[Dwight Southerland]

Originally Posted by Bunkster

Jack Mullins 63 Catalina wagon…389/235…4 spd…SS/U circa mid seventies…

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/0212hpp-pontiac-history/

Mullins had what many Pontiac racers might call an aggressive driving style because that is what it took to win. He’d generally leave at 7500 rpm, shifting into Second at 6300, while Third and Fourth were engaged at 6800 rpm. He’d flash through the lights at 7400. “If I was in the final, I’d leave at 8200,” Mullins recalled. At that point I wasn’t worried about going another round. I could pick up 5 or 6 hundredths doing that.” Amazingly, he only had one bottom-end failure. “The crank did come out in three pieces, but that only happened once,” he said.

That kind of stuff only works if you are from Arkansas. We are way too backwards and ignorant to make "sofistikated" race car parts work..