Let’s hear a 340 story

Ok I got another one. Being a Natrona Heights boy but hanging and racing with a much smaller Freeport town crowd there was always one 1969 (302) camero that I kept hearing about. His family lived 3 miles out of Freeport but I never met him. A local guy had a mechanical garage 1.5 miles from his house and rebuilt his engine and through the shops brother (a Mopar guy) kept going on about how fast this car was. Fastest car he was ever in. (Coming from the shop owner) It took over two years for the race to happen and honestly I don’t remember exactly how it happened but I think he came out one night we were going at it. We finally raced, I won, and I never heard another story about him. What’s really funny is I loved this area so much and dated several girls from this area I bought a house here in 1985, about 150 yards from his farm. Our paths have never crossed again and I don’t know if he still owns that car or not. I loved his silver and black car and other than a Mopar it’s one I wouldn’t have minded owning.
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A pre El Paso, Tx, Dyer St. Story from high school.

1969 the 69 Z28 just got me all kind of excited. Made a deal with my dad to let me buy one with my own lawn mower. hay bale and bean walking money. I was 15 at the time and a sophomore. After I hit 16 I could buy my dream car was the deal.
In the mean time as I'm aging, a rich *** hole junior's, dad bought him the exact Z28 I lusted after. He had it for a couple months and totaled it. His dad buying it for him and him wrecking it took away all my desire to ever own a Z28.
We had a pair of 49 Plymouths that I drove all thru high school. Use to turn them any way but loose. Lol
I later bought a 55 2 door hard top chevy that had had a 301 in it be for I got it. It had a tilt frontend.
Do you know the differance between a 301 and a 302 chevy?
Funny but my step son has a redone black 69 Z with a unoriginal 302 in it.