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mitch96

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4. " the old formula of dropping a big V8 into a standard mid-size grocery getter"

Reply to JohnnyRingo (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 02:42 PM

Mar 2020

That was always fun.. 427 in a Galaxy or a pickup.. When we were kids we would drop 289's into small british sports cars a-la Cobra. We put a 289 into a Morgan +4 and a Austin Healy 100-6. Beastly fast and dangerous as hell. Brakes? what brakes..
Drums are good enough mate!
Good times
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