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It is a pleasure for me to read all of these untold stories from back in the day.  I love it!

Funny. And creative.

LOL!  Sweet!  And appropriate commentary for the times.

Quote from: Side-Oilers on March 19, 2022, 08:40:31 PM
Richard,
As always, I look forward to your car stories.

Wednesday was the best racing night at Van Nuys, year-round.   Fri-Sat was more for the teenagers, but street racers would still show up.

I agree that a stock 302 Z/28 wasn't/isn't a great drag race car...unless you do the series of mods that others above have already mentioned. 

I'd choose the 396 or Yenko 427 as a starting point.  Back in the day, more cubes were always better, right?  (I'm still in that cult.)

Another cool Chevy, and almost unknown to anyone at the time, was the '65 Malibu SS Z/16.  The first 396.  Solid-lifters.  Fender skirts and a vinyl roof.  Optional pale yellow paint made it the ultimate sleeper car.  It looked like granny's inline-six Chevelle, until it promptly ate your lunch.   

BTW:  My cousin had one in the late-60s.  With headers and other typical Day Two work, they'd really run.  Strangely, those cars had open-differential, not posi.  (The chassis engineers thought a Panhard rod would suffice.)  The result was a car that laid down the biggest and angriest one-legged burnouts on the planet.   Chevy only built 201 of Z/16 (200 hardtops, one convertible)  and they were among the very the first of the big block '60s cars to soar to giant bucks.  (Nice Z/16s were already at $50k in the early/mid-'80s, when you could buy an equal-condition Hemi Satellite or GTX for $20-25k.)  Z/16s have typically been over $150 for the past 30 years. 

If the Z/16 is not appropos for this article of yours...then perhaps in the future.  Keep 'em coning!
Van

Hey Van, thanks for listening to said stories.  It seems that the last one I posted on youtube had a bit of a take off with the algorithm, the story of the ghost behind the gas station in a secret and sealed off area.  Youtube's algorithm is unusual.  My current story lineup involves a 69 Boss 302, a 69 Z/28, a 70 Plymouth Barracuda AAR and a big block 69 Roadrunner A12.  I imagine that a group of friends could run what they had or could afford.  In the scenario they agree to race each other but wait for the big block to race last so that the three smaller blocks can do rounds of elimination.  They never make it to race the big block Roadrunner due to a, ahem, tragic accident.  Then the horror begins for the main character when he visits his afterlife.  Not what he expected.

LOL on both commentaries.

Here I was on a Saturday afternoon researching how tires are made for purposes of the horror story I am writing and ran across this:
https://youtu.be/bCGQ1w8mPnw

Found a forum on that issue.  Here.
https://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=367519

Maybe the Boss 302 was the better car then.  But the 69 Boss engines had problems.  Cracked piston skirts I think.  Which were cured in the 1970?

I know it's heresy to put this link up to a 69 Z/28 but most of us (I think) including myself can appreciate what the car represented and the time period in which it thrived.  I used to despise all things Chevrolet in high school due to certain rivalries, but I have relented as time passed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcVyTduXg_4

Has the chrome delete package. Check
Has the crossram carburetion.  Check

I remember a recall though for engines separating from the motor mounts in the first generation and Chevrolet using chains to hold them down until a fix could be had?

What is the "Orange Belt?"  I heard it referenced in the Darnell's Garage scene of Christine.  I like the terminology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbaAsgDBx0c

Okay cool!  Thank you for the information, gentlemen.  This story is going to be a weird one but having fun with it.  Only a few hundred words into the idea.  Involves a 69 Camaro Z/28.  Hey it can't all be Ford or Shelby Mustangs.  Besides, if I were ever to cross over to an old Chevrolet it would likely be the 69 Z/28.  That is one screaming car with its 302 block and factory four speed.  I think the 69 Z/28 only came with a four speed like the Boss 302s.

And FLSAAC, Sharknado was ridiculous, funny, creative and inspirational showing that one can write about anything.

I am working on another short story so was interested if anyone knew where the hot spots were in California for late night street racing and what day or days were preferred?  I presume Friday nights and/or Saturday nights.  I haven't posted my stories here lately (no doubt to the relief of some on SAAC) because it is my understanding that it throws off the algorithm and makes/ complicates my channel's ability to climb in rank.  Thanks for any information or insight you all can provide.

Richard E.

Does the "500" in G.T. 500 stand for G.T. $5.00 per gallon?

Quote from: FL SAAC on March 14, 2022, 10:30:02 AM
Everything associated with fuels and transportation will go up in price. 

Food, clothes,  building materials, EVERYTHING

Oh, I know.  I am wondering how we got here in the last year.  Cause and effect is what I am pondering.  Something happened early last year that got us here. 

Yes, it seems we're headed that way.  Not only gasoline, but all these other calamities happening over the last year.  It's all very strange.  Seems the world is less stable these days.

https://youtu.be/C5Z4_kgT8sI
As I said before, I believe hydrogen will overtake battery. And why not use clean hydrogen to create more hydrogen.