Wow!! I used to dislike these cars in my youth, now I love them!!
A guy I knew in HS bought one identical to the Green one shown in summer of '84.
Kept saying how fast it was and how high it would rev out. The car was bone stock and had 90K+ miles on it and he took me for a ride. He was more into sports than a diehard "Car Guy" so bought it more to be cool than anything else. Anyways, he wants to impress me in front of all the guys one night at the Dairy Queen, I hop in and he proceeds to scream the engine and just drop the clutch- It fishtailed and bucked around a bit, he managed to keep it in our two lanes of 4 lane road. The motor just wailed as he shifted hard into 2nd and then a ham-handed third gear. He finally let-off and we returned to the 'Queen.
Looking for approval, I told him the car was fast and had a lot of potential BUT not to over-rev that engine being untouched with "high mileage". He was cocky and wanted to race my '69 Z/28, which was running 107mph in the 1/4 back then. We never got a chance to race, as I heard through grapevine that his timing chain snapped during another 7,000rpm assault and messed up the motor pretty bad a few weeks later. I never heard of or saw that car again. Good Times.
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