When I was a kid, I used to sit around in my underwear on Saturday mornings watching the cartoons. Nothing changed when I got older and spike TV was on.
I was 16 in 1975. My first car was a 283 V8 swapped 1963 Nova SS, and it had Cragar S/S wheels, Mickey Thompson RWL tires, Gabriel Hi Jacker air shocks, and Cherry Bomb mufflers.
One of my first "real" jobs was working in an auto parts store in the early - mid 70s. We couldn't keep Cherry Bombs and Hi-Jackers in stock as they moved off the self so fast.
What’s crazy when I read this post. My first car was a four-door mercury Monterey. Had the 400 in.³ Ford. It was a 1973. I think had exactly all that stuff on it. The cragar SS wheels, the air shocks, the rear tires and cherry bomb exhaust. Lol
When in HS during the mid-late 60s, a buddy of mine who was a true motorhead modified his 1955 2-door Ford Fairlane from the engine back. He changed the 272 C.I. to something larger, added a Hurst 4-speed transmission, changed the rear end to a 4:11 and had semi-stock mufflers for cruising around town and the local college. BUT, he also added cut-outs to rumble windows and scare the crap out of me. We miss you Bill. You were a strange guy but you could turn a wrench.
My first car in high school back in 1983 was a '69 Firebird 350. I hacked off the original single exhaust and ran duals with Maremont Cherry Bombs and turndowns and the rear axle. It was glorious.
Wow, what a memory!!! I was raised in my family's automotive repair shop, and in 1970, after returning from Vietnam, I bout a brand new 1970 Chevelle. Not long after I settled into civilian life, I installed dual exhaust with Cherry Bomb mufflers. I loved the sound and the feel of them. My Dad hated them, my Grandfather hated them (but they sold them anyway), and the local cops hated them. Not too long afterward, I became a local cop, and our Chief forbade me from driving that car to work, which I ignored. Even at seventy-four, I'd love to have the whole package back.
The year was 1969. I went to a car dealer to pick up my ordered GTX. When I left, it was around the block to the tire dealer to switch the rears for a pair of fat MTs, then off to the muffler shop for a pair of bright red Cherry Bombs to sound like it was time to mean business.
Another good muffler was the Continental. It was maybe a little quieter than the Cherry Bomb, but was long lasting. Not quite as good as the Continental and Cherry Bomb, but better than the Thrush was the Golden Ram. All were better than the stock alternative.
My senior year of high school me and my buddies welded these onto our garbage old cars and trucks and had a damn good time. That was in 2021 lol, gotta continue the tradition!
I just picked a CHEERY BOMB up of the side of the highway last week had to circle the section to safley pick it up. The red paint on the front 1/3 is darker red to light brown, some one didn't tighten the clamp enough, I'll add it to the parts for my next build.
Back in 1982 I had my 70 Chevelle with Cherries and they would last about a year before the glass was blown apart inside of the mufflers and the sound would lose the deep resonance. Also had them on my 1976 K5 Blazer with a 400 in it. That would sound nice too until the rust would destroy them after a salty Michigan winter. Would try the Thrush on my Chevelle but after several good runs the back of the muffler cans would begin to blow out. The Cherry or Thrush stickers on my rear windows would last longer than the mufflers, but aaaahhh! The sweet memories.
I was 16 in 1979 and I bought a rough 1972 Nova for $1200. Lots of hay-bailing to buy. It had a 350 and I put a set of Cherry Bombs on it the same week I bought it. Sounded great!
Back in 1970, I was 12 my brother 17. He had a 1969 Formula S Barracuda, 340, 4 speed, 3.91 gears and Cherry Bombs. Loved the sound of those "mufflers" through a full exhaust system.
Weld a collector on one end and a 45° on the other with a piece of straight pipe to exit in front of the rear wheels. I couldn't afford anything over the axle. 😂
Loved the sound of Cherry Bombs! Had them on every rod I had in the 70s. I even put one on my Ford 300ci inline 6 I had for a while. Lol, it sounded like it was farting after taco bell when I put my foot in it! 😂
Met Stacy at Madison Wisconsin airport, really great and friendly. Ask me to sit down and talk. I started talking about his stuff he said he would rather hear about my car. Wish him the best. I even got a picture with him.
I was 12 in 1972 and I worked at my uncles muffler shop in Indiana. I got to clean up the shop. Cherry Bombs were very cool to have put on your car. I was able to get some stickers that were in the empty bomb boxes and would bring them home.
15yrs old in 1987 and my first car was a 1975 Pontiac Ventura with a 400 and a Muncie 4spd. It had a set of Cherry Bombs and it was the coolest sounding car around. Those are great memories!!!
I'm surprised the Cherry Bomb's didn't come out until 1968. I had Walker Continental glass packs on my 49 Ford Coupe back in 62. They were bottle shaped like the Cherry Bombs, but were metallic blue, and maybe a little bit longer. Those 239 flatheads with the JC Whitney chrome dry air cleaners and glass packs sounded really baaad ! The town where I grew up had brick streets on the main drags. In the summertime, when the brick was hot, I could get 3rd gear rubber.
