What bugs me is that a current auto review will be mostly about the connectivity and gizmos with very little about driving characteristics. So when it craps out, you can sit and use to your I pad while you wait for a tow.
Another "When I was a kid" story. I was pumping gas at the old Wayfare service center on Hwy 400 just south of Barrie. The high perf cars were in many cases overheating by the time they got to us on a run up from Toronto. In came a hemi cuda. We did the usual "park it and let it cool, then we'll...
A friends father had one, navy blue, bucket seats, 390 engine and floor shift, beautiful car then. I recall we went out for a drive, and about 10 minutes in his mom realized they had left his little brother behind. Cut the drive short.
Just being picky, but the pictured car is a 1966 Ford Fairlane station wagon. If indeed they stuck that big motor in it, it would have been quick as the Fairlane was a mid sized car at the time.
Just a note on clutches. If you have original it will be a dual mass flywheel. No longer available and cannot be machined.
Solution is a single mass flywheel with matching clutch plate. Complete kits are available from several corvette suppliers.
You will get rattling in the gear box but it is...