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Expert Posts: 4654 | Plymouth at the drags (Plymouth at drags.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Plymouth at drags.jpg (81KB - 506 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Ready to race (ready to race.jpg) Attachments ---------------- ready to race.jpg (57KB - 495 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Chasing "Fireball" (Chasing Fireball.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Chasing Fireball.jpg (264KB - 526 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146  Location: bishop, ca | |||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Trophy getter (Kiekhaefer1956.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Kiekhaefer1956.jpg (19KB - 507 downloads) | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 303 Location: Harrisburg, Penna | |||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | # 42 #42 and #43 (42.jpg) (42 and 43.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 42.jpg (31KB - 466 downloads) 42 and 43.jpg (39KB - 506 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown |  Keep postin ! ! ! | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Okay...how about a Nightmare (Nightmare.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Nightmare.jpg (90KB - 496 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Howabout THIS nightmare? (aply.jpg) Attachments ---------------- aply.jpg (69KB - 500 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | |||
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | I posted those a few back boys . . . BUT, keep um comin ! ! !  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Martinsville '56 Edited by hemidave 2011-10-06 8:17 PM (MartinsvilleStart55.jpg) Attachments ---------------- MartinsvilleStart55.jpg (103KB - 485 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Daytona (Daytona.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Daytona.jpg (53KB - 480 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Paxton Products (Paxton Products.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Paxton Products.jpg (31KB - 491 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | 300 (Chrysler 300.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Chrysler 300.jpg (103KB - 491 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1120  Location: STL, MO | |||
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Expert Posts: 2480 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | |||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Ragtop racing (ragtop racing.jpg) Attachments ---------------- ragtop racing.jpg (29KB - 467 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Speedway (cantleyspeedway1.jpg) Attachments ---------------- cantleyspeedway1.jpg (30KB - 460 downloads) | ||
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Veteran Posts: 255 Location: Dunnellon, FL | Bob Kammer's 60 Plymouth 'Weekend Warrior' is shown on page 1. I can't remember if his second 60 Plymouth convertible "Weekend Warrior II' has been posted:  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Off and running (Off and running.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Off and running.jpg (90KB - 485 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1295 Location: Nasco , SWEDEN | Hang in there............... (i299388.jpg) Attachments ---------------- i299388.jpg (26KB - 455 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | At the races (at the races 2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- at the races 2.jpg (150KB - 490 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | On the beach..... (On the beach.jpg) Attachments ---------------- On the beach.jpg (51KB - 476 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2480 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | |||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | |||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | NASCAR (nascar.jpg) Attachments ---------------- nascar.jpg (29KB - 579 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1295 Location: Nasco , SWEDEN | speeeeed.......... just suck in these pic´s in your gearhead an close your eyes ahhhhh can you smell the hi octane parfume  Edited by mogge65 2011-12-28 2:59 AM (tk.jpg) (bonnevilleE.jpg) (bonnevilleD.jpg) (nt.jpg) (thatcher.jpg) (elmirage252.jpg) Attachments ---------------- tk.jpg (132KB - 439 downloads) bonnevilleE.jpg (108KB - 485 downloads) bonnevilleD.jpg (106KB - 524 downloads) nt.jpg (108KB - 448 downloads) thatcher.jpg (94KB - 467 downloads) elmirage252.jpg (65KB - 454 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2480 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | |||
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Location: Parts Unknown | I gotta start wearing my pants like that. Is that a watermelon he's got in the front ?  | ||
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | mogge65 - 2011-12-28 2:53 AM speeeeed.......... just suck in these pic´s in your gearhead an close your eyes ahhhhh can you smell the hi octane parfume :inlove:GREAT PICS ! ! ! | ||
