We’re checking out for the long holiday weekend, but before we abandon our battle station on the blog we wanted to leave you with some good ol’ fashioned gear rowing. Robert Schmitt’s 1967 Chevelle, with its aluminum big block and stick box, ranks really close to the top of our favorite cars of all time list. 

See the vid for poetry in motion. This was shot at one of the Hot Rod Magazine Pump Gas Drags events at the now-gone Memphis Motorsports Park.