As a kid, I got a ride in a Monza Spyder, turbo. They may have all been turbos, I don't know.

It was plenty fast. With 4 people in the car it still broke the tires loose when he shifted to second gear.

Was it something like this?…

Yep. The defining characteristics of all of the spider models was that they were turbos, and they used a single intake manifold and a single carburetor. The monzas all used a pair of intake manifolds and two single barrel carburetors, although some people did put four single barrels on them in two pairs using an adapter on top of the intake manifolds. The original bone stock/ this is what you got when Chevy first built them series used the single manifold and a single one barrel carburetor. Other than about 25 changes in displacement and in swirl and quench patterns under the heads, and I can't think of too many others, Chevy really didn't do anything other than those three basic designs. Of course guys like Smokey Yunick and Carl Yenko did some really fascinating engineering work and built some really responsive and sporty designs. And of course then there were the ones like that 454 Rat motor that I mentioned in another Post in this thread, which seems to me like it couldn't have been a very responsible designer who put it together. But I'm pretty sure he got The Thrill Ride of a lifetime out of it.

Saw a 65 in a junkyard once, with a blown 454 Chevy in the backseat. I only knew what it was because the shell over the engine was burned. So was the rest of the car, but 65s were pretty distinctive. That one more than most, since it was toasted. I don't know if the rat motor overheated and cooked, or what, but it wasn't crashed. Just burned. I wondered how squirelly THAT would have been to drive. I know I love my bone-stock 64. But it WAS bone-stock. Couldn't imagine all the engineering that had to go into that monster.