a nice normal 10-1 or 11-1 compression ratio before gifting the car? I don't want my daughter to hurt herself in my toy.....

 

Let's be teachers....or how to revive a 9 year old post!