My favorite article of all time:
"Some devilish product planners marched out a ZL1 Corvette equipped with 4.10:1 gears, an automatic transmission, and the key to the kingdom: 10.50x15 Racemasters. That thing ran 10.70s and bellowed all day long with idiots at the wheel".
https://www.hotrod.com/features/the-...-982-1637-48-1