This video was Fantastic. It brought back a lot of memories of my teenage years. I had a lot of friends and I, had cheery bombs on our trucks. Those were the years when you could name every vehicle that you saw because the majority of vehicles were Made in Detroit. American Automobiles.
In the mid-70s my dad owned a 68 mustang with a 289 and three on the floor every now and every now and then He would wind it out a little bit and those cherry bombs singing were one of the sweetest sounds ever. Still one of the best sounds out of a car I have ever heard!
Ran them back in the day on my 1976 F150 XLT Step Side with a 390ci V8 and dual exhaust turned 90 degrees behind the tires… that thing sounded bad ass! I miss that old truck.
I'll never forget my buddy Zach in highschool had a big block GMC truck with cherry bombs that thing was so loud you could literally hear it a mile away.
I bought my first truck two weeks before i turned 13 in 1997. It was a 1984 Chevy S10 with a 355ci swap. True duals with two cherry bombs. Best sounding vehicle I’ve ever owned…
1967 Galaxie XL 390 rebuild in1990 parts store had a pair in the back they couldn't sell according to the parts guy ( nobody wanted them everyone was buying Thrush) still on my car!!
I bought my 318 Challenger in 1980; it came with Walker Continental glass packs; not sure if the original or the mark 2. I absolutely loved the sound of those. A glorious rumble at idle and sounded great all the way up but no harsh rapping or droning. Unfortunately, one day on the freeway I couldn’t avoid debris and tore one of the two mufflers up so I had to replace them. Not knowing any better, I bought cherry bombs. Yeah, they were loud and raucous and maybe cool in their own way, but I would always go back to the continentals if I could.
I had 'em as a kid back in the early 70's . However, I've never been able to adjust to the sound of modified exhaust on a vehicle with an automatic transmission. Just not the same as the sound coming from a car/truck with a 4 speed manual.
Back in my day, that's was the quickest way to a get an excessive ticket in my area. Thrush was the second and Walker blue swingers only received a brief glance.
I dropped my 1996 BMW 750il v12 off to get an x pipe and chamber muffler ….. long story short I came to pick it up and it had 6” cherry bomb extremes instead …… the sound is indescribable 😂😂😂 but I love it
I remember when I was a little kid watching him build this truck I like it when he finally gets it put together and will hops in his lock but we’re not done yet
I’ve had a cherry bomber on my 01 jeep wrangler for over 18 years!!! Sounds sweet with headers and a cold air intake lol, flows like crazy, even with a lift and 33 inch tires with stock gearing I’m still getting 18mpg on the mountain passes with that ol 4 liter
It was 1971 and I was 4 months before turning 16 and I had just bought my first car, a Gold 1967 Camaro RS 327 2bbl carb 4 speed manual. One of the first things I did was take it to the local muffler shop and have the original single exhaust system cut off and replaced with a dual exhaust with Cherry Bomb mufflers. Another popular muffler people used back then was the Thrush Hush. Those were the days.
I always liked the concept of the turbo muffler, which GM developed for the turbocharged Corvair Spyder which had a great sound. I had one. The turbo muffler looked so much like the ones being compared at the end of the Video.
I started driving in 85. You always heard the saying " she got headers and glasspacks". I also always heard that glasspacks and cherry bombs were not the same.
But they are a glass packed muffler because you can see the cutaway muffler that shows the glass mat packing inside of the cutaway shell & on the video you could see the woman wrapping the perforated core of the muffler with fiberglass mat packing than it gets slid down into the metal outside muffler casing that's then welded together so technically they are a glass pack muffler . Even the the Thrush straight through & the Hush Thrush were fiberglass filled mufflers . I had a set of Thrush straight through header collector mufflers on my 66 Chevelle SS 396 many years ago the longest ones I could buy because I hadn't planned on running full exhaust out to the back of the car & they were loud as heck but sounded good with a nice deep rumble coming off the header collectors but they were so loud I could barely hear the stereo with a power booster and equalizer and 2 10 inch stereo speakers mounted to a plywood board cut out for them propped up in the back seat cranked wide open lol. I decided to try the Hush Thrush header collector mufflers and it was definitely quieter but those were designed as a turbo muffler & they definitely killed the power down on the car even after running them a few weeks hard to see if they would break in and the engine would make more power again but they didn't so I swapped the straight through header collector mufflers back on . I could hear the stereo better with the hush Thrush turbo mufflers but they absolutely killed the engines power down because it killed the low end torque down & power all the way up to 7,000 rpms so I took them off and gave them away to someone I knew . I told him why I took them off and if I remember he tried them on his car and it was the same thing where it killed the power down on the engine and he took them off after a couple weeks and sold them to someone else lol . Even with the collector on them so they could be bolted onto the header they were short & you couldn't get them in longer lengths like the straight through Thrush header collector mufflers and with some headers they like a longer collector on them especially if the headers are a small tube design and that's why I think the engine responded better with the longer Thrush straight through