It is a pleasure for me to read all of these untold stories from back in the day. I love it!
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Side-Oilers on March 19, 2022, 08:40:31 PMHey 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.
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
Quote from: FL SAAC on March 14, 2022, 10:30:02 AMOh, 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.
Everything associated with fuels and transportation will go up in price.
Food, clothes, building materials, EVERYTHING