20 Dec 11 17:10, James Haight wrote to Mark Hofmann:   
      
   [69 Firebird]   
      
    MH>> JH> I had a 1969 Firebird 400 HO 4 speed.   
    MH>>   
    MH>> What did you end up doing with that car?  It would be nice to have a   
    MH>> spare "project" car, but my 2002 Monte Carlo is both my project car   
    MH>> and my daily driver.  :)   
      
    JH> Well it was 1974 and Iran did their oil embargo. There were lines at   
    JH> all the gas stations and this is when we saw petro go over $1.00 per   
    JH> gallon. Believe me, I used to fill up my tank with about $10.00 so...   
      
   During that embargo, I drove a 1963 Corvette Roadster w/both tops. It had   
   a 1968 Corvette 350 engine that I had modded to around 430hp, drag raced   
   it 'off the street' at 13:10s, open the exhaust and rejet the carb to   
   attain 12.8s...it wouldn't burn anything less than 100 octane on the   
   street and sometimes it complained about that diet. Premium gas was way   
   over $1/gal in 1974. I didn't let that stop me from driving my favorite   
   car, but I survived the embargo by driving my 72 Cheyenne that only   
   required 87 octane and got better mileage than the Corvette as well.   
      
   I never went the foreign car route as it was engrained in my brain by my   
   dad to 'buy American'...which I still practice today. I've had an Isuzu   
   Rodeo in the recent past but I traded it for my 1979 Malibu, which is now   
   a race car.   
      
      
                   R\%/itt   
      
      
     ,,,By the time you find greener pastures, you can't climb the fence!   
      
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