A Bodies are heavy? Hah

cudavert said

I think A-bodies can get under 3000 lbs fairly easily.....I wonder what your buddy considers "heavy"? My son has a 1997 Nissan 240SX that weighs almost 2900 lbs. with a 4 cylinder! Hondas weigh quite a bit less than that, but have about 1/2 the horsepower, so......BFD!

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I recall many years ago, I had a BH23 '68 Barracuda coupe. Original 318 was swapped out for a '72 360, otherwise stock. Shipping weight is 2910 lb.

http://www.oldride.com/library/1968_plymouth_barracuda.html

I had a friend with a very clean '73 Vega who was getting real tired of not keeping up with the real cars, so..., his Vega disappeared for a few weeks and turned up with a fresh 283 transplant. He immediately wanted to show what he could now do, so we lined up and my tired 360 trounced him. He was completely disbelieving of the results, so I trounced him again. He was grasping for an explanation and was very disappointed in his results, so I offered to head for the scales and weigh the cars. I recall his Vega was 500 lb heavier than my Barracuda and I had almost 100 cubes advantage. Seems like the laws of physics prevailed.