The car show was loaded with great machinery plus a slew of novel ideas. The trick rolling stock under David and Bonnie Shierts’ 528 Hemi powered ’67 Coronet mimics the austere street racer vibe of plan steel rims. But a closer look reveals massive 18-inch Michelin Pilot Sport super car tires. The rims are one-off billet aluminum specials that were made by Boyd’s at a cost of over $4,500. The redline effect was achieved by painting the edges of the rims red.
Here’s a close up of the stealthy Boyd’s 18x8 billet aluminum “steelie” wheel and Michelin 245-45-18 tire used under the nose of the Hemi Coronet. Out back, the 18x12’s mount massive 345-45-18’s.
It’s too bad metal can’t talk. If it could, we’d ask this Max Wedge what it’s been up to in the years since it was first sold new. The block bears the correct 2406730-1 casting number used on 1963-1965 426 wedge blocks while the 10-3-62 casting date solidifies the likelihood it’s a real Max Wedge piece (much too early to be a ’64 426 Street Wedge). It wears a set of Stage I or II heads (4-bolt valve covers, bolt-on aluminum rocker shaft stands) and a Stage I / Stage II cross ram with the sharply creased external plenum top transitions. The only sour notes were extensive crack repair to the driver-side manifold and incorrect 6-bolt valve covers with non-Maxie welded-on spark plug wire tabs. You’d definitely want to go through this one with a fine tooth comb, but it’d be a great starting point for a Max Wedge restoration project.