Re: street rod future?

[Doug J <63sprtfury@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to have Mike C. build me a 400 for my '63.  The one in his 65 will blow yer mind.  Well,, it's 498 now,, but it started out as a smogger !!!  Dodger, I agree on your history of the 400, all the regs that came in to play caused all the changes.  I have a cousin that is quite a good wrench,, and he wanted to do a 400 for his Road Runner almost as soon as they came out.  Oddly enough,, his '70 Runner has a 64 413 turned into a 426 in it.  Theres a reversal for you.  I have tried many times to talk him into swapping that engine for my '68 383,  but he cares about originality about as much as I do.  LOL

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Paul L. http://1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/ml-lennemann63.html <pjlenn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm with Doug.  I'm not a Ford guy but there have been so many SBC's put into old Fords I think it would only be fitting to drop a SMF into a Tri 5 Chebby.  On the question of the 400's Don Dulmage  is a fan of the 400 blocks as they are stouter in the bottom end than the older wedge engines.  There are some good pictures on the 440 Source website illustrating this.

Paul L.

On Saturday, September 8, 2012 10:39:40 AM UTC-5, 62to65mopar wrote:

Hi all,

I was gabbing with a fellow about the future of the 62-65s and one possible trend would be more of the '62-'65 cars following along the "street rod" model, which the dictionary says is  "an old automobile that has been well maintained and typically has been provided with a powerful, modern engine and modern interior fittings." The term usually refers to vehicles built before 1950.  Our favorite Mopars already have powerful engines but many people have swapped in modern Hemi  and Magnum engines.

Here we were thinking more about upgraded interior mods, along this line for example:

http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/cto/3123349930.html

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Gary H.

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