You gotta love peoples "car knowledge"

Well the guys back when I was a kid ran around saying everything had "three quarter race cams in er".
I even heard that terminology when I lived in San Diego around 01 from some maniac.. This guy had an 1980 4x4 chevy with a bb, which aparantly came out of a "drag car" and had three quarter race cam(s) in it. I could tell it was a bbc and that it had some sort of lopey cam, too bad this fellow was a tweaker and had set the truck on fire a couple times accidentally while adjusting the carburetor.. I believe he claimed it was sabotaged.. Idiot..

Actually, if you go back far enough, 3/4 and "full race" cams were cataloged that way.

I personally put a "3/4 race" cam in my 64 Barracuda in 67, and the part store that sold it to me, had it cataloged that way.

The cam technology has progressed a tremendous amount, like most everything else since then.