[Pantera]

Oh I agree that it was available in the big cars. There just were none around Tulsa area back then because the "fat Blocks" as we called them had more power and or appeal.

So how many of you went on a wild goose chase in fall of 63 looking for 6 mystery motors that were liberated off a freight train? That was one I fell for along with two other guys. They had this hot tip that some guy out in a very rural area had got 6 motors off a freight at a siding and he had them for sale. All we had was directions and they were not acurate.

Everybody wanted a 396 before they were avaiable to the general public. These were the hot setup and I got hooked into covering about 30 square mi of gravel backroads in the quest to go faster than anybody else.

Boy were we excited about that one. Dammm I had fun back then. Funny how the mind remembers things like that. I had forgoten that one.

?Rob?

Was it Dickie Harrell that had one of those motors and ran it a Cushing dragstrip in the summer of '63 to test it for Chev. I seem to remember seeing it run there? '63 impalla ragtop. We were there with a 63 409 and he was dam sure faster that we were by over a second or two.