WOW! The Find of a Lifetime! 1963 SD 421 Tempest!

[John Brown]

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Great find !! I hope you have the car under 24 hour guard with dogs and shotguns. This thing is so valuable I'm afraid someone might try to steal it....more
Answered on Nov-05-08
A: YEP = PITBULL WITH AIDS AND A SAWED OFF 12 GAUGE AUTOMATIC , GOT'ER UNDER CONTROL, THANKS



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Yep, that was my question to him. I had no idea if he would post it or not. Cars less valuable have come up missing at car shows lately, and this guy is inviting people to come see it? I'd have armed guards and require 2 pieces of i.d. just to come on the property. Its good that he is going to let the auction run the course. I congratulate him on doing that. It's one heck of a find, and he had no idea when this all started.

He posted more pictures on another ebay auction.

http://cgi.ebay.com/WORTHLESS-PICTURES_W...sspagenameZWDVW

It's amazing that the original factory stainless steel headers remain with the car. Tiemann wont have to build them when he does the restore. Just a shame that Randy Williams isn't here today to buy it.

[Bill Pritchard]

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This needs to find its way to Tiemann's shop!

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X2! Wow, what a neat find....talk about fallin' into a bucket of you-know-what and comin' out smellin' like a rose

[Tenney]

More than a little cool and agree ripe for a Tiemann dose.

[al8apex]

Incredible find and IF the price of scrap was higher it would have been a new Toyota ...

[markjohnson]

This being a FACTORY-BUILT A/FX car, it's neat to think of the cars' that this little Tempest lined up against back in the day : Z-11 Impalas, lightweight Max Wedges and fiberglass Ford Galaxies and Thunderbolts! WOW! Wish they could talk. When the auction started, the seller did not have access to the trunk (locked with no key), but did you see the updated pictures of what was finally found in he trunk?! The original Tri-Y headers AND the original SD421 Tempest exhaust manifolds with the factory balance tube and dumps! Simply incredible.

[Andy]

Very cool car. My mom has a 62 tempest and they are odd little cars. I know they aren't easy to find parts for.

[John Brown]

As I understand, when Randy Williams had Scott do the SD Tempest wagon, the radiator was scrap, so he contacted Harrison Radiator Division and had them pull the old blueprints and make a "brand new" radiator. It is something like the Corvette aluminum radiator but not that close. Since Harrison wanted big $$$$$$, and Randy wanted an exact radiator, he had Harrison make some extras. Scott might know where those extra radiators went and how to get a hold of one. That would be a hugh plus. Whoever gets that Tempest will have one of the rarest cars made. I'm sure they will have deep enough pockets to have it done right.

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WORTHLESS PICTURES

"OK PEOPLE= ENUF IS ENUF... I POSTED THIS ITEM 24 HOURS AGO AND IT HAS 2000 HITS OR MY COUNTER IS BROKE.
ALL I CAN FIGURE OUT IS THAT PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR PICTURES OF MCAIN OR OBAMA. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY THERE ARE SO MANY VIEWS. I MIGHT EVEN POST IT."


You think this was a hint of something special?

[69hurstSC]

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This being a FACTORY-BUILT A/FX car, it's neat to think of the cars' that this little Tempest lined up against back in the day : Z-11 Impalas, lightweight Max Wedges and fiberglass Ford Galaxies and Thunderbolts! WOW! Wish they could talk. When the auction started, the seller did not have access to the trunk (locked with no key), but did you see the updated pictures of what was finally found in he trunk?! The original Tri-Y headers AND the original SD421 Tempest exhaust manifolds with the factory balance tube and dumps! Simply incredible.

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not to mention the very first Race Hemi's debuted in January of 64.

[Rixls6]

Toooooooooooo Coooooooooool and WOW!!!