[storm king]

Well, the engine, trans and rear, of course. Automatic 990 cars had 8.75 Mopar rears in them, as did this one. The trans was a Fairbanks unit so its likely it wasn't the same exact unit that came in the car, but an exchanged one. The engine was a Bill Stiles engine, and a great one at that. We put a rod through the block on that on in '68 at Connecticutt Dragway when we inadvertently mis-adjusted the swinging oil pickup while checking the bearings between weekends. So Jon Lundberg, the "Voice of Drag Racing", and a hero to this kid, made some call for us and arranged for us to get a new Ramchargers engine from them in very short order. You have to understand, the "Arrow" was butchered into a money making match racer, like so many of those cars were. They were beautifully built from the factory back then, but racers bought them to win races. Some guys kept racing in S/S, some went for the big bucks lure of match racing. We preferred S/S, so we bought a wrecked '64 Plymouth from a junk yard in Kingston N.Y., and spent the winter of '68 repairing, modifying, and converting it into a 990 car. While we got all of the surviving factory 990 parts from the 'Arrow when we bought it, there wasn't much left of those accessories. I know there's a bit of a story about the acid dipped fenders and doors, which we did get, but we sold some of them to a guy out west. I'll have to ask Bill where they went again. The car had fiberglass doors, fenders, hood and deck on it when we bought it, and all plexi windows., stripped interior, rear bumper cut in half for the parachute (not mounted up high like one of the pictures here). The grill was butchered up with a moon tank, and it also had a fiberglass front bumper. We never got the lightweight front bumper with the car. The rear wheelbase was literally altered by a local Blacksmith in either Wingdale or Pawling N.Y., someone Doc knew from his verternary practice. It was crude, crude, crude! However, with the wheels moved all the way forward, the car had a 100" wheelbase, and ran straight as a sting! When we put the mechanicals into the "clone", if you will, the hulk was a sad sight indeed. So you have to put yourself back into those days...just like the first thing we did with our max wedge was take the cast iron exhaust manifolds off and scrap them.Today, a replicated set runs about $1,200.00, or 1/3 the cost of a new max wedge when we bought it new! These cars were race cars, not collector items. When a race car was used up, it was discarded. We sold the 'Arrow hulk to a kid from Cornwall, N.Y., who's mother got tired of seeing it in her backyard and made him get rid of it. My brother's partner in his Pro Stock Duster saw the hulk at Consolodated Matal Works in Newburgh, and they had a policy that once something rolled over their scales, it didn't leave. I know guys today get all amped up about stuff like this, but the reality is that its this type of story that adds value to the cars that did survive. I just saw Hank Taylor's '64 wedge and '65 hemi cars at the HRR here in Bowling Green this past year. Imagine, an all original 990 car with less than 2,000 mile on it ( I think the number is under 1,400!) that has never been cut, anywhere! So yeah, its a shame, but life goes on...