Rare Plymouth Big Car

[Krooser]

Rare shot of a Gurney Weslake Plymouth powered USAC Silver Crown car... pretty neat late 60's ride.

 

[dodgeboy440]

Rare shot of a Gurney Weslake Plymouth powered USAC Silver Crown car... pretty neat late 60's ride.


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FYI

At the 50th Anniversary Of The Hemi Here in

Vegas Tom Hoover / The godfather of the

HEMI had Seminars on Chrysler Engineering

development back in the 60’s & HE Spoke

of their ( Westlake ) partnership. They Were

In England I Believe & Occasionally I Run

An Article About the D-Port HEMI Heads They

Developed . There’s a guy in England who has

A Set ! I Wonder IF…. They Actually Worked

Out ?

Anyone got a D-Port Hemi ??

OR

Westlake Components On A Mopar

Performance Vehicle??

Chime in , it would be interesting to hear from

You ……

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mopar2ya!

John

 

[Lefty71]

Someone shoulda cast some of those valve covers for BBMs.

 

[RemCharger]

FYI

At the 50th Anniversary Of The Hemi Here in

Vegas Tom Hoover / The godfather of the

HEMI had Seminars on Chrysler Engineering

development back in the 60’s & HE Spoke

of their ( Westlake ) partnership. They Were

In England I Believe & Occasionally I Run

An Article About the D-Port HEMI Heads They

Developed . There’s a guy in England who has

A Set ! I Wonder IF…. They Actually Worked

Out ?

Anyone got a D-Port Hemi ??

OR

Westlake Components On A Mopar

Performance Vehicle??

Chime in , it would be interesting to hear from

You ……

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mopar2ya!

John

A buddy of mine won an award with his 64 Dodge 528" in that show. A white Canadian car.

 

[sam dupont]

Rare shot of a Gurney Weslake Plymouth powered USAC Silver Crown car... pretty neat late 60's ride.


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hope that radiator hose holds up

 

[Krooser]

hope that radiator hose holds up

Well they ran 100 milers back then...

 

[Photon440]

Rare shot of a Gurney Weslake Plymouth powered USAC Silver Crown car... pretty neat late 60's ride.


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Power was apparently in the 540 hp range. Harry Weslake made those custom four valve cylinder heads for the Plymouth 318, as well as the special front distributor.

 

[autoxcuda]

I have a 1970 STP Calendar that has more pictures of the Sprint Cars.

 

[autoxcuda]

Kenny Sykes’ dad was heavily involved in developing the 318 small block Westlake head motor

Read his post here about the program: The Plymouth Weslake DOHC Motor from the 60's