Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2021 i Hemmings Muscle Machines

ENGINE Block type.....................................................................Ford aluminum Gen 2 “Coyote” V-8 Cylinder heads....................................................................................Ford aluminum DOHC Displacement.....................................................................................5.0-liters(302-cu.in.) Bore x stroke.....................................................................................................3.63 x 3.65 in Compression ratio..........................................................................................................12.0:1 Horsepower@rpm.................................................................................750 @ 6,500 (est.) Torque @ rpm..................................................................................600 lb-ft @ 4,250 (est.) Camshaft type................................................................................Ford hydraulic OHC (x4) Duration...............................................................................................Variable with phasing Lift...........................................................................................................................551/.551-in Valvetrain......................................................................................Hydraulic roller followers Induction system ....... Roush Stage 2 2.3-liter TVS Roots-type supercharger with twin 60-mm throttle body; port fuel injection with 57-lb/h injectors Lubrication system........................................Wet-sump-type with gerotor-type oil pump Ignition system..........................................................................Ford individual coil-on plug Exhaust system..........................................................Headers with 2.5-in exhaust system TRANSMISSION Type.......................................................................................Tremec T56 six-speed manual Ratios.........1st/2.66:1 … 2nd/1.78:1 … 3rd /1.30:1 … 4th/1.00:1 … 5th /0.80:1 … 6th /0.63:1 Reverse/2.90:1 DIFFERENTIAL Type................................... Ford 9-inch with limited-slip differential and hardened axles Ratio................................................................................................................................3.25:1 STEERING Type.................................................................................Electric-assisted rack-and-pinion Ratio.................................................................................................................................12.5:1 BRAKES Type.....................................................................Wilwood power-assisted four-wheel disc Front...............................................12.19-indrilled/slotted rotors with six-piston calipers Rear..............................................11.00-indrilled/slotted rotors with…

ED MONTINI KNOWS A THING OR two about first-gen Chevrolet Camaros. It’s hardly a casual statement: Ed’s first car was a 1969 SS/RS 350/four-speed example that set into motion a complete immersion into the famed F-body. In time, the Gilbert, Arizona, resident developed an uncanny ability to find particularly unusual examples, including several that have been profiled within these pages, such as his 1968 Z/28 (November 2011), his Yenko Camaros (March 2013), and a low-mileage, Fathom Green 1969 Z/28 (September 2014). Now meet Ed’s latest unusual Camaro: a Cortez Silver 1969 Z/28. What makes it so interesting is the series of circumstances that left it partially disassembled for decades, complete with a feature that was never offered on a Z/28 when new. As Ed explains, “In April 2013, the shop…

AUCTIONS RETURN TO MONTEREY This past August marked the restoration of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Monterey Car Week, which were cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the revival of these events, the auction houses also rounded out the week’s festivities with sellers and bidders eager to participate. The official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Gooding & Company, saw more than $107 million in total sales, with an 87-percent sell-through. The most expensive American muscle car of the event was a 1965 Shelby G.T. 350R, ordered new by Tasca Ford and campaigned by Dean Gregson, who was sponsored by Harr Motor Car Company in Worcester, Massachusetts. Gregson would achieve 10 first-place finishes in 12 starts, including first in class at Lime Rock and…

HEMMINGS AUCTIONS IS OUR LIVE, ONLINE AUCTION site staffed by customer service professionals ready to help bidders and sellers with any questions. A wide variety of classic and specialty vehicles from all eras are up for bid. Auctions run for two weeks, and qualified bidders place their bids electronically. Once a vehicle is accepted into the auction, the seller pays only a $99.95 listing fee. The winning bidder is responsible for a 5-percent fee on all completed auctions. The following are examples of auctions that transpired during the month leading up to press time. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, email Director of Auction Operations Terry Shea: terryshea@hemmings.com 1967 CHEVROLET CORVETTE RESERVE: None SELLING PRICE: $78,750 RECENT MARKET RANGE: $86,750-$118,990 The last year of Sting Ray production saw the…

