Back in the day, probably 1967, I had a '62 Dodge Dart 361 auto. We used to take our cars up to Palmer Dodge on Keystone Ave. and have their transmission guy increase the line pressure, or did something to make the auto's shift a lot harder than stock. I was also running a tall pinion snubber that was hitting the underside of the body 100% of the time. Now the engine was basically stock, other than having the heads milled for that higher compression, (cut me some slack...I was only 17) but when it hit second gear it felt like someone rear ended the car. Pretty cool I thought.

When racing, many times my girlfriend was with me and sat on the console between the bucket seats. When I wound it out in first and hit the second gear button the car lunged so hard that it thru her in the back seat. What a hoot. Incidently, it was in the back seat of that car that we conceived our first child. Well that's another story. I didn't win a lot of races with that car but it sure was a lot of fun.