So there are many reasons as people have mentioned, but I believe one of my biggest draws for 1 was family my grandfather had a 413 New Yorker push button torqueflite that thing was a beast. Then my best friend had a 383 pistol grip 70 Roadrunner we would street race constantly and it could handle just about everything but the fastest Big Blocks, I could go on and on but everybody in their shiny Mustangs and Z28 and GTOs would just kind of deflate when that solid lifter big block Mopar rolled into the parking lot. And the same was true in the small-block world with the 340 cars this is where the talking ends boys, those are great times