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G/S...should be a 350

 

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great pictures!

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Wow, best pics of this car Ive seen ! Anybody know where it is now , or did it survive tha last 50 years ?

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Mission Raceway

G/S...should be a 350

 

-- Edited by 2drpost on Thursday 4th of April 2019 06:04:44 PM

 So that may well be the only small block Cheetah?

In 66-67 they were all big blocks weren't they?



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Possibly a 396 325hp in G/SA.....here's a pic of a buddy's 69 Camaro SS/GA at Sanair running a 396 325hp

Car was a Z/28 but Rick put a big block in it.

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Carl Stevenson wrote:
2drpost wrote:

Mission Raceway

G/S...should be a 350

 

-- Edited by 2drpost on Thursday 4th of April 2019 06:04:44 PM

 So that may well be the only small block Cheetah?

In 66-67 they were all big blocks weren't they?

 This was the only 69 Cheetah, and it was a 350 car. In 69, Conroy was selling GTO's, and interest in the Beaumont was tailing off.



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So would it be the only Cheetah post car ever also?

Judging by the wrinkle in the slick it must have had some guts!

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12.95 ET on the quarter window.

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That's certainly not just a 350/300 horse then!

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That's certainly not just a 350/300 horse then!

 Certainly not 'stock' Carl.

But with a good cam/headers/heads/gears/slicks 12.95 is easily achievable, that would be a nice ride.

In 1977 I ran 12.80's with a fresh 327 365hp in a 55 Chev 4 speed with 4:88 gears and Mickey Thompson 7" slicks,

car ran in C/MP.



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Certainly headers and more cam would do it, yes, especially with that kind of gearing.

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

That's certainly not just a 350/300 horse then!

 probably the 255 horse version, underrated and popular in NHRA class racing



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I assume the 300 horse would have been offered in a Beaumont? I guess I've never checked. That with a 4 speed and a 3.55 or 3.73 gear would have made a fun car.

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I assume the 300 horse would have been offered in a Beaumont? I guess I've never checked. That with a 4 speed and a 3.55 or 3.73 gear would have made a fun car.

  The 300 HP 350 was offered in the Beaumont in 69. I parted two of them a few years ago, one was a 4 speed. This 69 Cheetah was not a big block car. I'm sure there were lots of changes made to the stock 69 Deluxe. 



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1969 never offered a 396 was not available its a 350 car !



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There was a 69 SD396 offered I'm told, and apparently even in a 2 door post!

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There was a 69 SD396 offered I'm told, and apparently even in a 2 door post!

 there was a '69 bench seat BB car at Plunketts a few years ago. I thought the owner was a member ? 



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I think a 350 Beaumont is a very neat and likely rare car, especially in the two door sedan version. Lets face it the most common V8 found in a Beaumont was the 307 and we all know how most members on here feel about that engine. A 350 69 Beaumont will always make me stop and take a good look.



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There was a 69 SD396 offered I'm told, and apparently even in a 2 door post!

 there was a '69 bench seat BB car at Plunketts a few years ago. I thought the owner was a member ? 

  I had my car at Plunkett's once. It was parked in front of the house



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Carl Stevenson wrote:

There was a 69 SD396 offered I'm told, and apparently even in a 2 door post!

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Lets face it the most common V8 found in a Beaumont was the 307 and we all know how most members on here feel about that engine.

What, that it was a solid reliable variation of the small block that got people to where they needed to go and paid the bills for GM, so they could afford to sell low-production big block cars?

Yeah.



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A 307 is basically a 283 with a 327 crankshaft, but large journals. I think the biggest problem was that most I have seen had 2:73 years in the back. I think the reasoning was the longer stroke could handle the gearing. Back in the day adding a four barrel carb and duals with a change in gear ratio helped a lot. Stock they were a slug but seemed to last.
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Apparently that was the only 69 cheetah and the only SBC. On the other topic, my cousin had a 69 SD 396 post car, black on black. It was a late 70s show car.

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MC wrote:
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Lets face it the most common V8 found in a Beaumont was the 307 and we all know how most members on here feel about that engine.

What, that it was a solid reliable variation of the small block that got people to where they needed to go and paid the bills for GM, so they could afford to sell low-production big block cars?

Yeah.

 Mark, once  again you hit it on the mark. With out all those countless sixes and entry level V-8's................ these big block guys would just be dreaming of what they got. Just  dreaming. biggrin. After all the bread and butter stuff paid ALL THE BILLS. Cheers.



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That is my understanding also , that that 69 Conroy car is likely the only small block 350 car built! Pretty cool car!

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