Back in 1963 Pontiac built six special lightweight factory drag cars that were known as the Tempest Super Duty to compete in Super Stock and A/FX classes. These special cars we factory prepped for drag strip dominance, and came straight from Pontiac with all-aluminum front clips and a fire-breathing 421ci super duty engine conservatively rated at 400 horsepower.
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We're really digging the Catalina White paint, contrasting black steelies, and authentic looking early 1960s insignia.
As you can imagine, the six original Tempest Super Duty drag cars are among the most rare and desired Pontiacs of all time. However, that hasn’t kept enthusiasts from honoring these legendary Indians with tribute builds of their own – like this gem we stumbled across during one of our daily sweeps of eBay Motors.
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The 400ci Pontiac is dressed up to resemble the Super Duty Tempest's 421ci powerplant.
The “Little Indian” Super Duty tribute is powered by a balanced and blue-printed 400ci with a Comp solid lift cam, ported heads, and roller rockers. The engine is even topped off by an Edelbrock dual quad setup that pays homage to the original “Bathtub” tunnel ram of the original Super Duty Tempests. The rest of the drag-ready driveline consists of a Turbo 350 trans with a manual valve body shifted by a B&M ratchet shifter, a 3,200 stall torque converter, and a Ford 9-inch with 4:11 gears and Strange axles.
Although the interior of the Tempest SD tribute isn’t really a factory stock look, we’ll give them a pass for doing a nice job none the less.
The eBay posting reports that although this car isn’t a real Super Duty Tempest, it did spend 31 years of its life being campaigned as a real deal drag car called the “Twisted Gator”. The no reserve auction is slated to end on Sunday, May 26th, and the car is carrying a private sale price of $37,500. What do you think – is that a fitting price for this fitting Super Duty tribute car?
Back in 1963 Pontiac built six special lightweight factory drag cars that were known as the Tempest Super Duty to compete in Super Stock and A/FX classes. These special cars we factory prepped for drag strip dominance, and came straight from Pontiac with all-aluminum front clips and a fire-breathing 421ci super duty engine conservatively rated at 400 horsepower.
