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Old 07-23-2025, 09:29 AM
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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
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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
I must have read this article 4-5 times in the past, it never gets old!
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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
My office mate at MPG was there that day, at the Black Lake event.


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