Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2022 i Hemmings Muscle Machines

SOMEWHERE, MAC McKELLAR IS SMILING. Who? Malcolm “Mac” McKellar ran Pontiac’s engine-development team for decades, with his work encompassing Super Duty 389 and 421 V-8s, the OHC Six and the ’61 Tempest’s four, which was simply one half of the existing Pontiac›389. He even had a number of trick factory racing camshafts named for him. Somehow, his name doesn’t pop up in most casual conversations about Pontiac in that era. John DeLorean and Jim Wangers are most often cited there, and occasionally a historian will drop a mention of Chief Engineer Pete Estes in the mix, since he went on to run GM. But McKellar? His name is a deep cut for anyone but the most dedicated Pontiac fan. Among the experiments McKellar’s division carried out, and a prototype long…

A UTOMOTIVE PASSIONS are typically formed in young, impressionable minds, leading to the sort of lasting desires that can only be fulfilled when that dream car is finally in the garage. That was the case with Superbird enthusiast Tony Guida, whose first encounters with Mopar’s radical winged wonders included watching them burn up NASCAR’s superspeedways on “Wide World of Sports,” in 1969 and ’70. At around 11 years old, he didn’t realize they were based on production cars. Along with the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona, Superbirds were, of course, created to give Mopar stock car drivers an aerodynamic advantage. It worked, too, on NASCAR’s longer tracks, where the cars were able to sustain notably higher speeds. The Superbird and Daytona were ultimately banned from competition, but not strictly for their…

THERE’S AN OBVIOUS BENEFIT to arriving at the annual Pure Stock Muscle Car Drags (PSMCD) a day before the action starts. At this event, held at Mid-Michigan Motorplex in Stanton, Michigan, spectators can leisurely walk the staging lanes—before the cacophony of high-revving engines and tire-shredding burnouts rattle the otherwise peaceful rural atmosphere — to watch a steady stream of muscle cars go through tech. It’s when tales about the gathering greats of yore are conveyed by proud owners: How long they’ve owned their respective rides, where they found them, how long each has been raced, what it took to restore, and so on. The backstories of these cars are often compelling. Some of the machines gathered for competition are ultra-rare collector gems, while others are more common specimens, but all…

THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS have been challenging for those of us who’ve wanted to hit the road for a nice relaxing summer vacation but were afraid to travel due to pandemic concerns and perhaps poor cash flow. But even as things ease back to some normalcy, we’re certain your garage remains one of the best hideaways on the planet. It is a place to escape. I like my garage — even at its worst. When I’m at a loose end and not sure what to do to pass the time, I head to the garage to hang with my Mustang and work out a plan for what to do next on the car I’ve owned since high school. It’s a work in progress that’s been going on for at…

PLYMOUTH’S PONY CAR WAS FIRST out of the gate in 1964 but didn’t catch on with the buying public the same way as the Ford Mustang. Perhaps too obviously related to the Valiant compact at first, the Barracuda really hit its stride with the introduction of the E-body platform in 1970. Since then, the ’Cuda, as Plymouth billed the high-performance versions, has become the stuff of legends and, especially in Hemi form, one of the darlings of the collector world. Lew Bisbing is a 57-year-old engineer from Mesa, Arizona. He owns the 1970 Plymouth ’Cuda AAR you see on these pages. The car, which cost about $3,700 new, is now worth closer to $70,000, according to the NADAguides. Big contributors to that value are the comprehensively restored Lemon Twist body…

As the headline suggests, Cadillac has rated the new Escade-V’s supercharged, hand-built 6.2-liter V-8 at a whopping 682 horsepower (@ 6,000 rpm) and a gut-tightening 653 lb-ft of torque (@ 4,400 rpm). The basics are not unlike what live beneath the hood of the CT5-V Blackwing we tested in June’s Production Line, but the Escalade-V features a bigger supercharger — a 2.65-liter R2650 TVS unit that spins at up to 13,500 rpm for 10 pounds of boost — to overcome inlet and exhaust restrictions. A forged-steel crankshaft, forged-steel connecting rods, and forged-aluminum pistons are among the beefy internals. The aluminum cylinder heads feature titanium intake valves. With a specifically-calibrated 10-speed automatic getting power out to all four wheels, the Escalade-V is expected to hit 60 mph from a standing start…

