In 1966 I left the confort of my 'lil Poconos home town and applied for a got accepted to a "Jesuit Prep" school in then far away and "big" city of Scranton ~ an unbelievable 18 miles (no interstates, uphill both ways!) from home !!!!
By coincidence the school took up 1/2 of a city block -the other 1/2 shared with Roy Stauffer Chevrolet - for the next four year, '66~'70 (especially looking outside the library window) I saw every model of Chevy muscle car built get unloaded off trailers and showroom'ed/delivered ............
SS and RS cars, Camaro, Chevelle, Nova, Impala, Turbo flat six Corvair's and of course Tri Power 'Vettes - One my faves - A 1969 Fathom Green white hood stripes (truck and rear facia stripes delete) Z/28 with in the headers in the trunk and the backseat a "Winters" cross ram intake system, two "Holley" boxes and five plain boxes with, according to the new car prep guy were the "... transistor distributor, cam/lifters, carb linkage, airfilter w/ housing." The small blocks were oh so sweet ...........
Over the next six years build many garage SBs including my own "302" (327 with a 283 crank, 4" x 3" oversquare, Edelbrock C3BX, Holley 780, Chevy "0140" Z/28 30/30 off road cam, Hooker headers in a '64 Chevelle)
The "original" SB was superseded by GM's Generation II LT and Generation III LS V8s in the 1990s and discontinued as a production engine in 2003. Interestingly, the engine is still made by a GM subsidiary in Mexico as a crate engine, in the parts catalog for replacement and "off road" purposes. In all, over 100,000,000 small-blocks have been built since 1955.
I cannot tell l you how many "hot rodders" in my area started with SB Chevys
....... so the attached video is a tribute to the good 'ole 60 YO small block and a warm memory of days and nights (including in the dead of winter) in my garage trying to be a "racer'
http://ift.tt/1OvoTga
By coincidence the school took up 1/2 of a city block -the other 1/2 shared with Roy Stauffer Chevrolet - for the next four year, '66~'70 (especially looking outside the library window) I saw every model of Chevy muscle car built get unloaded off trailers and showroom'ed/delivered ............
SS and RS cars, Camaro, Chevelle, Nova, Impala, Turbo flat six Corvair's and of course Tri Power 'Vettes - One my faves - A 1969 Fathom Green white hood stripes (truck and rear facia stripes delete) Z/28 with in the headers in the trunk and the backseat a "Winters" cross ram intake system, two "Holley" boxes and five plain boxes with, according to the new car prep guy were the "... transistor distributor, cam/lifters, carb linkage, airfilter w/ housing." The small blocks were oh so sweet ...........
Over the next six years build many garage SBs including my own "302" (327 with a 283 crank, 4" x 3" oversquare, Edelbrock C3BX, Holley 780, Chevy "0140" Z/28 30/30 off road cam, Hooker headers in a '64 Chevelle)
The "original" SB was superseded by GM's Generation II LT and Generation III LS V8s in the 1990s and discontinued as a production engine in 2003. Interestingly, the engine is still made by a GM subsidiary in Mexico as a crate engine, in the parts catalog for replacement and "off road" purposes. In all, over 100,000,000 small-blocks have been built since 1955.
I cannot tell l you how many "hot rodders" in my area started with SB Chevys
....... so the attached video is a tribute to the good 'ole 60 YO small block and a warm memory of days and nights (including in the dead of winter) in my garage trying to be a "racer'
http://ift.tt/1OvoTga
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