…it’s a pity it wasn’t one of the Greenwood cars that Dick Smothers co-drove…
Boobie the Rocket Dog
Nov 15 2014 at 9:43 pm
Ah. Comments back up. Today’s strip is a classic.
John M
Nov 15 2014 at 10:10 pm
Pink, or faded red?
John M
Nov 15 2014 at 10:15 pm
…anyway, if anyone can get it up and running, Sam can! (Yes, I do realize what I just said!)
Grunt GI
Nov 15 2014 at 10:26 pm
Heh..well done. Reminds me of the ‘toon from July 26 of this year.
Vroom
B Woodman
Nov 15 2014 at 11:36 pm
“You KNOW I only drive stick.”
Money line. Thank you.
I’m not an automotive geek (I’m an electronics and radio geek instead), but I’d LOVE to get in and drive that 4-wheeled missile at least once around the track. With Sam as my co-pilot. G-d or Jesus can ride in the back, if they can catch up.
Garym
Nov 16 2014 at 12:49 am
Aaahh! Bill Paxton from True Lies. Nicely referenced.
Earl Goudie
Nov 16 2014 at 2:05 am
Sorry this is where we part ways.
I’ll have Ed Terry & Hubert Platt’s ’69 big block Mustang every time.
Ouch, sorry to hear that. But there are still Jan, Skye, and Naomi. I have a red headed sister, attitude a lot like Skye.
Ed
Nov 16 2014 at 2:44 am
Yup, that looks like a mighty nice ride. Yup, that looks like a mighty nice ride.
fred hopkins
Nov 16 2014 at 6:23 am
Drool – Long Duration Cam? [no pun intended] – ’69 I briefly drove a BOSS 429s as my DEMO. It was part of the NASCAR Homologation batch. I drooled over the L88 and all things Yenko. Followed that with an ’82 Candy Apple Suzuki GS1100. The GS1100 technicals included long duration timing. That was the motor that was the base for a decade of Top Fuel bikes.
Lucius Severus Pertinax
Nov 16 2014 at 6:55 am
Don Yenko is the GOD of Internal Combustion.
Bill G
Nov 16 2014 at 6:28 am
“Don’t Gruber me, bro” has to be as much a classic as that car.
And my dirty old man side says some of the options can be fun to watch.
I suppose it’s okay if you can’t get a Cobra. (evil grin)
(What can I say? I grew up reading “The Carroll Shelby Story”!)
Pamela
Nov 16 2014 at 10:14 am
Thank God this car is long before the flappy paddle gear boxes. Those things can be a nuisance in the wrong hands. As useful as putting tits on a boar like my Dad use to say.
Yenko did good things to Corvairs (Damn Ralph Nader). “Unsafe at any Speed” should be re-purposed for anything the Politically Correct henchman and minions want to do.
Is Sam going to have a custom shifter made…
Ran
Nov 16 2014 at 10:53 am
I faintly recall an R&T article about the L88s back in ’75. Only a few dozens were built, and by then the majority had been – I think the words were – “unceremoniously wrapped around telephone poles.”
Options? No radio, no AC, not even a heater. Nekkid, baby.
Shouldn’t somebody be wearing Dr. Matt Taylor’s great comet launch shirt here?
Hungry Joe
Nov 16 2014 at 11:39 am
My dream car is a white 1971 Dodge Challenger from the film VANISHING POINT
John M
Nov 16 2014 at 3:15 pm
Heh – I bought a 72 Chall when I got back from Vietnam… It’s been my favorite automotive memory ever since… traded it in 79 for a Colt Hatchback when gas prices got to $1.00.
So many hits in this one it’s hard to pick just one… 🙂 Those were beautiful cars and a tribute to the automotive genius of Yenko, Shelby and the others that built and raced them.
RoadRunner
Nov 16 2014 at 12:53 pm
“I’m all over this, and something’s wrong with this picture…”
John Martin
…it’s a pity it wasn’t one of the Greenwood cars that Dick Smothers co-drove…
Boobie the Rocket Dog
Ah. Comments back up. Today’s strip is a classic.
