The Beginning

[Dan Mazur]

I remember having taken this photo in 1979. I had just spent over $10,000.00 rebuilding the engine in my 1971 Chevelle SS 454.
My neighbor Paul, had recently purchased this Standard Early Model painted and lowered it. His total cost was under $1,000.00. I remember driving past this car daily and was blown away by how radical the stance was!
My comment was "It's just a stupid bug........but it looks outrageous! It was even more fun cruising in it!
Within one year of this photo, I purchased my '69 Sun Roof and it's all history!
On this day, Paul bolted on a set of Fuchs Alloys and wanted a photo of his car. It was complete and I had to have one!!

[Worm]

SS 454 with Cowl Induction!!!!!  Nice car (both of em').  $10K on the 454 engine?  Wow.  Did you ever run it at OCIR Dan?  How about some ET's eh?

[Rick Meredith]

Great pic Dan!

[Dan Mazur]

SS 454 with Cowl Induction!!!!!  Nice car (both of em').  $10K on the 454 engine?  Wow.  Did you ever run it at OCIR Dan?  How about some ET's eh?

No Et's. Never ran it on the track. I just wanted a "drag race ready" engine on the street. 454 bored .30 over. All TRW inside parts. Smog Engine, LS-5. Two bolt mains. It was a sleeper. Edelbrock Torker Manifold, that matched seriously ported heads. The runners were ported and flowed straight into the intake ports. 12.75 to 1 pistons that had to be cut down for street compression. Engle custom cam. Brand new Chevrolet LS-7 Forged Crank & Rods. Balanced & Blueprinted.

That's all I can remember. It twisted the ladder bars and the distributor launched weekly. For a crappy Two Bolt Main engine, it revved and pulled well past 8.5! I could wind it to over 50 mph in first gear. I remember racing my friend who had a small block Chevelle. I had him by several car lengths in first gear. When I told him that, he admitted he had shifted through third!

Sad thing, it was a Numbers Matching car but, I was young and stupid. Traded the car for a Kawasaki Z1-R after a friend borrowed it, launched the distributor and spun the rod caps blue! That was the end of oil pressure!

Tod Fuller has some memories of my Chevelle, ask him sometime!

[LuftsickTero]

Cool photo and awesome cars, both of them 

[Nico86]

Nice cars !

[DKK TOD]

  By that time,I already had a BB396 67 Chevelle and 71 V8 Vega wagen and when I took this rat for a ride, I almost soiled myself  !! A big block that pulled hard past 8000rpm.(making power/got what he paid for!!)Also had a M22 4 speed,just plain bad ass/chick magnet.