Paint On Performance

[@luisvelasco316]

Very entertaining video with a lot of nostalgia.

[@Cadillac61]

You do great and extensive work,I always look forward to your videos!

[@thehopelesscarguy]

Thanks again.

[@pdennis93]

1978 Mustang King Cobra: Because one of the Ford designers saw Smokey and the Bandit too many times at the drive-in.

[@highlife0586]

There was an old hot rodders' saying back in my days..."Ya know these racing stripes will make your car go faster."

[@thehopelesscarguy]

You know it.

[@OLDS98]

This was a great list. I enjoyed the photos for the many different packages.

[@Primus54]

Thanks, HCG! Another entertaining and well-researched video. 👍👍👍

[@thehopelesscarguy]

Thank you.

[@jamesdaniels3699]

Like when we were kids we thought if we had a new pair of gym shoes we could run faster.👟👟

[@luisvelasco316]

PF Flyers!

[@thehopelesscarguy]

Sears 440s worked for me.

[@jamesdaniels3699]

@thehopelesscarguy Converse and Sears, Mom could I have converse gym shoes, Joey has them and he run really fast.okay, I'll get you some of you promise to mow the neighbor's grass all summer.The neighbor had a riding lawnmower.

[@thehopelesscarguy]

@@jamesdaniels3699 Rough.

[@luisvelasco316]

@@jamesdaniels3699 Sears actually sold sneakers made by Converse. I had some rebranded orange low-top All-Stars.

[@kennethswain6313]

This sure goes to show “ what you see is what you get “ we are visual people

[@Captain_Commenter]

Also, the AMC X & Levis editions.

[@thehopelesscarguy]

Gotta dig those Levi's editions.

[@briansmith-l1q]

an episode of 'Charlies Angels' Farah was driving a cobra with the low spoiler in front, she drives it over a berm, side walk, into a draveway, she scrapes the crap out of the piece of plastic, and they kept it in ! which i thought was funny,,,,, the pieces of junk anyways

[@danielulz1640]

But I thought that everyone knew that adding painted on or taped on racing stripes instantly upped the horsepower and top speed!

[@thehopelesscarguy]

Absolutely.

[@Cadillac61]

I guess I’m the second to watch this great video! Correction first!

[@thehopelesscarguy]

Nice, thanks.

[@95Sn95]

People love to rip on malaise era cars because of their horsepower levels and lack of performance, but manufacturers can only do so much with uncle Sam's boot on your neck. Personally when considering buying or looking at cars the engines performance Carry's no impact on my decision, the engine platform can be important but the HP rating that's no big deal because you take any vehicle from 70s n 80s as long as it has a viable engine platform most domestic V8 gas engines from 5.0 SBC to a 500 caddy, those engines will really perform well with very little work, will a 1978 350 SBC easily hang with old 11:1 double hump headed lt1 350 no but taking a 185hp 350 and bumping it to 300hp+ is pretty easy with a few parts and some part deleats. And a 300hp passenger car or pickup is a lively cruiser. It's pretty wild how easy it is to achieve an extra 100hp on a malaise era engine they are so suffocated inhaling and exhaling thru a straw just letting it breathe again with no other mods the power just jumps up and just a mild "RV" camshaft upgrade they really wake up. Back in the 90s I had a 76 nova SS for a couple years that was an appearance and interior package and it had an old plain jane smogger 350 and the only engine mods that had been done to it was the smog equipment removed, a set of long tube headers side exit dual exhaust and a crane Energizer 268 with the factory cast iron intake and Qjet and with the 3.31 12 bolt posi that was swapped in it went pretty decent and even being a tierd smoking oil burner it would absolutely destroy the tires do effortless donuts all day long and that's a "slow" malaise era car.

[@thehopelesscarguy]

Exactly.

[@anastassiosperakis2869]

Sorry, but this particular video BORES ME TO TEARS. BYE!