Musclecars That Should Have Been Made

[Jeff Lee]

Originally Posted by Paul Ceasrine

X-Tech Man,
Thanks for the correction, I was only guessing on the 302 Z-28
cross-ram engines.
Stricklers red 68' Z-28 SS/F was the 'hot ticket'.
Now for a Mopar question, in 1969 was anyone running 69' 440 Cuda's in C/SA with success. I found a Jim Rothmeier out of Laporte, Iowa
running a Chuck Ostrich prepped car. What was the main problem, the car couldn't hook-up with 7" slicks, and the nose-heavy 440 in the car?
Paul

The Direct Connection "Bible" (factory race tech bulletins by Larry Sheppard primarily) gave a dozen or so reasons why the B & RB A-bodies could not be run successfully given the parts and suspension of the day.
Neil Smedley and I built a 440 '69 Dart w/ Super Stock springs, 9" slicks and a 12.5:1 bracket engine with an 8" ATI convertor back in the early '80's, just to see if it could be done. The car was a former G/SA 340 car so other than the engine, all stock legal. We instantly proved ma MOPAR wrong as the car hooked and I enjoyed my first wheelie. And it wasn't a little one either. We later put a equally built 383 in the car. Solid mid 11 second car and traction was never an issue.