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One afternoon many years ago I was showing a friend how good my car ran. I blasted it down a residential side street. Sitting in the alley near...
Back in the mid '60's during my street racing days I had just beat another '63 Ford with my '63 Ford. The 1/4 mile race was on a deserted street...
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Back in my teens I worked in a machine shop. I was using a cylinder hone on a 6 cylinder Chevy block. This was the finger type hone with stones...
The difference in the 396/325 and the 396/360 is the camshaft. While the 396/325 could have had the Holley or a Quadrajet, it had a smaller cam...
Mid year Corvettes hold their value better than almost any other American built car. Invest in this beauty, enjoy it for a few years and sell it...
In 1973 I had just purchased the house I still live in today. At the time I did not owe on anything except the house. I went to the bank,...
A few year ago I was headed home from a business trip and coming through a small town in southern Indiana. On the main street I spotted a small...
More pictures of this beautiful 1965 Corvette. Did I mention that this coupe is very quick? That's thanks to its 327/350 high performance engine...
1965 Corvette Coupe real L79 327-350 with Muncie 4-speed. Ermine white exterior with black interior matches the original trim tag. Runs great,...
Ramchargers at Island Dragway [IMG] Wrong. This photo is actually of Ramchargers at Indy waiting in line at the teardown barn
That is the butchered version of the Dobbs-Ferry Ford Thunderbolt.
Looks like dual wiper blades.
SOLD SOLD SOLD 1965 Chevelle Malibu convertible. Originally a V8 stick car now repowered by a fresh 350 GM crate engine backed by a Muncie...
That is the Hawes Bros. Photo taken at US 60 Dragway in Hardinsburg, KY in 1965.
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Then there was the exhaust sound when a car drove away in the movies. It usually sounded like a 6 cylinder Chevy with a split manifold and dual...
Lots of misinformation in the article. Stuff like Thunderbolts came with the 427 "side oiler" and 100 white Thunderbolts were built then DST...
[ATTACH] Thunderbolts headed for the starting line.
The Thunderbolts did not totally vanish after 1964. Some got parked after the Mopar Hemis started dominating in S/S. In 1965 there was only S/S...
The biggest one that come to mind was the transmission issue. Hydro transmissions from trucks used in Chevy sedan deliveries and 4-speeds in any...
First of all the 340 was not introduced until 1968 but was not available in the Valiant sedans, only available in the Barracudas for the smaller...
Up through 1969 NHRA allowed cars in Stock classes built prior to June 1, 1961 to use any engine of the same make from that model year to be run...
To run E/SA it had the 273/235 4 barrel engine.
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Homemade Ford steelies article. http://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2006/02/Steelies/
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