John M
Pink, or faded red?
John M
…anyway, if anyone can get it up and running, Sam can! (Yes, I do realize what I just said!)
Grunt GI
Heh..well done. Reminds me of the ‘toon from July 26 of this year.
Vroom
B Woodman
“You KNOW I only drive stick.”
Money line. Thank you.
I’m not an automotive geek (I’m an electronics and radio geek instead), but I’d LOVE to get in and drive that 4-wheeled missile at least once around the track. With Sam as my co-pilot. G-d or Jesus can ride in the back, if they can catch up.
Garym
Aaahh! Bill Paxton from True Lies. Nicely referenced.
Earl Goudie
Sorry this is where we part ways.
I’ll have Ed Terry & Hubert Platt’s ’69 big block Mustang every time.
cmblake6
I just realized how much Sam reminds me of my sister.
PaulS
Ouch, sorry to hear that. But there are still Jan, Skye, and Naomi. I have a red headed sister, attitude a lot like Skye.
Ed
Yup, that looks like a mighty nice ride. Yup, that looks like a mighty nice ride.
fred hopkins
Drool – Long Duration Cam? [no pun intended] – ’69 I briefly drove a BOSS 429s as my DEMO. It was part of the NASCAR Homologation batch. I drooled over the L88 and all things Yenko. Followed that with an ’82 Candy Apple Suzuki GS1100. The GS1100 technicals included long duration timing. That was the motor that was the base for a decade of Top Fuel bikes.
Lucius Severus Pertinax
Don Yenko is the GOD of Internal Combustion.
Bill G
“Don’t Gruber me, bro” has to be as much a classic as that car.
And my dirty old man side says some of the options can be fun to watch.
M. Mitchell Marmel
I suppose it’s okay if you can’t get a Cobra. (evil grin)
(What can I say? I grew up reading “The Carroll Shelby Story”!)
Pamela
Thank God this car is long before the flappy paddle gear boxes. Those things can be a nuisance in the wrong hands. As useful as putting tits on a boar like my Dad use to say.
Yenko did good things to Corvairs (Damn Ralph Nader). “Unsafe at any Speed” should be re-purposed for anything the Politically Correct henchman and minions want to do.
Is Sam going to have a custom shifter made…
Ran
I faintly recall an R&T article about the L88s back in ’75. Only a few dozens were built, and by then the majority had been – I think the words were – “unceremoniously wrapped around telephone poles.”
Options? No radio, no AC, not even a heater. Nekkid, baby.
Cheers Chris!
FerryTrails
Shouldn’t somebody be wearing Dr. Matt Taylor’s great comet launch shirt here?
Hungry Joe
My dream car is a white 1971 Dodge Challenger from the film VANISHING POINT
John M
Heh – I bought a 72 Chall when I got back from Vietnam… It’s been my favorite automotive memory ever since… traded it in 79 for a Colt Hatchback when gas prices got to $1.00.
Old NFO
So many hits in this one it’s hard to pick just one… 🙂 Those were beautiful cars and a tribute to the automotive genius of Yenko, Shelby and the others that built and raced them.
RoadRunner
“I’m all over this, and something’s wrong with this picture…”
“You’re not in a bikini?”
THIS is why I love DBD!
TheBigHenry
I love DBD, too. But why isn’t it posted into
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/dailyembed
Sergio
I am grateful to Ralph Nader – he prevented Algore from being POTUS!
Wayne
Gotta love those old Corvettes. Of the 116 Corvettes with the L88 engine produced in 1969, over 300 are still on the road.
B Woodman
Huh?
Max Erdman
Yeah, I’m digging it, but L-88s were iron blocks. ZL-1s were the aluminum block RPO.
Chris Muir
Rae’s commissioned L88 had the aluminum block.
Triple C
I wish Sam had found a “Red Barchetta.”
Gregory Nagy
Pink? You sure it wasn’t a Donna Mae Mims car?
Chris Muir
Good catch-it is Donna Mae’s car!