1963 Max Wedge in the Junkyard!??

[fullmetaljacket]

This just got dragged in today at a local yard...a friend just happened to be there and got some pics. Yard offered him the drivetrain for $500, but won't sell him the whole car. Opinions??

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Looks like correct four bolt valve covers. Any engine over the years could have been painted any color, so the turquoise is not an issue, just a sign to look even deeper. Looks like a steel front end and front bumper car by the surface rust. Definitely that scoop is outlaw style, not factory. Still a good find.

 

[RemCharger]

Tag and vin #s. And size motor, and are they MW heads.

 

[Dutchrebuild]

Tag and vin #s. And size motor, and are they MW heads.

No idea yet...he sent me a couple of other pictures that won't load. I'll update obviously when I get more information

 

[maxwedgechar]

The number 9 under the letter "A" makes it a MAX! The bracing cut from under the hood. Wiring harness along the fender wells and the choke next to the steering column on the left. Get me a VIN, I have Darrell Davis's source book.

 

[Dutchrebuild]

Couple other pics. He apparently sucks at taking useful pictures

 

[jimka]

Looks like correct four bolt valve covers. Any engine over the years could have been painted any color, so the turquoise is not an issue, just a sign to look even deeper. Looks like a steel front end and front bumper car by the surface rust. Definitely that scoop is outlaw style, not factory. Still a good find.

4 bolt valve covers mean nothing at all since all early motors had them.
I'm betting by what you can see you the stamping, tge engine color & breather plus possibly the valve cover shape that might be a C-body 413 motor with a cross ram on it

 

[khryslerkid]

I'm wondering how it made it to a junkyard?

Cleaning out someone's garage? Yard probably only payed $400 for it.

 

[F4R/T]

Seriously you would think the yard would eBay it or something before scrapping it.. you know it’s oddball the moment it rolled in..
That sucks to see it go.

 

[hemi71x]

I'm wondering how it made it to a junkyard?

Cleaning out someone's garage? Yard probably only payed $400 for it.

Every so often i get a personal e mail from a manager of a Pick-N-Pull wrecking yard, here in Northern California.
He tells me the only way that his yard ever gets in an old car anymore is if it has been sitting on property forever, and the land is being cleared up, or if someone has died, and the family want's to get rid of the old car, that nobody want's anything to do with.
All that is very true, in this day and age.

 

[Dave6T4]

Couple other pics. He apparently sucks at taking useful pictures

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The AFB appears to be the later "big top" style. If it is a real Max Wedge, it would be a 3705, used on late 1963, and early 1964 Stage III 426 Maxie. The car itself looks to be a 1963 440 series 2-door sedan, with bright window surrounds and "B" pillar. Canada did not get this version. Pretty rare car even in U.S.

 

[QuickBpBp]

That's a shame it actually looks pretty solid. You don't need a title for a race car....