Anyone remember seeing this car?

[hemidup]

It would have been Minn Dragways, Twin City Speedway or Amber Green in the late 60's through early 70's. It was a barn find, parked since 73. Trying to get a little history about the owner/driver. His nick name was "Moose".

 

[69clone]

That sure is colorful, Really like the paint jobs people did back then. Sorry i'm not any help since i wasn't even born til late 91' lol. Hopefully someone around here has seen it, Looks like alot of fun. Did the owner remember what it used to run?
~Nick

 

[Histoy]

Can anyone explain the 2 coils for me?

 

[696pack]

That car looks familiar from somewhere. I think I have seen it posted on the Internet somewhere but have no knowledge of it 1st hand from back in the day.

 

[65-440]

Thats been sitting since '73 ? ..... It looks awsome !!

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

IIRC, that car originally came from the Northeast.
I believe I saw it race back in 1970 at National Speedway in New York.

 

[1badgtx]

Thats a cool paint scheme...I like the body style too..
Petty Blue 67 GTX

 

[72Satellite440]

Can anyone explain the 2 coils for me?

Ditto, as I try to follow the wires (scratching my head)

 

[Revhendo]

Can anyone explain the 2 coils for me?

It's an early Displacement On Demand system. One coil fires 1-4-6-7 cylinders and the other coil fires 8-3-5-2. To save gas when cruising to the track you simply switch off one coil.

 

[Endangered Species]

That paint job looks like it was done by Greg of Akron. He is the one who did all of Arlen Vanke's Cars. He also did the original paint job on Dad's car. The guy was incredible.
Is there anywhere on the car where the pinter signed it Greg of Akron?

 

[hemidup]

Here's the current history of the car.....

One day, a guy walked into the shop and asked for a price quote to paint the car, build and install an engine and change out the 5.13's. He wanted a daily driver for the nice days and go to an occasional car show. He said he got the car from his best friend some 37 years earlier and was parked inside his pole shed ever since.

Loving old Mopar's, there was no way we were painting the car. Told him to drive it around a couple year's and go to show's as is, and if he decided to paint the car in the future, we'd do.

The car showed up with no engine and Firestone 500's mounted on 6" Keystone's in the back and those truck tubes still held air all those years. Found out the 18 spline 4 speed was a Liberty built 833 crash box which was then rebuilt with full syncro's. Still had the fenderwell headers which are back in the car after being ceramic coated black. (He's gonna half to make some wide left hand turns.) Swapped out the 5.13's with 3.55's and put a mild built, pump gas friendly 428hp/400 in her. There was a distributor cap in the trunk that was for a DuCoil distributor. The oringinal distributor wasn't there so I rebuilt a point's distributor with a Petronics kit, used a tan Accel distributor cap with the vent plug and hooked the dummy coil and coil wire to the vent plug in the cap. Give's it the old school look and yes, figured there would be questions about the 2 coil setup.

This car has alot of personality and is a joy working on. Just trying to figure out some of its past history and driver.

 

[hemidup]

IIRC, that car originally came from the Northeast.
I believe I saw it race back in 1970 at National Speedway in New York.

As far as I know, the car has never left MN. Could be wrong though. Thats why I'm trying to dig up some of the history behind it.

 

[detmatt1]

Kick *** car!

 

[66_B_Body4ever]

Waaaay too cool...

 

[moparstuart]

awesome retro 70's look , dont touch it or change it

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

It's an early Displacement On Demand system. One coil fires 1-4-6-7 cylinders and the other coil fires 8-3-5-2. To save gas when cruising to the track you simply switch off one coil.

This makes no sense to me.
So if I get this right, You click off 1 coil and just run on 4 cylinders on a 8 cylinder car.
I really cant see the car running at all on 4 cylinders and the fuel would foul out the sparkplugs since its a carb. setup and dumping fuel when depressing the gas pedal.
Maybe I'm missing something here. But I cant see this working.

Also if theres only 1 coil wire hole in the distributor cap ,how do you fit 2 coil wires into 1 hole? :confused:

 

[65-440]

Also if theres only 1 coil wire hole in the distributor cap ,how do you fit 2 coil wires into 1 hole? :confused:

i think thats how it is now, the wire is just put there for show .... the ignition has been changed ........ but i agree with you, how the hell did that work ???

 

[Revhendo]

This makes no sense to me.
So if I get this right, You click off 1 coil and just run on 4 cylinders on a 8 cylinder car.
I really cant see the car running at all on 4 cylinders and the fuel would foul out the sparkplugs since its a carb. setup and dumping fuel when depressing the gas pedal.
Maybe I'm missing something here. But I cant see this working.

Also if theres only 1 coil wire hole in the distributor cap ,how do you fit 2 coil wires into 1 hole? :confused:

Um, dude, I was just kidding. I really had no idea why there are two coils, so I just made something up. My other choice was saying that it was wired to the starter to double the ignition voltage for starting a high compression engine.

 

[poppaj]

They used to run two coils to give a hotter spark to the plugs. Same theory as an MSD box. Usally just made the points burn up quicker, Was not a popular setup, I think it was Mallory or Accell that had a kit availible.

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

Um, dude, I was just kidding. I really had no idea why there are two coils, so I just made something up. My other choice was saying that it was wired to the starter to double the ignition voltage for starting a high compression engine.

DUDE, you fooled me! :dark1: