Just an old story with maybe some modern significance. Around 1985 I was shopping around for a family car after our Volare Slant-6 finally wore out (since it had a manual 4-speed in a wagon I am now qualified to drive a school bus!). I saw a 1970 7-passenger Plymouth wagon on a lot with only 9,000 miles and a perfect interior with perfect paint, so I asked for a test drive to take it home to show it to my wife. It was low on gas so I put in 5 gallons for the test drive. It had a 360 and could really haul! However on the way home to show it to my wife I could literally watch the gas gauge fall as I drove! It must have gotten all of 8 mpg. One of my coworkers had that same model and he said he seldom got over 11 mpg. Later I worked on some 360 heads and the intake ports are huge! So, yes a 360 will really move it along, but be prepared to buy gas for it! About a month later we bought a Pinto wagon with a 2L OHC engine instead, back in the years when the kids were small and we needed an economical family car. I still have great respect for the performance of the 360 but man oh man they do use gas!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder