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This is a very rare Canadian built 1970 Pontiac GTO that's owned by Randy Greene, he is retired from United States Marine Corps where he worked on helicopters. The GTO had some serious upgrades over the years, starting with a hopped-up 455 c.i. Pontiac engine equipped with a big Holley carburetor supplying the air/fuel mixture. It's mounted on top of an aluminum Edelbrock Performer intake manifold. The fumes exit through long-tube headers & Flowmaster mufflers. A high lift-long duration cam was installed giving the exhaust notes that nice rump- atty-rump sound! The 455 is backed up with a 3-speed automatic transmission, that was filled with a 3000 rpm high-stall torque converter and it's controlled by a Hurst His & Hers shifter . The chassis was filled with the best parts from QA1, including control arms, sway-bars and heavy duty end links. The rear end was filled with 3:42:1 gears and a posi-traction differential. Randy said he has owned the car for
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Al Levine's Killer 1963 Plymouth Savoy
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If Darth Vader Had a Hot Rod this would be it !
Al Levine is from Great Neck, New York,but you can say his sinister looking 1963 Plymouth Savoy could be from the Death Star .
This is a car that any movie villain would want . The car is black on black with minimal bright work which blends in quite nicely on the streets of New York .
What else does that villain want you ask ? How about so much power you can't keep it under the hood .
The power in question comes from a BDS Stage 3 10/71 Supercharged 540 cube Hemi .
Even Darth is impressed with the mighty Hemi !
The engine is a Mopar Mega block with forged 4.5 stroke crank swinging Diamond pistons with a 4.380 bore for
a total of 540 cubic inches. Up top is a BDS stage 3 10/71 supercharger. A remote System One filter keeps the oil clean. Al said it can run 6
lbs of boost on premium pump gas all day . Heads are Dart dual plug Mopar castings from the late 70's early 80's. They have been ported to fueler
standards of the day with raised exhaust ports.
Once an original slant 6 with a 3 on the tree, shifting is now handled by a 1964
push button shifter mounted on a pod between the seats.The 727 trans has been
modified to a full roller, with a billet drum & pump gears and a steel planetary set.
Here we can see the custom shift pod with an original 1964 push button shifter.While the Racepak dash supplies the vital signs.
A Dana 60 rear with 4:10 gears and spool handles the power that big Hemi can throw down . It hangs on Cal-Trac split mono leafs with
sliders. When Al is running on the street, the tire of choice is the M/T E/T street tire at 16.5 X 31 . When track racing , slicks are used. Al is runs M/T
29.5X15W's on Champion wheels front & rear. An aluminum 4 inch
driveshaft connects it all together .
Al can be seen racing at Atco Raceway, Maple Grove Raceway & Lebanon Valley Dragway.
The Savoy can run 9s with a mere 6 lbs of boost, That 10/71 blower can make up 20 lbs of boost!
Through a full exhaust the sinister Plymouth can reach close to 155 MPH in the 1320 !
Al said he's owned the car about 30 years,when he bought it
was a max
wedge clone. Twenty five years ago he bought his first Hemi from Peter Pudlin. The car
has always been a street car, driving a few thousand miles a year.
About 20 years ago Al went to Lou Vignogna (RIP) to build a new siamesed Mega block , into a blown Hemi.
Uncle Tony in Deer Park did the tin work after Bernie Schacter built the Chrome Moly cage.
Photos courtesy of , Al Levine & AL Towing in Great Neck,NY 2020
The 1963 Savoy on the street with the rarely seen hood
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Brad McBride is the builder and driver of this 1963 Type 3 Fastback, known as Blitzkrieg. Photo credit Jason Reiss/PDRA Brad McBride is the builder and driver of this super cool and fast Type 3 Volkswagen. Brad has been around racing his whole life. His father owned land that's now the pit area beside Piedmont Dragway in North Carolina. His father raced a roadster and later raced a top alcohol funny car called the Starr Rider well into the 1990's. So you could say it was in Brad's DNA that he was destined to be a drag racer. We asked Brad how he started racing and what his earliest memories were. He stated the first thing he raced was 20" Schwinn 5-speed bike when he was 12 or 13 years old. Even early on he was a fabricator and equipped the bike with wheelie bars and a parachute. He used and old mattress spring as a launcher and sewed up the chute and pack himself. Brad would race the other 'track-kids
Scott Robinson is from southern California and has been into cars his whole life, his earliest memories recount his time spent with his father and his friends. Scott's father raced all types of vehicles, drag boats, sand rails, and cars. These experiences made a major impression on Scott and he couldn't wait to be old enough to drive. When he was old enough, he got heavy into off-road motorcycles then when he got his driver's license all bets were off. Scott forgot about racing motorcycles and went all in and started racing cars. The first car he raced wasn't car at all, it was a 1975 Chevy van. But this wasn't any old worn out work van. This van belonged to Scott's father, it featured a destroked 400 cube small-block built by Scott's Dad, it's backed up with a TH-400 automatic transmission and a narrowed 12-bolt rear end. Scott said it was fun ride for his first car, and when he graduated high-school his father gave it to him. The father and son
Like most gear heads in his age group, Butch Hill notes that while growing up, he took a particular liking to hot rods as a result of the influence from his father, Don. He was known as the Hill-Boys Race Team in the dirt/asphalt racing circuit. Although his involvement with hot rods came from his father. His mother, Marilyn, was one of his biggest fans and supporters. Butch made frequent trips to the drag strips to check out what was running. The “look and power” of those cars was something that intrigued him. Needless to say, he was always on the hunt for cool hot rods. In 1978 Butch was driving through a local neighborhood and noticed a 1939 Ford Coupe in a driveway. He decided to stop and ask if the car was for sale. The owner answered the door and agreed to sell it to him. After a quick look-over, the deal was done . He dove into his new purchase with a tune up on the 396 big block Chevy motor with a 4-speed transmission and a Pontiac rear-end. He removed the P
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