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Old 03-02-2017, 05:21 PM
Verne_Frantz Verne_Frantz is offline
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Default Re: Inside the ’63 Chevy 427 Mystery Engine

I envy your Dad Keith for being able to work with Dick Keinath. Dick told me a great tidbit. No one in Chevy management above his direct manager knew anything about the MK-II until a couple of them were at Daytona in '63. A news reporter asked one of them for a comment about the "new race engine" and they said "what engine?". According to Dick that's when "the poop hit the propeller". Right after that was when the edict went down that anyone caught having anything to do with racing would be shown the door immediately.

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