car that influenced me when I was young

My brother had i think a 71 h1
I remember he said it was the fastest 1/4 mile bike made at the time
He ended up cooking the middle cylinder
Friend in hs had a 440 six pack challenger
Someone ran him off the road .....
My friend had a 67 396 4spd chevelle in hs
I would go over his house at night and wrench on it
We got it going went to school waited for all the buses to leave.passed 13 on the way home on a 2 lane country road
Someone put a tall gear in it for gas mileage
He would drop it down to 3rd and could hit over 80
stuck one wheel in a ditch a few months later and bent the frame....he thought it must have been bent before cause it bent too easy