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    Thanks Bill. I guess you walked away from the 427. Yea I understand they pull hard. Here are specs for a street 427, 70 MPH in first gear - not too shabby. It's a shame Shelby never got the chance to develop the 427 like they did the 289. Would have been interesting to see how good it could have been fully sorted.
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    The rear of the car will sit lower in the final assembly, but we are getting there.
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    A quick check on '68 production shows about 3000 L71 (435HP 427) corvettes. There were a total of 708 Tuxedo Black '68s. I would guess they were only a few hundred black 427s produced. Even fewer survived and fewer still remained unmolested. You can't reproduce originality.
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    Side pipe mounting.
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    Yea I watch that show on occasion. They do give you some history. They did an episode on finding and restoring one of Marty Robbins' old modifieds, 95% of the show was talking about Robbins. Wheeler Dealers has the best formula to me but they only freshen the cars up a bit and don't do full restorations.
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    Thanks Gene and Richard. Color will be silver, I'm building the car pictured above.
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    Thanks for the suggestion Dann, I'll take a look at them.
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    This forum is very much like a big modeler's club. I think you will like it.
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    Oil cooler and lines.
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    Very nice Larry.
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    I would suggest some sort of turnstile but you might have a hard time finding on that will support the weight of the rack!
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    Where all the current shows go wrong (IMHO) they make to show about the people. Me, I would much rather have a show where the cars are the focus. Find a car, tell the history or the significance of the car then show the restoration/build process in sufficient detail. A pipe dream - I know.
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    Thanks Ray. Yea the engine in the Sunny kit appears to me to be the same 260/289 included in the AMT Cobra.
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    Great weathering on the dumper.
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    Irsay's net worth is $1.7 BILLION with a B!!
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    Thanks Gene. Adding electronics and wiring.
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    The point is there is a very limited quantity of numbers matching original cars left and even fewer 427s. They could have used any '68 body and a crate 427 engine for what they wanted to build. Now there is just one less original car in the world.
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    I had a black '83 GT. Yep a lot of fun.
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    Hey Brizio, Janis Joplin's Porsche just sold for $1.76M. Wonder what you could get for your model? http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/10/luxury/janis-joplin-porsche-auction/index.html
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    Very cool. Thanks for posting it.
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    Haven't seen the whole episode yet, but GMG is doing a Hot Wheels themed Corvette build and they are cutting up a numbers matching 427!!
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    David, these kits come up on Ebay from time to time, just keep checking. They are long out of production so you can't just order them from anywhere.
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    I really like actual production cars that have been converted to race cars, drag racing, road racing, rally, NASCAR whatever. Thanks for posting.
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