trying to keep it straight comes to mind, whenever the gas pedal is slammed.
I did this in 1975, except with a 340.
There was no room for any exhaust, other than the teeny-weeney 273 logs. So I went with Hooker fenderwell headers. And then I had no room for decent sized front-runners. But it sure looked cool.
My 65 Valiant wagon was a column shift auto but born with a slanty, which had that odd mechanical gas-pedal arrangement. That was the only real thing that I had to deal with.