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wow...
you're from NC and you know nothing about cars, in particular old Detroit muscle? not a putdown, but NC has a big history of this stuff, especially with NASCAR...
go knock on some of your neighbor's doors and they could probably give you a great history of it all.
that said, i used to be a bit of a musclecar/hotrod enthusiast, so i can probably help a bit with 'authentic lyrics.'
first of all, forget about dual overhead cams. not to be found in all the old American stuff.
5 speeds are cool, but back then it was just 3 or 4 on the floor.
no turbochargers. not cool or common years ago (unless you lived in Italy or Germany).
supercharged is an okay term. blown or blower is better.
injected is cool terminology.
dual CARBS (not cams) is big with hot rods. also cool is the '6 pack': 3 2 bbl. carbs on the 440 c.i. big block motor.
V8s are cool. big block V8s are cooler (lyric wise).
other cool hot rod terms - 9" rear (Ford), 4 bolt mains (mainly Chevy), hemi, headers, posi rear, 12 bolt rear (Chevy), glasspacks, velocity stacks, tubbed out in the back.
popular engine sizes-
Chevy: 327,350,427,454
Dodge:426 Hemi, 440 6 pack
Ford: 351 Cleveland, 428
Cadillac: 500 cubic inches!
hopefully some stuff for lyrics. as to which car got which engine and other stuff in what years, you'll have to research that, or this reply will go on for another 40 paragraphs or so.
and hopefully no erroneous information...
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