Let’s hear a 340 story

I had a 73 340 Rally Charger in high school. We never figured out why, but it was fast. We always thought maybe it had some blueprintin or "somethin" done. 79K original miles. I got it in late 1980. There weren't but a couple of cars in school that had anything for it. Jeff Smith's badass 400 70 Z/28 and David George's original 71 LS6 4 speed Chevelle. My best friend in high school Kirk, whose still one of my best friends was so impressed with that car that he got a 73 340 Duster a little after school. He also had a really nice 78 RS Camaro. 400, 3.73, stout turbo 350. But it was slow. He didn't have it very long and we never could figure it out. Lookin back, I'm sure it was converter related. Anyway, he had both for a time and the Camaro was the main cruiser because the chicks liked it. Whenever somebody would say "hay Kirk lets race" he said "ok, meet us at the spur in about an hour". We'd go to his house and get the Duster. It had factory 3.91s, Holley Strip Dominator, Holley 750DP, headers, 3500 stall and was stock otherwise. That car would click off low 13s with slicks. Normally, when we showed back up with the Duster, there was a lot of backpedaling from the other side like "we weren't talkin about THAT thing" LOL Those were some fun times.