Do you have access to a good magazine collection??
Look up Hot Rod September 1992, on the cover, the yellow camaro on the cover, it belongs to my best friend ever since we were in high school together. His head is just above the roof of the red willys pickup in the background and I am the tall one to his left with my face partially behind a raised arm and I have a mustache.
That same car has two pictures on the cover of Hot Rod November 1992 and an 8 picture article inside that magazine.
That same car is on the cover of the number 1 issue of a new magazine called Hot Rod Hot Chevys printed in 1992.
I have pictures of myself driving that car and it was 1400 HP in that configuration, on the street.
I started my first job when I was 15 and bought an S code fastback before I had a drivers liscense and orriginally had a 0.60 390 with dual 4bbl lowriser settup, 625 comp. carters, malory dual point, hooker headers, accel super coil, hydraulic bump stick, all before I had my liscense. I put together a 428 cobrajet next, and bought my dual 4bbl high riser with 660 center squirters and 12.5/1 before I was 20. I had at least 6 or 8 390s and owned my cammer by the time I was 23 or 24. Many other engines and mustangs. The high riser in the 67 fastback was good for 11.0 at 125 with nothing but a solid bump stick, top loader, 4.30/1 and a hurst competition plus. My cammer is a world apart from the hi-riser, and my Shelby Block Cammer will be on yet another level, and all of these have been street raced or street driven more then at the track.
11 flat is a fun street car, but not fast. Jamie and I were at the Car Craft nationals in Southbend Indiana in 1992. We were driving down the road at about 45 mph and he stood on it. That car pulled the front tires at least 2 feet and burried on the wheelie bars. I helped assemble and tune 4 different engine combos in that car. Yes, I'd say that we are worlds apart on what we considder fast street cars.
