Let’s hear a 340 story

In about 74 or 75 my cousin bought a 70 340 Cuda. The story was that one of the guys that worked at Racing Head Services in Memphis owned and built the car. That thing would fly, it would spin about 4' off the line and it was like the whole car raised up. My cousin was raised and lived in a part of the county that was looked down on by residents of other parts of the county. In the part of the county that people that had money lived in there were a pair of brothers that had a nice 70 RR with a 440 6 pack that ran hard. The Cuda got a good reputation for beating cars that it shouldn't and word got around. One night the brothers brought a car load of their friends and came to run the Cuda. They wanted to run for $500, my cousin like most of us was lucky to have gas money most of the time. After a lot of mouthing they agreed to run best two out of three for $20. There was no need for three races, the Cuda got out on the RR and they couldn't run it down in the first two races. They accused him of cheating, though they couldn't come up with how he was doing it, then they wanted to fight. My cousin never did get his money and guys from that part of the county never came looking for another race either.