The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

[fullmetaljacket]

Tom Tignanelli probably had the most and rarest of the TI and magnesium, factory-appearing parts I've ever seen.

I myself and my alter-ego were floored, not only respectfully for the fact that those parts existed, but that someone beat me to it. LOL.
Here I thought I was the only one with an under dash aluminum brake bar and harness housing and in the midst of the historic panel discussion at MCACN with Geoff Stunkard, Butch Leal, Paul Rossi, Arnie Beswick at the helm, Tom Tignanelli's brother breaks out with both aluminum and magnesium brake bar housing versions. (Posted again below) Not to mention the center drilled Titanium torsion bars which by nature did nothing but support the cars full weight with absolutely no torsion sprung features. Dangerous in my book of rule breaking, but they were there and those guys were fearless.

I did go home with a smile after Tom Hoover Jr. and Bob Karakashian were giving my car a close up inspection. They were indeed intrigued. Really cool couple of gents.

 

[fullmetaljacket]

Now that my juices are flowing without meaning to repost, here's one of the items that most curious cats getting in close were flipping out about.
RMCHRGR was having a Dandy good time revealing it to those NOT IN THE KNOW.
I think I blew by the factory guys with this one, but only the Shadow Knows. LOL.

 

[mmissile]

I breakfast with Jim Tig and the guys, every Sunday. I go back to the 70's, dealing with Tom. We used to do lunch a couple times a week.....till he passed.

 

[fullmetaljacket]

I breakfast with Jim Tig and the guys, every Sunday. I go back to the 70's, dealing with Tom. We used to do lunch a couple times a week.....till he passed.

I would've waited your table every time just to be that fly on the wall.

 

[rmchrgr]

Tom Tignanelli probably had the most and rarest of the TI and magnesium, factory-appearing parts I've ever seen.

Jim has some stories and is funny. We only got to talk with him briefly but it seems like he knows a lot of very interesting stuff. The gun-drilled Ti T-bars were almost laughable.

 

[fullmetaljacket]

After what some of us have witnessed, heard, assumed and consumed at the MCACN show this past November, I, myself can't say "one of one" or "certain items do not - could not exist" anymore.
It seems that either with limited or perhaps unlimited recourses, that some of these guys from the Old Chrysler Corporation may have reinvented and circumvented rules of logic by building, stamping or revamping unicorn parts for their racing programs.
I was floored when a Titanium torsion bar was handed over to me at MCACN like a golf club. Welcome to the exclusive Golf club of The Old Chrysler Corporations skunk works. Nuff said.
The Motown Missile is known to have had things such as titanium strut rods, but at this juncture, I wouldn't put it pass them that even Titanium lower and upper control arms were on some of those winning cars.

When time allows, I will return to the drawing board to see if I can outpace them all these years after.