[Lyn Smith]

I was at a Nostalgia race last year and had a chance to talk to Ed Iskenderian. I asked him if he could still make a cam like Grumpy ran in his 66 Nova.He said "sure", and then started to tell the story of Mr. Vasquez bringing the 327 engine to Iskys dyno after the Winternationals win to see how much power it really made.He said "we put it on the dyno and started to do some pulls, and it promptly spit out one of its connecting rods".I recently contacted Mr.Vasquez thru a facebook site and asked his version of the story.His version went like this"we worked on the engine on Isky's dyno for several days after the Winternationals.Starting with 325 plus HP, and finally getting it near 450 hp.(Remember this was a 1967 SS motor) and on one of the final pulls it expired.We then had to thrash hard to put together another motor for a race we had the next weekend".A little different story, but same results.LOL Eddie told me he later sold the roller Nova to a guy in TX. and it was destroyed in a street accident.