For a short time in high school I had a '56 Ford Victoria (not Crown), had a built 292/312 Y block, top loader 4 speed, 9", it did 12.9 in the 1/4 at OCIR. Smoked the tires once for 420 straight non-stop feet, and then I let off of the gas. I couldn't keep a set of nice tires on the thing. Haahhhh, those were the days.......