By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

This is, hands down, the best part of a project–the first time you’re able to take the car for a spin under its own power. Chris and I fired up the ’66 Impala for the first time last night on its completely rebuilt 383 stroker, then took it out and terrorized the neighborhood for a bit. Don’t you just love hearing an engine that you’ve had completely and utterly apart actually fire back to life? Check out its first drive below, and click here watch some of the break-in and carb tuning. Thanks a mil to John from Autosport, who was a total rock star for coming over after work to help!

By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

On Saturday, the badass 383 stroker motor that Jen and I have spent the past few months building was finally completed. It met its new home in the freshly rebuilt front end of my ’66 Impala convertible. I then spent the rest of the weekend making countless trips to five different parts stores to complete all the plumbing and linkages necessary to get the convertible back on the road before I miss too many more sunny days.

How about you? What did you do this weekend?

By Jim Brennan

UDMan

Welcome to the CarDomain Obscure Muscle Car Parking Lot, a regular feature which aims to expand the notion of what a muscle car is, and to have some fun in the process. While it could be argued that the featured car is actually more of a grand touring car in the tradition of a Jaguar, I will submit evidence that it is more of a gentleman’s muscle car because of one simple feature: the engine. Yes, what we have here in a fast, powerful, and luxurious coupe that happens to be built in the UK, with a big old Chrysler 383 or 440. Introducing the Jensen Interceptor.

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