If you could get a 4000 lb car with a 454 to "hook" up
You spoke to the previous owmer of my Strato Chief same motor as yours same 4000 lb, and 2.73 gears It ran 13,40 @101 when he could get it to hook (no posi)
1974 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna Type S-3 454 by Chris Hafner on December 11, 2007
My inclusion of the 1974 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna Type S-3 454 as an object of Car Disgust might seem puzzling. Why would a 454-cubic-inch Chevelle-based muscle car wind up lumped into Car Disgust, especially when the 1970 Chevelle SS454 was one of the very first Car Lusts?
Well, in truth, the Laguna Type S-3 454 wasn't so much a muscle car as it was the decaying, bloated corpse of a muscle car--the dug-up remains of the glorious Chevelle SS454, reanimated Weekend at Bernie's-style, with nothing more substantial than a freshly pressed leisure suit.
While the Chevelle SS454 was one of the brightest stars of the resplendent automotive firmament of the late 1960s, the Laguna was just the opposite--an impossibly inky black hole in the considerably darker sky of the early 1970s.
In a 1970 Car & Driver comparison test, a Chevelle SS454 had battled the legendary Shelby Cobra to a draw and established itself as one of the most powerful and seductive muscle cars of its era. Only four years later, changing tastes and emissions regulations had turned the smooth, torquey engine into an unresponsive weakling, and the bold Chevelle into a tacky Laguna.
The 454 dropped from 450 to 235 horsepower (though part of that drop can be blamed on a change in the rating system). For reference, a Hyundai Sonata is available with that same 235 horsepower--in an engine less than half the size; in a car with vastly more interior space, that is much quicker, and making more than three times as many miles per gallon.
All of this resulted in this tawdry "muscle car" managing a 0-60 time of only 7.8 seconds and a quarter-mile time of 16.2 seconds--slightly slower than a modern Honda Odyssey minivan, and just a touch faster than a four-cylinder Kia Spectra. The Chevelle SS454 of four years prior would have passed 100 mph and still been accelerating hard by the time the Laguna hit 80 mph.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
E-Bay is a good place to look, four color's available. The usual white, as well as red, blue and silver. The last three color's come with a black vinyl top.
Very realistc shots Morepower. I have a couple too. CLICK HERE to see the various Johhy Lightning releases. The white 73 GTO was the first one and is actually Bill Markowski's, Billygoat73, car.
That's a SN Firebird Carl, Super Nice , but please don't get me started, we have over 800 Hotwheels and similar die casts. I don't usually take them out of the packaging.
-- Edited by 73SC on Sunday 8th of January 2012 12:58:43 PM