Starting with a two-door sedan for $7,500 outside Minneapolis in 2005 that a teacher had kept good care of over its 50,000-some miles, leaving the interior original and the body--including the floors--rot-free.
She also ordered what was quite possibly the cheapest Savoy out there, with a 101hp, one-barrel, 170-cu.in. Slant Six, the standard three-on-the-tree manual transmission and not much else.
Plotkin soon found a complete Long Ram 413 from a totaled Chrysler 300-F, that had been siting in the corner of a shop for more than 25 years.
(For what it's worth, only on Plymouths did Chrysler call the setup SonoRamic; on Dodges, it went by the name Ram Induction; on De Sotos, Ram Charge; on Chryslers, the company called it the Long Ram or the Short Ram, depending on the internal shape of the tubes.)
But since Savoys in 1961 could only come with a 3 on the tree or a typewriter TorqueFlite, Plotkin gathered the correct steering column, brake pedal and push-button assembly for a TorqueFlite conversion from a North Dakota junkyard. He found the linkage and miscellaneous hardware for the conversion through JC Auto in Lynn-wood, Washington.
For exhaust he built a set of 1-7/8-inch headers to pour into 2½-inch exhaust pipes, connected with an H-pipe with a pair of Race Ready Performance electronic 3-inch cutouts, and Dynomax Super Turbo mufflers
https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hmn/2012/04/1961-Plymouth-Savoy/3711331.html
https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/mus/2008/08/Chiropractor-s-dream---1961-Plymouth-Savoy/1676817.html
http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=51930
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