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I worked at the Chrysler Engineering Center in both Highland Park, Michigan and Auburn Hills, Michigan from 1966 to 2007 in the High Performance/Race Engine Development area. Prototype cars were not built on the assembly line. They were hand built in the Road Test garage and then used for testing. Yes, they would have put a prototype engine into a current body style for development. It happened all the time. When they were developing the Ball Stud Hemi to be brought out in 1972 they built 2 engines, one 400" Hemi and also a 444" Hemi and put them into 1971 Plymouth GTX's for road testing. The Ball Stud Hemi program was cancelled due to Emissions and also insurance related issues. Up to the mid 1970's test cars of all kinds were sent to the Lynch Road Assembly Plant to a lot where employees could purchase these cars with no warranties at all. The program was killed off because of government regulations relating to modified vehicles being sold to the public which if involved in an accident the company could be liable. As a side note when they were developing the Prowler they took a Wrangler Chassis and put in a Prowler engine and called it the "Prangler" and used it for basic development until a real Prowler chassis could be built.

1913 Ford catalog.............. http://oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Ford/1913_Ford/1913 Ford Catalog Large/index1.html

The #60 STP Plymouth powered car used the Weslake engine developed by us for the 1969 Indy car race. Had a 327" engine with Weslake heads. The #60 car was built by Grant King and driven by Greg Weld in the USAC dirt series. See note below: In 1969, the next to last year in which the USAC National Championship circuit was to include selected 100-mile dirt track races, Weld drove an experimental Plymouth-powered car to four straight poles at Springfield, Du Quoin, the Hoosier 100 and Sacramento.

Red is one of the nominees for the 2018 class for the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Here is a you tube video of a tour of the NEW Petty museum. When you get to the 7:30 minute mark you will see what looks like a 36 Ford painted red with no number on it. Could be a crude representation of the car you built? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEaZTQqCjIM

Beautiful job on a really neat car. Saw this car race at Mid-Ohio in 69 or 70 with John Surtees at the wheel. Didn't work out to well.

I worked at Dodge Motorsports at the Chrysler Engineering Center from 1966 to 2007 in the race engine development area. We used to send Buddy some of our extra engine parts now and then to help him out. Spent a lot of time with his son Joey Arrington at his shop in Martinsville, Virginia from 2001 till I retired in 2007 doing engine development for the Cup and Truck cars.Here is a picture taken at Arrington's shop. I am second from the right next to Richard, Joey is second from the left. The rest are my co- workers from Dodge Motorsports.

Old article from Stock Car Racing about the Imperial.

Here are a couple of pictures of the Magnum from a car test session when I worked for Dodge Motorsports.

Being a NASCAR historian of sorts looked up Tony's history. In 1973 he ran 4 races with the #38 car, Talladega, Texas, Michigan, and Rockingham. However, in 1974 he ran 27 races, 25 using the #9 and two others with different numbers, all with Vita-fresh sponsorship. So that is the only history with the #38 car. It's amazing that a car that ran only 4 races in NASCAR would have a decal set made for it. Of course he could have run a bunch of races with that number in the ARCA series of which I can't find a record. Nice job.

I love the 935 model. Back in the 1970's and 1980"s I used to go to all the races on the east coast where the endurance cars would run. I have 12 Quartzo 1/43 scale 935 diecasts that I picked up over the years but I don't have the M & R car of yours. Beautiful job.

This car was at Autorama in Detroit last weekend. See pictures.

Here is a video of a Hot Wheels car collector which shows one of the cars as being the #48 Plymouth. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=hot+wheels+wrenching+and+racing+diecast+cars&qpvt=hot+wheels+wrenching+and+racing+diecast+cars&view=detail&mid=7BA4CF202516A5BD4CBD7BA4CF202516A5BD4CBD&FORM=VRDGAR

Saw this on the Hemmings site so I thought I would post it. Revell Models from Hemmings Classic Car March, 2017 - Jeff Koch When we were too young to drive, and car magazines weren't enough to sate our automotive hunger, who among us failed to delve into the technical wonder of a Revell model kit? The labyrinthine array of parts... They couldn't possibly all go together and make a car, could they? With patience, they could and did. With practice, paint techniques improved, or fewer glue spots appeared on the windshield, or you discovered materials that could work as detailing (flocking for interiors? Sewing thread for spark plug wires?). More than a few hands-on mechanics and car fans got their mechanical interests fired up with a tube of glue, a paint brush and some imagination. Revell is one of the great names in model car kits. The company started as Precision Specialties, a plastics-molding company in Hollywood, California, during WWII. As a vendor, Precision Specialties worked with a variety of clients, but it struck out on its own with a line of HO-scale trains and set decorations. By 1950 it was making a couple of 1⁄16-scale cars, including a Model T Ford and a 1911 Maxwell, with tooling from Gowland and Gowland of England. The old-timers had not fared well overseas but did rather better stateside, partly on the back of Jack Benny's famed Maxwell in his TV program. The burgeoning toy division of the company soon adopted the name Revell--said to come from the French word reveille, meaning "wake up," "new beginning," or "pay attention," depending on your translator. It's also a bugle call associated with waking military personnel and prisoners alike from their slumber; this seems apt, considering what was to come.

Scale Model Kit of the Week: GAZ-M1, aka the Soviet Model B Ford NO MENTION OF WHAT ENGINE COMES IN THIS KIT, BUT IT COULD BE A CHRYSLER 218 FLATHEAD SIX FEBRUARY 10, 2017 SHARE Facebook Tweet Pinterest Email During the 1930s, the Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod vehicle manufacturer in the Soviet Union arranged with the Ford Motor Company to build Model As under license. By 1936, GAZ had also licensed the Model B Ford, and more than 60,000 were produced and called GAZ-M1s. These served with distinction as military vehicles during the Great Patriotic War (aka World War II), and many were built with Chrysler flathead six-cylinder engines. Clearly, the GAZ-M1 was an important piece of history, so it's good that Zvezda makes a 1:35-scale plastic scale model kit, which is available on eBay for a reasonable price. Read more: http://autoweek.com/article/car-life/scale-model-kit-week-gaz-m1-aka-soviet-model-b-ford#ixzz4YJcaRysI

Here is a promotional picture for the 1970 440-6bbl for info for future builds.

oing a google search for 440 valve covers you do find a few that are smooth but they are after market may be intended for non street use. The rotation of the crankshaft plus the up & down motion of the pistons causes a positive pressure in the crankcase. If there was no ventilation for this pressure the gaskets would fail (rocker cover, oil pan). Therefore before PCV systems were invented we had the breather in one rocker cover and a road draft tube in the side of the crankcase somewhere. With the addition of the PCV system with a breather in one rocker cover and a PCV valve in the other we had a constant flow of gases out of the crankcase into the engine which is then mixed and burned with the fuel mixture. That's the way the system has to work. In picture #2 the breather is attached to the cover on the lifter galley which is connected to the crankcase area. Just because your kit has 2 covers with no vents doesn't make it right. Who knows where they got their info from.

Here is a picture of how a typical system works. There has to be flow from one bank of the engine to the other.

You "cannot" have both on one side. The PCV system won't work properly. I worked on developing these engines at the Chrysler Tech Center back in the 1960's and 1970's and that's the way it is. You have to have cross flow from one bank of the engine to the other.

You "cannot" have both on one side. The PCV system won't work properly. I worked on developing these engines at the Chrysler Tech Center back in the 1960's and 1970's and that's the way it is. You have to have cross flow from one bank of the engine to the other.

Here is the ad from 1968...............this should help.

Here is the restored #48 car on display now at the Peterson Automotive Museum in California.