Chevy Vega Re: Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

From: Messick, Gary <Gary.Messick_at_itt.com>
Date: Fri Aug 3 09:12:26 2001

OT: When I was a kid, we used to have a 30' Wellcraft Scarab Offshore boat.
Not only was it one of the first to have big blocks (Chevy 454's), we had
6-71's on them. This was back in the late 70's early 80's, when the
professional offshore racers where CID limited, normally aspirated. Once a
year they'd come to Lake St. Clair in MI for a race. They'd be all decked
out in their flack jacket/life vests, full-face helmuts, and we'd BLOW past
them with our stereo blasting, girls sittin' on the back in bikini's. Boy
did THAT pi$$ them off!

Gary
> DQ wrote:
>
> [Memory lane, snipped]
>
> Thanks for that ;-)
>
> > I still get chills when I hear the blower on the 327 on Mad Max's
> > car in the first movie... didn't that have an Edelbrock manifold?
>
> I remember thinking that it looked like it had a 6-71 on it, and
> Edelbrock certainly makes (or at least made) manifolds for
> suck-through
> applications of the 6-71. However I also remember the blower being
> clutched, which made little sense -- unless it was a blow-through
> application with some sort of bypass for when the blower was shut
> down.
>
> Whatever. It had that nice 6-71 whine, which is what
> _really_ matters :-)
Received on Fri Aug 03 2001 - 09:12:26 BST