This sounds like a master plan for a snappy car on the street with no sweat.
I agree, I gave mad respect to old C-bodies once when my friends 67' 100% all original down to the Carter four barrel New Yorker two door coupe (exactly like the one below, color and all) gave a 100% all original snappy 68' four door Plymouth Signet 230 HP small block a run for its money. It must have been 4000 Lbs + against 3200Lbs and it out gunned it at the lights after struggling to get its own weight moving from the hole.
I always imagined it being all steel and tricked out at 3200 Lbs itself with the same combo and it would have been a terror.

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