Friday, August 14, 2020

One of the more fun aspects of blogging about cars is recognizing a car when I find a new image of it... the Central Islip Fire Department drill team 1965 hemi Coronet with a truck back end welded in


I posted about it in 2017, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/01/one-of-things-that-made-usa-cool-place.html


I think that's pretty cool

and really, a Hemi Coronet! There were only 105 made by the factory, the A990 cars

The NHRA was fed up with the nagging by the losers, so, it told Chrysler "No fiberglass, no aluminum"

So Chrysler says ‘no problem,’ and simply stamped new sheet metal out of super-thin steel, changed the heads to aluminum and built the intakes out of magnesium.

Result: the new A990 cars weighed the same as previous year’s S/S cars!

The A990 Coronet was one of the bare-bones designs whose execution was heralded as Chrysler engineer Jim Thornton’s finest achievement.

Thornton figured out ways around the rules; beyond body lightening, the wheelbases were lightly massaged, a hood scoop was added, and the battery was moved into the trunk

The name A990 was the motor’s engineering code, used this single year and denoting the  magnesium intake, special aluminum cylinder heads and special factory-authorized tubular exhaust headers, many of which were never offered again on a factory Super Stock package.

The cross-ram with dual Holley 4-barrel carburetors was designed specifically for sonic tuning, a factor that allowed versions of this engine to win NHRA Championships in 1965 and 1967.

https://www.mopar-forum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9064&start=3760#p951851

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