Chevy classic numbers. The triple-digit 396 is familiar as the first of the Corvette big-blocks in 1965, and 435 is the famous horsepower figure for the illustrious Tri-Power 427s of 1967.
     If you’ve attended one of the big national shows, like the National Corvette Museum’s Labor Day show or Corvettes at Carlisle, you might have seen Mallett’s display. If you watch what’s going on even more closely, you might have noticed Chuck Mallett, Jr., with long, blond hair flowing, walking with one of the Chevy powertrain engineers, Jim Minnecker, who pilots Mallett’s race cars in the One Lap Of