Chevy Vega Re: Cheap cars (was: 1%...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Aug 2001

OT: When I was a kid, we used to have a 30' Wellcraft Scarab Offshore boat.
Not only was it one of the first to have big blocks (Chevy 454's), we had
6-71's on them.  This was back in the late 70's early 80's, when the
professional offshore racers where CID limited, normally aspirated.  Once a
year they'd come to Lake St. Clair in MI for a race.  They'd be all decked
out in their flack jacket/life vests, full-face helmuts, and we'd BLOW past
them with our stereo blasting, girls sittin' on the back in bikini's.  Boy
did THAT pi$$ them off!

Gary
...
  DQ wrote:

 [Memory lane, snipped]

 Thanks for that ;-)

  I still get chills when I hear the blower on the
327 on Mad Max's
 car in the first movie... didn't that have an Edelbrock manifold?  
 I remember thinking that it looked like it had a 6-71 on it, and
 Edelbrock certainly makes (or at least made) manifolds for 
 suck-through
 applications of the 6-71.  However I also remember the blower being 
 clutched, which made little sense -- unless it was a blow-through 
 application with some sort of bypass for when the blower was shut
 down.  

 Whatever.  It had that nice 6-71 whine, which is what 
 _really_ matters :-) 