On the white 61, what a story!!!
Remember what W head said about running out of $$$.
This was a car I built, on a run I destroyed the 4:88 rear end, and I mean destroyed. Hit 3rd gear, slicks grabbed, twisted both axles, tore off one bearing support from the positrac, twisted the axle housing and anything else physics could take over.
I decided to build the baddest 409 out there!!
Blue printed an 068 block, .060 over(a couple of sleeves from previous "incidents"). Z-11 heads, Crane cam .606 lift 346 duration, Schieffer aluminum flywheel, Zoom clutch, T-10, 2-AFB's, etc. Would run to 7500 RPM and already had tons of torque. Lightened entire valvetrain(big problem).
I put a 57 Pontiac rearend in with a 4:88 PT, put 10:20 M& H racemasters on, drilled the wheels, put sheet metal screws in the bead of the tires to keep them from spinning, ran 6lbs.
Next I took it out for a shake down run. Thanks to the genius move of using the latest lightweight, tuliped (ford) valves I promptly snapped one off, poked a hole in a piston, water comes in, bent a rod, cracked the block, valve head somehow worked its way through the intake onto the other side and began to dance around there. Made 2 holes in the bottom of the 2 Z-11 heads that I had from Frank Sanders.
In the midst of this I had been drafted and was trying to balance all this carnage and Uncle Sam!!
What a pain in the A_ _!!!
I had to sell the car for pieces to raise cash. I have no idea where it went.
Now, based on what W Head said we both ran out of money!!
I changed jobs, but found a Chevy dealer that wanted me to build a car for him, boy if he had known what had just happened! LOL LOL
The saga of the White Biscayne!!!
PS. At a different Chevrolet dealership I had built a couple of cars for the GM's son and the Parts Mgr's son, 57 265 with 2x4's, yes 57 265. And a 301 for a 56 for the GM's son.