Oh man Gas prices will kill me..which engine?

[oldgold70c10]

Well, I don't know about the brick shape, but the best milage I have ever gotten was in a 1975 2 door Chevelle (Malibu). I don't know the rear end ratio, but on 3 different trips to Taos, NM, I was getting 20-22 mpg with a 350/th350 and q-jet carb. Engine was rebuilt with about 35-40,000 miles on it, car was just about totally stock.

I find the utility of driving a truck as a daily driver to be far too useful to consider anything else, so, if I did get a second vehicle, it would probably be a 1997 chevy s-10 with a 4-banger and five speed manual. I got to use a friend's last year around new years, and the thing got about 30 mpg on the highway and really drove well.