catalina from kerrville

I've been pondering a hitch for mine someday. I would love to get one of those old tear drop campers to pull behind on road trips.

My plan is to paint this old camper in a two tone, using white and same green color as the car - i'm trying to talk the whife into letting me paint it. The camper is an old german 'KNAUS 530 MUSTANG' - several mustang fans have been after me to buy it - funny it should end up with me since i'm absolutly not a mustang fan. I'ts a 1979 model.
Of course the ideal camper for me would be a large airstreamer, but they are too large and too heavy to be made roadlegal here.

A video from the german autobahn taken by a friend of mine - i went of the throttle after passing him. It was shot this summer.
I think i passed him doing about 100 mph - this was at a section of the autobahn that still has no speed limit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbjT-CDaGzs

that is awesome!

Sweet. You should get over 100 out of her though.

I don't know the actual topspeed, but i have had it at 195 km/h (about 120 mph i think) on my GPS - and it was uphill on the freeway - rocksteady on my original suspension. When the video was taken i had the whole family in the car though, so i kept it at full throttle for a very limited time only. The kids enjoyed it more than my wife though .

I should point out that i don't do this on a regular basis, but sometimes you get curious, and wonder if it's still got it !.

And this is just a standard 2 brl - i can't help but wonder how it feels to let loose those dual quads .

It's gunna feel great! I don't plan on taking it on any 100+ highway runs though...maybe.

It's gunna be geared pretty low so the top speed possible would probably only be like 120 with 3.64 gears and 26.5" tires which is what I will be running. I don't really want to go any faster than I can do in a 1/4 which should be 90-100mph. It's all about the acceleration for me.

My truck does 115 like nothin. That's what I have my limiter set at. It's too fast for me. haha

I agree - it's much to dangerous anyway in a 50 year old car, and feeling the acceleration is what it is all about. Most of the time i'm crusin at max 75 mph or so...

Speaking about danger - has anyone tryed having a main lightswitch failure at a dark country road with no streetlights, doing about 65 mph in a soft curve . That actually happend to me last year, and has to be the most scary experience iv'e had with my pontiac. It was lige having a black bag pulled over the head, and only good luck saved me, as massaging the switch quickly revived the lights.

haha actually that happened to me on the highway one time in my buick. I quickly exited to avoid cops. I think the switch was dirty.

Your car looks just like my Catalina!

I Sold my 49 chevy truck and 66 mustang to folks in Denmark.

I like the color on that mustang!