You put the 350 orange lump in, the 302 and 289, with zero mention of the Pontiac which started the muscle car era, and was dominating Nascar and NHRA stock classes until the 1963 GM racing ban. Ram Air II, RA IV, RA V, 455 HO, Super Duty 421, 455 SD… very few of the engines you showed in this can touch any of these engines. Hell a D port 455 with a factory RAIII sized cam and 8:1 compression will put a 4000lb car into the 12s with a freaking highway gear. Port the D ports or put round port heads on it and that 455 can put a 4000lb car into the tens with a highway gear. Yet you show cars that were considered fast because they moved very light vehicles into the blistering 16s like that pos 350 sbc. No mention of the W-30 Olds, just a 455 with a dead cylinder and open manifolds, and no Stage 1 Buick.
Perhaps you should come by far northern Michigan this summer and go for a ride in something not powered by an orange lump or exotic high dollar parts like L88, SOHC, and street Hemis, even though I really like the Hemi and want a blown and injected 354/392 or 426 to put in a 41 Willys coupe with a straight axle, for science.. I'll give you a ride in my daily driver 65 GTO with its very mild 455 and 3.42 gears. It only runs 11s with D port heads and a stock converter in the auto trans. Come on up here to the great white north after the snow is gone, and I will take you for a ride in a low buck $3500 Pontiac.
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