My first GTO was never bored and stroked, but the heads were extensively reworked, an Iskendarian cam and anti-pump up lifters were installed, the 4-barrel Carter carb and the stock ignition were tweaked, and a pair of Doug’s headers were installed.
I had a close ratio 4-speed with a Hurst Quick Shifter and a Hayes lightened flywheel and clutch. The 12.25 time slip was a result of a FRiend loaning me a 4.11 Posi-traction rear end and some 8” slicks. Street gears slowed me down by about a second.
The only suspension mods were Air-Lift airbags in the rear coil springs. Rest was stock stuff. The car hooked up really well!
It looked like a street legal “A” stocker, but it was not, strictly speaking, stock. OTOH, none of the competition in South Texas (Corpus Christi) was either!
As an aside, if you remember the old days, I saw Don Gay’s ‘66 GTO Funny Car “Infinity” race a number of times. I’d like to say I was able to meet him, but I never did.
We are now in the geezer zone.
How many these days have a clue what you just wrote, and what they are?
Had a Friend with the low salt version 396 Chevelle, and man, did it pump up fast. What a buzzkill.
My first car was a used 55 Ford with a 272. It had a 3 speed on the column and overdrive. Because of the overdrive it had a 4:11 rear end.
It was obviously not a muscle car but was surprisingly fast. I had 3 different friends who had full sized Fords. Every one of them had a 352 with a four barrel. I had a drag with my best friend’s 63. I was frankly surprised when the old 272 beat him fairly easily.
I did the same with the other two 352s except with one, I mistakenly used a place as finish line which was a way farther than I had thought. I beat him off the line and was still pulling away when I realized I had nearly a mile to go.
As we were approaching the finish, he finally passed me.
Was going to ping you darling....but you’re already here! ;)