Hahaha, nice! Love to see you give that advice to 3rd graders ;D Can't believe the Stingray story...would love to drive one. The Valiant is enough for the moment, awaiting a mild cam and 4bbl Holley, but the 427 Stingrays are just something else.
I'm in a small country town down here in Australia, so if you're under 25 and haven't moved out then you're either saving for a house somewhere else, or dropping a bit of money into cars. Been in a few crazy machines, and the odd street race. Big things to work on down here are the GM 308 smallblock V8's - no idea why, not terribly reliable when you work them (even moderately) and the head design isn't as good as a Chrysler's.
Twisting the thread slightly...my father has an '81 F350 with a 16ft ironbark tray on it. He's had the 350 in it worked, and I don't know exactly what has been done to it (apparently 'mild') but its spinning the dual rears. Good times getting the jetting right with him, I held the stopwatch in the passenger seat while he did varying acceleration runs. Must scare the hell out of people to see a truck that big coming at them that fast...
- boingk