don't stop and stare, because it's horrible to see, but the cause of the noise and the smoke screen Batman would proudly call his own... was a 426 Max Wedge hidden in a 4 dr '63 Savoy POS

 People turned to see what the hell was going on, I can spot 5 in the above photo looking at the car

 then they moved it over here, and finally turned it off. Not a good way to sell an engine, all the smoke.. but a good attention getter. Pissed off all the people who were sitting near that red Road Runner though, they were gassed and fumigated. Not pleasant

 real deal max wedge factory exhaust of the high performance cast iron header

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Darrell Davis, the guru of the Max Wedge 416 and 413

If there is anything you need to learn, know, or research about the Max Wedge motors, you just need to buy the right book that Darrell has written. you can find them at http://www.kramerauto.com/products.asp?cat=9 and they are very limited print runs, the Max Wedge cars by serial numbers book had only 200 copies printed

Lots of data and cross referencing, like the number of Max Wedge Polaras, number of MW Polara 500 Convertibles, or MW Polara 330 station wagons. Just one.

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Gene Mosbek and his (10.9 miles on the odometer) 1964 factory lightweight Plymouth Savoy Max Wedge Super Stock III in NHRA Stock Eliminator

Photo from http://www.moparmax.com/events/2008/iii_7-mopar-1.html

information from August 2010 Muscle Car Review article on Gene's '64 Savoy

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Photos I think you'll like better as a gallery than posted with cars

Above... beatniks of Koolsville?

What a cool way to mount your hydraulic switches!

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Factory A/FX Dick Landy Dodge, 426 max wedge, 4.86 gears, 31 miles... a quarter at a time

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What is rare? A 426 max wedge in a Dodge truck as a factory install

The 426 Wedge was part of the $1300 High Performance Package and could be ordered on its own from the separate and distinct $235 Custom Sports Special trim package.

The HP Package was only “officially” offered in 1964 and 1965 on D100 and D200 LWB trucks. The Custom Sports Special trim package was offered from 1964 thru 1967 and could be had on D or W 100, 200 Sweptline, Utiline or chassis cab in LWB or SWB trucks.

Dodge management only authorized 50 trucks could be built with the 426 Street Wedge High Performance Package — according to former Dodge truck engineer Bruce Thomas of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, who said that far fewer than 50 examples were actually produced. Currently the registry recognizes 31 trucks with these packages or combinations of them.

Info via: http://www.allpar.com/model/ram/ram-history.html

For a great story about them, and a family restoration: http://www.cssregistry.com/css/stevebell.html

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