1965 Plymouth AWB Drag Car - UFO

#A1806509BPC - Located One - in 1:18 scale is a 1965 Plymouth Altered Wheel Base called UFO. This AWB will be made by ACME using the well detailed Highway 61 tooling and will be limited to 500 pieces.

In June of 1963, Plymouth announced the development of the 426 cubic inch 'Super Stock' or 'Max Wedge Stage II' V8 engine intended primarily for supervised drag racing and stock car racing. Tom tells the story of the birth of the UFO: "We rolled the car into Shadowoods Auto Cener in Roseville, Michigan, my Dad's business, at the end of the 1965 race season in order to build it for Experimental Stock. It never left the shop until it was ready to race on the spring of 1966.

The UFO emerged from Robert Tignanelli’s shop as if it had been abducted by aliens. It was unbelievably faster. During the 1966 season, Dieter Nubel would create the UFO’s signature nose piece that would enhance performance. Tom was NHRA Division 3 Points Champion in XS, and earned a C/XS National Championship in his follow-up 1967 season. Additionally, numerous class wins and eliminator victories would pile up to establish the UFO as an extremely successful race car for Tom and the entire Tignanelli family.