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Morning Symphony: Raising Hell With A Big-Block Powered Aussie Valiant


Morning Symphony: Raising Hell With A Big-Block Powered Aussie Valiant

As I write this, it’s been the kind of day you wish you could just forget. The kind of day that takes a toll on your well-being, the kind that leaves you wanting to just scream. Some might feel it childish and others might chastise me because that really doesn’t solve anything and it might not even make me feel better, but dammit, you have to do something. Since blowing out my vocal chords would do nothing more than scaring the neighbors and causing my wife to start searching WebMD for psychiatric illnesses, the next best thing I can do is to hear an engine scream for me. I’ll do that personally in short order, but for now, the sound of this pissed-off, big-block Chrysler Valiant laying waste to a set of sacrificial tires will have to suffice. The Aussies know how to make an A-body Mopar rock…the other Valiant we know well, the NASCAR R5P7-engined “Bloky”, screams to nearly five-figure RPMs while annihilating the rubber. “VG-440” here is the roar to the howl of the green brick, just as capable but with a lot more bass in it’s voice. Flinty460 caught up with the four-door at the West Coast Nats at Collie Motorplex in the southwestern corner of the country and recorded the beast of a Mopar doing what it does best:


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