Bigeasy my Dad kept his 63 Impala Convertible, 409 dual quad, 4sp for years, that cars was fast even before it became a race car. It was always funny to me that a GTO is the first muscle car but it wasn't the fastest GM offered.
Bushwacker, those early valiant/cudas with a solid lifter 273 or 318 can run real nice let alone a 340. 340's hold a special place in my heart, you haven't lived till you've shifted a 7000-8500 rpm floating wristpin 340. 340's get their rpm quick,360 magnum motors from the 90's are very similar to a 340, heads too. I have a friend who used to race a w2 14.5 to 1 340 in a street legal duster 5.13 gears, minitubbed, 10.5 slicks, holyhandful. That was the nastiest smallbloak I've ever heard, it was just so high-strung and spitting that compression out.
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Thank goodness that in the scheme of things you are broke, powerlesss and inconsequential, because with the shortsighted alternatives and idealogy you have you'd be much worse than those you complain about.
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