Also available with 365 HP, High Flotation Tires, Wide Wheels, Roll Bar etc.
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At that price I will take two please.
That is a really cool ad Juane!
I would guess that ad was from 1964-65 based on the 327ci engine with a 365hp option. Those engines were only available in the Corvette in those years and had a huge double-pumper Holly 4bbl carb, a wicked cam profile, and solid lifters. The Rochester FI (mechanical of course) was 375hp. Fuel mileage sucked but at 30 cents/gallon nobody cared.
Finding an old FJ40 with an "original" 365hp (LT-6) engine would be like finding a gold mine.
-Mike-
I would guess that ad was from 1964-65 based on the 327ci engine with a 365hp option. Those engines were only available in the Corvette in those years and had a huge double-pumper Holly 4bbl carb, a wicked cam profile, and solid lifters. The Rochester FI (mechanical of course) was 375hp. Fuel mileage sucked but at 30 cents/gallon nobody cared.
Finding an old FJ40 with an "original" 365hp (LT-6) engine would be like finding a gold mine.
-Mike-
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That is a really cool ad Juane!
I would guess that ad was from 1964-65 based on the 327ci engine with a 365hp option. Those engines were only available in the Corvette in those years and had a huge double-pumper Holly 4bbl carb, a wicked cam profile, and solid lifters. The Rochester FI (mechanical of course) was 375hp. Fuel mileage sucked but at 30 cents/gallon nobody cared.
Finding an old FJ40 with an "original" 365hp (LT-6) engine would be like finding a gold mine.
-Mike-
Yes, I believe 1966.
And yes, you gotta wonder how many conversions were made. And how many exist.
I believe Con fer is out of business, or is no longer the same Con fer the catalogs for which I use to get in high school....The famous jerry can holders and roof racks.
Wow, you are a fount of knowledge on old muscle cars.
An LT-6?
Barrett-Jackson and Mecham auctions on Speed Channel.
There was no Google in 1965 so ALL information came from car magazines and car dealer hand-outs. I bought all of the magazines and read them from cover to cover and spent most weekends in the pit at the drag strip.
-Mike-
Barrett-Jackson and Mecham auctions on Speed Channel.
There was no Google in 1965 so ALL information came from car magazines and car dealer hand-outs. I bought all of the magazines and read them from cover to cover and spent most weekends in the pit at the drag strip.
-Mike-
Didn't know you were such a gearhead!
That ad says "Toyota Motors has approved our marketing of this special Conn-Ferr Land Cruiser." My, how times have changed.
I was looking for one of their Hi-Lift jack brackets a couple of years ago and found out Conn-Ferr is no longer in business.
-Mike-
I had to go look it up.
The 365hp 327ci was an L-76 engine. The LT series came later and I'm not sure if they ever made an LT-6.-Mike-
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Barrett-Jackson and Mecham auctions on Speed Channel.
There was no Google in 1965 so ALL information came from car magazines and car dealer hand-outs. I bought all of the magazines and read them from cover to cover and spent most weekends in the pit at the drag strip.
-Mike-
No GOOGLE?
How did the world function?
So, what did you drive?
When I was a kid I swore I'd own a Corvette someday. Never did.
Guess Chevy-powered Land Cruisers are the closest I'll get...
When I was growing up all I wanted was a Buick Gran National...black, EFI, beautiful car....all the high school hotties loved Marc Bombard's Gran National...and he got chicks....I got valedictiorian.....
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I used to drive a 1970 Ford Fairlane 500 with the 302-V8 and a C6 auto tranny. Drive ins were very enjoyable
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Why don't you boys quit crying. I drove a '78 pale yellow Impala in high school. Not one with power either. My first car in college was a VW Rabbit. Try being 6'2" and fit in that thing. A small booster and I would drive around town with my head out the sunroof. Best way to make that thing a head turner.
Ahhhhh, the days of the real muscle cars. My ride in high school was a 1968 Firebird 400. Scary power. I replaced tires with oil changes.
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Bet you wish you still had that!
Boy, what a growing-up-in-California cliche.
My high school cars?
1948 CJ-2A, 1970 CJ-5, 1973 FJ-40 then a 1970 Super Beatle when I was in the USN.
Ya, you bet I wish I still had it. Actually, I went to this particular dealer because they had a 196X 'Cuda in the newspaper. But when I arrived it was sold and I settled on the Firebird. That decission was soooo hard. 
...he got chicks....I got valedictiorian.....
And look where that has gotten you.
Exactly my point. If I had the Gran National I would have at least had chicks and in the end it's how many chicks ya get!
Muscle cars (and V8 cruisers) get chicks.
Ummm, I did have more luck in HS than I did after I sold the car. I guess the move from fast cars to slow trucks could be responsible for my lack-luster love life, eh?
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...and he got chicks....I got valedictiorian.....
Was the valedictorian a guy or a girl and was he/she cute?
1957 Chevy Bel Air with a 283 V8. It was silver with a white top when I got it. I worked in a gas station and saved every penny I made until I could have it repainted solid black.
Me too and I've owned a dozen sports cars in the years since but never a Vette. I almost bought a GN but I read a 'sneak-peek' review on the new 300ZX and I had to have one. Bought the first one in Houston when it was still headed to the dealer and watched them unload it off the truck. Sold it a few years later after the first snow in Casper, WY and it couldn't get up the driveway.
If Ross doesn't get a job soon I will be driving a 6-speed G35 Coupe.
-Mike-
I understand where you're coming from Onur. I graduated Salutatorian (first loser) and drove a multicolor '76 Datsun pickup. My buddies who didn't have cars still harassed me about it and referred to it as the Hoochiemobile. There was no 'getting chicks' in my high-school days.