i didnt create the western sport special...it was a real trimline offered in the LA and san fran area in 1970, option code A91..it was basically a base model with a woodgrain dash inlay, rimblow wheel, remote mirror, a bunch of moldings upgrades such as the sill, belt, splash pan, rear quarter panel decal, different pedals, and bumperettes...it came mostly with the base 318, but it could be applied to any base model challenger, which includes slant six and some 383 cars....ive read in a couple mags about how allegedly they made ONE T/A with a WSS package, but there is nothing to prove that, other than some folks who were lucky enough to be alive back then who claim to have seen one in B5 blue...no one can produce proof, and different mags have argued about this.

 

Okay thanks for informing me about that, Patrick! That could work also.

 

no problem!

from what ive read, it super rare, and very few exist now...i dont think that ive seen one in person. evidently they made WSS darts too.

 

Well that makes me feel better. Did they have a version for the Dart as well? BTW, remember the DOHC HEMI we discussed about? Allpar interview a guy who worked on a whole bunch of their engines including the slant six, 426 HEMI, the 80s I4s, and I think he mentioned the LA engines. http://www.allpar.com/corporate/bios...nterview2.html

 

i dont recall our previous discussion, but i am somewhat familiar with the first DOHC hemi...if we are talking about the same thing, it was to be used for nascar, when ford came out with their own version of a hemi engine...i believe that theirs was a 429...and the president of nascar at the time said no to both...

 

Yes it was to be used in NASCAR. The Ford one was to be the 427 "Cammer," a SOHC design. The idiot of NASCAR, I mean the President of NASCAR did say no to both. This is why NASCAR has become boring to me. They are stuck with all using the same platform which is not used in any street cars, the same displacement engines which are out of production beyond NASCAR, they use old 4-speed manual gear boxes which no one uses on new cars. Where is the fun in it if it is the same thing every year!? They need to let things be less even and let the best designer of a street car win like they did in the old days.

 

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT ONE, RLSH700

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I think I might even start a discussion in the off topic section about this topic of NASCAR.

 

R/T with an SE package

 

Huh? Are you saying the R/T engine with the SE lower amount of options?