A bubble-top 1962 Catalina is a damn cool car on its own. One packing a developmental all-aluminum 389 engine that was one of 14 built for Mickey Thompson is freaking sublime. This car is not a clone or recreation, it is a total what-if. What if a factory engineer was able to tinker with one of the aluminum 389s and managed to slip it into a beautiful 1962 bubble-top Catalina and hit Woodward Ave?

No expense was spared when building this car. It is packing parts from the ultra-rare Swiss Cheese Catalinas in the form of an aluminum center section packing 4.30 gears, and an aluminum bellhousing with a weird starter mount as well. Oh, we almost forgot to mention the aluminum exhaust manifolds.

So how do you feel about this car? Should the motor have been sold and used somewhere else, or was the “right thing” done in this case. It isn’t a clone and the seller is not trying to push the car as some kind of factory job. We think it could be the coolest Poncho ever.

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