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1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe - Styled My Way
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| F A C T S & F I G U R E S | | Howard Tarnoff | | Medway, Massachusetts | | 1949 Plymouth Special DeLuxe 2-Door Sedan | | CHASSIS | | Frame / Manufacturer | Stock / Plymouth | | Wheelbase | 118.5” | | Modifications | Filled and smoothed by Chop-Shop Customs, Woburn, MA | | Chassis plumbing | Stainless | | Rearend / Ratio | 9” Ford by Currie (Anaheim, CA) / 3.25:1 | | Rear suspension | Posies (Hummelstown, PA) parallel leaf with tube-style shocks | | Rear brakes | ’03 Ford Explorer 11” disc | | Front suspension | Fatman (Charlotte, NC) 3” drop spindles with Eaton | | | (Detroit Michigan) coil springs, and relocated tube-style shocks | | Front brakes | ’78 Camaro 11” disc | | Master cylinder | Kugel Komponents (La Habra, CA) under dash | | Wheel covers | ’59 Dodge Lancer, modified | | Wheel make, size | Wheel Vintiques (Fresno, CA) steelie, 15 x 6 | | Tire make, size | BFGoodrich (Greenville, SC) Silvertown P215/70R-15 | | Other chassis items | Custom front antiroll bar with neoprene bushings by Xtreme (Slatersville, RI) | | ENGINE | | Make | ’49 Plymouth | | Displacement | 230ci (217ci block bored .100 over) | | Machining / Assembly | George Asche, Oil City, PA / Richard Desautels at Xtreme | | Crankshaft | ’52 Dodge 230ci truck | | Rods | ’52 Dodge 230ci truck | | Pistons | Arias (Gardena, CA) 10:1 | | Camshaft | Edgy (Santa Rosa, CA) | | Alternator | GM | | Head | Edgy, finned aluminum | | Valves / Springs | Manly (Lakewood, NJ) stainless steel | | Manifold / Induction | Vintage Edmunds / Dual Carter- Weber | | Ignition / Wires | Langdon’s Stovebolts (Utica, MI) HEI / stock | | Headers | Fenton | | Exhaust / Mufflers | 2” with electric cutout’s by Xtreme / Smithy’s | | Other engine facts | Balanced, bored, & blueprinted, O’Brien Truckers (Charlton, MA) air cleaner |
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