header collector mufflers on it . If you look in the Summit & Jegs racing catalogs now you don't even see the Thrush turbo mufflers anymore anywhere because they used to be popular but they must have quit making them and kept the straight throughs instead in different lengths and pipe diameters . I worked at a speed shop back in the 90s in MN called S&S performance & Scott Payne my boss was the very first guy in MN to have a chassis dyno and we could build custom exhaust for just about anything as far as street cars and trucks to custom built headers for drag cars and the mufflers back then that consistently made the most power were the Flow master chambered mufflers . When someone wanted a custom exhaust made for lets say a 67 Chevrolet Corvette with a 427 in it which we did have one that came in we would run the car with the stock exhaust on the chassis dyno making no tuning changes to the engine at all then we would build a big tube exhaust with the Flow master chambered mufflers then it went back on the chassis dyno again and on most applications the engines made 50+ HP more than with the factory stock exhaust or a factory stock exhaust with glass packs on them . Once we started timing changes & jetting changes to the engines it typically made another 10-25 more HP and torque would go up as well . The only time we didn't use the Flow master mufflers is if the owner wanted a specific muffler to be used like a straight through glass pack or some kind of turbo muffler. I think the reason why the hush Thrush turbo mufflers killed performance was that they weren't designed exactly like the GM Corvairs that some you could buy that had factory turbo chargers on them that was a option that flowed much better . Back in the day if you bought a brand new 426 Hemi Challenger or Barracuda those came with Turbo mufflers on them that were designed after the GM Corvair Turbo mufflers so the Hemi engines could breathe better without being overly loud and obnoxious sounding for the street cars. The Flow master chambered mufflers use what's called the Delta flow technology where there are different sized V shaped baffles in side that allows more flow in 1 direction but still has enough back pressure to keep the low end torque up on the engines plus they are 1/8 th inch welded mufflers so they won't blow out or rust out nearly as fast as a cold rolled sheet metal muffler will plus you can buy different levels of performance mufflers from them that have different sounds from mild sounding to an aggressive exhaust note .
1994 I worked for Arvin NAA in the tube mill making tubing. Went to Cadillac exhaust to CK Truck line. Good times. Had 79 TA w/headers into glass packs. Stopped at my transmission. Cooked it. Lesson learned to run exhaust all the way back
My old '68 Coronet slant six had one of those stuck on... always liked it. I actually needed to hear the exhaust tone as the speedometer never worked; in high gear (stick-shift) the engine would increase by one note every five MPH or so... never got a ticket.
MY HUSBANDS FIRST CAR WAS A 1956 FORD VICTORIA WITH A 312 THUNDERBIRD ENGINE AND A CRUISEOMATIC TRANSMISSION. AND YES DUAL EXHAUST WITH CHERRY BOMB MUFFLERS!
Corsa makes stainless steel glass packs that might cost a little more, but my boss put them on his C4 Corvette to replace the rusty OEM exhaust. Full stainless from the headers, to the tips, and it sounds beefy when you rev it, but it's quiet when you're cruising.
anyone remember "Cyclone mufflers"? When you let off the gas the exhaust note had a "cyclone sound". And Walker Chamber Pipes were legal for about an hour. C. 1970. A muffler shop I saw had filled the trash bin with them so I and a neighbor took about 10 pairs. He put his pair on his 1966 Vette Roadster, L88 with side pipes and Walker Chamber Pipes . It was a nice sound on a 427 making over 600hp. I used "Corvair turbo mufflers" on my 8000rpm 350
I wonder if they still put the sticker in the box. I have one from 1970 on my dads old toolbox. He put one on his '67 olds 88. Sounded mean with that 455. It was a late '67 and they offered the 455 as an option. Everybody always jumps on me for that one. Glad to see their back.
In 199p my dad had a 78 half ton 4x4 chevy 350, 4bbl.4 sp. Headers and cherry bombs. I drove to school everyday. My English teacher call me Parnelli😂. I'd light them up at least 3x a day. Raced and won against a bunch. I sure miss working on simple but reliable as the sun coming up days!
Gotta love their tag line, "Disturbing the peace since 1968" That said, i feel they should do a better job with the fiberglass inside, it doesn't take long for it to be completely gone.
A lot of guys were dumping motor oil down inside of them so the fiberglass packing would burn out faster so they would get louder and had a deeper rumble .
@@peteloomis8456 as a teen, my dad told me back in his day they'd get them really hot by revving and backfiring them a ton, then shut them off and shove a water hose up the back to shock all the glass inside and it would also happen faster that way as well. I never tested it, but that's what he said. I always just install and let them do their thing, and I'm always happy. Never seen much reason to mess with em more. 😂
Way back in like '83 my first car ('71 Maverick inline 6) had the muffler fall off as I was driving and scared me at first. 😅 so I went and bought a cherry bomb muffler and left it at the shop to be welded in. Well my dad knew the mechanic and they decided I needed regular muffler so I was left w/ my cherry bomb as a consolation prize. I would like to see how they compare to my borla's though.🤙
I had some on my 1972 Grand Prix back in the 80’s then on my 1967 ElCamino. I also have some on my 2010 Victory CrossRoads motorcycle. 106 ci, EFI controller, mechanical advanced timing gear, and 3 in Cherry Bombs.
