You have got to read this... and since it is a comment in response to a post about engines, I doubt anyone would see it... but you're gonna love it!

I did so many burnouts that I fried the bearings in the 9", twice in 6 months.

Apparently doing extended burnouts slings all the oil away from the bearings or something.

The boys in my town had a standing contest for whose car could leave the longest black marks on the road, but to be official, it had to be done on the road in front of the sheriffs house.

My 69 four door Thunderbird with the 429 was the black mark king, no other car could even come close, I once got expelled from High School and when I drove away, I left a black mark 410 feet long.

A couple of kids had a scanner, and they'd listen and wait till the sheriff called in and gave his location that was miles away, then we'd go lay down some rubber in front of his house.

It was easy to keep up with the location of the sheriff and the deputy, since the sheriffs department consisted of the sheriff and THE deputy, literally like Andy and Barney, a rural Appalachian county of 7000 people that didn't have a traffic light in the county, didn't require a large department.

Userbronco

(The first two sentences? Should win writing awards! They should be the opening lines to a biography!) 

Thanks Userbronco! You made my day! THIS is what being a car guy is about, ENJOYING the car, and what it can do, and having fun with it!