[Tom Goldman]

I knew about the Crane Chevy heads, but didn't realize they were available as early as '69. .....I always thought they were from around the mid '70s. ...I remember the speed shop I delt with getting a set for a twin turbo Don Hardy Vega the owner was building around '75. ........Make you sad to think of the fate of a company like Crane, that pioneered so many things........AMC did make some very special head castings for the NASCAR program. ....I managed to have 2 sets of these over the years,and thy did some things that were not seen on aftermarket heads till many years later. ....The intake floor and roof were raised up substantially , the top of the intake runner was flush with the valve cover rail. ....The decks were about .125 thicker than a production casting. ...the finished set I had came from Traco ,and were angle milled 1.5 deg, giving the head a 16 deg valve angle and a 42cc chamber,and a 230 cc intake [178 stock] in 1974 !! ..........Tom