Re: Blue Max Wedge Goes Home...

[Dennis <djohn14296@xxxxxxxxx>]

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:-( Is all I have to say about the situation.
 
 


 
This is a painful note for me to write in some ways, in others it opens 
a door to a new beginning. I sold my 1963 Dodge 330 Sedan with the 426 
Max Wedge and PB automatic right back to the guy I bought it from about 
4yrs ago, Wayne Smothers of Owasso, OK. The story on this car was I saw 
int on www.cars-on-line.com listed for $35k all set up for street/strip 
with 456 gears, Cheetah manual reverse valve body, 4800 stall Dynamic 
converter, 12.5-1 JE slugs, Hoosier radial slicks, and narrow American 
front wheels and Moroso drag front tires on it. Engine built by Dan 
Dvorak, not numbers match but a real Max Wedge factory car. It went 
11.56 at 110.9 first time out set up like that. I wrote a couple of 
E-mails to the then unknown owner and never heard anything back. 
Eventually I bought a 63 Polara with a 440 in it that I intended to make 
into a Max Wedge clone with help from Dan Dvorak in Waldo, Florida. 
When the car arrived I decided it was not the car to invest that much 
effort in and told Dan Dvorak to stop working on rounding up the parts. 
Dan Dvorak, not knowing I had seen Wayne Smother's car for sale on the 
internet, contacted Wayne in OK and told him the story knowing that his 
car was for sale. He told Wayne to call me as I might be interested in 
it. A few days later I was sitting at my desk at work when the phone 
rang and this strange guy introduced himself and said he was a buddy of 
Dvorak's and had a car for sale. As he began to explain what it was it 
became obvious it was the same car I had seen at the Cars-on-line site. 
Wayne knew I was gun-shy at this point and said if I would send him $1k 
earnest money he would put the car on a trailer and haul it 900miles to 
Detroit and take me for a ride in it. "If this car isn't what I say it 
is I will give you your money back and take the car back home, no 
questions asked." he drawled. I sent him a grand, he hauled the car 
and I bought it. We put it in my garage and he was practically in 
tears. He sold me the car because he needed money to buy a bigger home 
to accomodate his growing family and made me promise to let him know 
first if I ever wanted to sell it. 

But there's more...

I'm gonna be 55 this month and am finishing up the job of raising 3 kids 
my late wife and I adopted from Korea. My wife had a chronic illness 
and passed away on Father's day of 2000. When I was a kid we always had 
a hot-rod or two and we also always had a bunch of cottages up north in 
Michigan. Those were all sold off before my kids came on the scene. I 
got the bug and over the winter bought a brand new 2000 sq ft log home 
that is still being built in Garden Michigan in the upper peninsula, 95 
miles west of the Mackinac bridge. I'm semi retired and it was now or 
never to do something like that to let my kids have some fun up north. 
So now I needed money to buy a house. The sale of the Dodge was heart 
wrenching for me as well but Wayne bought it back from me for exactly 
what I paid for it. In the years I had it I spent time and money on it 
and worked on it with my youngest and I wrote the money part of it off 
as the cost of having a whole bunch of fun with the car. 

So- I am Mopar-less for the time being, temporary I think. The house up 
north is on Lake Michigan and there are already plans to build a 24 x 36 
garage up there with 10' high walls so I can have a 2-post hoist. I 
look at it as a new adventure and hope it will be worth the investment. 
Meanwhile I will stay on list. For anyone who has not seen my website 
with the Dodges see my Mopar site listed below. 


Dave Krugler
Harper Woods, MI 
63 Dodge Polara 440
63 Dodge 330 Post 426 Max Wedge
To see these cars please visit my website at
www.geocities.com/dkrugler2001/davesuperstockgarage.html




Dennis

'04 Ram Hemi



		
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