Like big power? Like big, 20-inch (or even 21-inch) rear wheels doing all of the work on your 400-horsepower performance car? Need to carry more in the back of your vehicle than a Mustang will allow? Have we got news for you. For 2022, Ford is offering its Explorer ST (an SUV that’s been around since the model’s 2020 redesign) with a standard rear-wheel-drive driveline. Four-wheel-drive is available, but it’s tougher to hang the tail out around turns when all four tires are clawing for traction. And they will be clawing for traction (at least, if you disable the traction control): the Explorer ST is packing a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6, putting out 400 hp and 415 lb-ft of torque through its mandatory 10-speed automatic transmission (with paddle-shifted SelectShift capability, which…

BREATHE EASY. Paul Choukourian didn’t carve up an original 1968 Shelby G.T. 500KR to build his supercharged, Coyote-powered restomod, but he sweated the details to make sure the car was as authentic-looking as possible. Paul is the former owner of a dealer-optioned, Paxton-supercharged ’68 G.T. 350, so he understands the reverence for original Shelbys — as well as the existential crisis that comes with cars with such intrinsic value: To drive or not to drive. And when we say “drive,” we mean drive, not just the occasional run to cars-and-coffee or the Mustang meet. “I wanted a real driver,” Paul says. “A car that I could jump in and drive around all day with the air conditioning on and not worry about it like a real Shelby.” And if that…

EVER DO SOMETHING you regret instantly? How did you manage to get over it? James Zeivel, now of Glendale, Arizona, went through all that back in 1969, while living in Chicago. He traded in his beloved 1966 Pontiac GTO convertible — purchased new from People’s Pontiac on his return from Vietnam — for a 1969 Dodge Charger. It looked like an improvement on paper, but…. “The day I picked up the Charger and drove it,” he recalls, “I knew I had made a mistake.” Worse yet, “There was nothing I could do, the damage was done.” The ’66 was gone, but never forgotten. In fact, he eventually tracked it down, in 1985, and spent four years restoring it. Now the ’66 and this ’70 are stablemates, “and always will be.”…

1969 PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER ENGINE Blocktype.....................................................................Chrysler cast-iron Gen III Hemi V-8 Cylinder heads ..................... Chrysler Hemi aluminum OHV with dual plugs per cylinder Displacement.........................................................................................................370-cu.in. Bore x stroke....................................................................................................4.06 x 3.58 in Compressionratio..........................................................................................................10.3:1 Pistons..............................................................Chrysler stock cast eutectic alloy, flat-top Connectingrods..................................................................Chryslerstockpowderedmetal Horsepower@rpm...........................................................................................545 @ 6,000 Torque @ rpm............................................................................................520 lb-ft @ 5,600 Camshafttype....................................................................Chryslerhollowhydraulicroller Duration....................................................................221/225-degrees duration (at 0.050) Lift...........................................................................................................................571/.551-in Valvetrain .............................. Chrysler hydraulic roller lifters and beehive-type springs; hollow-stem 2.00-in intake, sodium-filled 1.55-in exhaust Inductionsystem........................................................Sequentialelectronicfuelinjection; MagnussonTVS2300supercharger Lubrication system................Mopar Performance high-volume pump and windage tray Ignitionsystem....................................................................................................Coil-on-plug Exhaust system............. Chrysler factory exhaust headers encased in a stainless shell, catalytic converters and dual 3-in stainless pipes with Magnaflow mufflers Originalengine.................................................................Chrysler383-cu.in.B-seriesV-8 TRANSMISSION Type.........................................ChryslerW5A580TorqueFlitefive-speedautomaticwith electronically modulated torque converter clutch Ratios...... 1st/3.58:1 … 2nd/2.19:1 … 3rd/1.41:1 … 4th/1.00:1 … 5th/0.83:1 … Reverse/3.17:1 DIFFERENTIAL Type...................................................11.5-inch Detroit TrueTrac by Eaton, 30-spline axles STEERING Type.....................................................................Rack-and-pinion,hydraulicpowerassist…

