I am, at heart, a big car guy. If I was to join my brothers in the Mopar world, it would be with a '70-'71 Sport Fury GT.
'71 the brothers just scored a couple months ago...pretty loaded driver but just a 318 car....there's a shit ton of Mopars up in Alaska if you can't tell already.
Those gear reduction starters everyone loves to hate would still crank the motors over when the temps got below -30 for several days in a row. A good battery, a good tune, and a guaranteed start, everyday.
They are all hard to find in good condition. With that said, you might want to add one more year and model to the possible. https://www.hagerty.com/media/people/the-man-who-designs-the-future/
It’s a shame Chrysler did not actually put it into production. The R&D was already done when they pulled the plug.
I haven't read anything on the ball stud hemi in over a decade, maybe two. But what the mind spits up is that while it had been designed and a few built, they hadn't done the full longevity and emissions testing. Considering the BB lasted until the bankruptcy in 79 then got killed off and how other engines from the big 3 got detuned and add-on band-aids in the mid to late 70s, it would have driven them into financial disaster sooner and not survived as a platform for more than a few years. I could see it in the mid 70s B body Cordoba, Fury and Magnum as a top of the line. How many 400s were made then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Cordoba Probably also tucked into some trucks. In that time frame, they did do the little red express trucks and warlocks with the e58 360 which also was in cop cars. I doubt the BS hemi would have had as good a run as that e58. It would be cool to have them end up like the 400, unloved in it's day due to smog tuning and components, but later the stroker beast. But it would have dragged the corp down even faster to have this new more expensive BB replacement in that time frame, IMHO.
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