318 Street/Strip build?

Dad told me a story of a mid sixties small block corvette just out the road when we first moved out here that our closest neighbor came up on going to town one afternoon. The young driver was shaken and miraculously unhurt. He did a full throttle sidestep of the clutch to see how his car launched, and the resulting clutch explosion exited the right side of the car and nearly cut the car in two. It didn’t mean much to me at that time being a youngin’, but once I got into cars, i realized just how lucky he actually was to still have his feet.