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Old 12-26-2020, 07:08 PM
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----Earntaz,,,Those are Tubies (AKA Tubular Automotive headers). Tubular Automotive was located in eastern Mass, and many, many New England gearheads ran them, as well as guys from rest of the country. Freed up a lot of room under the hood when the four front pipes went down and around the front crossmember. If you think about the time frame it made sense as most of the serious racers were running with the nose higher than stock anyway. Street guys might have gone elsewhere though, as you could flatten those tubes easily at close to stock height. My cousin ended up with a GT 500 Shelby through a trade that had Tubies and he was constantly cutting out sections that got flattened out.

----Paul,,,Loved that 66 W30!.....Bill S
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