PRICE Baseprice....................................................................................................................$4,298 Options on car profiled.............................Vinyl bucket seats, $100.95; console, $54.45; four-speed transmission, $197.25; tachometer with clock, $68.45; AM radio, $61.55 ENGINE Block type...................Chrysler RB-series OHV V-8; cast-iron block and cylinder heads Displacement..........................................................................................................440cu.in. Bore x stroke.....................................................................................................4.32 x 3.75 in Compressionratio............................................................................................................9.7:1 Horsepower@rpm..............................................................................375 @ 4,600 (gross) Torque @ rpm .............................................................................. 480 lb-ft @ 3,200 (gross) Valvetrain .................................... 1.5:1-ratio rocker arms, hydraulic lifters and 5/16-in-dia., 8.575-in.-long pushrods Mainbearings...................................................................................................................Five Fuelsystem.......................................................................................CarterAVSfour-barrel Lubricationsystem..............................................................Full-pressure,gear-typepump Electricalsystem.................................................................12-volt,points-typedistributor Exhaust system.......................................... Cast-iron manifolds and dual exhaust system TRANSMISSION Type...............................................................................ChryslerA-833four-speedmanual Ratios............................ 1st/2.65 … 2nd/1.93:1 … 3rd/1.39:1 … 4th/1.00:1 … Reverse/2.57:1 DIFFERENTIAL Type..........................................Dana 60 (9.75-in) with Sure Grip limited-slip differential Ratio................................................................................................................................3.54:1 STEERING Type..................................................................................Power-assistedrecirculatingball Ratio................................................................................................................................28.8:1 Turningcircle...............................................................................................40.5 ft (approx.) BRAKES Type.........................................................Hydraulic,power-assistedfrontdisc,reardrum Front: 11-in disc Rear: 11 x 2.5-in expanding drum SUSPENSION Front..................................Independentwithunequal-lengthcontrolarms,torsionbars, telescopic shock absorbers and stabilizer bar Rear..............................Solid axle located with leaf springs; telescopic…

Your garage should resemble this kind of order with everything in its place—it just makes things easier to find. The goal is to make the most of your storage space. You don’t always have to buy shelving or a workbench; you could instead fabricate your own storage and workshop system to fit the space you have. Slat board and good old-fashioned pegboard work very well for hanging tools out of your way. We like this easy-to-install modular flooring, which is attractive and impact resistant.…

JUST LIKE OUR EYES AND EARS, MANY CAR parts decline in performance at a rate so gradual that the transition is almost imperceptible. But then, eventually, something happens to make that gradual degradation an undeniable reality.The steering gear and linkage of your favorite muscle machine is a great example. The first indication of any problem is usually your car’s tendency to wander on the road, or in extreme cases, it may even decide to dive for the ditches. Having to continually crank on your car’s steering wheel just to keep it headed in the right direction sure takes a lot of the fun out of driving your machine. It’s been a half-century or more since it was new, so it’s probably time to crawl underneath and check things out. Inspecting…

MECUM’S HIT-‘EM-WHERE- they-ain’t strategy in Arizona continues to pay dividends. Visiting State Farm Stadium (where the Cardinals play football) in March, two months on from the madness of Scottsdale Auction week and sufficiently distant both in timing and location, has proved to be a sweet spot. If anything, Mecum has demonstrated that there are still interesting cars to be found for sale after January’s vigorous activity. The indoor display area, on the field where local athletes play football in fall and winter, is daunting and impressive. Total sales for Mecum’s fourth-annual event hit $66.3 million across four days — one more sales day than last year — driving a 53 percent increase in sales over 2021. For some, that might be the only number that matters. (Even with COVID-induced caution…

