Temp2c
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I have a 1969 el Camino SS396 with a 78 454 truck mill. I keep it stock looking but updated the suspension. I used First generation Rally wheels with 225/70-15 Cooper tires. It is such a fun car, I usually take the long way home and sometimes twice lol.
We had a 1957 Chris Craft ski boat back in the sixties. It had a 348 with Tri- Power. In the center of the steering wheel there was the throttle worked the center carb, the two end carbs were activated by some kind of a solenoid system that worked from two switches on the dash. When you backed off the throttle of the center carb, the end carbs would shut down. The boat would come to a dead stop too. My dad joked that this boat stops faster than my Chevy! We had a 1961 Bel Air, two door bubble top, 327 three on the tree.
My cousin worked at Don Allen Chevrolet (Pittsburgh). One day he saw a new 60 Impala that was totaled. My cousin got the 348 and him and my dad put it in the boat. The boat had some kind of Chevy V-8 truck engine that none of us ever heard of. My dad used to say that engine is blowing more smoke than J&L on an air inversion day!
When my dad and cousin got that engine installed and running, it sounded so cool!! I used to lay on the dock when they were tuning the 348, listening to the beautiful exhaust notes while the pipes would go in and out of the water as the boat bounced up and down with the waves. The water side of the docks rested on 55-gallon drums that floated up and down with the boat. It had something to do with being easier on the wooden frames of those boats.
In the photo, you can see me pretending I was skiing LOL..
We had a 1957 Chris Craft ski boat back in the sixties. It had a 348 with Tri- Power. In the center of the steering wheel there was the throttle worked the center carb, the two end carbs were activated by some kind of a solenoid system that worked from two switches on the dash. When you backed off the throttle of the center carb, the end carbs would shut down. The boat would come to a dead stop too. My dad joked that this boat stops faster than my Chevy! We had a 1961 Bel Air, two door bubble top, 327 three on the tree.
My cousin worked at Don Allen Chevrolet (Pittsburgh). One day he saw a new 60 Impala that was totaled. My cousin got the 348 and him and my dad put it in the boat. The boat had some kind of Chevy V-8 truck engine that none of us ever heard of. My dad used to say that engine is blowing more smoke than J&L on an air inversion day!
When my dad and cousin got that engine installed and running, it sounded so cool!! I used to lay on the dock when they were tuning the 348, listening to the beautiful exhaust notes while the pipes would go in and out of the water as the boat bounced up and down with the waves. The water side of the docks rested on 55-gallon drums that floated up and down with the boat. It had something to do with being easier on the wooden frames of those boats.
In the photo, you can see me pretending I was skiing LOL..
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Nice Pictures. 
Like others have said, Kool El Camino.
