Smallblock efficiency or How to have your cake and eat it too

I used to drive my 68 barracuda with a 318 4 bbl and got 17.75 mpg with a 2.76 axle....

My dad had a bone stock 76 Charger with a 360 that got 20 MPG and had a 25 gallon tank = 500 mile range...

18 - 20 MPG is not out of the question...

A lot of you keep missing the 500HP AND 19-20 mpg part. I don't care about stock 318's/340's,360's,383's etc.... that did or could have gotten 20 mpg-ev.en still they would be the exception rather than the rule

Your Dad's bone stock Charger with a 360 had no where near 500 hp.

Oddly enough my father had that exact car when I was a baby, was yours blue with a white vinyl top and interior? lol. J.Rob