“First of all, I must say: Great magazine. I look forward to getting it every month. Your article on the ’68 Torino GT fastback (“Impulse Buy,” HMM #226) really hit home with me. It was early in 1968 and my wife and I were driving down Ventura Blvd in Encino, California, past Ralph Williams Ford. Sitting in the showroom was a gold 1968 Torino GT fastback. I told her we should stop and take a look at it. As we approached, I said, “If I was to order this car, I would want a 325-hp 390 and a four-speed.” Lo and behold, it had a 325-hp 390 and a four-speed, plus power steering, power brakes, bucket seats… it was a virtual twin to the car in your article. Did we…

THERE ARE NO RATIONAL or intrinsic reasons for restoring a car yourself, so we’ll skip the platitudes and justifications. If you’re going to dive into it, good luck and Godspeed. But it’s that diving-off point where most of us waver. We stand in front of our project car like a child peering off the high-dive board for the first time, finding the courage to take the leap. It’s a big one, too — one with a potentially enormous personal reward, but one that will invariably consume more time and money than originally thought, while also testing your patience, fortitude, and talent. “You’ve just got to take the plunge and find your limits,” says Steve Metcalf, an enthusiast who’s transformed his small, older detached two-car garage into a highly functional automotive…

PRICE Baseprice.................................................................................................................$3,231.91 Options on car profiled...........................................................428-cu.in. (335-hp) CJ V-8; 3.50:1 Traction-Lok limited slip differential; GT-E package (including: Merc-O-Matic C6 automatic transmission; Super Competition Handling Package; power front disc brakes; power steering; chrome styled-steel wheels; Goodyear F70-14 tires); AM radio; front seat headrests. ENGINE Block type..........................Ford FE-series OHV V-8; cast-iron block and cylinder heads Displacement.........................................................................................................428-cu.in. Bore x stroke......................................................................................................4.13 x 3.98 in Compressionratio..........................................................................................................10.6:1 Horsepower@rpm...........................................................................................335 @ 5,200 Torque @ rpm........................................................................................440 lb-ft @ 3,400 Valvetrain.....................................................................................................Hydrauliclifters Mainbearings...................................................................................................................Five Fuel system ................Single Holley 735-cfm four-barrel carburetor; mechanical pump Lubricationsystem.....................................................................Pressure,gear-typepump Electricalsystem..............................................................................................................12-V Exhaustsystem............................................................Cast-ironmanifolds;dualexhausts TRANSMISSION Type....................................................................Merc-O-MaticC6three-speedautomatic Ratios ..............................................1st/2.46:1 … 2nd/1.46:1 … 3rd/1.00:1 … Reverse/2.175:1 DIFFERENTIAL Type...................................................................Ford9-inchwithTraction-Loklimited-slip Ratio................................................................................................................................3.50:1 STEERING Type.................................................................................Recirculating ball, power assisted Turningcircle..................................................................................................................40-ft BRAKES Type..............................................................................................Hydraulic,powerassisted Front: 11.3-in ventilated rotor Rear: 10 x 2.25-in cast-iron drum SUSPENSION Front..............................................................Independent;upperandlowercontrolarms, coil springs, anti-roll bar, telescopic shock absorbers Rear............................ Solid axle; semi-elliptic leaf springs,…

BARRETT-JACKSON PALM BEACH RESULTS Barrett-Jackson has successfully completed another Palm Beach auction, this time with more than $60 million in total sales, including $1.7 million raised to support humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine. When the final lot crossed the block of April’s no-reserve event, 676 vehicles had changed hands, including more than a dozen muscle cars from the American Muscle Car Museum Collection. One lot that found a new home was a 1969 Mercury Cyclone CJ 428 fastback. The Competition Orange Mercury underwent a rotisserie restoration and was equipped with Ram Air induction, power steering, an AM radio, a sports console, and tinted glass. It showed more than 81,000 miles on the odometer and was powered by the desirable 428-cu.in, 335-hp CJ engine mated to an automatic transmission. The well-documented…

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. 2008 DODGE VIPER SRT10 RESERVE: $75,000 SELLING PRICE: $78,750 RECENT MARKET RANGE: $73,110-$95,540 The demise of Dodge’s iconoclastic Viper left the…