My word, that car was a ground-pounding, torque monster! I wonder what the real HP was on that motor?
The bottom end had at least $12K of parts in it with the cam, crank and pistons and high volume oil pump, balancing, magnafluxing, etc.
The block was only 30 over, but with the mods, he said he was at somewhere around 550 cu. in. Up top, aluminum heads - polished & ported with a 5 angle valve job, new intake with a slight rise to it, and a 750 Holley with tuned headers. The fellow said it dyno'd at 748 horses to the axle and I believed him. It was a show car, but it had straight duals to the rear w/ a crossover in front of the tranny and a street exhaustback at the shop that easily switched out. And yes, he fired it after the crowd got big, and then lit up some serious rubber --- a huge cloud. You couldn't talk to anyone within 5 ft of the car once he punched it.
Awesome....Awesome ....Awesome. Everyone turned that way when he cranked the old girl up. He said he wouldn't take less than $80K for her then and I thought that was fair even though the VIN showed didn't originally come with that 428.