think my 70 challenger had blue bottles , is that the same thing ? I know one thing for sure , they where loud , rapped , loved it , 340 dual quad 500 carters
The glass packs had one fatal flaw, and I found it more than once. I had a 59 F250, 223 six with Clifford intake and exhaust with dual exhaust, with ‘cherry bombs. With about 4 tons of hay pulling Vantage grade in third doing about an even 60, passing a semi, all of a sudden I was the noisiest truck on the hill. Most of the 10 miles was loud to say the least. For my ears, I changed, and never looked back. Have fun
Huh..no kidding. I always thought the Thrush Glasspacks came out first. My third car was a clapped-out ScoutII, with a decent motor. 345 Industrial, with a gear drive and short duals, running through Cherry Bombs, made a hell of a nice sound:)
Interesting info. As you say, nobody called the Glasspacks. Where I was from (Northern Va.) that's all we heard. All thru high school (70's) everyone said Glasspacks. Never heard the term Cherry Bombs, except once in the movies. I'm never too old to learn something....
In 2007 my first truck was 88 ford ranger with a 2.3l I put a cherry bomb on it because that was my dads first muffler. By the end of the summer my Whole neighborhood had cherry bombs on their trucks
I had them on my 87 Dodge pickup with a 318. It sounded great. I bought it used at one year old, and it was a 3/4 ton. Would've been better with the 360 though.
Looked like a muffler but when installed backwards with the interior baffles facing back they offered almost no noise reduction. Got pulled over a lot.
Wow, in my corner of the world the only guys running glass packs in the late 60’s were old grease balls, we couldn’t believe it when somebody would take a new muscle car and put a muffler from the 50’s on it. The equivalent of putting three Stromberg 97’s on your new 69 Camaro.
I have a Cherry bomb on my ford focus it sounds amazing, also have the muffler my aftermarket exhaust came with. Never knew cherry bomb went out of business for so long
My brother had a 1976 Chevy Nova in line 6. Back then the stock Novas and Camaros had the muffle turned sideways behind the axle. Problem was moisture could build up on the bottom part of the muffler and freeze and plug up the exhaust. I put one of the on his car problem solved and wasn’t even that much noisy.
Blessing this dude's still alive, used to watch him every Saturday morning after breakfast back when spike TV was around who remembers that?
same here !!
Still has that early 80's haircut!
And still sporting the same hairdo
I used to watch Power Block TV every Saturday morning.
When I was a kid, I used to sit around in my underwear on Saturday mornings watching the cartoons.
Nothing changed when I got older and spike TV was on.
"Disturbing the Peace Since 1968" 😊
the side pipe started the idea then cherry bomb made a the muffler out of the idea now they call side pipes cherry bomb side pipes
I was 16 in 1975. My first car was a 283 V8 swapped 1963 Nova SS, and it had Cragar S/S wheels, Mickey Thompson RWL tires, Gabriel Hi Jacker air shocks, and Cherry Bomb mufflers.
My neighbor had a lead sled like that too.
Please tell me that you were rocking side burns too.
Couldn't tell u shit!! That is a sweet setup
One of my first "real" jobs was working in an auto parts store in the early - mid 70s. We couldn't keep Cherry Bombs and Hi-Jackers in stock as they moved off the self so fast.
What’s crazy when I read this post. My first car was a four-door mercury Monterey. Had the 400 in.³ Ford. It was a 1973. I think had exactly all that stuff on it. The cragar SS wheels, the air shocks, the rear tires and cherry bomb exhaust. Lol
When in HS during the mid-late 60s, a buddy of mine who was a true motorhead modified his 1955 2-door Ford Fairlane from the engine back. He changed the 272 C.I. to something larger, added a Hurst 4-speed transmission, changed the rear end to a 4:11 and had semi-stock mufflers for cruising around town and the local college. BUT, he also added cut-outs to rumble windows and scare the crap out of me. We miss you Bill. You were a strange guy but you could turn a wrench.
My first car in high school back in 1983 was a '69 Firebird 350. I hacked off the original single exhaust and ran duals with Maremont Cherry Bombs and turndowns and the rear axle. It was glorious.
Wow, what a memory!!! I was raised in my family's automotive repair shop, and in 1970, after returning from Vietnam, I bout a brand new 1970 Chevelle. Not long after I settled into civilian life, I installed dual exhaust with Cherry Bomb mufflers. I loved the sound and the feel of them. My Dad hated them, my Grandfather hated them (but they sold them anyway), and the local cops hated them. Not too long afterward, I became a local cop, and our Chief forbade me from driving that car to work, which I ignored. Even at seventy-four, I'd love to have the whole package back.
I had forgotten all about glass pack mufflers. Great to hear this story. 👍
Nearly every V8 I’ve owned has had a ‘glaspack’ on it, including my current Ram. Always loved the deep sound they provide.
