Glass packs,,,,,??

 Don't know if ya'll remember some time back I posted bout a nice 1982 Silverado I had bought from a dude on the Marketplace. Now,,this is one of the nicest 82 Silverado's I've seen in a long time and if you like black trks,,,this one's for you,,chit,,even the dash is black,,,,,!!!

  I bought it ,,,"economical",,,(ole Shameless will like thet word),,,,,, and it was well priced as somebody had taken a hammer to the steering column when tryin to steal it. It has a 305 with 4 barrel quadrajet and dual exhaust all the way back and I want to install some glass packs to get thet smooth deep sound them glass packs of old used to sound like,,,, I remember some people used to call em Smittys also. Loved the deep throaty sound they used to sound like,,,,,,

 Anyway,,,the only'ist ones that look like them, that  I can find are "no Names" painted red and shaped like the old timers but the dude at O'reillys could not tell me if they were the real thing or not and at $36 each I wasn't ready to experiment,,just yet,,,

 Anybody bought any of these lately,,???

OH and before I forget,,does anybody know what the casting numbers are at the back of the chevy blocks are for the 305's,? I remember the last three numbers on the 327's were 870. The dude told me it was a 305 but it having a 4 barrel quadrajet don't make sense on a 305,,,???

 Well,,I do agree that when them glass packs cherry bombs of old did burn out they developed a very agravating tinny sound and you knew it was time to get new ones,,,I always loved thet deep mellow sound the new ones put out,,,wasn't agaravatin,,just so smooth,,

 Well,,I'm gonna share one with ya'll that cost me an honest to goodnes a$$ whuppin when I was just a learner ,,don't think I even had a drivers license,,,but back then,,,who did??

  My dda had just bought a 1946 plymouth humpback,,looked like one of them chit rollers goin down the street,,,,,

 Anyways it had the gol-darned awfull'ist soundin mufflers,,thet thing sounded like an older person "wheezing" when you got on thet little ole 6 cylinder and a one barrel carb,,,Oh my,,, anyway on Fridays most of the parents would let their kids drive the family car to school but we had to park em 3-4 blocks from school so the principle would not see us. Well,thet Friday mornin,I convinced my Mom that I had to work on Dad's car as it was just not runnin right. I go and borrow the neighbor's drill and some bits and I drilled a few ( maybe 20-30) holes in the muffler and I go and start it up and GOSH Dang was it puttin out the horsepower,,,!!!! Chit,,it sounded like them big V8's it did,,,,,Chit,,I was the talk of the school when I flash by the front of the school and let her rapp when I let off the gas,,,chit I think we even broke a few windows too,,,,, I was in 7th heaven as even the girls like'ed it!!!

 When I finally make it home,,,,my Dad and Mon was waitin to go to town so I cruised it in ,,,in neutral with engine shut off,,,,,My Dad helped Mom in the car as he was always a gentleman,,,,while I haul azz into the back room,,,I hear that BEAST start up and within a pair of minutes,,,here comes Dad,,and he is PISSED beyond words,,, After the a$$ whippin,,,in so many words he tells me,,,"You cannot take the car to school for 3 months.  The end of school was comin up and was the biggest day of the year,,,,,I still had to bum a ride for 3 months,,,Thas the reason I still hate them dang Plymouths

and I ain't ever forgot that lesson,,,,

Had a '55 Merc with standard trans and floor shift.  Had duals with gutted glass packs but also had chrome "lakes pipes" along each rocker panel and mine were hooked up.  Drag raced this car several times as it was fast!! Girlfriend at the time used to love to open up those lakers and run through the local road tunnel under the rail yard as fast as she'd go. Man, that thing would rap!!

Anybody remember those lakes pipes from back then?