Pomtiac Lemans with a monster in his rear view mirror. Ok i will give the details later about the Pontiac. Ps the car in the rear is not right hand drive it is the reflection on the mirror. ...
. . . or Malibu? Hard to tell, Bill. In any case, you don't often see two muscle cars back-to-back anymore. Not like the old days, when they'd zip by all the time . . .
. . . were the Pontiac 455 HD's of '73 - '74. Pretty sure that Mopar dropped them after '72, and Ford after '73. Believe it or not, I used to know this stuff right off the top of my head . . .
The Pontiac is a 4 cylinder basically they cut a v8 in half. It is a 196 cubic in. The gear box is in the rear a transaxle and it has a rope drive vs a drive shaft. This was a Delorean design when he was a whiz kid at gm. ...
They call it a rope because it sags in the middle (like a jump-rope used by kids) allowing the tunnel to be much smaller than normal. From an engineering point of view, the shaft can be lighter (saving weight) because the transmission is integrated with t...
Engineering never would have called it “rope” in my opinion. But it was first of its kind, thinner than your thumb, and “rope” conveys the sagging in the middle bit. I found a relevant passage from its developer, the infamous John Z DeLorean who was respo...