The "Ball Stud" Hemi
 

I remember reading about this motor back in the day. It was supposed to be the next evolution of the 426, but was cancelled when the gas crunch hit. Only one survives:

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Great video. I'm not a Mopar guy, so this is the first I'm hearing about it. I think it's cool that it went to a hotrodder who didn't get all sentimental about the significance of it, did what he thought could make it "better" and then shoehorned it into a pretty rare little chassis - and it looks like he finished the whole piece very nicely.

Doesn't hurt my heart at all. Who knows? Maybe the engineers of the ball stud designed it to be bored and modified and this hotrodder was privy to the future plans and just decided to make it a "next day" or "future" ball stud.

Whether or not that happened, the end result beats sitting in a corner of Landy's shop, gathering dust forever more, like so many significant hotrod part are doing even as we speak.

(Did you notice that the video time was 4:26?)

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