by admin on March 7, 2010
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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