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    3/30/2020 3:58 PM  #1

    RV6
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    Little Deuce Coupe

    Still one of my favorite Beach Boys songs after all these years. I don't know why but I have always felt this Little Deuce Coupe was a Ford. This song was written in 1963.

    Well I'm not braggin' babe so don't put me down
    But I've got the fastest set of wheels in town
    When something comes up to me he don't even try
    'Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly'

    Just a little deuce coupe with a flathead mill
    But she'll walk a Thunderbird like she's standin' still
    She's ported and relieved and she's stroked and bored.
    She'll do a hundred and forty with the top end floored

    Could a Flathead do a Hundred and Forty in the top end floored, remember this is 1963?

    She's got a competition clutch with the four on the floor
    And she purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar (I had know idea what lake pipes were till Google came)
    And if that ain't enough to make you flip your lid
    There's one more thing, I got the pink slip daddy

    And comin' off the line when the light turns green
    Well she blows 'em outta the water like you never seen
    I get pushed out of shape and it's hard to steer (Been there, done that)
    When I get rubber in all four gears

    How many of you have been able to get rubber in all four gears?

    Last edited by RV6 (3/30/2020 4:11 PM)

    Gary Zilik - Pine Junction, Colorado - 67 Coupe, 289-4V, T5
     

    3/30/2020 4:44 PM  #2

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    RV6 wrote:

    Could a Flathead do a Hundred and Forty in the top end floored, remember this is 1963?

    Absolutely!  My old 4-Banger buddy had his lakes T roadster on the cover of Hot Rod, Sept. 1949 ( I have the magazine).  It was powered by a Model B Ford Banger (214 ci) with Fargo 4-port head, four Winfield pots, and a Winfield cam.  It went 142.18 on Muroc Dry Lake the previous May.  The flathead V8 boys were doing better yet. 

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    3/30/2020 4:58 PM  #3

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    Such an iconic song. 

    Rubber in all 4 gears?  Of for sure.  Driven plenty of cars that would do that.  Any Vette with a healthy big block for starters.

     

    3/30/2020 5:00 PM  #4

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    According to Tom Medley's "Hot Rod Histord", AK Miller had a modified 27 T Roadster running a Mercury flathead that went 172.744 at Bonneville in '51,  That wasn't a street driven car but you get the idea.
    Just to be sayin', I went 149.5 in '76 at El Mirage Dry lake behind a Ford "B" four-banger.  Them was the daz.

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    3/30/2020 5:27 PM  #5

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    My 66 will spin the tires in fourth gear, at least on the well-worn asphalt highways around here.  But it is a little more “improved” than a flathead.

    I never thought a Deuce coupe could be anything other than a 32 Ford...

    Money you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted money... unless your wife finds out.
     

    3/30/2020 5:37 PM  #6

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    Its just weight vs. power vs. tire width.  Not really a measure of raw power.

     

    3/30/2020 5:49 PM  #7

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    Now Tom...there you go takin' the fun out of it,  tsk, tsk.

    "you get what you pay for, good work isn't cheap, and there are NO free lunches...PERIOD!"
     

    3/31/2020 5:18 AM  #8

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    Oh its fun regardless of how you do it

     

    3/31/2020 3:39 PM  #9

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    Funny............I always thought it was..........'The little DOUCHE SCOOP'!
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    3/31/2020 4:59 PM  #10

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    Up here where the sky is thin it seems harder to squeal them tires in all 4 gears. Best I can do at my altitude is to get 73% of the HP out of my little 289. 

    I still find hard to fathom that in the early 60's a STREET rod could could perform the way the Beach Boys said. Sure something built for the salt flats could bust 140, butt a street machine with street gears?
     

    Gary Zilik - Pine Junction, Colorado - 67 Coupe, 289-4V, T5
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    3/31/2020 7:06 PM  #11

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    Getting rubber in forth can mean they have a good enough clutch to get a chirp when they pop the clutch.  Not too hard to do.  Plus, poetic license probably applicable to the situation.

    Money you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted money... unless your wife finds out.
     

    3/31/2020 7:44 PM  #12

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    Maybe the rubber the boys were getting was not on the wheels!

    Good work ain't cheap, Cheap work ain't good!   Simple Man
     

    4/01/2020 5:29 AM  #13

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    Re: Little Deuce Coupe

    Remember, bias ply tires, and a time when an 8" tire was considered "wide".  I'm betting it wasn't that hard.  300HP in a car that weighed 2,800 lbs. with a 8" wide bias ply. 

    Now 140MPH with that setup?  That I think is the taller order.  My '67 wouldn't do it with a 2.73 rear gear and its got considerably better aerodynamics than a '32 Ford.  Power doesn't do much to cheat the air.  I've read about guys running the Silver State Classic saying that a chin spoiler picked up more top end than another 100HP.  If I Mythbuster'd this one I'd say "plausible, but not likely".

     

     

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