"7" Plymouth's You Just Had to Have.

[Paul Precht]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

I sure would love to see a correctly restored / blueprinted (blueprinted, no NHRA upgrades) of a 290 4-speed 3.54 equipped '68 AMX vs the best 273/235 vehicle with the same gears!
The first AMX I owned was like that. It had 106K on the engine, never had the valve covers off and would easily bark 'em on the 3rd gear shift (stock tires with hubcaps). These 290's had a 2.64 low trans gear as standard.
Compared to the 273/235, the 283/220 and the 289/225's that I have driven, I would say the AMX was faster. No track times to back it up, just street time.

Hi Jeff, back in 72 my buddy Teddy bought a 71 304 Javelin automatic, it was a doggg. Almost across the street from his family store where we both worked was Pro Stock racer Richie Zul's gas station and shop where we would sometimes hang out at night. He talked Ritchie into putting on a four barrel Holley, Edelbrock mani and headers and at that point I would say it was about a high 15 second car. Teddy wanted more so it went back to Ritchie's shop for a T-10, 444 gear set and then to my place where I installed a .500" Crane cam kit with springs, properly curved and timed the distributer and set up the carb, now we had something. This was a fairly heavy car and we pounded it night after night on concrete roads all while downing plenty of beverages so there were plenty of missed gears. We never broke anything on it and I would guess it was in the high 13 second range. To this day I'm impressed with these motors because of what we put that little 304 through, Paul.