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The King was originally just a Squire with its Leaning Tower of Power and 3-on-the-tree. The 68,000 mile motor was strong and didn’t smoke – but it wasn’t fit for a King. It was pulled, cleaned up, painted, wrapped and is now for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In its place, a street race prepped 383 and a 883 4-speed was stabbed in. This engine and transmission was in my 65 Dodge Coronet street racer, before I converted it into a NSS race car known as the Thug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The engine was gone through, repainted, and the dual carb set up replaced with a single Holley on a Victor intake. It has aluminum heads, solid roller cam and roller rockers. Block hugging headers were the only headers, short of custom, that would fit that engine bay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The King was originally just a Squire with its Leaning Tower of Power and 3-on-the-tree. The 68,000 mile motor was strong and didn’t smoke – but it wasn’t fit for a King. It was pulled, cleaned up, painted, wrapped and is now for sale. In its place, a street race prepped 383 and a 883 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostalgiadragracers.com\/pettytribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}