Back in the day
 

Im a old geezer aged 62. Back in the day in my late teen early twenties I raced a .030 ,283. it was 287 cubes. in a 63 chev short bed. I had extensively reworked (ported polished &cced)57 fuelie powerpack heads. a 30-30 solid lifter cam hedders and two 625 cfm carter AFB,s adapted to a port matched aluminum factory low rise 58 vette dual 4 four intake. Mallory dual point ignition & coil. Ran on both carbs full time wouldn't idle below 800 RPM. Used as much gas as a 427! I Went to the drags every sunday. back then they weighed you and placed you according to weight versus cubic inches. So I was always spotted a few car lengths ahead of the Camaros chevells ect. With a three speed and 430 gears and tuned entirely for RPM I wound to7500 before shifting.I actually beat a lot of high dollar cars with a $300 truck. Those trailing arms and the used slicks allowed me to launch very well. Blew the 283 and installed a 390 hp aluminum head 427. never won any more. still have what is left of the truck. Picture attached. sad to see it in the condition is in . but back when I parked and started stripping it. It was just another old truck.

Re: Back in the day
 

Other than what the tree did to it that truck looks to be pretty solid. Neat story thanks for sharing.