I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF BUILDING A 383 LOOKING TO MAKE 575HP AND 480 LBS, ACCORDING TO THE DYNO SHOULD BE PRETTY NICE.

 

My first new car was a 68 327 Camaro I bought in March of 68. It was a gold/green color (not that good a color, but), and all I could afford and I was on a shoestring modifying it but tried. I customized the front abit and put better wheels and tires on it, mostly used headers and manifolds and all. It was fast but not that fast.
But I had a lot of adventures in it. Beat a 390 cubic inch Mustang "California special" in a really tough street grudge match, by half a length and for $250, which was a lot, to me, back then, with all my friends there to see: still one of the glory moments of my life. 1968 Camaro V8s had a flaw from the factory (it was one of the first big factory recalls) but I was clueless at the time: the throttle linkage could come loose and flip wide open, but it only happened during a sharp left turn: I did a complete 360 into a median with wheels spinning and motor roaring and a (very soon to be ex-) girlfriend in the car and bent two wheels.
And there was the night my buddy and I picked up two really hot girls who loved the car, and took them to a bar -- only to find out as we were taliking that their dad was a drill sergenat in the Army who was really overprotective of them and they had snuck out the back window while he was getting ready for his date that night, and then he walked into the bar with his girlfried, a half hour later -- not pleasant. And there was the time when I was hauling butt northward in the middle of the Texas panhandle, good weather and the middle of the week, to visit family in Colorado, alone, doing about 100 mph, when out of nowhere this red "thing" passes by me like I was standing still -- to this day I don't know what it was. Red, low, dual duals on the rear, and a real scream from the engine. Probably Itlaian and expensive.
I traded it in 1973, on an Oldsmobile Cutlass sedans for a very pretty blond schoolteacher I loved at the time. I don't have the blond anymore, which is fine, but I sure wish I had that Camaro.