I think most of the younger guys don't realize just how torqey a 327 is because there's so few around nowadays compared to 350's and most of the young guys have never driven anything with a 327.
After all the last 327's were built 40 years ago.
I've spent a lot of time behind the wheel of a '69 Z28 (roomy's car he had me drive often,long story) with the stock DZ302,quite a snappy engine once it gets on the pipe,also driven many a 327's including a friends '57 Chevy with a '65 Vette 327/4 speed and I can tell you first hand they don't lack for low end torque like the 302.
They pull like a 350 on the low end and rev like a 302 on the top end,great engines IMHO.

 

Yeah it was a real nice cruiser,deluxe black cloth interior with a big back seat lol.
One of my all time favorite vehicles that I've ever owned,I'd love to have another one.
They are hard to find in nice shape now without paying a small fortune.

 

yeah they are nice cruisers..i also like '57 chevys they looks so nice when there restored i saw a guy in longview that had a sweet restored one. he put like 100k into it. it had all custom work inside and a custom paint job with ghost flames and a 383 in it. so nice and TONS OF CHROME!

 

I might have seen that '57 what color is it?
I drove back and forth through Longview several times in my truck back in Sept and Oct,I was hauling loads of firewood back from a friend's property out highway 4 towards Long Beach.
I saw a bunch of nice cars one weekend,The End of the World Rod Run was going on down in Ocean Park.

 

its like a maroon color with ghost flames..its so nice. yeah i was up in long beach for the hot rod run. so many sweet cars!

 

Pretty sure I saw that car,oh and by the way most of that "chrome" on those Tri-5 cars is polished stainless steel.
That's why you never see chrome peeling or rusting on a 55-57

 

oh my bad lol i meant he had alot of actual chrome on the interior his engine bay was beautiful. a nice new 383 with an all polished and sparkling engine. he said he won like every car show he went too lol and whats crazy is that he's a mortician. crazy. how's a mortician spend 100k on one of his cars( he has like 3 really nice classics) lol lucky bastard lol

 

Well he's got a recession proof business.

 

That old Impala reminds me of my best friend's car. When he got home from the military in 1976 he wanted a hotrod. I had my present Camaro then, and he really wanted a big block Camaro. We got a Nickle Ad and started looking for Chevs when we ran across a 1965 Impala SS.
Here's what the ad read, "1965 Impala SS, good running 396 4 speed car, no tranny, nice interior and paint, $250 OBO."
We called the seller and it was less than a mile away, so we went over to see it. He handed my friend the keys so he could start it up, but asked him not to rev it, since there was nothing holding the rear of the engine. Started right up, and ran perfect. Interior and exterior were perfect, and it was an all original SS396 Impala.
We asked if we could look in the trunk, even though we both knew he was going to buy it regardless of what we saw. To our surprise there in the trunk was a Muncie 4 spd, and the driveline. My friend asked if the 4 spd. was repairable and the seller said there was nothing wrong with it. He pulled it to change the clutch and pressure plate and couldn't afford to fix it, so he decided to just sell the whole car.
Well money quickly changed hands, and we rushed out to the parts store to get a clutch and pressure plate. Then we returned and installed it all right in front of the guy's house and drove it home. That was the most beautiful $250 car I've ever seen, and man was that big old tank fast!
Seems like there were always great deals back in those days!

 

Those really were the good old days for muscle car and hot rod nuts,the '73 oil crises killed the new muscle car industry but it also made for lots of used and broken ones becoming a dime a dozen for a while and parts were cheap plus the cars were simple to work on.
Back in '75 I'd been eyeballing a '55 Chevy two door post sitting next to an old single wide mobile home in a rural area for a long time.
It was just a plain jane car but had the old school torque thrust mags on it and wide tires.
Finally one day I went up and knocked on the door,an older women (well old to me then as I was only 19,maybe 35) answered the door in a robe and hair curlers with a cigarette hanging out her mouth.
I asked if the owner of the car was home and if they might be interested in parting with it and she said that it was her son's car and he was in the Navy but he had said to go ahead and sell it if she wanted to.
I asked to look it over and she said help yourself and went back in the house.
It was straight as a pin with no rust whatsoever and original paint just in need of a buff and wax badly.
The interior was all diamond tuck black vinyl with 1st gen Camaro or Firebird buckets in the front.
There was no engine or trans in it but it had clutch/brake pedals and the hole in the floor for a floor shifter.
I had $60 in my wallet and figured maybe that would hold the car,I figured maybe $200 would take the car so I went back and knocked on the door again.
She came to the door and said "well?" so I says I have $60 but before I could say any more she said "that'll do" and she went and got me the title and keys.
I was pumped!,now I just had to tow it home and find a drivetrain.

But wait there's more!.....before I left I opened the trunk and inside I found a flywheel,clutch and pressure plate,bell housing,T-10 4 speed Hurst shifter and linkage and a set of headers!