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» The 1960s marked the high point of the customizing culture, and George Barris was the King of Customs with more than 45 creations during this decade. The “Surf Woody” shown on the cover of the April 1965 issue of Hot Rod magazine was shot on the beach at Waikiki, Hawaii. This twin-Paxton super-charged creation ranks alongside Barris’ Buick Villa Riviera as one of the most famous customs of the ‘60s. Ansen Automotive in Los Angeles, California built the twice-blown 289-cubic-inch Mustang V8. A Ford Cruise-O-Matic transmission was used to deliver power to the rear axle.

» Studebaker started a lasting relationship with McCulloch-Paxton in 1957, installing the VS57 on the Golden Hawk’s and Packard Clipper’s 289-cu.in. V8. The SN-type supercharger was later supplied for the famed Studebaker Avanti and Lark R-variant engines. Karl and Lydia Sparks of Modesto, California are the very proud owners of this 1963 Studebak-er Avanti featuring twin-Paxton superchargers that push the dual four-barrel blow-through 306-ci.in. V8 to 504HP @ 6100 RPM. His Twincharger is one of the three Avantis known to be built with this unique induction configuration.

Innovator Robert Paxton McCulloch in 1937 introduced his original centrifugal supercharger, a giant pancake-looking device that mounted directly to the in-take manifold of Ford flat head engines. His first reciprocating ball design was developed as an air pump in 1943 for the U.S. Navy to circulate air inside America’s submarines during World War II and later in nuclear submarines. McCulloch never dropped the concept of an inexpensive, bolt-on aftermarket supercharger for the general public. Extensive research was carried out by Paxton Engineering and in the early ’50s became known as Paxton Products. The first of these compressors was the VS57/VR57 belt-driven blow-through design that ultimately became an option for Kaiser Manhattans, Studebaker Golden Hawks, Ford Thunderbirds, Fairlanes and Edsels. Paxton engineers also developed superchargers used on

the famed Novi Indy race cars. These engines developed some 650 horse-power from 180 cubic inches and simply overpowered everything on the straight-aways, but the cars were not exactly agile in the turns. The first OEM contract for McCulloch was with Kaiser in 1954. As many as 5,440 superchargers were fitted to Kaiser engines before the company stopped making automobiles in 1955. Benson Ford, grandson of Henry Ford, was quite active in the Ford dealer network in a position he enjoyed in the family business. It is rumored that as a result of the time he spent behind the wheel of a blown Thunderbird he was a major factor in an exclusive one-year contract awarded to Paxton Products in 1956 for ‘57 production automobiles. With the onset of the Big Three’s “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” mentality, NASCAR stock car racing was an activity

Ford was very much interested in. After the 1957 homologation requirement was met, about 211 Thunderbird “Blower Birds” were produced with Paxton, and a number of other Ford model cars were fitted with compressors, includ-ing the Fairlane. These 312-cu.in.V8 “F-code” engines produced power in the 340-360HP range, depending on the camshaft installed. However, Ford con-servatively claimed only 300HP. These factory-supercharged Fords dominated motorsports in early 1957, until NASCAR issued a ban on supercharging and fuel injection mid-way through the year. Ford dealers also retailed the VS57 super-charger system as a dealer-installed “power pack” option. A few dual quad and triple deuce configurations, as well as the conventional four-barrel carbure-tor set-up, were known to be done. Aftermarket kits were also offered during that period for such vehicles

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