It was a complete car missing nothing. Running and driving.
My goals from the first were to build the car that I WANTED, not some cookie cutter build. I have been to shows where there are a dozen of the same year/model car with little to distinguish them from each other. I find that to be sad, and a lack of imagination on the part of the owners.
Here's a list of mods.
Yankee Express List of modifications.
1972 440 Magnum punched out to 0.40 over, forged steel crank ground 0.10 under, Speed Pro flat top pistons, stock 440 lighter weight LY rods, Six Pac 440 Source push rods, 10* Titanium Locks, dual Springs w/ Titanium caps, stock valve train w/ positive vinyl seals. Comp cam 21-306-9 270/470 @50, MOPAR 452 heads, fully ported and polished, unshrouded valves, and port matched for intake. Wieand single plane, Holley 4160 dual feed 750 CFM, Mallory Unilite Electronic Distro & coil, and March polished aluminum pulleys. Engine machine work performed by RPM Racing Engines in Georgia, VT. Mini starter. MH water pump w/ large flow through passage, 7 quart HEMI style oil pan, Melling High volume oil pump, Mancini Racing billet aluminum rear main seal block. 74 A-727 from behind a 440 Six Pac car. Rebuilt with 4 pinion planetaries, Red Eagle Frictions and black Kolene racing steels. 5 disc clutches, hardened input shaft, forged output, 12 spring sprag, billet steel apply band strut, 4.2 ratio apply lever, shift kit. Front bumper recurved, resectioned and shortened. Ends shaped to match and hug the front fender outline contours. Air scoop cut into the center. Front fenders sectioned and the noses swept back to a 90* angle with the front of the car. 1966 Dodge Charger grill and hidden headlights w/ all trim. Modern electric motors w/ custom axles and connectors. Hand fabricated Hemi scoop, hole in hood. Fake side scoops opened and shaped with SS inserts. Rullo Motorcycle pop up gas caps on top of both quarters. stock filler door shaved.
entire rear face of the Coronet reimagined to include custom fabrication to accept 1966 Ford Thunderbird taillights. 1970 Plymouth Road Runner rear bumper that has been lengthened twice for a total of 4 5/8ths inches so the upsweep at both ends will flow into the quarter tail extension outside edge profiles.
Exhaust tips to extend out of the backup light holes. Trunk floor replaced with a flat floor. wheel wells mini tubbed leaf spring relocation kit installed leaf spring axle pads relocated inboard
17-gallon aluminum fuel cell on trunk floor with two filler necks, one for each quarter mounted pop up. Fuel hoses/ pipes passing through the gas lift mounts. Gas lifts on fabricated mounts for the deck lid.
Fabricated trunk close out panels with carpet on three sides, the rear panel is a '70-inch-wide fabricated piece enclosing the 66 taillights. blast barrier between cab and trunk. 3.8" aluminum fuel line w/ AN fittings and roll over valve.
area immediately behind front bucket seats is covered by a fabricated Roadster type three-piece panel that is headed by a 1967 Plymouth Satellite rear seat topper.
2006 Volvo XC-90 baseball stitched leather buckets with 10-way power and heat plus power lumbar.
2004 AUDI A-6 Quattro AllRoad dash-console-stereo-digital/ programmable heat/AC, center pull E brake, floor shift console, Audi steering wheel. custom hand-built door treatments incorporating sections of the AUDI door panel including the release and pull handles, the lower storage cubbies and the CD changer controls. The doors have the accordion wiring pass through boots and frames installed as well as the white puddle lights on the bottoms and the red marker lights on the rear facing of the doors. Audi Symphony Stereo speakers (9) with three in each door. power windows and door locks Heat mat on floors and roof. Custom fabricated shift lever mount, E brake mounts, Console mounts and linkages. Pistol grip shifter custom formed with Black Ash wood handle. Bespoke leather/vinyl covering throughout. Factory tinted glass all around with limo tint applied to rear quarter windows and back glass. New fuzzies and seals. 3" TTI exhaust through turbo mufflers. Front disc brakes on 1976 Plymouth Volare spindles.
1966 Thunderbird Sequential taillights with controller.
Jegs Spikes black painted wheels w/polished aluminum accents 10"x 15" rears with backspacing over 7" to center the wheels in the tubs, fronts 15"x 8". Cooper Cobra Radial GT rears in 295-50-15 and Cooper CS5 Touring radials 205-70-15 on the front. 26" wide 4 core radiator w/ 16"x 12" x 2" trans cooler. Custom spare tire mount under Roadster panels where the rear seat back would be.
