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Vette Videos: Hail to the 1967 L71 427/435 Big-Block Corvette!!!

Vette Videos: Hail to the 1967 L71 427/435 Big-Block Corvette!!!

Okay, lets get this part out of the way first. True, true – a modern C6 Z06 or ZR1 Corvette can easily walk away from anything from the big-block days – HANDS DOWN! But as our pal Mike Beal once told us, the difference between modern Corvettes and the big-block Corvettes from the olden days is that the newer cars deliver “controlled horsepower.” The old big-block Corvettes delivered EXPLOSIVE horsepower.” Not only that, but there was a guttural rumble that let even the uninitiated know that this was one bad-ass machine. STOP BY AND CHECK OUT THE VIDEO!!!

Stunning Die-Cast Corvette Engine Models

Stunning Die-Cast Corvette Engine Models

We offer the entire lineup of die-cast engines at our www.Precision-Illustration.com site, HERE. But for this post, we thought we’d dish up two photo galleries featuring the famous L84 ‘63-’65 Fuel Injected 327, the small-block “Fuelie” and the 427/435m aluminum-head L89 big-block with those awesome 2, 2-bbl carbs.