NEW 455 Super Duty Trans Am | The Story Behind The Design

I think the Trans Am is possibly the most recognizable American muscle car in hi

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and each of us lives a little abandoned, a little outlaw, so in 1977 you have a nation watching the gang race across the big screen . Bold and brave, a new generation of car lovers is born and my brother and I are there with it. I was 19 when I had my first Trans Am and it became part of who I was, so I never would have thought about it when I was 16. guy watching that movie that one day could be part of an effort to preserve an international brand like the Trans Am, the Super Duty was the car that wasn't supposed to happen and the list of why is long Todd said well, I really was thinking about

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I hadn't thought about the Super Duty, the Super Duty was a very iconic car, there were a lot of restrictions on cars in '74, if you're into muscle cars it was a tough year, but still the Super Duty was like whoa and then you heard it and said wow, then you drove it and suddenly it's the complete package, so let's talk about what a Super Duty is.

The Super Duty has a really big engine, a really big dangerous engine, but the 2017 Super Duty we have a 455 makes huge amounts of power, we collectively knew we had to do that because that's the Super Duty. Brendan is the absolute driving force behind bringing the power to that level and generating in excess of a thousand horsepower and over a thousand pound-feet of torque. Speaking beyond the euphemisms for things that pull power, we are talking about wearing out tires in third gear, fourth gear and as many gears as you have the courage to pass by a thousand horsepower car that was also drivable, that is higher.

I used some of my contacts in the NASCAR racing world and they came back and said Paul, we can do this Paul knew the person who can make this happen Joey Arrington, a legendary NASCAR engine builder in Charlotte Joey Harrington was born in NASCAR , his father, friend, Arrington's car number 67. he's a legend, meaning Joey grew up around NASCAR master engine builders, it's only natural that we choose him to help build this new clown, do a lot of media PR for a lot of different manufacturers, drive a lot of Hellcats, hell, the different Hawk track. Things on the racetrack are adrift, but all I can tell you is that having the opportunity to drive that new Super Duty is incredible, not just the horsepower but the torque curve, the way it comes through. the power and the way the car handles when I am.

I really go to the whip and drive that thing, this car takes a backseat to no one, sorry the girl is derived from a solid plate steel, the crankshaft is a forged 4340 and the rods are made from an m300 material which is More or less the only place where he found that type of materials. Any Moore Racing App. Joeys actually produced original engine

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s and configurations for major international racing teams and suppliers. I've been around cars my entire life. I mean, we know some really interesting things. This is by So far, the best thing I've done is take a three hundred and seventy-six cubic inch engine from a Chevrolet car and turn it into a 455 cubic inch engine, it's a monster engine, not only are we putting out a Super Duty, but It will have a 455 bay and will be a Super Duty like no other before the lt1 engine block has the original casting number, but that's all that's left on the block, the crank, the cam, the pistons, the connecting rods. bearings, valve springs, studs, everything has been changed on the engine, it's really just a shell with a NASCAR racing engine inside, go to Jersey, they pump gas even if they turn 91, those cars have a thousand exhausts, it's tailor-made for us, with extremely high flow. run out a custom made engine, only replaceable blood and the lucky few who get to own this engine will be among a very, very elite club, not only in terms of power but in terms of power quality, a real and reliable daily driver, thousand horsepower. car there are some people in the world who can say they happen and you really have to think what are we doing anyway we are building cars that are incredibly powerful let's make it incredibly light and let's use the technology that is available in

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cars and bring that to Trans Am carbon fiber hoods covering fiber fenders fascias splitters diffusers deck lids spoilers from fiber roof liner to carbon fiber hatches carbon fiber roof liners so again we are increasing strength, lowering weight and building something that will be beautiful for a long time, we know we want to give the best car possible right down to the nuts and bolts that make carbon fiber an easy choice and everything else is carbon fiber.

Wow, it's probably not carbon fiber, you know, they both start with ethros, those are the new Michelin Pilot Super Sport, fluorescence, those are. five seconds faster is the best rental we could put on the car we have switched to a three piece wheel which is a total evolution of the old snowflake it will be a lighter and stronger wheel along with Michelin tires capable of handling a thousand horsepower that we have to offer you the brakes have been improved with Brembo we have made the entire suspension a big improvement over what you would get if you only had a Camaro the Trans Am brakes much better goes much faster weighs much less Thomas so creative visionary and has taken his ideas and he is able to cultivate them in this beautiful piece of orange, he lives it, he breathes it when you look at the car it has to say something from every angle because the original car did it, it's American, it's not just cars, there's more to it than just the curves of a concept there's a society behind whatever you're trying to

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there's a culture everyone who walks by Tom's computer for the last five months just stops and gasps.

What we're going to build on is that our new Trans Am the Super Duty is by far the most ambitious design we've ever done. Tom works until he can't anymore. We'll find him on the floor somewhere in the server room sleeping on bubble wrap and hooks. He gets up in the morning light, brushes the sand out of his eyes, drinks some coffee, and gets back to work. One of the key elements for these cars to go from concept to rolling on the road is the renderings. I studied Allen's work before the Super Duty came out. I put it in my desk drawers in this really unique style.

Today's drawing is also a CAD file that looks like a photograph. It's this weird trifecta of perfect art and design so we can get the artwork out of it and into it directly into a partner that I'm with. a city called mo in Sweden, north of Sweden, I have been working for five years with Glastron boats designing a whole series for them and many car magazines, many custom builders around the world. I did a design for Jay Leno, he's building an old one. Volvo, but with two brand new racing parts, I didn't design the whole car for them and for Pole Star, that's a very competitive division, so now I'm elated.

I have a master rendering artist on my project, bo, who is in Sweden, and Tom, who is in Florida talked day and night, no one had a beer and then a coffee illustrated and back and forth of course the renderings . I love those cars though the old Trans Am since I was young so it was very exciting, heart rate went up after this. Incredible success was achieved with the band's admission to Burt Reynolds' challenge. It will look very different than the abandoned one, but it will keep that heritage in that DNA in this new design, but at the same time make it new.

The really important thing was to have the signature Trans Am details. That's the front with the grill and the rear with the lights that resemble something from the '77 and in the eighth course, the original body features of the '74 Super Duty They didn't really lend themselves well to the direction we needed to continue following the Bandit. car we had four or five versions of the round one, but this is the one that was the best, so it has curves in places that make the car present itself to you standing still and the hood is new on this car, it's longer at the back front and It follows the curvature in a very nice way but then it has aggressive lines and angles and almost an attack.

Well, it will be wide and has to look muscular. We need a lot of cooling in this car. You had to have those areas of openings. Do it in a way that even if you didn't know what an original Super Duty was, it would hit you the same way. I have tears in my eyes now, my friend, I have three of these cars. I came here to have some drinks. and look at the Trans Am, thanks. I appreciate that the design that Tom and his boyfriend created far exceeded my expectations of what I imagined when I sat down.

Tom was the first time he brought together what I think is the most elite unified talent. This design, when we start putting parts back on a bare chassis to make a Super Duty Trans Am, there's nothing there, it goes through nine stations and over 300 parts are changed. Wow, the interior took it as far as we could, we do everything we do. We make the seats for the carpet, we make the door panels. The indicators have been redone, graphs redone, or hand painted. Not only do we use the best paint available, but we have the best booth to spray it, so the paint jobs are several times better than a factory paint job. 1 mm mm 48 pounds actually made the shirt stronger and lighter and they were also given the

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parent back panel so they could see the sky.

The mutual challenge was where is the limit? How far can we take it?