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"I heard a story many moons ago that it was not uncommon for Pontiac guys on the assembly line to slip in the oddball camshaft or a pair of thinner shim head gaskets to boost the compression on the random GTO passing by, your Triple-Gold Goat might have been one of those, they were all terrific cars!"

Y'know guys, in the day weren't those unusually fast but stock cars called, "freaks"? That's what the old man's Dart was, at least it was regarded so by the BB 396s, 350s, 383s etc I creamed. LOL
Ask "Dem Guard 'bout that Dart, he'd tell you.

No one could ever figure out why the thing was so damned fast, especially considering we were running it on regular pump gas. (~the old man...) LOL

"My ‘66 Catalina had a pretty ‘box stock’ 389, but I goosed it up with the usual Edelbrock intake, Holley 780, 4-tube headers, etc. I tried running 4.10 gears on the street bu it was too much, so had to opt for a 3.55:1 gearset, even with that, the TH400 didn’t appreciate it,"

I should've read ahead, would've answered my own question. Oy vey.

You had to have posted to me just as I signed off to go soak in the hot tub this AM, stephen. Now I gotta go lug in a load of firewood since the in-laws burned through nearly a rick yesterday, before absconding with my vegetables.
Liberals. LOL!!!

No one could ever figure out why the thing was so damned fast, especially considering we were running it on regular pump gas. (~the old man...) LOL

LOL, you know Landru, your comment about pump gas reminded me of an incident that still gives me the sh*ts and grins even now, I was working in a Sunoco station in high school, and this was back when it was still fairly common to run 11 to 1 compression on the street, the gas was leaded, the sky was the limit. Anyway, we used to mix Sunoco 260 with Amoco Super Premium and that was one terrific street fuel if you were running a high compression engine. But what makes me laugh is remembering how this one local genius with a '67 Camaro, 327/365 was running 12 to 1 pop-up pistons and he wanted *maximum power* so he got the bright idea to add some aviation fuel from the local air park to that Sunoco 260 & Amoco Super-Premium mix. I remember when he pulled into the station one Friday evening, and he was all grins until he tried to shut the engine off and it just kept on running, and running, and running, it didn't stop until those TRW forged aluminum pistons began to melt and started to weld themselves to the cylinders, it was a case of 'too hot a fuel' for 'not enough engine' and while the mechanical mayhem was frightening to behold, it was still funny as hell although we dared not laugh ('cuz the car's owner was MUCH bigger than we were, lol).

Damn, I should be writing a book about this.