SHIFT’ed THINKING LARGE AND IN CHARGE A definite “wolf”! The clean lines of the big Chevy flow great with the factory gold paint. It does not look like a 9-second car but it sure is one. and hit the streets, and that in turn opened up drag racing to become what it is today. And, once you had your Detroit iron parked in your drive, if you were lucky enough to be able to afford a set of Cragars and some wide ovals for your street cruiser, you were the talk of the local hangout on Friday and Saturday nights! For a time during the late ’70s, emissions control took over and robbed us of our horsepower— that is, until technology caught up and found a way to make power and meet emissions standards. The ’80s and ’90s styles saw the birth of the Ford 5.0, and rebirth of the Chevy
28
5.7, and the next generation Hemi, and today we see the influence of those ’60s and ’70s cars in new models of the Camaro, Mustang and Challenger. Nowadays, at the dragstrips you are likely to see a lot of those ’80s and ’90s cars packed with most any engine combo you can imagine, but there are still some, like Bedford, Pennsylvania’s Jeff Twigg and his wife Rachel who choose the road less travelled. And we’d say that running a small block stick 1967 Chevelle is definitely a road less travelled. Twigg, who turns wrenches to make a living with his brother Darrell at Twiggs Auto-
february 2017 | RPM Magazine