RE: The Boggabri Dodges - Feedback?

[Ray Bell <raybell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom, the owner of Ben's sister car, has written to me again.

He wrote, in part: "I saw your story when I "Googled" Dodge Phoenix 
1964. It was on the 1962to1965 mopar.ornocar site. I was looking up 
stuff about the Dodge to see if there I a club etc. because we might 
need parts or advice in the future." 

Ultimately I will point him to the 318 Poly Yahoo list and this site, 
but I think it's good that a bit of googling got us in touch with Tom 
and his car.

I've once again asked if he'd like to have his car featured as one of 
the Mopars of the Month. It's a bit of a survivor, never been out of 
use, though it's only a low mileage (106,000 miles) car. From the pics 
it looks pretty good.

Ray



Ray Bell wrote:
> 
> My nephew, Ben Simpson, owns a '64 Dodge Phoenix. Many of you here know 
> that, and no doubt some have seen the 'Mopar of the Month' page about it 
> 
> on the '62 to '65 Mopars site. That dates back now to May 1965.
> 
> Progress with getting the car to the race track has been hampered by a 
> number of things, not the least of which has been Ben's need to start a 
> new business so he can be self-employed and do the kind of work he likes 
> 
> doing. Working on cars, of course.
> 
> But he is now making progress and I soon should send Gary some kind of 
> update for the page. Last week he seriously started on the engine work, 
> putting hardblock into a block (it took ages to find one with good 
> cylinder walls) and he's been cleaning up the casting dags, he's posted 
> pics of this at the 318Poly Yahoo site if you'd like to have a look.
> 
> But the most surprising thing of all is that today I got an e.mail, and 
> it might well have been 'feedback' from the 'Mopar of the Month' page!
> 
> The car came from a small town in New South Wales called Boggabri, and 
> the dealer there, Sid Bird, would have thought he was on Cloud Nine when 
> 
> he sold two Phoenixes that year. And the e.mail I got today was from the 
> 
> present owner of the other '64 Dodge that Sid delivered!
> 
> It's still in the same family, but it now lives in Victoria. It's 
> promised to the grandson, who lives way over in Western Australia and 
> will get it when his father is no longer able to look after it. It only 
> has 106,000 miles on it!
> 
> I have asked the owner if he'd like to feature the car as a 'Mopar of 
> the Month', I'm sure Gary would like that.
> 
> 
> 
> The stories of youth, of the burden of time, and the death of 
> devotion.HCK



The stories of youth, of the burden of time, and the death of 
devotion.HCK


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