Another story. I belonged to a local Chevelle club. There were the normal restorations and hot rodded Chevelles. I have owned several SS396 Chevelles and know them well. This time out we were at the Texas Motorplex for a car club race. Our club vs a lot of other clubs. Again I had the yellow "Malibu". The heavy hitters in our club had some mint SS454's The president of the club had his SS454 really built. It was a gorgeous black car with white stripes. All the purists knew that SS Chevelles kicked but and small block Malibus sucked eggs. I had been running 11.70's all day and was having fun. The pres was running 11.50's with his roller cam big block, with trans brake. Well the track was having tech problems and we were only going to get one more run. So I decided to open the nitrous bottle. Everyone knew i had it and thought I had been using it all day. So I lined up against a Buick GS 455 and ripped off a 10.86 in front of the whole club. When I got back to the pits it was real quiet in my club. I had committed a sin, my little block beat the bad big block. I didn't last too long with that club after that. Didn't like the cold shoulder.