Seeing your 1st Mopar 'Upset' a Chevy

Not a Chevy , but a Ford Mustang.
I had built an engine for my 1979 Express truck, nothing fancy.
Just solid blueprinted short block, stock pistons, crank, rods.
340 MP replacement cam & springs.
Installed 2.02 int valve & cleaned them up the bowells.
Eddy performer intake (port matched) & a stock T-quad.
Stock convertor & 3:55 gear.

I was living in a 1-stop sign town, when a Salen Mustang came rolling thru.
This was in the mid 80's.
The nice thing was, there was another 8 miles of straight hiway to the next town.

It was dark & my Buddy & I knew we couldn't outrun this guy, but we thought we would see how long we could hang with him.

Right on que, he nailed it at the edge of town, with me on his bumper.
I stayed with him until he went into 5th gear.
Nothing like the sound of stacks @ 5500 RPM in high gear!

We both pulled over in the next town, he was very suprised to see it was a pick-up truck that had hung with him for so long.
My speedo only went to 100MPH, he told me to get everything out of his Stang, that he had to redline all gears before going into 5th.
Which is around 125MPH.
Not too shabby for a barn door.

Later on, the neighbor kid that was my helper on the Race car was wanting something to race.
I put an 8 3/4 with 4.30 gear, 9 in slicks, 10" convertor, shift kit, headers & a 650 Holley D/P carb on it.
The truck weighed 4000LBS. ran a best of 13.80. Not bad at all.