Vintage Mopar Muscle

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1965 Dodge Coronet W051 Super Stock
The 1965 NHRA season yielded unprecedented leaps in performance for Chrysler. Previous model years instigated the cubic-inch wars between the competing manufacturers. Chrysler's B and RB engine blocks started with a conservative 350 inches in 1958. By 1962, the wedge had become a race-bred 13.5:1 compression, 420-horse 413…

Max Wedge Engine Sixteen Pack Cross Ram Manifold
If you're like us, nothing fascinates you more than factory prototype cars and parts, especially stuff that never reached the production stage. These dead ends offer the teasing allure of what might have been and are just too much to handle for major league car freaks. So when we first saw the grainy photos of what appears to be a four-carb Max Wedge induction system, we assumed the thing was some type of doomsday device hatched by Chrysler engineers in case the early 1960s factory Super Stock wars went nuclear. But first appearances can be deceiving

 

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Mopar Max Wedge – How it Makes Horsepower!
Mention Max Wedge around vintage muscle car or Mopar fans, and they'll mentally launch back to the early 1960s. In those days, the name affectionately referred to a three-year-long series of Dodges and Plymouths manufactured mainly for straightaway performance. The cars were powered by high-output wedge-head V8s designated by Chrysler Corporation as Maximum Performance powerplants. Before too long, factory engineers, enthusiasts, racers, and buff-book writers, all with known propensities for too-cool nicknames, had simplified the moniker to Max Wedge

 

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^Interesting chute mount on the FUNNY CAR! ^

 

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Ed Mller was my go to source for original parts for a 70 Roadrunner restoration mid 80's. Ahhh, the good ole days!

 

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Bill "Grumpy"Jenkins in 1964 "The Dodge Boys" S/S Dodge in last photo. 1965 Plymouth "Black Arrow" was also his. Then, the next year, he went to "the dark side".