History Exhaust trends

Flowmasters were made in my home town in the 80's

They were in a industrial park called industry west off Todd Drive.

Before they were there the streets for the industrial park were paved years before all the buildings got built .

In about 1983 a kid painted a line across the road and drove 1/4 of a mile a dozen times in a 73 Datsun Station wagon and averaged it out .
Were that spot was a piece of rebar was stuck in the chain link fence sticking up .
Many many late night street drags were held there .

The rebar was there well after flow Master moved in . It was there for 25 years .

How do I know this ?? Well my mom had a 73 Dastun Wagon and my buddies mom had a pinto and Mom's odometer was more accurate and we needed to settle who's car was faster . The pinto lost. I got in trouble for taking the Datsun out at night .

Anyway there was a makeshift drag strip in front of Flowmaster that they never new about .

My first chevy ( 61 impala) got gl*** packs installed at Johny Franklin's by John himself .
He was involved in the Milner coupe . Sounded great .

Had Super Traps on a Camero in the late 80's .

Dad had Smitty mufflers on his 49 and 55 . I barely recall the 55 .
Likely the first car I rode in. Was all they had in 63 when I was born

 

1. Remove muffler.

2. Replace with equal length section of exhaust pipe.

 

That was usually one more step then I took, until I made a few donations to local law enforcement. Those donations cost more then mufflers or gl*** packs did. I also learned how to watch for cops, and to drive accordingly.

 

It was in the Mad Fabricators 6

 

My dad used to run the exhaust out the back on his drivers. 2.25" with Smithy's then later he began to run resonators instead of mufflers.

I remember that he had a 6 cylinder car once that he ran straight pipes that ended in megephones. That car sounded sweet and I am not usually impressed by inline motors with splits.

This would have been later '50s into the '60s if era is important to this thread.

 

I punched a couple holes in my Mom's '66 Lemans' muffler to make it sound like the "Cool Kids'" cars... didn't end well...

 

I drilled an 1/8" hole in front of each muffler in my mom's '66 Buick. Made it snap crackle and pop when you let up on the gas. She was not a happy camper.