Super Stocks / Pro Stocks from the 70's Finishes and suggestions

[Backtobasics]

I am taking my 1976 Dart, and building a 1970's type Super Stock clone. I have 15 x 3.5 front and 15 x 14 Cragar Super Trick wheels. I have a 383 that is going in, with a single carb tunnel ram intake. I will cut down 8.75 C body axle, and it will have very mild gears. I haven't decided on paint scheme yet. Besides the gold Moroso Valve Covers, and the huge by large Accel super coil, what other "finishes" do you remember? I am undecided on the hood scoop. Opinions on an open unit, or butterfly?

The car will be street. Goal will be something reliable that can be hopped in and driven.

 

[hemicop]

Depending on how deep your pockets are, Bobby Yowell probably had the prettiest P/S? around. A guy called "Greg of Akron" did the paint scheme & you can find it on the Web. Lots of airbrushed murals & paint fading & such. As I recall, if you look at a lot of the cars of the day they used horizontal striping along the body lines to, I assume, accentuate the length of the cars I.E> Butch Leal, Dick Landy, S&M, Herb McCandless, etc. P/S was so popular & relatively inexpensive back then, you could find plenty of old P/S pics & simply copy a paint scheme.
As to the scoop------you can still get the traditional P/S style scoop from various places but back then a lot of the Mopar guys ran one with a "ramp' leading to the opening instead of a "snorkel" style scoop you saw on some of the mini-P/S