Local Heroes -L72 427 Station Wagon

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: Local Heroes -L72 427 Station Wagon

it ran at independent dover dragway

[Reno]

This going back in time for me. I bought the car when I was a kid years ago. Its a 427 4 and a quarter bench seat 4 speed. Car was raced at dover dragstrip and I don't want to tell you what happened to it. Fast and fun. I knew that car was rare I had heard that there were 5 more produced. I still have the registration for it.

[Nik]

This going back in time for me. I bought the car when I was a kid years ago. Its a 427 4 and a quarter bench seat 4 speed. Car was raced at dover dragstrip and I don't want to tell you what happened to it. Fast and fun. I knew that car was rare I had heard that there were 5 more produced. I still have the registration for it.

Sorry, but you HAVE to tell us what happened to it now.

[BOOOGHAR]

good or bad the public wants to know

[Grumpy]

My uncle worked there in the 60s/70s "in the front of the store". I think he was the guy who appraised your trade-in >

My folks' early rides were all sourced from Reedman

I probably met him then, you pulled through this 4 bay garage for the appraisal, I tried to trade my 63 Dodge Ramcharger on a 64 Fuelie Vette but I couldn't handle the difference!

Sorry for the Hijack, now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

[38P]

Interesting.

Papa Outsider had a friend who was a deputy sheriff . . . the sheriff's department "COPO'ed" (at taxpayer expense) a 427 wagon in '69. The local doughnut eaters all claimed it was stouter than the State Patrol's 440 Mopars (Dunno how they knew that . . . but the rumor was there had been some clandestine, late-night "training" runs with Smokey Bear out on the Eisenhower Highway System).

Deputy bought it and whipped it as his PV for several years. I never heard what engine code it allegedly had. They just called it "The 427" in overly-reverent tones . . . Probably just a bunch of old man Chevyphile BS. But us kids hung on every word as the Gospel.

[SpiderGearsMan]

an L72 427 should clobber any 440 ..including 6 pack

[Deaf Bob]

an L72 427 should clobber any 440 ..including 6 pack

Saw a kid in an Impala with a factory 427 on the gut in the early 70's beat all comers... Guy who was friends with him claims all he did was put tires/wheels on it... Beat even modified cars...