In the mid '70s I put them on my '63 Impala Super Sport! They were direct fit as the stock mufflers, which were 32" long in the body! 😁
The year was 1969. I went to a car dealer to pick up my ordered GTX. When I left, it was around the block to the tire dealer to switch the rears for a pair of fat MTs, then off to the muffler shop for a pair of bright red Cherry Bombs to sound like it was time to mean business.
Yeah, I guess the pistol grip shifter and GTX badging didn't get their attention.
Back in the early 70’s as a kid if you had a cherry bomb decal on your “push” go cart you were automatically “cool” and had the fastest cart.
This is great info. Loved them back in the day. Great to see you can still get them.
In Australia they were known as Hot Dogs.
Stacey, I remember watching you on trucks as a kid, it's so awesome that i found you on here, keep up the amazing content
I had them on my 1967 Dodge Cornet R/T and a 1972 Nova loved the sound of them. The ones on the Nova ran right out of the headers
Cherry Bomb was a major upgrade from the $8.00 Thrush mufflers that only lasted maybe 6 months but they had cool graphics.
The Cherry Bomb factory is about 13 miles from my home in Tennessee. I had several classmates start their first job there out of high school.
Oh yeah I forgot about that - the cherry bombs were smooth, but the Thrush's had that crimped lip, on the ends, that always rotted out.
I had thrush mufflers on my first car back in 85.
Hush Thrush, with the angry little bird
Another good muffler was the Continental. It was maybe a little quieter than the Cherry Bomb, but was long lasting. Not quite as good as the Continental and Cherry Bomb, but better than the Thrush was the Golden Ram. All were better than the stock alternative.
My senior year of high school me and my buddies welded these onto our garbage old cars and trucks and had a damn good time. That was in 2021 lol, gotta continue the tradition!
I just picked a CHEERY BOMB up of the side of the highway last week had to circle the section to safley pick it up. The red paint on the front 1/3 is darker red to light brown, some one didn't tighten the clamp enough, I'll add it to the parts for my next build.
Back in 1982 I had my 70 Chevelle with Cherries and they would last about a year before the glass was blown apart inside of the mufflers and the sound would lose the deep resonance. Also had them on my 1976 K5 Blazer with a 400 in it. That would sound nice too until the rust would destroy them after a salty Michigan winter. Would try the Thrush on my Chevelle but after several good runs the back of the muffler cans would begin to blow out. The Cherry or Thrush stickers on my rear windows would last longer than the mufflers, but aaaahhh! The sweet memories.
I was 16 in 1979 and I bought a rough 1972 Nova for $1200. Lots of hay-bailing to buy. It had a 350 and I put a set of Cherry Bombs on it the same week I bought it. Sounded great!
Back in 1970, I was 12 my brother 17. He had a 1969 Formula S Barracuda, 340, 4 speed, 3.91 gears and Cherry Bombs. Loved the sound of those "mufflers" through a full exhaust system.
When I was 18 had a '67 Cuda 273 HiPo 4bl 4 speed 391 gears. Wish I still had it.
Had them on my 73 Charger 318 and my 67 Mustang 289. Sounded awesome. Especially when you dowshifted!
Weld a collector on one end and a 45° on the other with a piece of straight pipe to exit in front of the rear wheels. I couldn't afford anything over the axle. 😂
Loved the sound of Cherry Bombs! Had them on every rod I had in the 70s. I even put one on my Ford 300ci inline 6 I had for a while. Lol, it sounded like it was farting after taco bell when I put my foot in it! 😂
Met Stacy at Madison Wisconsin airport, really great and friendly. Ask me to sit down and talk. I started talking about his stuff he said he would rather hear about my car. Wish him the best. I even got a picture with him.
I was 12 in 1972 and I worked at my uncles muffler shop in Indiana. I got to clean up the shop. Cherry Bombs were very cool to have put on your car. I was able to get some stickers that were in the empty bomb boxes and would bring them home.
15yrs old in 1987 and my first car was a 1975 Pontiac Ventura with a 400 and a Muncie 4spd. It had a set of Cherry Bombs and it was the coolest sounding car around. Those are great memories!!!
I'm surprised the Cherry Bomb's didn't come out until 1968. I had Walker Continental glass packs on my 49 Ford Coupe back in 62. They were bottle shaped like the Cherry Bombs, but were metallic blue, and maybe a little bit longer. Those 239 flatheads with the JC Whitney chrome dry air cleaners and glass packs sounded really baaad ! The town where I grew up had brick streets on the main drags. In the summertime, when the brick was hot, I could get 3rd gear rubber.
This video was Fantastic. It brought back a lot of memories of my teenage years. I had a lot of friends and I, had cheery bombs on our trucks. Those were the years when you could name every vehicle that you saw because the majority of vehicles were Made in Detroit. American Automobiles.
In the mid-70s my dad owned a 68 mustang with a 289 and three on the floor every now and every now and then He would wind it out a little bit and those cherry bombs singing were one of the sweetest sounds ever. Still one of the best sounds out of a car I have ever heard!
Cherry bomb's was so loud and I loved it
Ran them back in the day on my 1976 F150 XLT Step Side with a 390ci V8 and dual exhaust turned 90 degrees behind the tires… that thing sounded bad ass!
