Oldmanvette's Can Am Vette

[oldmanvette1975]

Here are some pictures and a link to a feature that Vette Magazine did on the Vette a few years ago. The Vette Magazine story tell's my entire life story on this car. Here are a few photo's to wet your appetite:

The whole story is located at this link:

My Webpage

[Killiger2009]

wats the dyno on that monster

[oldmanvette1975]

wats the dyno on that monster

It's 500 at the flywheel...

[Killiger2009]

epicism...wat does she run in a 1/4?

[Ringo64]

Oh man I love this car, great article!!! I'm glad your getting the recognition you deserve for that beast!!!

[oldmanvette1975]

epicism...wat does she run in a 1/4?

Upper 11's...About 11.8 on a nice cool night when the tires hook up

[coolmanvette75]

a few from back before most of us were born

circa 1977:

circa 1979:

circa 1981 (current paint job):

just a tap of the gas:

[Jedi3]

I love that old school custom Vette!

Thanks for posting the article!

[oldmanvette1975]

I love that old school custom Vette!

Thanks for posting the article!

YW...Horse Power the old fashioned way

[danmccormick87]

I love this car!!! I'm trying my hardest to convince the wife to let me get one of these for a DD, but she refuses... any advice on this?

[Ghost]

I love this car!!! I'm trying my hardest to convince the wife to let me get one of these for a DD, but she refuses... any advice on this?

new wife? jk.

[danmccormick87]

new wife? jk.

Sometimes it feels that way... paper changes everything

[oldmanvette1975]

A DD??? As long as you can tow a gas tanker behind it. It gets about 6 MPG and has a 13 gallon tank

[[ChaosweaveR]]

A DD??? As long as you can tow a gas tanker behind it. It gets about 6 MPG and has a 13 gallon tank

Lulz. You can go all of, what, 95 miles?

[Roadwarrior]

Your car is gorgeous

[oldmanvette1975]

It's a car show only car and if the show isn't real local, it's a fill up each way of SUNOCO 93 ULTRA $$$$

That's why I have the G6 GXP and the Monte Carlo, for DD's, one for me and one for the wife

[Ringo64]

' date='Mar 13 2010, 09:38 PM' post='17045']

Lulz. You can go all of, what, 95 miles?

On the highway

and hey I was born 8 years after those '81 pictures

What's funny is I was 6 when my Monte Carlo was made Weird to think that 10 years later I would buy it and drive it

[Jedi3]

You know what I find funny about cars like this? In its day some people use to look at it like we look at rice cars today. lol But now its looked at as pure awesomesauce and a true custom car & collector car.

Just a thought and something to think about.

Did I just blow your mind? I think I may have.

[[ChaosweaveR]]

I haz a Grand Am. No collector value in it's future.

[oldmanvette1975]

' date='Mar 13 2010, 10:02 PM' post='17055']

I haz a Grand Am. No collector value in it's future.

I had a 1990 GAGT Quad4 HO with Getrig 5 speed. It had factory 16" wheels. It was a rocket and I wish I still had it. In all the time I've been watching, I've only seen about 5 other 1990 GA's with the HO engine. It was a manual transmission only car so that kept a lot of people away. To bad it ate head gaskets

Your car is gorgeous

THANK YOU...

[[ChaosweaveR]]

I had a 1990 GAGT Quad4 HO with Getrig 5 speed. It had factory 16" wheels. It was a rocket and I wish I still had it. In all the time I've been watching, I've only seen about 5 other 1990 GA's with the HO engine. It was a manual transmission only car so that kept a lot of people away. To bad it ate head gaskets

Really? I saw two on GAOC before dem Canucks banned me.

[oldmanvette1975]

Not many around NY/NJ though....

[[ChaosweaveR]]

Nope. There's maybe only four 3rd gen GA's by me. They're all haggard as all hell.

[oldmanvette1975]

I just noticed , from your signature, that your into heavy metal. Check out my post in the "super touring car" thread, in recent posts with video's of Dan Fastuca.

[Jedi3]

The other day I didn't have time to read the whole article so I printed it out at work today and read it. I have to tell you its a great piece on your car and its history. Also I showed it to one of the other sales people, then one of the techs asked what he was reading and before you know it it made it all the way around the shop. Everyone agreed