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X-Tech,
I forgot. The 66' Belvedere II Hemi Station Wagon "Lead Zeppelin II"
ended up with John Macey (circa 1973) out of Eastern Connecticut.
We used to park right next to him at Dover Drag Strip. The wagon ran SS/FA (like you said), and at 11.50's.
John got the wagon, after the first 'Lead Zeppelin" car, a 1970
SS/DA Hemi Cuda.
The "Lead Zeppelin" lettering on the wagon was exactly like the
Led Zeppelin III album cover..
Man those S/S Springs on that car lifted that wagon right up.
Paul

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As far as the Max Wedge wagons built :

1 63 Dodge 330 wagon 6 pass, HC auto
1 63 Plymouth Savoy wagon 9 pass, HC manual
1 63 Plymouth Belvedere wagon 6 pass, LC auto
1 64 Plymouth Savoy 9 pass wagon, LC auto
1 64 Plymouth Fury wagon 6 pass, LC auto

These figures are in Darrell Davis Max Wedge book

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He missed one (maybe?)......The RamChargers had a 63 Max Wedge Dodge wagon early on that ran B/FX. I dont know if it was a 9 or 6 passenger. It used a T-85 3 speed stick and the Alum. front end components for weight tranfer with the junk tires of that era.Then again it could have been a car put together by the Ramchargers themselves. Im sure with thier connections they could have had anything built by the factory they wanted.

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This car or another that fits this description was bought by Ron Mandella from Milne Brothers Chrysler Plymouth in Pasadena, California. Ron ran the car with some success (1964 Indy class win, 1964 Hot Rod Magazine Stock Eliminator championship, A/SA NHRA record holder in 1964) from the spring of 1963 until he sold it in late 1965 to Rod Phillips of Arcadia. Rod ran the car for a year or so and sold it to someone in Division 6. It was campaigned in various configurations, including with an aluminum front clip under the name, "War Axe." I have seen pictures of the car in its present condition as recently as the last three years. I have been told that the vin tag is still with the car and that it has been verified by a Mopar expert as indicating the low compression (11:1) Stage I, Max Wedge. I know that the car was delivered in this configuration. It was not a fabricated piece.

c

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1963 and 1964 Max-Wedge Wagons.
Not only the rarest, but quite possibly the winningest Stock class cars.
I would bet less than 5 built with an aluminum front-clip.

Another car with undocumented info. the 1968 GSS 440 Darts.
Cars ran SS/EA at the 68' Winternationals. No way 50 were produced
by the time that National Event ran.
PC

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I think you could only get an aluminum clip on a 2 dr sedan or 2 dr hardtop from the factory, but I'm sure some racers changed to the lighter front end. One of the 63 Polara 500 max convertibles supposedly got an aluminum nose installed 2 weeks after it was bought new. It had no trouble winning street races in Yonkers, and was dubbed " King of the hill" .

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Don't know if it's been posted before--when I lived in Roswell N.M. a friend had a '69 Falcon 429SCJ-4-spd. car. He said he ordered it locally with the usual deletes, rubber mat & bench seat. He claims he was told Ford had this stuffed in their order books way in the back as a "lightweight" version of a Torino for those that wanted to race that body style but didn't want all the extras that added weight & bring it down in class. I think it was something like D/S & ran pretty well, but was one rattlely SOB.
Another car I know existed that was REALLY weird was from Randall AMC (home of the 401 Gremlin) was a 401 PACER!:confused::eek:.
Tom Iverson, the guy responsible at Ranadll AMC for installing 401in the Gremlin told me they actually had several requests for them. Although they were a tight fit a few (he couldn't remember how many) were built but they were so butt-ugly they never caught on. He said he did hear a rumor a few factory 360 Pacers were built.

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Dave,

In 1963 the NHRA put pressure on Mother Mopar because not enough aluminum cars were built, so the owners of an unknown number of '63 Max Wedge cars were sent complete aluminum front ends whether they asked for them or not. The object was to get enough of them out there to satisfy the NHRA.

JimR

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There was one of these that went thru Mecum this year. Never knew this existed till I saw the pics with no rear seat.:cool:

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Since the TA is dead ,I guess this qualifys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1XyDK7W5nI