My "performance" car was a Beetle with 87's and dual, single-throat Webers. That means the stock 1600 was only1649cc's, approximately. It was well balanced; I cc'd each cyl head, rods/pistons ground to within 0.2 - 0.5 grams of each other, and compression set at 8.7:1. It was smooth, responsive, and the only improvements I could have made would have been a longer intake stack... It would go over 100 and still got 31 mpg. I inadvertently "dusted" a Mitsubishi with 142 hp one day and he saw me and knew the car a year later. He declared that the engine contained therein was not a stock one and proceeded to tell me about when he couldn't overcome my Beetle with his 142 horse steed...It was a "sleeper. " By that, I mean it appeared to be kinda beat up and tired - looking. But I could pop the clutch and bring the front wheels off the ground, if I wanted to. Just momentarily. It didn't have that much power. I got rear - ended, which totalled the car and damaged the pulley and distributor, but not the engine. I sold the engine for what I had paid for the car, and the guy's insurance gave me $790 for the car itself. And I kept the car. Back then, it was cheap to build Beetle engines, even performance engines. My last one was a Super Beetle, a '71. Its engine was in its death throes when I bought it, so I got it for only $250: no rust, freshly painted, good front end. Of course I put my own engine in it, wound up selling the engine before building another; then had a son come along and stored it. The fellow managing the storage place stole it along with another guy's Jeep. We didn't know and neither did the owner. He was embezzling, had a "ghost employee," and was stealing. He sold the contents of someone's locker before the auction, the guy came in and wanted to pay, and his stuff was already gone. That was the manager's undoing. He got fired, of course, had to do some time as well, and pay back $30,000. I've seen a few Harley - type trikes with VW engines in them down here. Never made one myself. Wouldn't do that to a Honda, though...
Stanley ________________________________ From: Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2009 8:35:14 AM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: I have a '70 Super Bee tucked away...383 slapstick auto. SHHH...don't tell! I bought a '72 Pontiac Tempest and it ended up having a 442 under the hood. I went out to the desert to buy a '64 El Camino and that Tempest was next to it. The fella said $200.00 for the El Camino (no motor) and for $300.00 for the Pontiacyou can drive that one home. He told me that it had a Pontiac 350 but I didn't look. While driving it home I could tell that was no 350! Don't you love these old timer stories? That was a long time ago. I still have the Pontiac. HotrodMamma. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Hammerl To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:05 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: I always liked my performance cars a little plush. OR, pure RUSH ! So, along with the GS, GN I could get next to a Dodge Hemi Super Bee (68) the rear windows don't even roll down. We had a 74 442 / 455 but it was repainted blue (original white with black skirt stripe) And the 455 was a low-output. 8000 gallon oil truck got that while it was parked. My favorite GTO is the 64 sedan. (full doors) A friend had one and it went down to a plow truck in a snow storm. Last year at the local car show (Magungie PA) there was the most beautiful 62 Dodge Coronet 2 dr 413... to die for. Bars cranked up and all... --- On Fri, 4/3/09, Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> wrote: From: Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: To: [email protected] Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:45 PM I'm not much into Buicks. I'm a Pontiac-Chevy-Mopar sort of girl. Bob and I are putting a front clip on my '69 Chevelle this weekend. I got 2 GTO's, a Charger, 2 El Caminos and more. Car rich, money poor. You know the story. I bought 'em when they were cheap and have been playing with them ever since. Yeah...I would need to know what "T.L.C." means on that 550. After all of the work that I've had to do to my 650 I'm a bit put off by more work on another hawk unless the price is right. I'm off on a ride with my club tomorrow! I'm going to bundle up and be out of here by 9:00 or so. HotrodMamma. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Hammerl To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:24 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: I'm thinkin'... take your truck and 3~4 hundred. If it hasn't run in years, you've got a big job ahead. Add up two tires, battery, carb and caliper work, fork seals. It's a rare find, but not gold. Haggle and settle. In your collection, do you have a Buick GS or GN ? --- On Fri, 4/3/09, Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> wrote: From: Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: To: [email protected] Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 6:23 PM I'm in a perfect state of mind to go and ride that thing home! He just won't tell me what he REALLY wants for it Kyle.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Kyle Munz To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:18 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: You're the what? ;) -Kyle On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> wrote: That's closer to ME y'all! I'm in Idaho..... ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin mcqueen To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:48 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: That's fine not a problem. --- On Fri, 4/3/09, Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: To: [email protected] Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 11:45 AM Kevin, I put your pictures on my website: http://members.uplogon.com/kyle/kevin/ Anyone who wants to look at it can go there. If you don't want them there, I'll take them down. -Kyle On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> wrote: > He's in Washington. > > Bit far for me. :-( > > Beautiful bike though. > > - Suomalainen Kyle > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Graham Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: >> send to me too Kyle, Graham ([email protected]) >> On Apr 3, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Kevin mcqueen wrote: >> >> Kyle, can i send you pics and info to your gmail, this says they're too big >> to send, >> >> --- On Fri, 4/3/09, Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:54 AM >> >> >> Shh...I wouldn't mind another 550. Kevin, can I get pics, mileage, >> condition of body panels, and any other issues along with price and >> location? >> >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Kyle Munz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The other Kyle's not so big on TLC ;) >>> >>> -Kyle >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Kevin mcqueen <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thinking of selling my 83 550 nighthawk has 4800 miles just needs some >>>> TLC, any one that might be interested hit me up. >>>> >>>> --- On Fri, 4/3/09, Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> From: Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: *glee* >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:25 AM >>>> >>>> >>>> This one: >>>> >>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=200323953381#ht_500wt_1214 >>>> >>>> And I'm my own boss. Head Technician is an awesome position! I can >>>> lord it over all of (2) other techs. >>>> >>>> wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee >>>> >>>> </sarcasm> >>>> >>>> -Kyle >>>> >>>> >>>> p.s. Someone keeps outbidding me on the right hand 550 side panel. I >>>> hope it's not one of you guys (or ladies.) >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Kyle Munz <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > I miss my old job at the data center for that reason. It's hard to get >>>> > sniped when you're sitting on redundant 10gbit connections to the >>>> > internet >>>> > and have no boss to see you wasting time on eBay ;) Congrats on the >>>> > tank, is >>>> > this the one that was slightly rusty? >>>> > >>>> > -Kyle >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Kyle K.K. <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> I just won a gas tank on Ebay. :-D >>>> >> >>>> >> One step to fixing the bike down, a whole bunch more to go. >>>> >> >>>> >> And someone tried to snipe me too. Glad I'm on a DS3 connection. Makes >>>> >> bidding/refreshing faster in those previous final few seconds. :-D >>>> >> >>>> >> -Kyle >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > > >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> > >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
