"360 HP For Chevy II"

[427TJ]

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You guys are scaring me. You're getting interested in this early stuff....

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I love the old stuff! Here's a color photo of Retribution II that I found on the Internet. This would make a killer street car today.




x 100!!!

[olredalert]

------"Retribution", huh? I must have been living under a rock as I dont remember that ChevyII. It looks as though they moved the solid rear axle all over the place.
------I guess you would call that roll-bar a five point,,,LOL!!!.......Well,,, Im bummed, although the car did seem to have an illustrious career. Cant blame them for using what they had and not starting over from zero. Ive done that myself. I guess Bad Bascom(b) will have to live on in our memories. I know it will in mine now that you guys have dug up all this info on it. I cant thank you enough.......Bill S

[Verne_Frantz]

I love that picture TJ....

Now, block out all noises and imagine that picture with SOUND...........


Bill, actually it may have been only a 3-point roll bar. 2 uprights and one diagonal behind the driver. That's all NHRA required as late as '70 in my D/MP convertible. (don't know about AHRA).
Early FX cars didn't require a bar at all (or a helmit or seatbelts)

Verne

[olredalert]

Verne,,,You are right about the bar. When I got Red Alert out of mothballs in 1990 it had never had any kind of roll-bar or even so much as a driveshaft-strap, and when Bob held the record he was turning 10.90s with a best of 10.75............Bill S

[427TJ]

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Now, block out all noises and imagine that picture with SOUND...........

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Hey Verne, speaking of SOUND, we're 10 minutes from heading out the door to the Shuck's Nationals at Pacific Raceways (Seattle). I'm taking my 6-year old son and his friend to see their first fuel show. Yep, got the ear protectors for the boys. I can't wait to see them react when they hear a fuel car fire up. SOUND and FURY!!!

[Verne_Frantz]

Bill,
I guess I started racing the '62 under '69 NHRA rules. /MP required that 3 point bar in convertibles (no bar in hardtops), with a head restraint attached to the bar, a driveshaft loop, an engine safety support strap (which was just a wire loop under the back of the engine), an approved 4-point harness and a coolant overflow can.

That was it.

Verne

[PeteLeathersac]

Great photos fellas! .

Nice engine shot Verne....being a W, I suppose we should have expected you'd have this? .

I love that color shot of the Retribution II car too! .

Seeing the side chrome is gone in some pics I'd expect these would be the later shots....removed for lettering? .

~ Pete

[COPO_Anders]

Years ago when I had a 1962 Chevy II, I asked GM Nordiska AB here in Sweden if I was allowed to put a V8 in it and run it on the street. Their reply was that a 360 hp 327 cui engine was the biggest they would allow in a 62-64 Chevy II,with certain modifications made.
I later used that document to register a 1964 2dr sedan with a tunnelrammed 302.