I actually like all muscle cars, especially the pony cars. My first true race car (that I sunk most all of my money in, lol) was a 500+ hp 67 Camaro. It had everything, 3/4 race roller, tunnel ram n two 4's, Lenco 5 speed crash box, Lakewood bell housing, blow proof drive cage, Dana 60 4.56 with welded spider gears, and then some. I built the crashbox by removing some teeth off the syncronisers, and I welded the spider gears myself as a way saving $ I never had. My wife broke an axle while driving slow around a turn with 21" Race Master slicks on it (destroyed the 1/4 panel), and it sat under my carport till I tired of it. I wound up getting rid of the body, and installed the drive train into a 600+ hp 340 70 AAR Cuda. I rebuilt the engine through ED Hamburgers Direct Connection best of everything with race ground clearances, swapped out the 4.56 for 5.13's and installed Henry axles and Detroit Lockers in the Dana. I drilled out the left side lifter galley to 5/8 and installed my own 5/8 copper tubing with predrilled 1/8" oilers for the solid high lift cam. This increased lower end oil pressure along with a Milodon hv pump that I tweaked with a high pressure relief valve spring. At first run it actually swole the oil filter and blew the gasket (I buried a 110 lb gauge, scared the crap out of me!), and had to rework the pump. This was my first race car ever that effortlessly walked on two wheels. I built a lot of 12 sec + junkyard motors that lasted way past their time, 389 Goat, 340 Challenger, 383 Challenger, 440 mtr, 427 Ford motor, couple of SB Chevys, the Camaro, and last, my Cuda. I was 28 yrs old, with hordes of neighborhood people rushing to the wicked sound of the first fire up. I was so proud of this thing, and so worried about braking something, that I never did get out of third gear with it. It was so intense for me to drive, with a 10" fan (electrics were just becoming street popular), no hood on, no breather, and 8k rpms, the fan blew gushes of gas from the 1800 cfm's of blue printed 3 deuces on to my windshields (could hardly see) on my first shift to second gear. Not to mention the Lockers forcing the car to go in a dangerous direction when the slicks bit and your in the air! Yes a whopping 1800 cfm's, hehe, bought used from a Moons wrecking yard in Gretna, La who raced Mopar. Too much or not, idling at 1500 rpm's to prevent load up, it was awesome to hear and fun to play with. That was my last build, and no other car could ever take it's place in my world, no matter how fast or what make. It was the love of my life, and still is, and that's why any other car make sux to me,
