cleveland??

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Brian, not something I brag about, but in my younger days my dad had me into Mustangs. My first love, and first cars were Camaro and Corvette, but by the time I was 20 dad was doing lots of Mustangs. Through those years (1980-1986) I was able to own pretty much all the bad boy Mustangs including at least one each all the Bosses, and most of the Shelby's. My KR Convertible in red was without a doubt the most popular car I have ever owned. Pretty car, guys liked, even chick liked it. Slow, and never changed the last plug on the passenger bank, but gorgeous! Of all the Bosses, the best car by far was the public least favorite, the Boss 351. It was a nice all around car if you could stomach the looks and the blind spots. It did run pretty good I admit. When I talk about building power though, I mean real power, 500+HP. We did a few projects and threw the check book at them trying to build power. Our biggest failure was a 302 Windsor project using 351 2V heads. A company called B and A made a intake to do this adaptation, and claimed it could make a 302 that would rotate the earth. $10,000 and What a slug. Half a dozen cams and carb's later, and still no nuts.
We had a similar experience with a Pantera. Ever pulled one of those? I would rather have my ass whipped then do anther one of those. But we got pretty good at R and R it when it just would not make the power.
But then I broke away from dad and got back to my first love, the small and big Chevy.
I will say the Cleveland will make a nice change in a different PT project then just another Camaro. I will be the first to admit I am looking for other project vehicles that are not Camaro's.