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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I'm a little too old for that. I do remember when mag wheels became popular, a kid at our school painted the steel wheels on his '56 Plymouth to look sorta like mags. The local "pro" hot rodder had a '62 Chevy 409. He got a '63 Plymouth 426 wedge when it came out, then bought a new '64 Plymouth with a hemi when they came out. He took the hemi out of the '64 and put it in the '63 for some reason. My cousin was way down the food chain with a '57 Chevy, 283 Powerglide. I was off the radar with a '60 Volkswagen. My best friend took his Bugeye Sprite in to have an 8-track professionally installed. They hooked it up and fried it immediately. Positive ground doncha know.
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Similar to my time. Power around our little town in N. TX was a '62 Impala SS 409 and a stripped '55 Chevy 210 2 dr: 327 with power pack heads, pink stripe corvette cam, solid lifters, headman headers, etc running either 3 dueces or 2 Carter AFBs and no telling what compression ratio. You talk about a car that "loped" at idle, it loped... and it would haul ass.
Personally, I had a 57 Chevy 210 2dr sedan with a 235 straight 6 and 3 on the column... well it got good gas mileage anyway....
AFter wrecking the 210 got a '57 Bel Air coupe, 283 with Powerglide... like an idiot I sold it when i graduated from college...