The normally aspirated 200 power pack 277 56 Belvedere at 18.9 seconds
seems slow by today's standards, but more than enough to stay up with 56
Chevs & Fords. Like discussed earlier, the testers went thru plenty of cars
each day and this test is probably typical of anyone jumping into a car the
first time and letting it rip. My own '56 Belvedere 2 door hardtop 4bbl 277
normally ran high 17s-low 18s at Half Moon Bay & Cotati dragstrips in NoCal in
the early 60's-bone stock except exhaust cutouts, with my normal driver tires.
One Saturday, I took the car to Andy's Champion Speedshop in Colma, CA and
had it dynotuned. He thought the car had exceptional hp for a stock 277 and
recommended I run it at Cotati the next day. I turned my best time ever in it
on the trophy run against a '56 Chev in CSX class - 17.32 @ 83.1. Still have
that day's worth of time slips.
Jack Lewis
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