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No Hemi-powered Coronet wagons have been verified, but a few Coronet Deluxe four-door sedans are known to exist. A total of 136 Coronet 500 Street Hemis were built for 1966. [30] Beginning in 1967, Chrysler decided that the Hemi should be available only in their badged muscle cars: the Dodge Charger, Coronet R/T, and the Plymouth Belvedere GTX.
The 426 Hemi, in "Street Hemi" form, was produced for use in limited Plymouth and Dodge automobiles from 1966 through 1971, which have become collector's items. For example, a 1971 Plymouth Barracuda Convertible equipped with the 426 Hemi engine sold at auction for US$3.5 million in 2014. [21] 426 Hemi engine in a 1966 Charger
A 426 Street Wedge engine was also available in 1964 and 1965. An increased-bore version of the standard New Yorker 413 single 4-barrel engine, it bears little relation to the Max Wedge except for basic architecture and dimensions. It was available only in B-body cars (Plymouth and Dodge) and light-duty Dodge D Series trucks.
This 1965 Dodge Coronet boasts the ultimate Mopar powerhouse and is ready to show the world what it was made for. Tire Roaster 1965 Dodge Coronet A990 W01 426 Is A Race Hemi Tribute Skip to main ...
Unlike Chrysler's contemporaneous hemi V8 engines, the Hemi-6's rocker arms are mounted on individual studs (similar to the Chevrolet "big block" V8), rather than on 2 separate rocker shafts as in all 1951-58 Hemis—Dodge, DeSoto, Imperial, and Chrysler "Firepower" and 1964-'71 Plymouth and Dodge 426 V8s. All Hemi-6s share a robust crankshaft ...
When the season was concluded Ford won the "NASCAR Manufacturers' Championship" with 1,047 points over Plymouth (633 points) and third place Dodge (632 points). Mid-size cars would first be implemented for this NASCAR Grand National Cup Series season. Ten years later, the rising price of gas for passenger vehicles caused all car classes to shrink.
Intended to deal with the troubles created by the low-production 426, of which only about 9,000 were built from 1966 to 1972), [4] as well as the different architectures of the higher-volume 383 cu in (6.3 L) and 400 cu in (6.6 L) B and 440 cu in (7.2 L) RB V8s, the ball-stud hemi was to be suitable for high-volume manufacture at low cost while ...
During 1963 and 1964 model years, the Dodge 440 was the mid-range model. [5] It featured less chrome and a plainer interior than the top-trimed Polara. For the 1965 model year, the 440, along with the 330 and 880 were all replaced by the Polara, which was built on the new C Body with 121-inch (3,073 mm) wheelbase.