A Hemi for the Vacations
Christmas is fast-approaching, and the last-minute consumers are hitting their stride. Each retailer is packed. The roads are too. E-commerce is bustling, and the supply vans are hustling just like the machines at Le Mans.
Smartly, as you could have imagined, I nonetheless have some buying groceries to do. I haven’t checked the entirety off my listing, however I’m shut. Whilst surfing the day before today, I got here throughout one thing I simply needed to have.
It’s a 1966 Hemi. Now not simply any engine, both. It’s a full-race supercharged 426 constructed with the most productive of the most productive. We’re speaking 6-71 blower, Weiand power, Hilborn bugcatcher, Vertex magneto, Crankshaft Co. crank—the entirety. It appears all-the-world just like the engines I installed 1/24-scale slingshots, Gassers and Altereds all the way through Christmases of yesteryear. Imagine it or now not, this one has sat untouched because the early Nineteen Seventies.
Constructed through Kirn Racing in St. Louis, the engine used to be firstly slated to drop into Ed Fitzwilliams’ 1940 Chevy coupe. Rod & Customized documented the challenge within the Might 1974 factor, however it sounds as if as though the challenge by no means got here to fruition.
Even if that’s a disgrace, now’s your probability to get your self a Hemi for the Vacations.
Merry Christmas and Satisfied Vacations, everybody. Hope you’ve gotten a secure and enjoyable weekend with circle of relatives, buddies and the ones you care about maximum.
—Joey Ukrop
Pictures through Brent Crow
