302 HEMI Cross Ram on Ebay?

[JoeC]

Check Smokey’s books. He wrote about these heads.
I would have to check but if I remember right he said 200 sets were cast to make them legal for SCCA. Chevy was nervous about the Ford tunnel port head 302 making more power so they started on the 302 Chevy porcupine head program. Most of the work done in 67-68. They were working on hi rpm large airflow to take advantage of the large cfm 2x4 cross ram intake in the little 302. SCCA banned multi carb intakes for 69 season so there was not much advantage to the big heads and Smokey and Traco and others kept making more and more power with the stock heads.
As far as Smokey working for Chevy and Ford in 69 – I don’t think so. He had a tight big money contract with Ford given to him by his buddy Bunkie K. who also flew the coop to Ford. GM pulled Smokey’s GMC Truck dealership away from him. They both didn’t last too long at Ford.
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[MotownMadman]

Hey Joe, I got some different books here you would have to read, the person who owned the Tunnel Port TA Mustang I found had worked for Ford and Team Shelby, he was also a thief who made off with whatever he could carry. I have thousands of pages of documents from Ford, inter office letters and memos, much of it having to do with the Ford racing program, Chevrolets high performance dealer programs and Fords lack of, attemps by Mickey Thompson to team with Ford in which in finally told Henry Jr to screw himself, and letters between Fords head of racing Jacque Passino to the powers that be indicating his displeasure with Smokey and Bunkie for playing both sides of the fence. So Joe, put away the high school books and dive into some college material. If you have an interest in this type of historical reading I can run off some copies and put a packet together to mail to you. You would not believe the fifty page marketing study Ford had done targeting their muscle cars to teenagers for street racing! If the insurance companies only knew. Also, you would not believe the smoke and mirrors fiasco that was played out as far as Fords withdrawal from racing, what a bunch of BS between what the public was told and what really was the root causes. I have been sitting here going through stacks of documents at the same type you were also reading.....anybody ever hear of gearheads anoynomous? Where do I sign up?
Motown

[JoeC]

Sounds interesting- I would love to read it. Do you have anything on Grady Davis? He was Don Yenko's Corvette racing buddy and VP at Gulf Oil. They sponsored Don and Dick Thompsons championship winning Corvettes until the blow up with Chevy in 1963. Gulf wanted to win LeMans. Chevy wouldn't play the game so Gulf took their money to Ford and made history.

[Jeff H]

This guy's auction lists the part # for the top as the hemi head crossram top, but the base looks to be an experimental base with the strange snowflake and no casting #. The base is just the normal 302 base so his auction is a little misleading in that it sounds like the intake will bolt onto a hemi head engine. He does say that it won't at the end of his description, but most people don't read that far. I know someone that has a pair of the heads and a crossram top, but not a hemi crossram base.

[Unreal]

I dunno, If I were going to bid 10 large, or more, I think I'd read the whole ad, maybe half a dozen times.

[DZcode72]

I saw a silver HEMI Z at the Chicago vette fest. It had some goofy Hemi stickers on the car.

HEY YALL DOES THAT THING GOT HEMI !

[Born30YrsLate]

That is Gary Holub's car

[Roybalgene]

Hello gentleman looking for some traco heads 4 special vintage build that I'm doing if anybody has any leads I appreciate it you can reach me thanks!!
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