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1968-1969 Chevy II Nova SS396: 375 hp

by admin on March 7, 2010

In late spring of 1968, I eased out of the GM Tech Center in a sweetheart of a Chevy II: a four-speed, bright red with a black vinyl top. Except for the chrome 396 badge on the front fenders, it could have passed for a vestal virgin. But all eyes homed in on those badges, and for the next four days the cops were on me like ants on a picnic.

The 375-hp option cost $500.30, more than twenty percent of the Chevy II’s base of $2389.35. And it was a bargain.

This car weighed 3470 pounds, which was more than 400 pounds less than a similarly equipped Chevelle, and it had better weight distribution – 55 percent on the front tires, compared with 57 percent for the Chevelle. At Detroit Dragway it ran 14.5 seconds in the quarter at 101 mph, a weak ET for the speed. The E70-14 Tiger Paws were hopeless. A change of tires would have put this car under fourteen seconds. over 100 mph and under fourteen seconds in the quarter was the muscle -car major leagues.

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1966-1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396: 375 hp

March 4, 2010

Chevrolet was always in the fast-car business, so there were plenty of SS396 Chevelles. Most of them were nice, docile cars with torquey big blocks that could put your license in points trouble in just one night of exuberance. Then there was the L78.
The L78 engine had a heavy-duty block with four-bolt mains, big-port heads, [...]

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Canadian Auto Industry : New business model, new union model too

March 4, 2010

A quote in a news story yesterday appeared to reveal that the Canadian Auto Workers boss gets it and will agree to slash labor costs by 25% so Chrysler LLC can survive.
“We’re going to get it done,” Ken Lewenza, president of the holdout, the Canadian Auto Workers, told Bloomberg April 21 in an interview. “We [...]

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1968-1969 Plymouth/Dodge Intermediate: 425 hp

February 28, 2010

For 1968, Chrysler helped the Hemi a bit with a better cam, different valve springs, and a windage tray in the oil pan to hold the oil away from the crank, thereby reducing parasitic power losses. Output was perhaps 30 horsepower stronger, although the 425-hp rating did not change.
In those days, the advertised rating was [...]

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Coordinator at Memories Show & Shine

February 26, 2010

I am trying to locate the marketing or event coordinator at Memories Show & Shine so I hope that this email will get to the right person.
My name is J.J. Lobe and I manage the Saskatchewan/Manitoba office for our company called FreshAirCinema – The Outdoor Movie Company. We specialize in hosting large-scale outdoor movie events [...]

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Memorable Trips In Yesteryear’s Cars

February 26, 2010

Everyone can recall a memorable family vacation. Maybe you left a box of crayons in the summer sun, leaving a puddle of multicolored wax. Or you sat on your father’s glasses, leaving the rest of his vacation a blur.
We asked readers to tell us about their family vacations and the cars, vans, trucks and campers [...]

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1966-1967 Chevy II SS327: 350 hp

February 25, 2010

Muscle cars were mostly intermediates with big-block engines. Customers thought big was better. Engineers knew otherwise, knew that a high power-to-weight ratio was the key. In 1966, Chevy was the only maker with a small block that would really run (the 271-hp 289 Ford was a stone). The 350-hp 327 in approximately Corvette tune, dropped [...]

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1970-1971 Plymouth/Dodge Intermediate: 425 hp

February 21, 2010

For the last two years of its production life, the Street Hemi had hydraulic lifters, but the cam retained approximately the same valve events as before. Street Hemis ran best with their valve lash adjusted just right, and hydraulics were the factory’s way of making sure it stayed that way regardless of the owner’s maintenance [...]

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1986 Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable

February 17, 2010

Back in 1982, Ford brought out its first soft-form car, the Thunderbird, and unlocked the door to aerodynamic shapes in the 1980s- “membrane cars,” as Art Center College of Design prof Strother MacMinn calls them, because they look as if their smooth skin had been pulled taut over the underpinnings, like a membrane. If the [...]

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