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Hemi vs. 440 Chapter 2

I have a ‘66 Florida plate - my Belvedere is originally from Florida - and if I want to register the car using the plate I have to send it to Tallahassee and have them approve it before I can put it on the car. I hope they don’t lose it.
All I have to do here is take the tag to the local DMV and they register it to the car there. It's never out of my sight. It does have to be the same year as the car it is going on.
 
They let you put a 70 plate on a 68 up there? Ours have to be year specific in Alabama.
Pennsylvania is the same, but during the muscle car era, the state issued annual stickers, rather than new plates every year. If the colors and font on the plate are correct for the year, you can use a reproduction sticker to get the correct year for the car. The downside of this is that most of the surviving plates are shabby from multiple winters. Mine was on Dad’s car for less than a year.
 
Pennsylvania is the same, but during the muscle car era, the state issued annual stickers, rather than new plates every year. If the colors and font on the plate are correct for the year, you can use a reproduction sticker to get the correct year for the car. The downside of this is that most of the surviving plates are shabby from multiple winters. Mine was on Dad’s car for less than a year.
It was a long time later that Alabama started annual stickers, but I understand perfectly. I had not thought of that possibility.
You have 2 great GTX'S. My Hemi cars are also more docile than the 440's until the rpms get above 3000, then it's like you flipped a switch. Also there is a definite difference in the exhaust note of a Hemi. You can blindfold me and crank any car I have and I may not be able to tell you which one, but I can tell when it's a Hemi running.
 
Nothing sounds like a Hemi at 7000 rpm through the stock exhaust.
 
Can i say it now???


I told you would love it.

Mine is probably in the top 2 or 3 of my all time favorites of any car I've ever owned.

Hope your not the shy type....the hemi will draw a crowd everywhere you take it. Trust me.

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After over 50 years of speculation, I have finally had the incredible fortune to have one of each, the old 440 car I drove back in the day, and the one I always dreamed of, the Hemi that was always just out of my reach.

I can't say that either is better, but as many of you pointed out in my original thread, the Hemi indeed comes on where the others leave off. Thanks again to all of you who gave your input on my decision.

The stars aligned perfectly - I found a numbers matching original sheet metal car only 195 miles from my door step, and got a great deal from a fellow FBBO member. What a place!

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Very nice now you know way more than most congrads.
 
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