mid-engine Hemi race car from the 60's

[learical1]

Don't have a lot of info on this.  Town & Country Chrysler Plymouth was a dealership here in Phoenix in the 60's.  The website I stole the picture from said this car was built for Richard Petty in 1965, when MoPar was boycotting NASCAR.  Car wasn't finished in time (i.e. before Chrysler and NASCAR kissed and made up).  Supposedly an early Can-Am car.  Anybody have more info?

[68X426]

Awesome!! Hopefully someone knows the history.

[Brock Samson]

I'll see what I can dig up, but that roll bar looks like it's made out of a lawn chair... 

[Aero426]

It is a real deal car.   It was built by Bob McKee in the Chicago area.  It is called a McKee Mark VI.   Bob built a series of Can-Am type sports racing cars for customers with varying power plants from Olds, to Chevrolet to this one with the Hemi.  This car actually predates the Can-Am series but would have run on an SCCA national level or in their professional US Road Racing Championship events.   McKee's cars were very good, but the Hemi was just too much and too heavy to be successful.   The car is currently Arizona based as far as I know.   I have seen it in person several times at Road America.  

[learical1]

I swear I had a mid 60's magazine with a picture of this thing in it.  Popular Hot Rodding or one of those.  I came across this while looking for pictures taken at the Copperstate 1000, so it probably is an AZ car.  But the old magazine had the same "Town & Country" nametag on it.

[tan top]

got the story of that car  i think    & what happened during itd debuting races  will have a look !! wernt it nick named hussin ??

[learical1]

wernt it nick named hussin ??

That does sound vaguely familiar.

[Aero426]

got the story of that car  i think    & what happened during itd debuting races   will have a look !! wernt it nick named hussin ??

The Hussein is a similar style, but completely different car built off a Cooper (English) chassis.  It also had an undistinguished career.   As far as I know, only A.J. Foyt was brave enough to drive it.   Built for King Hussein of Jordan, not the other guy from Iraq.    With the Hemi, it was probably EXTREMELY flexible.  A.J. would probably tell you today that it was a real pant load.   Pretty car though, and AMT offered a model of it.  

[tan top]

got the story of that car  i think    & what happened during itd debuting races  will have a look !! wernt it nick named hussin ??

The Hussein is a similar style, but completely different car built off a Cooper (English) chassis.  It also had an undistinguished career.   As far as I know, only A.J. Foyt was brave enough to drive it.   Built for King Hussein of Jordan, not the other guy from Iraq.    With the Hemi, it was probably EXTREMELY flexible.  A.J. would probably tell you today that it was a real pantload.   Pretty car though, and AMT offered a model of it. 

i see , Do'H thanks for the info ,  , intresting 

[hemigeno]

Would it have been more competitive with an all-aluminum Hemi setup (which admittedly didn't exist back then) , or would it have taken a small-block engine of some sort to shave off enough weight to really wake the car up?

[SRT-68]

Can you imagine what it sounded like with those straight pipes at 7k rpm!

[gtx6970]

I saw that car at the Mopar nats several years back.

It sounds absolutly wicked

[Ghoste]

It was also at the Amelia Island concour event this past spring.

[200MPH]

http://www.allpar.com/cars/adopted/mckee.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSm2qd4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvKaXU9E6e4&feature=relatedLII

http://www.conceptcarz.com/z18239/McKee-MKV.aspx

[tan top]

http://www.allpar.com/cars/adopted/mckee.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSm2qd4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvKaXU9E6e4&feature=relatedLII

http://www.conceptcarz.com/z18239/McKee-MKV.aspx

thanks for posting ! 

[200MPH]

your welcome !!

[Brock Samson]

Yeah, Thanks a lot I didn't git around to it yesterday. 

[learical1]

Yes, thank you for the links.         But I'm rather confused about a link inside the first link:

http://www.hemimckee.com/

and why it goes to some fool running for Mesa, AZ School board instead of something about the car.

[Aero426]

Here is the Hussein Hemi powered race car from the AMT model box artwork.

[200MPH]

Yes, thank you for the links.         But I'm rather confused about a link inside the first link:

http://www.hemimckee.com/

and why it goes to some fool running for Mesa, AZ School board instead of something about the car.

I think that was the owner because the same site which i saved a few years ago had quite few details about the car and even had some underneath shots of it.. i don't know what happened there