This was one of those cars that when I saw how nice it was, how well preserved it was, even though it was basically all apart, I thought, ‘Let’s just redo it all.’ My friends really wanted me to keep the air conditioning in the car from the start, but I couldn’t do that, unique as it was. What was a big help was not only that the original parts had been saved and stored carefully, but all the NOS stuff that had been acquired by the first Arizona owner was included as well. It meant I had absolutely everything I needed. I’m particular about the whole process, so I prefer to do the reassembly work. It leaves you with a proud feeling, and in this case, I couldn’t be…

MUSTANG MATTERS DAKOTA DIGITAL • 800-852-3228 • DAKOTADIGITAL.COM • $1,295 Modern instrumentation designed to work with classic car factory gauge bezels is now available for 1967-’68 Mustangs. The RTX series keeps the stock look, with twin displays, while providing features popular on today’s late-model vehicles. Each unit is made from a CNC-machined housing, filled with electronics designed and built in house. Displays come with Bluetooth integration, GPS technology, and RGB backlighting, with a full color thin-film transistor screen providing modern instrumentation. There are also more than 30 user-selectable color options, daytime and nighttime brightness, several intensity levels, and 12 preset color themes, allowing your Mustang’s instrument panel to be customized to your liking. GM LS WIRE KIT VINTAGE WIRES • 517-424-0577 • VINTAGEWIRES.COM • $171.95-$291.95 Dress up your…

POLARIZING PROJECT Tell Jeff Koch I said thanks for the heads-up warning about the sacrilege that took place before our very eyes (“The Book of Revvin’Lation,” HMM #217). While the end result is very impressive, it did not justify the “ends to the means.” Sadly, the world forever lost a beautiful Mach 1 to a tribute, restomodded, wanna-be Boss ’9. Oh, I have a friend that did the same thing on a ’70, and it is truly eye candy like this one. However, in the end it will never be a real Boss 429 (though I do like the ghosted ’69 Boss 302 C-stripe) and it will never be a Mach 1 again. All of that fantastic effort could have been done to a Dynacorn body with the exact same…

I bought this Mustang in my senior year of high school, but it was rough. The seats were torn, the top was torn, the body looked like it was painted with a brush and there were missing parts. Every year I would fix more and more on it, and a friend even repainted it Candy Apple Red in his garage. It was a nice driver, and even after I’d purchased other cars over the years, I couldn’t let this Mustang go. It was around 2018 that I started on the Shelby makeover. The ’68 G.T. 500KR was the car for me. Nothing looks better, so building a car with the same looks, but with modern performance, is absolutely the best of both worlds.…

APEX TOOL GROUP • 800-621-8814 • CRESCENTTOOL.COM • $36.96 If you’ve worked on cars for any length of time, you’ve likely learned why it’s necessary to have a set of flare-nut wrenches — those multisided open-end wrenches intended for use on the hex fittings of hardline tubing. You may even have come to this understanding after attempting to loosen said nuts with a standard open-end wrench and rounding off the hex. So, the value of a set of these specialty wrenches is well known, but there are those instances where a conventional flare-nut wrench simply won’t fit the space available to access a particular fitting.These scenarios seem to be encountered more and more frequently as time goes on and vehicles continue to develop: The newer they are, the more…

IN COVID TIMES, EVERYTHING IS a roll of the dice. What will happen? What comes next? And yet we’ve seen pricing of, and interest in, old cars shoot up across the spectrum in the last couple of years, despite (or, because of) the pandemic. In Las Vegas, rolling the dice is a business model. It should be little surprise, then, that Barrett-Jackson came up a winner with its event held in the brand-new West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center: With more than 700 cars, $48 million total, and 100-percent sell-through, it’s hard to see the late-spring event as anything but a success. There was no event last year, so the only numbers we have to compare to are from 2019, and all of the metrics are substantially up…

2-4 MecumAuction Kansas City, Missouri • 262-275-5050 3-4 Raleigh Classic Car Auctions Raleigh, North Carolina • 919-269-5271 3-5 Gasparilla Concours d’Elegance Lutz, Florida • 813-714-1019 5 Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show Pomona, California • 714-538-7091 12 Long Beach Hi-Performance Show & Swap Meet Long Beach, California • 800-762-9785 Please note that these events are active as of press time despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We recommend you verify the status before making plans to attend.…