1973 Grand Am 455 Super Duty

[Keith Seymore]

Two additional sidebars, as I read back through those (written almost 15 years ago):

Sidebar #1: back then we were running "Super Chevy" events all the time and you had to run a Chevrolet nameplated vehicle. We would swap out the GMC grill and tailgate for Chevrolet versions, but leave the GMC fender emblems and dash emblems. No one ever noticed or said anything, to my knowledge.

Sidebar #2: Here are all the mistakes in that very tiny blurb of an article:

1) "Rumor has it" - well, as you can see, it was no rumor. It was true.

2) "...some engineers at GMC Truck and Coach..." - well - no, by then we were GM Truck and Bus. Truck and Coach implies the bus factory in Pontiac; we were obviously located in Milford.

3) "...found a fresh ZL1 in a crate in a dusty storage room somewhere in the bowels of Detroit..." - not correct, unless you consider Milford to be "the bowels of Detroit". It's a 45 minute to an hour drive, depending on where you are coming from.
And - the warehouse is not dusty. It's pretty clean.

4) "...they jerked the 454 out of a 1986 shortbed pickup..." - we've already established it was originally a small block truck and was a 1985 shortbox, not an '86.

5) "...switched over all the brackets and hardware onto the aluminum 427..." - as discussed, this specific motor was a 454 rather than a 427.

6) "..it's been screaming around the Milford Proving Grounds and laying waste to unsuspecting Corvettes and Trans Ams." - well, ok, that was true...

Makes one wonder how accurate all the articles we read actually are.

Except for mine, of course.

K