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Jimmy Malone took me for a ride today in his new A-1 Special.

Check out those vent ribs. 92% factory CC. Bores measure .327

"Throaty" as all hell.

Sweeeeeeeeeeet!!!! :bowdown::cool::bowdown:

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1967 is the best year of American cars ever!

Very nice!

I stopped to look at a '65 GTO for sale yesterday... It was a wall-hanger. :crying:






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I really miss my 67 Vette. Probably the finest car I ever owned.

nice corvettes...love the looks of them....charlie

Here's a pic of my wife and I on I-15 headed to So. Cal, take by my brother from the driver's seat of a 1971 340 Cuda.
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Okay Todd, tell us about that wild paint job.





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Flames were all the rage, back in the 70s. Bought that way, and was a pretty cool look, for a while.
Being a car painter, I eventually changed the color to "Indian Fire Red", with a polyurethane material called Sunfire Urethane.
At the same time, I swapped out the 300 HP 327, for a built 350. I started out wanting to duplicate the venerable LT-1, but got a little carried away. Took a low mileage 4 bolt main 350 apart, balanced and blue-printed, with a Hi-Flow 1-H cam, degreed as part of the blueprint, Holley Street Dominator intake manifold, Holley 650 Double pumper, and Hooker Street Competition headers. The icing on the cake was a 100 HP nitrous kit, only to be used in emergencies ; )
This car was wicked-fast, and a lot of fun to drive.

Last year my friend who had sold his red 63 Split-window that I had helped him get correct parts and make nearly 100% had to find another one. He asked me to help him at Carlisle. I know a little about mid-years, not much about straight axles and later ones so I spent three days walking around looking for the right car. He slept OK at nights but I could not sleep thinking of all the cars we had examined. Here is his '67 that I found to be the best car and buy there. White, bright blue interior, blue top, 327-300 with the correct Winters Foundry aluminum 350 HP intake on it and bolt on wheels. Four speed with the 336 posi rear, great cruising combo with the dealer installed luggage rack. Perfect exterior and interior.

you got good eyes j a.......charlie

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.

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!

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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Livin" the Dream
 

Would have to agree:)

1967 Chevy ll Nova SS

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

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.

67 Dreamin
 

Small Block with a few more cubic inches than the Biscayne...

You sure have a lot of time and money invested in that one!





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67 Dreamin
 

Thanks... I`m not sure which it is. :) Even went with a couple sets of wheels trying to find the right look.

Randy, is it for street & show or do you race it regularly?





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Dean, it`s just for cruises and shows... It was built to go fast and straight but has never been to the track... Just always wanted a 67 Nova ever since I was in high school.

In my travels around the East Coast, I have never found a '63 to '67 Chevy ll that didn't have some major problem. I think there must be another source.

Bill, one time I had a problem with the garage door where I keep the Chevy II, the repairman said to me... Mr. Davis I wish I had your problem... :)

Right Bill - The other source would be the Southwest. :cool:





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Randy, do you know the HP / TQ numbers?

Frank, not sure of actual HP/TQ. I have never had on a dyno. Driskell Racing built the engine. Should be 425hp small block. Has a 355, 4.030 Bore 3.480 Stroke SRP 10.1 pistons. Brodix RR200/23 degree heads 2.055 valves. Comp cam XE 284 H-10 Brodix HV1014 intake w/ Pro System 4150 Dominator Carburetor with 100hp NOS. Turbo 350 Trans w/ 3000 holeshot converter. 3.73 Auburn gears...the little Chevy II weighs around 3000lbs.

So basically what your saying is the "in the seat dyno" is that it goes like a raped ape. :shock:

Great looking car. Great stance and I love the orange.

Thanks Frank! DuPont Fire Orange... Pretty much :) shift points are set @ 6300 and when I shift into high it`s at 100, Plenty quick for me...

Randy, you need to take it to the track one Saturday night, and see what it will do.

This is my buddy's car he built over the past two plus years and got on the road in April, since we are in 1967. It has a 383 stroker small block with well over 400 hp, 373 rear, turbo 350. Made it from just the rusty body. It will smoke the massive tires on the rear.

Nice! (what's a 383 stroker?)





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[QUOTE=Dean Romig;248185]Nice! (what's a 383 stroker?)


It is essentially a 350 block using the 400 crankshaft. They are factory made crate engines (expensive) but anyone can make one from a 350 block with a 383 stroker kit. The factory one is 450 HP with 450 lb-ft of torque. And all in the lighter small block.

Thanks Jerry - In the "old days" we used to build 301 strokers by using a 283 crank in a 327 block. What a screaming little engine that was! In fact, that's what Chevy put in the early Z-28's but I think they got the idea from DIY rodders.





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Or visa-versa. The Z-28 was created to compete in a class that limited the cubic inches to 305, IIRC. (not using Google)
Hence the 302. The backyard hotrodders could not compete with the R&D departments of the major automakers.

I wonder how Chevy explains why the 307 was such a dog.....





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For you Ford lovers. This original Cobra has been owned by one owner since new. I've known Bruce for about 30 years, and he is the consummate chassis engineer, and the most competitive person I've ever met. Had a very successful career at Ford. He has all the original parts to the car, and it could be put back to stock if someone wanted to. As he says in the video, the car's probably worth about $1.4 Million. If you google up "Bruce Cambern Cobra", there are lots of videos of the car. As he is now about 78 years old, he no longer drives the car. (he used to) Not many race cars around that have had to be detuned because they produced too much HP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38d6Wcj0Fhw

[QUOTE=Dean Romig;248266]I wonder how Chevy explains why the 307 was such a dog.....

Drunk one night a Chevy engineer instead of designing the 327 with a 283 crank to make the famous 302 got mixed up and designed a 283 with a 327 crank (307). Zora Arkus-Duntov fired him the next day. :)

Here's an interesting 67 Vette:
https://youtu.be/_DDswtLUhdM