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Old 11-02-2002, 12:58 AM
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Default Re: Interesting thought

I had a discussion with a guy that worked for Joel or had a shop in L.I. back when Joel was building these cars in the 60's and early 70's, and had a couple of things to say about M/P, these are the things he said, not my opions at all, just some second hand talk, so take it for what it is worth. First, he said that the dyno at M/P never worked. Second that Joel did two or three Corvettes for some wealthy oil guys from the Middle East, and he supposedly pulled the 427 out of the vettes and put in a 396 from a Camaro, and the 427 went in the Camaro, and he remembered Joel saying that these guys did not know what a stock 427 ran like anyway, so they would have a Phase III 396 Corvette with all the 427 markings and think that they had a real fast car when they got it home, this is kinda funny in a way. Last he did say that the cars that Joel built dynoed or not were very fast and by looks alone had a menacing street presence! If anyone wants this guys name I will email it to you privately to see if you know who he is, and if he really has any knowledge of what happened back then or just does not like Joel, and again this is not my opion at all, because how would I know, these cars were built before I was born.
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