I miss that old truck.
Love these history videos. Thanks
Thanks! More to come!
I'll never forget my buddy Zach in highschool had a big block GMC truck with cherry bombs that thing was so loud you could literally hear it a mile away.
I bought my first truck two weeks before i turned 13 in 1997. It was a 1984 Chevy S10 with a 355ci swap. True duals with two cherry bombs. Best sounding vehicle I’ve ever owned…
Ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb
They should have The Runaways on the box !
Great song!!!
I am at a point in life where the quieter the better. I actually ordered a factory muffler to put in place of an aftermarket noise maker. 😂
great video I remember my late friend ran those on his 1976 ford f350 dump truck !
1967 Galaxie XL 390 rebuild in1990 parts store had a pair in the back they couldn't sell according to the parts guy ( nobody wanted them everyone was buying Thrush) still on my car!!
Had one on a 93 Geo Metro that would set off car alarms. Today, I have the shortest one offered on my XSR700. Really love how it sounds!
Nice presentation on the cherry bomb muffler. Very informative and I didn't relize they made cats too! 👍👍
I have a glass pack muffler and a hooker headers on my 68 El Camino.
I bought my 318 Challenger in 1980; it came with Walker Continental glass packs; not sure if the original or the mark 2. I absolutely loved the sound of those. A glorious rumble at idle and sounded great all the way up but no harsh rapping or droning. Unfortunately, one day on the freeway I couldn’t avoid debris and tore one of the two mufflers up so I had to replace them.
Not knowing any better, I bought cherry bombs. Yeah, they were loud and raucous and maybe cool in their own way, but I would always go back to the continentals if I could.
I also remember Thrush and Purple Hornies.
I remember looking at purple hornies in summit as an early teen dreaming about future cars.
My old Merc pu has used these for years.Old school rules!😎👍✌🇨🇦
I had 'em as a kid back in the early 70's . However, I've never been able to adjust to the sound of modified exhaust on a vehicle with an automatic transmission. Just not the same as the sound coming from a car/truck with a 4 speed manual.
Back in my day, that's was the quickest way to a get an excessive ticket in my area. Thrush was the second and Walker blue swingers only received a brief glance.
"hello world, I'm a wild girl, like a ch ch ch ch Cherry Bomb".
When I was in elementary school -- the Cherry Bomb sticker was the most prized sticker for your notebook.
Cherry Bombs and Thrush mufflers, yup, great sound out of them both.
I dropped my 1996 BMW 750il v12 off to get an x pipe and chamber muffler ….. long story short I came to pick it up and it had 6” cherry bomb extremes instead …… the sound is indescribable 😂😂😂 but I love it
When I was a kid, my oldest brother had a '65 Impala that had dual pipes with Cherry Bombs. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I remember when I was a little kid watching him build this truck I like it when he finally gets it put together and will hops in his lock but we’re not done yet
I’ve had a cherry bomber on my 01 jeep wrangler for over 18 years!!! Sounds sweet with headers and a cold air intake lol, flows like crazy, even with a lift and 33 inch tires with stock gearing I’m still getting 18mpg on the mountain passes with that ol 4 liter
It was 1971 and I was 4 months before turning 16 and I had just bought my first car, a Gold 1967 Camaro RS 327 2bbl carb 4 speed manual. One of the first things I did was take it to the local muffler shop and have the original single exhaust system cut off and replaced with a dual exhaust with Cherry Bomb mufflers. Another popular muffler people used back then was the Thrush Hush. Those were the days.
Dad always used Cherry Bombs, the stickers always ended up on my bike as a kid.
I always liked the concept of the turbo muffler, which GM developed for the turbocharged Corvair Spyder which had a great sound. I had one. The turbo muffler looked so much like the ones being compared at the end of the Video.
Well back then I wasn't cool, but I did have Cherry Bombs on my '65 Olds Dynamic 88 convertible, and the 425 sounded pretty cool.
I had a couple of the competitors until I finally got the Cherry Bomb, and that was the best day ever.
I started driving in 85. You always heard the saying " she got headers and glasspacks". I also always heard that glasspacks and cherry bombs were not the same.
