Tenney's 64 Wangers GTO...

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #1 06-02-2005, 02:09 AM

That's what I thought Don, found via a newspaper ad in Phila?

**Tenney** · #2 06-02-2005, 05:23 AM

Thanks, gents.

Yep, the car spent past 15 (or so) years in Vineland, Marlin. Was found through another dealer, I'm told.

Heard same story re: this car, Blown Away. Though wasn't there as a witness.

Flipped through Hot Rod mags and stuff in school, too, Lynn. Don't have the C&D issue handy, though "torque multiplication" still owns those Schwinn-inspired redlines.

**BillD** · #3 06-02-2005, 05:54 AM

Great car just the way it is. Don't restore it.

**AMANOCC** · #4 06-02-2005, 06:04 AM

I agree, car is perfect the way it is

GTO_DON · #5 06-02-2005, 10:18 AM

Who put the cowl plenum air cleaner on it? I did not see it on the car when I looked at it down there. How did you get him to sell it?? I asked him lots of times but he said no. Then I heard he was telling people he wanted 100k for it.

**Tenney** · #6 06-02-2005, 07:34 PM

Thanks, Verne. Per Paul Zazarine's book, Don, Milt/Royal installed the cowl plenum, among other "performance experiments", in '64. Though likely had to remove to sell w/warranty end 'o year to Bill Sherman. Comes right off for "stock" look w/block-off plate on firewall.

**Lynn** · #7 06-03-2005, 01:07 AM

Tenney:

Do you remember what issue of Car and Driver? I would like to run one down. I have a 1968 Car & Driver with a comparo test of a 68 Z/28 and Tunnel Port 302 Mustang. It is awesome reading. Sam Posey rung out both cars on the track. Z/28 was loaded with console and power steering, four wheel disc brakes, cross ram and TI ignition. Prepped by GM. Ran a 13.71 on the E 70 bias ply tires (looked like Suzuki tires, according to the author, expecially next to the F 60 15 tires stuffed in the Mustang wheel wells).

Any one remember what issue?

BTW, I agree, I wouldn't change a thing on this car.

Lynn

**Lynn** · #8 06-03-2005, 01:25 AM

March 64 issue of Car and Driver. Entire article is avialable for viewing:

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclec...articles.shtml

**Tenney** · #9 06-03-2005, 05:02 AM

Cool, Lynn. Been a bit since I'd flipped through that article. "It is, incidentally, a very pleasant car to go off the road in, provided you don't catch a finger in the whirling spokes of the steering wheel" seems an interesting item of test critera.

An aside, the "correspondent" the article referenced, Roger Proulx, was a copywriter at McManus who worked with my Dad and Jim. Roger penned, among others, the ad that featured an image of an empty garage at night with the headline: "There's a Tiger loose in the streets". Pretty popular in the day, I'm told.

Btw, I read the Posey/Tunnel Port/Cross Ram test in the school library a few years back. Weren't the meats on the Boss some trick one-offs and they couldn't score a set for the Z to even things up (been a while)?

**Tenney** · #10 06-22-2005, 06:59 AM

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Who put the cowl plenum air cleaner on it? I did not see it on the car when I looked at it down there. How did you get him to sell it?? I asked him lots of times but he said no. Then I heard he was telling people he wanted 100k for it.

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Per Jim Wangers, the motor was a stock, big car 421 HO with a Bobcat kit while the car was with him (new thru 08/64). No headers, cowl plenum, etc.

Been told by others and have read that the cowl plenum and headers were built/installed by Milt, along with present 12.5 to 1, Lunati solid roller 421. Not sure when or in what sequence these items were fitted, exactly.

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