I had a 1967 GTO with a 389. I added a Crane cam, solid lifter, Jardine headers, Edelbrock manifold with a 3310 Holley Carb. Go like crazy, but barely got 7 miles to the gallon around town (luckily while I owned it, while in the service in Richmond, VA., 18 cents a gallon gas, with gas wars, wasn't unheard of). My 1967 Chevy II was really cool. To make it look a bit out of the ordinary, put a fiberglass hemi hood scoop on it. It has a 275 Horse/327 (with deep dish Cragar S/S mags. Of course, the extreme offset caused one of my wheel bearing to go out and spin & ruin the hub and the spindle. As the Chevy II was one of the first with front disc brakes, it took over two months to get a new hub and spindle. Had to drive my dad's car to work and college). Man, that Chevy small block was awesome - my first V8 was the 265 c.i. version in my 1956 Chevy (what I would have given for a Chevy Nomad wagon during that period - and my GTO was originally black with a black vinyl top - people remember vinyl tops? My late friend, Mike (who died from agent Orange exposure in Viet Nam combat) had it painted pearlescent yellow. I loved that car.

My favorite was my 1965 TBird. Red - when I got it, the rag top was in rough shape and even though it was 1973 I think, I couldn't find a tacking strip to hold down the new top I had found for it. Even Ford couldn't put me onto anything. So my friend Vaughn and I took a couple of Gates Hi performance fan belts, drilled holes in them and riveted them into the tack strip track. Great thing about Ford convertibles that, unlike GM which had their rag top outside along the back - Ford had the trunk open up and the top went down into the trunk compartment. For a nice smooth look (of course the hydraulic system was leaking and the solenoid that activated the trunk. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't!)

Like Sid, I had a real soft spot for the Chrysler product of the late 60s/early 70s (always wanted one of the RoadRunners with the 383. The Hemi version was too much out of my money area. Chrysler thought they would come up with an affordable muscle car and took the regular Belvedere body, beefed up the suspension and brakes and offered it with the 383 - maybe even the 318 small block that Sid talked about -or the 426Hemi. I don't think the 440 was available then). I was going to order a 1970 Dodge Challenger with a 340(or was it the 343?) and a torqueflite transmission (one of the strongest ever built - on the opposite end of the scale was GM's horrible powerglide trany), then my draft notice came through and that was that. I used to marvel at the Chrysler sponsored super stock drag racers - Plymouth Barracuda's with 426 hemis and torqueflites. Damn they would fly (or course going up against guys like Grumpy Jenkins and his big block Camaros. Jenkins and others used the first aluminum block 454's) Man it was fun back then. Now a car should be paid for and get good gas mileage....getting old sucks.

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