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Unread 07-08-2018, 04:24 PM   #11
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I wish Mark Conrad would chime in here. His focus has shifted from collecting Parker’s to collecting Corvettes.








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Jerry, that is really a nice car! I wish I was in the right tax bracket to be shopping for a mid-years Vette.
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1967 is the best year of American cars ever!
I vote for 1970. Most HP ever during the 60s to 70s and each company reached their peak: AMX, SS 454/450 LS6 Chevelle and 350/370 Z28, Hemi Roadrunners, Challengers, Cudas, Super Bees, Buick GSX 455, Ram Air III GTO, Boss 302 Mustang; the list goes on. Just my 2 cents.

But on Corvettes, it is the Mid-years and the '67 427/435!
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My preference is earlier.

My favorite corvettes are "56 - '62 ('62 being my absolute favorite).
Mustangs - '64 - '66.
GTO - '64 - '65 (mine was a '65 with Tri-Power)
442 - '64 - '65
Chevelle '64 - '67

All mostly for body style - back then we 'tricked' our own engines, trannys, rear ends, suspension, etc.

My '65 Chevelle started as a stripped 300 with a tiny 194 c.i.d. six but I built a 4-bolt 350", bored it and mounted an Edelbrock 4bbl manifold with a Holley 750 CFM carb, 2.02" heads were too expensive so I bought a set of 1.94" heads (big difference, right?) 350 HP cam, headers, reworked distributor with a somewhat radical advance curve... It was a very fun car but the 750 Holley was too big for it so I dropped to a 650 CFM Holley and it ran even better. Suspension was all replaced with much thicker stabilizer bars, progressive front springs and the thickest stock El Camino rear springs I could get. Shocks were heavy duty on front and adjustable on the rear. That car was a real screamer and handled like it was on tracks.





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Would have to agree

1967 Chevy ll Nova SS
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the 1966 and 67 novas were the car you had to beat at the drag strip...i like all of the chevy 2 s and novas...then again i like anything with wheels on it..my favorite car was a 32 ford 3 window coupe and a 55 chevy 210 post car....all i got close to them is a rough 36 ford coupe and a 4 door 57 chevy belair...nice car you have...charlie
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My preference is earlier.

My favorite corvettes are "56 - '62 ('62 being my absolute favorite).
Mustangs - '64 - '66.
GTO - '64 - '65 (mine was a '65 with Tri-Power)
442 - '64 - '65
Chevelle '64 - '67

All mostly for body style - back then we 'tricked' our own engines, trannys, rear ends, suspension, etc.

My '65 Chevelle started as a stripped 300 with a tiny 194 c.i.d. six but I built a 4-bolt 350", bored it and mounted an Edelbrock 4bbl manifold with a Holley 750 CFM carb, 2.02" heads were too expensive so I bought a set of 1.94" heads (big difference, right?) 350 HP cam, headers, reworked distributor with a somewhat radical advance curve... It was a very fun car but the 750 Holley was too big for it so I dropped to a 650 CFM Holley and it ran even better. Suspension was all replaced with much thicker stabilizer bars, progressive front springs and the thickest stock El Camino rear springs I could get. Shocks were heavy duty on front and adjustable on the rear. That car was a real screamer and handled like it was on tracks.

The only thing I did to my GTO was to pull the heads and have the machine shop put threaded rocker studs in it 'cause I kept pulling them by revving too high. After the new threaded rocker studs I had problems with pumping out the lifters so I put a new cam in it with solids. That gave me the incentive to replace the flywheel with an aluminum one. Revs were very touchy then. Response to the accelerator was immediate!!




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My '67 Chevy was even a rarer bird than a Nova or a 'Vette. It was a midnight blue Biscayne two door post with a 283 and three on the column, no other options. I installed one of those monster 500 CFM Holley two barrels on the stock manifold. I bought it off of a Dodge lot in 1969, the month I got out of the Army, $1200 in mint condition and 12000 miles on the odometer. The Dodge guys couldn't get it off the lot fast enough. Greatest little Chevy I ever owned.
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Small Block with a few more cubic inches than the Biscayne...
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You sure have a lot of time and money invested in that one!





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