1968 Road Runner '383' vs. 1968 Chevelle 'SS 396'

jbc426 said

Every fast motored street Chevy I ever saw run had a brutal wheel-hop issue. Unless they had the money for ladder bars, they could never hook-up out of the hole, just made a horrible sound, and left broken black tire marks on the ground; while the Mopar's (depending on how they were tuned) either drove away or once the real fast Chevy's finally hooked up pulled on them. I remember some fast GTO's, AMX 390's and one or two fords, but they were few and far between.

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Dead nuts 100% correct. I think Chevy invented wheel hop. Even the "all new" and "redesigned" Corvette chassis from 68 all the way to 79 was supposed hook like the dung who flung, but they had terrible wheel hop. Want proof? Watch the opening scene of "The Enforcer". There's what appears to be a 68-72 big block vette in that scene. When the girl tells him to "buzz off" he gets hideous wheel hop out of the scene. Always thought that was funny as hell that the car they designed to squat and transfer weight, spun like all hell. They never figured out that when the car squats in the rear, it's from the action of the rear axle being pulled up and OFF the ground making the tires UNhook. LOL