Thread: The HEMI rolls out
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Old 06-06-2005, 02:41 PM
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Default Re: Hemi Cobra
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Originally posted by Nantucket427


I was talking to an "Old Drag Racer" and he was showing me his old Hemi stuff. He asked about my car and said "Can you imagin if Chrysler had only listen to Shelby, what a different World it would have been.
No doubt the 426 hemi is/was a great engine, wow factor, and has a hell of a legacy. But, the ford 427 wedge can make a lot of power as well. I think the current NHRA ?superstock B record is held by a 427 thunderbolt, besting a '64 hemi SS plymouth.
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