PreHistoricRat
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Well, here's my story and I'm stickin to it.
I'm 20 years, name is Austin Sauer, a few of ya may know of my grandfather, John Sauer, he at one point had one of the "better/larger" 348/409 collections in the country in the late 70's early 80's. It was eventually sold off to a family friend Steve Van Dyne in the mid 80's. My grandfather also had a set of stack injectors that were off of "I THINK" Dyno Don Nicholson's 62, he bought them from Mickey Thompson before he passed. Those were stolen from our house while it was being rented out along with a plethora of Corvette parts, but I'll stop there before I start ranting for the next 3 hours...
Needless to say, my great uncle originally bought our 60 El Camino brand new, it was a 348 Hydro 4 speed car. He drove it on the street for a little while and started racing it a bit, not long after a divorce came and my grandpa bought it from him, we've had it since. My grandpa ended up blowing up a Hydro 4 speed bad one, opted out for a Turbo 400, dad told me it scared the piss outta him when the bell housing tried coming through the floor board and trans tunnel at him. The car always had 348's in it for life. My grandma, Denny loved em and built a bigger 348 that got the car down into the low 11's. We USED to have picture of it on the rear bumper at OCIR. After my grandpa went through a couple sets of "Cooks billet axles" Cook finally told my grandpa he couldn't guarantee em anymore, that's when the Pontiac 9.3" rear was swapped in by my dad when he was 16. My dad raced the car a few times until the trans blew up one night at OCIR, from there it had been parked. It's rediculously rusty. In the mid 70's they stripped the whole car and painted it, and forgot to etch it... So it rusted from under the paint...
Right now it still has a T-400 with a big 348. 690 heads, matching Comp 750's. The crank is a billet stroker from Thompson I believe also, not 100% on brand.
Well, needless to say, here probably at the first of the year, if I finish my 68 C-20 50th Anniversary truck soon I am going to start on my family ride of all time.
I'm 20 years, name is Austin Sauer, a few of ya may know of my grandfather, John Sauer, he at one point had one of the "better/larger" 348/409 collections in the country in the late 70's early 80's. It was eventually sold off to a family friend Steve Van Dyne in the mid 80's. My grandfather also had a set of stack injectors that were off of "I THINK" Dyno Don Nicholson's 62, he bought them from Mickey Thompson before he passed. Those were stolen from our house while it was being rented out along with a plethora of Corvette parts, but I'll stop there before I start ranting for the next 3 hours...
Needless to say, my great uncle originally bought our 60 El Camino brand new, it was a 348 Hydro 4 speed car. He drove it on the street for a little while and started racing it a bit, not long after a divorce came and my grandpa bought it from him, we've had it since. My grandpa ended up blowing up a Hydro 4 speed bad one, opted out for a Turbo 400, dad told me it scared the piss outta him when the bell housing tried coming through the floor board and trans tunnel at him. The car always had 348's in it for life. My grandma, Denny loved em and built a bigger 348 that got the car down into the low 11's. We USED to have picture of it on the rear bumper at OCIR. After my grandpa went through a couple sets of "Cooks billet axles" Cook finally told my grandpa he couldn't guarantee em anymore, that's when the Pontiac 9.3" rear was swapped in by my dad when he was 16. My dad raced the car a few times until the trans blew up one night at OCIR, from there it had been parked. It's rediculously rusty. In the mid 70's they stripped the whole car and painted it, and forgot to etch it... So it rusted from under the paint...
Right now it still has a T-400 with a big 348. 690 heads, matching Comp 750's. The crank is a billet stroker from Thompson I believe also, not 100% on brand.
Well, needless to say, here probably at the first of the year, if I finish my 68 C-20 50th Anniversary truck soon I am going to start on my family ride of all time.
and would you have some more photos
and lot's of info on the "W" engine. Enjoy the ride.
