Remember When 400 was a Lot of Horsepower?

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@john.mcgann

I do. As a kid, I remember family get-togethers where the guys would inevitably begin talking about cars they owned and wished they still had. Invariably, the eyebrows would raise and admiring glances would be directed at my dad when he spoke about the 1969 Corvette he owned when he and my mom met. It was a Tri-Power 427 with a four-speed and the plaque on the console read “11.0:1 compression