:-D I have to tell you my "back in the day" story about my first 7 1/4 blow up.
I am 17, in 67 and took my "almost new" 64 Barracuda, 273-2 4 speed to a drag strip, 75 miles away, in Ark City, Kansas.
Well, it turned real ugly, real quick. I was broke, and broke down, it busted the case...