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I've told this story before, about the day I was smitten with hot rods. I was 13 or 14 and my dad took me with him to visit one of his friends that he worked with at the tool & die shop. Well, the friend had a friend who was visiting at the same time.

This dude was driving a '40 Chevy coupe with an inline six mounting a GMC 6-71 blower and 5 (yeah, count 'em, five) Stromberg carbs. At the time, I knew nothing, so I said nothing. I just stood there with my jaw hanging open and stared.

But that was it. I was done with stockers and it has been that way for the 55 or so years since that day. I never did learn what the motor was out of, but when I tell the story, I like to think that it was a GMC 302, 'cause that was the baddest 6-banger on the planet at that time ('55-'56).