M/T tires mounted on 12' Raders Star Mags front and One Ribbed in the rear. The rear scoop was higher because it had a Cadillac air cleaner underneath it. The $22,000 ZZR featured two 425 CID Buick engines bored out to 440 CID, mounted in tandem with an Ansen Posi-shift Powerglide transmission with two carburetors per engine with a four holed Hilborn injector scoop. The car was called the ZZR that was equipped with a variety of weapons in the manner of James Bond's customized Aston Martin DB-5 in Goldfinger. The windshield frame was angled forward, with another frame to meet the top of windshield frame to make an open triangle. They put pompoms around this rectangular lid. The top in back is just side pieces, so a lid had to go over them to get the side pieces to fit. Then they put gold Naugahyde on the doors and spare tire carriers. After getting the right measurements they made the new doors. They had to make both slender doors buy using the third rear doors and the front doors. The body was cut after the first doors, then the rear section of the body was moved forward. The body after finished altering it, was channeled over frame. The top was removed, the rear engine was moved back in the square tube frame, then the second engine was placed in front of the rear engine. Burbank auto customizer George Barris was given four weeks to supply vehicles for the film that was made from a left over Munster Koach fiberglass body.
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