Back then one used to see for sale a lot of thrashed street cars or some tasty strip cars based on factory musclecars. Numbers-matching was nice but few gave a care and just ran whatever they had. Finding a freshly wrecked musclecar with a hopped-up power-train to donate whatever was salvageable was no problem. I'm sure thousands of Impalas donated 427s.
Oh, to go back in time with cash, a connected dealer & an order sheet. I envision a '69 Biscayne with an L-72, M22 and an MA6 Dual-Disk Clutch (which would delay and ultimately mean modifying or canceling the order, but one can dream). Or Baldwin-Motion could set you up (or Central Chev-Olds in London or Gorries in Toronto, or any of the dozens of speed shops around any given city back then).
Responses
« Back to index | View thread »