Duntov-097
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I bought this 62 at Carlisle a while back. It was a no hit original 62 fuelie that the previous owner had narrowed the frame and tubbed. He had the owner history back to 63. The car had never been anything other than a show or race car.The third owner claimed the car was painted by Von Dutch. A gentleman representing the traveling Von Dutch museum tour looked at it and authenticated it. This car was spotless white glass underneath and the frame didn't have a pit on it. Under the dash had never been touched. Other than being tubbed it was one sweet car.
It had a 13.5:1 60 over 283 with a set of heavily massaged 461 X heads, an M-22 and a Dana 60 with 4.56's out back. I knew when I bought it that it had a nasty cam. Idled around 1100 rpm. It had a Jones-Motorola tach in it that went to 10,000 rpm. On the way home I buried that tach.
It was a real screamer.I bought the car from Pro-Team and got the previous owners info from them as he had some pics and info on the car he was willing to share. I went to visit with him and he shared pictures and the history of the car.
Seems he was in the military and stationed near Hueytown Alabama and had worked in the Allisons machine shop where he prepared this engine for his H- stock automatic 55 Chevy. He told me he used to shift at 13,000 rpm. :crazy: It had 4 bolt splayed mains that went into the water jackets . He was a cool guy and gave me some pics and sold me some leftover parts for next to nothing. I found out he sold the car to Pro-Team a couple of weeks before Carlisle for $7500 with the radio and tops which I did not get for my $12,000
I drove and raced the car for a year and ran a best of 12.86 117 with the 283 before switching to a 406 that ran 11.40's. I sold the car with a 350 in it with no tops for $14,000 at Carlisle the next year. I wish I could have kept this one.
