~ Cool muffler! Ceck it out ~

Yep, I just put a set under my '54 chevy PU.

 

I bought them in the 70s, lots of them. They were cheap, my local store sold them for $11.97 and on sale sometimes for a little as $9.99 each. But they never lasted long. They are the reason I prefer bullit style mufflers. They don't have the seams that rusted and blew apart like the Thrush mufflers did.

 

I have one on my 2003 F150 since new. People ALWAYS ask me what makes my truck sound so good!

 

I had a set on a 69 Camaro. It had a warmed up engine and it was LOUD! I got a ticket once just idling thru an intersection. It sure sounded good to me at 7000 rpm.

 

at work i've been killing time by flipping through some of my old magazines from the 60's. lots of ads and articles about those when they came out. what was even worse than the mufflers themselves, was the dual exhaust kit they came with...that ****ty ***ed flex pipe! i got a good chuckle reading the "tech" article in one issue of PHR where they install the kit on Project X...poor car!

 

The deal was this: you had these mufflers and the accompanying window sticker or just the sticker if you were a broke teenager. Then you got a set of Hijacker shocks with accompanying window sticker of their cartoon rabbit and you put that in rear window of your Camaro, Chevelle, Duster, Nova, etc.
Make sure to have a Kraco or Pioneer 8 track featuring Edgar Winter Group, Deep Purple, and CCR.
You are spiraling deep into the heart of 1974!

 

and 1984...and 1994!

 

Actually, the Hush Thrush was a chambered muffler some what like a turbo, the regular Thrush, while lookin' like a gl*** pack, had no packing, just the perforated or louvered inner core, sounded like an old gl*** pack right outa the box, had a pair behind a 12&1/2:1 compression 301 in my early Camaro in the early 70's, cop pulled me over(one of the times) and said "you got a sweet soundin' set a pipes there, but I think I'd hold it down around town."

 

I had a set of short ones (16"- 2" inlet - 2" out) on a 65 falcon in high school w/ 351W - headers, intake, lopy cam, 4.57 gears and a hammering C4 automatic. The pipes ran to the rear bumper through some 68 Roadrunner exhaust tips, Sounded wild at 6800 RPM shift points.

 

Well put.

 

Crazy! Haven't seen one in years. We had a set of the headers versions in that ebay auction around 78, one blew up behind a 454 backfire. The other leaned against the garage wall til 1993 when it got used on an old beater. The twin tube versions sound like a loud turbo muffler, not a gl***pack.

Almost forgot, my banana seat bike TOTALLY had a thrush sticker installed the moment it's fenders were removed!

 

You either had a set of these or Cherry Bombs back then. I went with the Hush Thrushs on my 67 with the L88. It sounded good but I liked the others better with the small block. I've got to say I wish I had at least that engine back. Had a solid Duntov cam, Tarantula manifold, good pistons, I think a Mr. Gasket distributor. It always ran so strong.................

 

You forgot the Lakewood *******s, in the requisite yellow paint of course, the red or orange painted rearend and the blue or red marker lights bolted on to the back of the Lakewoods for all to see once you had the HighJackers pumped up to 100lbs to clear the L60-14 MickeyThompson Indy Profiles sticking ever-so-slightly past the lips of the rear quarters.

-Bigchief.

 

Hey, you guys are sure bringing back some memories....not all of them are good though.
When I was throwing my coupe together last spring, I called my local NAPA and had them send me a set of "cheap mufflers" with a 2 1/2" inlet. Sure was supprised when the Thrush Performance Muffler boxes showed up. They still have the pretty boxes and still have the stickers, but the mufflers are just plain steel. Pretty quite too, guess that V6 just don't have what it takes to have the rumble. Now just over a year old, the mufflers look better then the new at the same time pipes do. Too bad they don't still have the cool paint job on them, they would show up well where they are on my car. Haven't decided what to do with the stickers yet...
Gene

 

I'd put the stickers on the car! Wear em proud. At least for a while, should be good for a laugh or to. Oh, yeah, I had the Lakewood ******* bars and air shocks, L60x 15 BF Goodrichs and Cragars. Loved it! No extra lights though.

 

This is bringing back memories for me too. My highschool ride was in the 80's though, with all of the above mentioned. Still got the generic slot mags, with G60-15 stones.

 

But you need to have the cuts in the tread where the car bottomed out onto the stick-out tires and sliced 'em.

 

I split open a few sets of Thrush mufflers on my Chevelle in the early 70's

 

HAHAHA some kid at my school has a fake 66 chevelle SS, its very rusty and 30% bondo , long story short he put on cragars and on the back are some 10 or more inch wide heavily wether checked bias ply tires that stick like 4 inches on both sides with all those cuts in the tread you are talking about,i think he got them out of his attack or something.Very dangerous to run on a daily driver might i add. the cars 305 has barely enough power to turn the stupid *** tires over haha

 

I couldn't even afford the real lakewood traction bars on my camaro back in 1977, I yellow spray bombed a pair of el cheapo ones to make them look like lakewoods. Had the air shocks and cherry bombs though, with matching stickers, including the important HOLLEY sticker too....

 

from what i hear the were the cherry bombs (sold at pep boys now) of their day.

 

I remember those. Had em on a 73 Gran Torino in highschool, they definately had there own sound especially with no tailpipes. I kind of wish they still made them. They where made cheap but so was the price.

 

looks like this one! hehe

 

Flowtech - has kept making the 'Purple Hornies' ...they sound wicked.

http://www.holley.com/50231FLT.asp