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Old 06-10-2021, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jerry455 View Post
I had a 1977 Can Am, very similar size and weight to your GP. I weighed it at Milan Drag way along time ago and it weighed 4,270 lbs. It had power everything like most GP's of those years. I had a 3.08 axle, which helped it move a little better. The A/G bodies of that time were big and heavy cars.
My '76 GP certainly was a land yacht. It had 2.21:1 rear gears as I recall. It couldn't accelerate off the line to save its life, but it could cruise at 70mph and still get 20-21 mpg(350P/2bbl/T-400).

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