Back in the day at the age of 19 I had a 55 Chevy with a screaming 0.30-over 283. The solid Isky cam would allow me to buzz it over 6500 on a regular basis.
Once after a brief rain on the streets of San Diego, a split-window Corvette was bugging me at the stop lights. Well, I wasn't going to let that stand.
My chance came at one particular stop. We took off... I was running a Borg-Warner T-10 4 speed. I banged 2nd and the last thing I remember was glancing at the Sun Super tach up around the 8k mark with the rear tires spinning on the damp pavement.
That was followed by some thrashing noises from under the hood. Duh...I managed to nurse it back to the garage, and imagine my surprise when I pulled the valve covers and saw several pushrods poked clean through the stock stamped rocker arms. After that I upgraded to some Isky rockers. LOL
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