What ever you hit will change direction while you will not.
He failed to mention that ALL 71 GM cars had lowered compression ratios, in order to run on regular and low-lead gasoline. This 455 was 320 sae gross hp. whereas the 1970 would have been 360-370. 0-60 would have been about 7.8 on a 70, rather than 8.8.
I knew a kid that had one of these