I love shops like that. I used to lust after the 63 Riviera. I'll be in the Muscle Shoals area this weekend for a wedding, and I'll pay a courtesy call on one of my favorite cars, belonging to my wife's uncle, my former opthalmologist, a red 63 'Vette roadster, 327 300hp 4spd, completely stock, all original, one owner from new, and one of the world's great guys, who let me drive it when I turned 16, and who calls his wife of better than 50 years, Martha Ann, "Poopsie". If he just wasn't a damn Tennessee fan. At least the car is not orange, like the Cal24 sailboat, the V tail Bonanza airplane, and the Chris Craft cruiser and the Doberman who gets a dye job every fall...

I agree on the "common knowledge" numbers. I once had two Osca engines, 849cc dohc 4's, both blueprinted to exactly the same specs with the same cams, both degreed, same combustion chamber cc's to within 5/100ths, same piston weights, same rod weights, same everything, and the Webers had to be jetted two jet numbers different on the main jets, and 3 numbers different on the emulsion tubes. If you swapped the carbs, you had to swap the jets back to the original motor. You could swap the cams/intakes/headers and it made no difference. I never was able to explain that one, unless there was some other differences in the carbs themselves.