The Littleton Cruise is proud to be the hosting Car Club for the first ever St. Patrick's Brewery Classic Car & Rod Show!
The show will be held in the main parking lot of St. Patrick's Brewing located at 2842 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton, CO 80120 (Next To Lucille's Creole Cafe - Littleton), on Sunday, October 9, 2016, from 2 PM to 5PM. St. Patrick's Brewing will be offering an exclusive 10% OFF* your purchase inside the brewery for all show participants who bring a Hot Rod, Vintage or Classic ride. Entry is FREE and Attendance is ENCOURAGED! We hope to see you this October! Have a question or need more info? >>CLICK HERE to Contact Us. *Littleton Cruise does NOT encourage or support drinking and driving. Littleton Cruise is NOT affiliated with or does it sell, serve or provide alcoholic beverages of any kind to participants or attendees on its behalf.
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The power and sex appeal that literally drove America car crazy.The North American muscle cars came to life in 1964 to fuel the need of speed-minded youth who seemed to have the money to match their desire for automobiles with large capacity engines and a high-horsepower output.
If we look back in time, excluding the very expensive, hand-built and fast European sports cars that were available in the North American marketplace, the new muscle cars as they were called were truly the supercars of the day. The engineers at Ford had recognized this new market and were busy developing the Ford Mustang, a redesign of the compact Ford Falcon. Over at Pontiac, Russell Gee, Bill Collins and Pontiac’s chief engineer John DeLorean were defying GMs new policy of limiting their A-body intermediate cars to an engine no larger than 330 cu. in. They were secretly fitting a 389 cu. in. engine into the redesigned Pontiac Super Tempest. In their eyes the GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato) would be merely an option package; they could use that loophole to defy the corporate edict and, surprisingly, they got away with it! At General Motors’ Chevrolet division, the engineers had been working on the first generation Chevelle, which was intended to compete with the similar sized Ford Fairlane. The Chevy engineers decided to toe the line and not upset the top brass, unlike their corporate cousins at Pontiac, so for the time being the largest engine available in the 1964 Chevelle was a 327 cu. in. V8. That all changed in 1965 when the gloves came off and the muscle car battle broke out; the Chevelle Malibu SS of that year was available with a 396 cu. in. engine. With the help of a new customer, I discovered that between the end of January and early March 1964, it was possible to order an RPO (Regular Production Order) L76 optioned Chevelle fitted with a 327 cu. in., 365-horsepower Corvette engine and the new Muncie four-speed gearbox which could handle the power and much more. Only a handful of orders were completed and today these cars are as rare as hen’s teeth! The 2017 Ford Mustang GT350 will come with track pack as standard.,
Posh dampers, a spoiler and new colours for updated 'Stang Ford has announced a few upgrades for the 2017 edition Ford Mustang GT350. You know the one - flat-plane crank, 5.2-litre V8 (codenamed Voodoo, no less), 526bhp and 429lb ft of torque. Then there’s the 8,250rpm rev limit. What you now get as standard in the new Mustang GT350 then, is the ‘Track Pack’, which adds Ford’s ‘Magneride’ adaptive dampers, an aluminium tower-to-tower brace, and additional cooling for the engine oil, transmission and differential. There’s also the extremely important addition of the ‘high-downforce’ bootlid spoiler which, though not as amazing as the GT350R’s rear deck, still looks good. There are of course, other things. Three new colours - red, ‘lightning’ blue and the excellently named ‘grabber’ blue - and two new options packs. The first is an electronics kit which adds voice-activated sat nav and nine-speakers for the audio. The second is a ‘convenience’ pack, which replaces the standard seats with leather Recaros. Related content “Ford Performance is always listening to customer feedback,” explains Ford Performance’s global director, Dave Pericak. “At the end of last year we started offering a back seat option for Shelby GT350R due to customer demand. Now, we have adjusted the packages available to continue to provide more of what customers want on the Shelby GT350 Mustang.” Prices have yet to be announced. We’ve included some pictures of the rather excellent GT350R in the gallery above too, because it’s, well, rather excellent. |
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