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Or you can't race a Donkey at the Kentucky Derby

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I dont know, the last time I was at the Derby, I saw a lot of Jack Asses betting
So donkeys may be next
Man I love a little levity. Sometimes we just dont take life good enough
charles

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9 AH and 11 A/SA if my eyes don't decieve me. Gonna get better. Stick guys yet to register

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Back in the day, there used to be more mid horse powered (9.5 to 12 lbs per) classed cars in the classes, now it seems that they were never made. Times have changed! The insurance companies kept the ratios down or you would pay through the nose for insurance, so that made it that there were less high HP cars in stock. Now that the cars that are in "Stock" can't be registered for street legal use from the factory, the insurance monitoring system doesn't effect the classes any longer. When the 1970 LS6 Chevelle was introduced, the problem wasn't buying one, the problem was insuring it. That's why there aren't many of them around. That goes for all the real high performance cars back in the 60's and 70's. If you were 20 yrs old and wanted to get insurance on a 396/375 Camaro, you best take out a mortgage. I'm just looking on how Stock has changed, a point of view.

Casey Miles
248H Stock?

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Casey, a good point. How many people priced Hemi cars, and then could not insure them especially with a 4 speed. In l969 the insurance rating people missed the Super Bee. The Road Runner was a HP model and had the high insurance, so our mainstay sale was a Super Bee 383, but loaded up with Buckets, console and A/C, and other comfort items and low insurance, and generally a little easier to finance. You had to really want a 440 car or a Hemi, course the Hemi was not available with A/C, and we are far south, hell we are 30 miles from the Gulf. That car probably kept us in business the first year till we learned how to sell trucks, station wagons, and 4 dr sedans.

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I know that I ended up with the Z/28 because I could get insurance on it when I bought it. The big problem back then is trying to get a company to write insurance for a car that had less the a 10 lbs per ci or HP. Jeff I know you run Mopar, but there was a reason that the big block cars were sparce, "Insurance". I believe that there are now more 396/375 cars around then were ever built by Chevy. Forget about a 427/425, never existed!

Casey Miles
248H Stock?

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What do you mean never existed? I almost bought one in 69. Sport Chev. in Md. had 6 or 8 COPO 427 Camaros on the lot and 5 427 COPO Chevelles. One ZL-1 sitting outside in front of the showroom. Dont I wish I had bought one of those but I was driving a brand new Vette at the time so the insurance couldnt have been any worse than mine. My 68 Z-28 insurance was about the same as the Vette. 350 cubes and 350 HP with a 4 speed in the Vette. I was about 23 years old at that time and single.

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Where I grew up, on Long Island, you could get all the big block cars you wanted from Baldwin, but you had to take out a second loan to get insurance if you could find a company that would write you policy. It was the biggest deterent of buying any performance car. BTW, in street racing, Chevy never built any 427s, you always swore that you had a 396/325 hp powered car.

My point is that the cars in stock today aren't being controlled by the insurance companies because they aren't factory built cars for use on the street.

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OK.....I get it. I forgot there for a moment....396's only.....LOL. Lots of those in Modified on a local weekend at the track to. I guess I was just lucky. GEICO did me right on insurance. Maybe it was the area? I still wished I had bought a COPO Camaro instead of that Vette.

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9 AH, 12 A/SA, and 9 B/SA