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Originally Posted by erik erikson

The big difference was you could get the LS6 Chevelle or the GNX Regal very easily and for the AC Cobra you would have to wait a long time.

While I don't necessarily disagree with your comments about those two GM car, you must not have been around in real time for the Cobra. There wasn't much of a wait at all, at least in the major markets. In fact, I remember seeing new 427 Cobras on dealer show room floors a full year after production stopped. It actually took a few years before the "mania" took hold.

I love Chevies, but I've seen many wave bye-bye to Hemi taillights.

Something that ran mid to high 12's right off the showroom floor on skinny bias ply tires definitely got my attention and respect.

Small town cop in an adjoining town to ours had a Dodge with a big Hurst 4 speed shifter poking out of the floor. The Sheriffs in some of those small towns were able to convince the city fathers they needed high performance pursuit cars. He would never tell us what was under the hood, but we sort of knew it was a 426 max-wedge.

One night I am racing another GTO in my tripower '66, and as we leave the line on the 4 lane we see this cop in his Dodge coming the other way. He hits the lights and I take off. I am running flat out, not one more mph left in the Goat, and the speedo is pegged below the 120 mark, so I am doing about 130. My buddy in the passenger seat tells me I better get moving because the cop is gaining on me. All I could do was watch his headlights getting closer to me as I was trying to escape. Finally, I saw a two lane road turn off of the 4 lane and flipped onto it. I finally was able to get away, but only because the GTO cornered better that that big Dodge. If I had stayed on the 4 lane he would have gotten up to me for sure. I still have a whole lot of respect for Mopars.

Don

I remember one night in '65 at Carlsbad, Jack Christman brought out the first Comet Cyclone that I had seen. He made a believer out of a lot of folks that night.

Sounds like you guys need to borrow this;

mopars are great cars... cept for the fact that chryslers engineers designed the bodies poorly and because of it, most of them are rusted into the ground now