{"id":555631,"date":"2017-03-31T01:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T08:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bangshift.com\/?p=555631"},"modified":"2017-03-28T19:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T02:15:59","slug":"joe-hall-9-second-street-driven-chevelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/bangshift1320\/joe-hall-9-second-street-driven-chevelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Feature: Joe Hall’s Street Driven, 9-Second 1967 Chevelle Is Seeing Red With A Sprayed Small Block"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Magazines and online blogs might have some of you believing street-driven nine-second cars are around every turn.\u00a0 Legitimate, streetable 9-second cars are not that plentiful.\u00a0 When you see a car that can drive around more than to and from a local cruise night AND throw down at the track it is something special.\u00a0 If it looks good that is a real prize.\u00a0 We first laid eyes on Joe Hall\u2019s \u201967 Chevelle many years ago at Mountain Park Dragway at one of their \u2018Car Wars\u2019 events.\u00a0 Checking it out then it looked to have all the stuff needed for street duty and witnessed it run sold 9s on spray multiple times.\u00a0 We saw it again on occasion, but never really got a chance to speak with the owner.\u00a0 Some years later we saw it at the Cynthiana Rod Run and were quite pleased to see it drove there.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until last year\u2019s Hotrod Hullabaloo in Lexington, KY that we managed to catch the owner and get more of the car\u2019s story.<\/p>\n

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Roll back the calendar to 1988.\u00a0 Joe detailing cars at a Ford dealership in Lexington when someone traded the Chevelle in on a new Mustang.\u00a0 Joe picked it up for $900 and used it as a daily for years.\u00a0 At the time it was a 350\/4sp combo with a ten-bolt rear and bench seat.\u00a0 The first race he ran in it the car went 13.30 and he was hooked.\u00a0 Joe\u2019s late friend, Butch Reed, helped him build a 406ci and then traded the 4-speed for an auto.\u00a0 Hang on before you go all nutso over that.\u00a0 Remember\u2026.the 90s\u2026?\u00a0 Most folks were running an auto in everything.<\/p>\n

The current mill uses a \u201974 Impala 400ci block with 13:1 compression.\u00a0 AFR heads handle the breathing while the Bowtie intake directs the flow and Stahl headers handle the exit chores.\u00a0 Backing that up is a TH400 sending the small-block\u2019s grunt back to a full-spool 12-bolt spinning 4.10 gears.\u00a0 He runs a NOS nitrous system and no trickery.\u00a0 The suspension is run-of-the-mill, stock-location stuff and it works well.\u00a0 Mercedes Magma Red makes the car stand out and the Weld Rodlites are something a bit different for this kind of build.\u00a0 The car weighs a hefty 3,600lbs and on BFG 275 Drag Radials turns 10.80s on just ambient air pressure and deep nines on the jug.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got a couple so-so videos on my YouTube page showing at least one motor pass and one on N2O.<\/p>\n

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Joe had briefly considered selling it, but their 29-year relationship represents a lot of time, effort, headache, heartache, and history.\u00a0 Here in 2017 he is hoping his teenage son can make his first passes down the track in the car.\u00a0 How cool would it be to have been 16 and get a chance to drive a real 9-second street car\u2026?<\/p>\n

The last three photos in this gallery are the car in 2013 at the Rod Run and the car 8 and 0 years ago at Mountain Park Dragway.\u00a0 It is nice to see someone hang on to such a car for so long and hope to see more of it in the future.<\/p>\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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