Thread: What Was Your First Big Block Car ?

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1930 A-bone. 454 Chevy 0.030 over.

66 Corvette, 427-4speed roadster! I graduated highschool in '84 and left for Navy Bootcamp 12 days later. Graduated from there and left for Sardegna, Italy. Was there for 12 months, came home on leave and found the car in the paper for $8000. w/a 350 in it (august of 85, just before the prices started to go thru the roof!!!!). Went to look at it and fell in love, got it for $7100!!). Started researching and found out it had been a 390 hp 427 car. Had the correct trans and rearend and was in decent condition. (I actually drove it for 4 years after I got back from Italy and did NOTHING to it. Started a ground-up resto and found a '69 L-88 (yeah, a REAL L-88... 560 HP!!! ) in a 64 Impala that a friend of a friend had in his old drag car. Cut a deal to buy it (for $650!!!!!! ) and when I redid the car, that was in it. Sold the car in 94 for $11,500 + a 71 Nova Prostreet car with a 400hop smallblock in it...Not BAD!!!! But GOD do I miss that car!!!!! 'Puter crashed a month or so back and lost a bunch of pix, but I will post a few of it after I get some scanned again.

Originally Posted by maxxmuscle

66 Corvette, 427-4speed roadster! I graduated highschool in '84 and left for Navy Bootcamp 12 days later. Graduated from there and left for Sardegna, Italy. Was there for 12 months, came home on leave and found the car in the paper for $8000. w/a 350 in it (august of 85, just before the prices started to go thru the roof!!!!). Went to look at it and fell in love, got it for $7100!!). Started researching and found out it had been a 390 hp 427 car. Had the correct trans and rearend and was in decent condition. (I actually drove it for 4 years after I got back from Italy and did NOTHING to it. Started a ground-up resto and found a '69 L-88 (yeah, a REAL L-88... 560 HP!!! ) in a 64 Impala that a friend of a friend had in his old drag car. Cut a deal to buy it (for $650!!!!!! ) and when I redid the car, that was in it. Sold the car in 94 for $11,500 + a 71 Nova Prostreet car with a 400hop smallblock in it...Not BAD!!!! But GOD do I miss that car!!!!! 'Puter crashed a month or so back and lost a bunch of pix, but I will post a few of it after I get some scanned again.

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