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To: Axenolith

My friend had one of those same cars in Blue with the White PinStripe, I think the Cops knew that Car all over the City it had some serious foot power!


113 posted on 07/17/2008 1:58:08 PM PDT by Raineygoodyear (AKA Crimmy)
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To: Raineygoodyear
I ended up blue and white later after a crunching. I should have blocked it at my grandparents in '91 when I came out west. Surprisingly, it got close to 30 mpg on the freeway at 65-70 mph. I had a shift kit, set of headers and a bit of cam but the original 2 jet Rochester and stock, it pumped either 245 or 265 HP, probably right around 280-300 afterwards.

My wife was asking if her new SKY had power compared to other cars and I commented "Well, it's got about 30 more horsepower than my old Camaro at stock and 4 less cylinders"!...

Unlike lots of the old muscle car owners doing the fat rear skinny front tire dragging scheme I had the 'Ro set up with a brick like suspension and good Eagles on it. I had it up to a rats ass under 150 mph before (FTR, I'd never take it over 100 if the tires were more than ~30-40% worn and I've always maintained cars with aircraft like service schedules). It was a GOOD dog...

160 posted on 07/17/2008 2:44:12 PM PDT by Axenolith (7-17-08 : Gasoline is an average $0.31/gallon in US 90% silver coinage...)
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