I am a Chevy fan, and have had many desireable cars, but I am also a realist. I have followed this hobby for 50 years, and I know what I've seen.

The greatest racing engine of all time, and I am talking about sprint cars, road racing, tractor pulls, drag racing, Bonneville, stock cars, boats, and so on, is without doubt the Chevy smallblock.

There are contenders, such as the Hemi, but only in some segments of racing.

As far as street rods, the numbers tell the story. I would bet a years pay that at least 50% of all street rods ever built had a "dinkyblock" in them. The other 50% had everything else.

The next engine behind that would be the Bigblock Chevy.

The only other definition would be what was in streetrod #1.....then you have to define "streetrod".... and have a history of every farm boy that ever modified a car.... which we don't.

Thats my position, and those are my arguements.