Originally Posted By: MarioD
And I dusted off many Z-28 Camaros with my 289, Holley 650 4-barrel carburetor, 4/11 rear end gears, 2 main, 2 second and 2 third leaf strings and 4 on the floor Mustang!

But those were the good ol' days were they not?


The Z-28 was hot for ONE year. 1969. That was what I had. Chevy Blue with white racing stripes. That special edition 302 ran at 11:1 compression. It was essentially a blown out 283, overbored to as big as they could make it and still have cylinder walls wide enough for a water jacket, with a very heavy duty cam, pistons and crankshaft. I bought it on July 3rd, 1969. On July 5th, 1969, I took it to a drag strip just east of Cleveland and ran 10.4 with it. Direct from the showroom floor. And it cost me (ready?) $3839.50. The 1970 model came out with a regular Chevy 307 and ran at 8.5:1 compression. All the "heavy duty" was taken out of it. They literally drained all the horsepower out of it.

In 1970 I also went into the Army, and I had to sell it because I knew a GI wasn't going to be able to make car payments. Only after I had been in a couple of years did I find out, from another GI, that banks had a program where I could have kept my car if I paid interest on the loan. $17 a month. I openly wept when I found that out.