But they are a glass packed muffler because you can see the cutaway muffler that shows the glass mat packing inside of the cutaway shell & on the video you could see the woman wrapping the perforated core of the muffler with fiberglass mat packing than it gets slid down into the metal outside muffler casing that's then welded together so technically they are a glass pack muffler . Even the the Thrush straight through & the Hush Thrush were fiberglass filled mufflers . I had a set of Thrush straight through header collector mufflers on my 66 Chevelle SS 396 many years ago the longest ones I could buy because I hadn't planned on running full exhaust out to the back of the car & they were loud as heck but sounded good with a nice deep rumble coming off the header collectors but they were so loud I could barely hear the stereo with a power booster and equalizer and 2 10 inch stereo speakers mounted to a plywood board cut out for them propped up in the back seat cranked wide open lol. I decided to try the Hush Thrush header collector mufflers and it was definitely quieter but those were designed as a turbo muffler & they definitely killed the power down on the car even after running them a few weeks hard to see if they would break in and the engine would make more power again but they didn't so I swapped the straight through header collector mufflers back on . I could hear the stereo better with the hush Thrush turbo mufflers but they absolutely killed the engines power down because it killed the low end torque down & power all the way up to 7,000 rpms so I took them off and gave them away to someone I knew . I told him why I took them off and if I remember he tried them on his car and it was the same thing where it killed the power down on the engine and he took them off after a couple weeks and sold them to someone else lol . Even with the collector on them so they could be bolted onto the header they were short & you couldn't get them in longer lengths like the straight through Thrush header collector mufflers and with some headers they like a longer collector on them especially if the headers are a small tube design and that's why I think the engine responded better with the longer Thrush straight through header collector mufflers on it . If you look in the Summit & Jegs racing catalogs now you don't even see the Thrush turbo mufflers anymore anywhere because they used to be popular but they must have quit making them and kept the straight throughs instead in different lengths and pipe diameters . I worked at a speed shop back in the 90s in MN called S&S performance & Scott Payne my boss was the very first guy in MN to have a chassis dyno and we could build custom exhaust for just about anything as far as street cars and trucks to custom built headers for drag cars and the mufflers back then that consistently made the most power were the Flow master chambered mufflers . When someone wanted a custom exhaust made for lets say a 67 Chevrolet Corvette with a 427 in it which we did have one that came in we would run the car with the stock exhaust on the chassis dyno making no tuning changes to the engine at all then we would build a big tube exhaust with the Flow master chambered mufflers then it went back on the chassis dyno again and on most applications the engines made 50+ HP more than with the factory stock exhaust or a factory stock exhaust with glass packs on them . Once we started timing changes & jetting changes to the engines it typically made another 10-25 more HP and torque would go up as well . The only time we didn't use the Flow master mufflers is if the owner wanted a specific muffler to be used like a straight through glass pack or some kind of turbo muffler. I think the reason why the hush Thrush turbo mufflers killed performance was that they weren't designed exactly like the GM Corvairs that some you could buy that had factory turbo chargers on them that was a option that flowed much better . Back in the day if you bought a brand new 426 Hemi Challenger or Barracuda those came with Turbo mufflers on them that were designed after the GM Corvair Turbo mufflers so the Hemi engines could breathe better without being overly loud and obnoxious sounding for the street cars. The Flow master chambered mufflers use what's called the Delta flow technology where there are different sized V shaped baffles in side that allows more flow in 1 direction but still has enough back pressure to keep the low end torque up on the engines plus they are 1/8 th inch welded mufflers so they won't blow out or rust out nearly as fast as a cold rolled sheet metal muffler will plus you can buy different levels of performance mufflers from them that have different sounds from mild sounding to an aggressive exhaust note .
@peteloomis8456 you sure you don't have anything else to share😂
1994 I worked for Arvin NAA in the tube mill making tubing. Went to Cadillac exhaust to CK Truck line. Good times. Had 79 TA w/headers into glass packs. Stopped at my transmission. Cooked it. Lesson learned to run exhaust all the way back
My old '68 Coronet slant six had one of those stuck on... always liked it. I actually needed to hear the exhaust tone as the speedometer never worked; in high gear (stick-shift) the engine would increase by one note every five MPH or so... never got a ticket.
MY HUSBANDS FIRST CAR WAS A 1956 FORD VICTORIA WITH A 312 THUNDERBIRD ENGINE AND A CRUISEOMATIC TRANSMISSION. AND YES DUAL EXHAUST WITH CHERRY BOMB MUFFLERS!
Corsa makes stainless steel glass packs that might cost a little more, but my boss put them on his C4 Corvette to replace the rusty OEM exhaust. Full stainless from the headers, to the tips, and it sounds beefy when you rev it, but it's quiet when you're cruising.
I have owned 4 sets of them as I was growing up. 3 different cars and a pickup truck. Ran open headers in Arkansas.
anyone remember "Cyclone mufflers"? When you let off the gas the exhaust note had a "cyclone sound". And Walker Chamber Pipes were legal for about an hour. C. 1970. A muffler shop I saw had filled the trash bin with them so I and a neighbor took about 10 pairs. He put his pair on his 1966 Vette Roadster, L88 with side pipes and Walker Chamber Pipes . It was a nice sound on a 427 making over 600hp. I used "Corvair turbo mufflers" on my 8000rpm 350
I wonder if they still put the sticker in the box. I have one from 1970 on my dads old toolbox. He put one on his '67 olds 88. Sounded mean with that 455. It was a late '67 and they offered the 455 as an option. Everybody always jumps on me for that one. Glad to see their back.
In 199p my dad had a 78 half ton 4x4 chevy 350, 4bbl.4 sp. Headers and cherry bombs. I drove to school everyday. My English teacher call me Parnelli😂. I'd light them up at least 3x a day. Raced and won against a bunch. I sure miss working on simple but reliable as the sun coming up days!
In the early 70's I had Purple Hornies on my 66 GTO
Gotta love their tag line, "Disturbing the peace since 1968" That said, i feel they should do a better job with the fiberglass inside, it doesn't take long for it to be completely gone.
