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    OT: Ping Bowtie

    And frankly any other car nuts here...

    Was putzing thru GovDeals and found something neat here in Ohio...

    GovDeals.com: 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle SS

    I might even go see it...though my taste runs more to classic Fords...

    My bet is somebody was hiding drug money...gotta hurt to lose something like that...

    Warning:if you need to ask how much? you can't afford this car...
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    Re: OT: Ping Bowtie

    WOW! What a beautiful thing!!!

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    Re: OT: Ping Bowtie

    I'd pass...... I don't like the interior.....looks like it came out of a modern car..... and the engine is too shiny.
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    Re: OT: Ping Bowtie

    A good ratchet set and a couple hours I can make that motor look a lot different...

    Bad pix, but a little more to my taste...

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    Re: OT: Ping Bowtie

    Wow! that is an awesome build, right color too. Sadly, once under the skin i don't think there's much '66 Chevelle left. I think at the end of the day i'd rather see something like a Willys coupe taken to this level.

    That looks like the plenum and fuel rails from a "crate stock" Ramjet 502, i think they just "dressed" it. I can't tell if those aux lines are just fuel returns or if they set this up for "juice". Don't get me wrong, that's a formidable power plant right out of the crate, and needs no juice, boost, or other mods for serious street performance.

    Kudos to the builders for keeping it clean, and especially for hiding the battery and probably the juice bottle too with that trunk panel.
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    Re: OT: Ping Bowtie

    Same place has a 69 Camaro, sans front clip... with a 302...and a 72 middie

    Drove a yellow 302 with the stripes way back the, a real z-28...best Chevy I ever drove...

    better than a corvette even IMHO...

    for driving, I'd rather have that Z than even a Yenko...but as an investment the Yenko wins...

    I'm at the point though where everything doesn't have to be investments...

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    Re: OT: Ping Bowtie

    Drove a yellow 302 with the stripes way back the, a real z-28...best Chevy I ever drove...

    better than a corvette even IMHO...

    for driving, I'd rather have that Z than even a Yenko...
    No surprise here, that 302 is/was a pretty special engine.

    Somewhere i have a great write up on it's development and testing. Apparently the engine R&D facility at that time was located in a suburban area not too far from a residential area. The story goes that several neighbors placed calls to local authorities concerned that they were hearing some type of an air raid/civil defense siren. The sound they were actually hearing was the design team putting a prototype 302 thru it's paces on the dyno, running it up to and above 8200 RPM!
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