Jim Wangers- The Detroit Supercar Scene Trend

[Keith Seymore]

Dad was trying to run the aluminum exhaust manifolds on the street and they kept burning up.

After patching them a bunch of times, and putting patches on the patches he decided to fabricate a set of tubular steel exhaust headers.

He made them really short - which, at the time, pretty much everybody said would not work.

Mac McKellar saw them and liked them and said "I'm gonna make you a cam for those."

So he did. He even stamped the "correct" numbers on the end so it looked original.

Royal and Ramchargers were always picking at each other.

Ramchargers protested Dad one day and made him tear down. They actually took that cam and set it up in V blocks on the tailgate of their wagon. They spun it with a cam wheel on the front and a dial indicator on the lobes - and declared it legit.

It was, of course, bogus as heck.

K