A lot of guys were dumping motor oil down inside of them so the fiberglass packing would burn out faster so they would get louder and had a deeper rumble .
@@peteloomis8456 as a teen, my dad told me back in his day they'd get them really hot by revving and backfiring them a ton, then shut them off and shove a water hose up the back to shock all the glass inside and it would also happen faster that way as well. I never tested it, but that's what he said. I always just install and let them do their thing, and I'm always happy. Never seen much reason to mess with em more. 😂
Had header muffs on my Camaro in the late 70’s. And let’s not Forget Thrush glass packs 😉
They rusted way to quickly . Don't take me wrong I had a set on my 69 camaro in high school
Cherry bombs much better. Just made better. Especially if you ran up north in the winter @@robertmcculley-y5c
Best sounding muffler ever built in my opinion.
I put a Cherry Bomb muffler on my '64 Dart!. Yup, slant Six. Sounded like an Austin Healer 3000!
Way back in like '83 my first car ('71 Maverick inline 6) had the muffler fall off as I was driving and scared me at first. 😅 so I went and bought a cherry bomb muffler and left it at the shop to be welded in. Well my dad knew the mechanic and they decided I needed regular muffler so I was left w/ my cherry bomb as a consolation prize. I would like to see how they compare to my borla's though.🤙
I had some on my 1972 Grand Prix back in the 80’s then on my 1967 ElCamino. I also have some on my 2010 Victory CrossRoads motorcycle. 106 ci, EFI controller, mechanical advanced timing gear, and 3 in Cherry Bombs.
I run glass packs on all my show trucks and i love them.
Glad to c em back
think my 70 challenger had blue bottles , is that the same thing ? I know one thing for sure , they where loud , rapped , loved it , 340 dual quad 500 carters
My parents put cherry bombs on their 66 GTO, 389 tri power, 4 speed. They sounded great.
My dad called them glass-packs. 😂😂😂
Enjoyed!!!!
The glass packs had one fatal flaw, and I found it more than once. I had a 59 F250, 223 six with Clifford intake and exhaust with dual exhaust, with ‘cherry bombs. With about 4 tons of hay pulling Vantage grade in third doing about an even 60, passing a semi, all of a sudden I was the noisiest truck on the hill. Most of the 10 miles was loud to say the least. For my ears, I changed, and never looked back. Have fun
Huh..no kidding. I always thought the Thrush Glasspacks came out first. My third car was a clapped-out ScoutII, with a decent motor. 345 Industrial, with a gear drive and short duals, running through Cherry Bombs, made a hell of a nice sound:)
Interesting info. As you say, nobody called the Glasspacks. Where I was from (Northern Va.) that's all we heard. All thru high school (70's) everyone said Glasspacks. Never heard the term Cherry Bombs, except once in the movies. I'm never too old to learn something....
So simple and so cool! As a young man a test tube to replace the cat and replace the muffler with a cherry bomb. Did this on at least four cars
As a kid we would get Cherry Bomb and Thrush stickers from the automotive department at Kmart. They passed them out like candy on Halloween.
I moved from cherry bombs to bulletin right to the flange of the headers
In 2007 my first truck was 88 ford ranger with a 2.3l I put a cherry bomb on it because that was my dads first muffler. By the end of the summer my
Whole neighborhood had cherry bombs on their trucks
I had them on my 87 Dodge pickup with a 318. It sounded great. I bought it used at one year old, and it was a 3/4 ton. Would've been better with the 360 though.
Looked like a muffler but when installed backwards with the interior baffles facing back they offered almost no noise reduction. Got pulled over a lot.
My preference was headers and collector mounted Trush header mufflers and nothing behind them. What a sound!
headers and Cherry Bombs on my '74 F100 , my neighbors were annoyed
I watched this episode when I was 15, ended up putting cherrybombs on my first car 1 year later😅
Wow, in my corner of the world the only guys running glass packs in the late 60’s were old grease balls, we couldn’t believe it when somebody would take a new muscle car and put a muffler from the 50’s on it. The equivalent of putting three Stromberg 97’s on your new 69 Camaro.
Had a set of them on my Hedman headers AMC 5 Litre V8.
Always loved Cherry bombs and Thrush mufflers.... had them on every classic i had.
sheeeeit, in '97 i was running glasspacks on my '72 chevy pu 🤘
I have a Cherry bomb on my ford focus it sounds amazing, also have the muffler my aftermarket exhaust came with. Never knew cherry bomb went out of business for so long
I think mine was NOS as the paint burned off rather quickly
My brother had a 1976 Chevy Nova in line 6. Back then the stock Novas and Camaros had the muffle turned sideways behind the axle. Problem was moisture could build up on the bottom part of the muffler and freeze and plug up the exhaust. I put one of the on his car problem solved and wasn’t even that much noisy.
Hooker Headers and Cherry Bombs what a combo! That’s what I had on my 70 Torino.
I 1st started out with glasspacks in my 74 Charger as my 1st car back in the day.