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Expert Posts: 1295 Location: Nasco , SWEDEN | Norm Thatcher´s car as it look´s today! it´s a "Time capsule" (front300d.jpg) (interior.jpg) (motor300d.jpg) Attachments ---------------- front300d.jpg (94KB - 453 downloads) interior.jpg (82KB - 471 downloads) motor300d.jpg (104KB - 486 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Richard Petty (Richard_Petty.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Richard_Petty.jpg (22KB - 458 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 957 Location: Signal Mountain, TN | My dad picked me up one of these last October as a birthday present.... (60-richard-petty.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 60-richard-petty.jpg (134KB - 504 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1120 Location: Brisbane, Australia | Norm Thatcher's 300D is my favourite, understated, uncluttered style. The 'under hood' shot showing the dual carbs has a blanking plate on the fire wall instead of the heater/A/C cowl. Is this standard or a weight reduction measure? Edited by earleebob1 2012-01-06 3:56 PM (motor300d.jpg) Attachments ---------------- motor300d.jpg (104KB - 453 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1120 Location: Brisbane, Australia | Yikey you are not going to believe this, but I have built a blanking plate so similar it is spooky. check out the pic (137_5814.jpg) (14032011248a.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 137_5814.jpg (99KB - 477 downloads) 14032011248a.jpg (76KB - 466 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | |||
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Expert Posts: 1295 Location: Nasco , SWEDEN | Here is another heat deleted 300D (conv) (chrysler-300d-convertible-1.jpg) Attachments ---------------- chrysler-300d-convertible-1.jpg (127KB - 477 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | |||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Colton, CA (Colton, CA.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Colton, CA.jpg (124KB - 573 downloads) | ||
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Regular Posts: 80 Location: Golden, CO | Hi Folks, To update on my 56 New Yorker. I finished my 4th season. The combination came into its own by the end of the season. While it is still quite slow in the 1/4 I assure you there is ample power in longer distances. The Mile High Bracket Nationals is the final race of the season at Bandimere and I won the first 2 rounds in spectacular fashion. First up was a 10 sec bike, I dialed 18.99 and ran a 19.02 and won by .0005 on a holeshot his trap speed 140, mine 81. Second up was a 12 second 78 Malibu won by .03 and on a hole shot. Over 200 runs now on a 56 year old car, engine still has original pistons and over 100k miles, trans has never been rebuilt. Oh Yeah and Two recent photos of the D500-1 in the midst of an 8 year long slumber in its cosy garage (a remote secure location). Tim in Golden Edited by Dash One 2012-02-07 8:59 PM (IMAG0004a.JPG) (IMAG0009a.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMAG0004a.JPG (150KB - 474 downloads) IMAG0009a.JPG (254KB - 491 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2480 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | |||
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Expert Posts: 1295 Location: Nasco , SWEDEN | Sitting in the kitchen of her Bloomfield Township home, Anne Armstrong looks like a grandma about to bake cookies. That is, until she pulls out a scrapbook and talks about her glory days as a drag racer. “Our car was one-of-a-kind,” she said. “Nobody in the country had a full-sized Chrysler with a 600-horsepower hemi motor in it.” Anne and her husband Jack raced a 1962 Chrysler 300 sport, affectionately named “The Beautiful Brute.” Painted bermuda turquoise, the two-door hardtop is gloriously large and sleek with leather bucket seats and chrome to spare. The couple paid about $3,700 for the car Dec. 28, 1961. They were soon winning races on quarter-mile tracks from Brownstown to Ontario. They left the house early on weekends, tossing the kids in the back seat with a lunch basket and heading to the drag strip. Mostly, Jack was behind the wheel. Anne drove, too, even winning races when she was pregnant. She had a thing for beating Chevys. Anyone who grew up in metro Detroit in the '60s can picture those stock cars and muscle rides racing the local drag strips and cruising Woodward Avenue. Kids like Anne and Jack Armstrong were behind the wheel, pedal to the floor, pushing the motor, caught up in the moment and the speed. THE COUPLE THAT RACES TOGETHER They married in 1958. Anne had just graduated from Avondale High School, where she was editor of the school newspaper and planning for a career as a reporter. She barely knew how to drive. “My dad always bought Fords,” she said. “He was a television repairman and he never made much money, but he bought Fords because they were easy to work on. “I never got to drive my dad's car, even though I had a driver's license. He was afraid if I drove it and got into an accident, he wouldn't be able to get to work on Monday. So he never let anyone drive his car.” The honeymoon couple needed a new car when they came across a 1959 metallic green Plymouth Sports Fury with a 305-horsepower engine. The car ran so fast they decided to test it at the old Detroit Dragway at Sibley and Dix — better known as the “The Dirty D.” On a whim, Jack told Anne she should take the car out for its initial tune-up run. It was her first time at the dragway and her first time racing on a quarter-mile track. She faced off against a '55 Chevy and won. “I didn't hear it, but I guess the announcer saw me and said into the loudspeaker, ‘Will you look at that — the man sends his wife out for a loaf of bread and look where she ends up,”' she said. “I was probably one of the first women to drive that strip.” They were winning races with the Plymouth, but they wanted something faster. They went to a dealership in Rochester and saw the Chrysler 300 in the showroom. It was love at first sight. They were living in a small house in Clawson, and Anne remembers how they passed on the electric windows and other extras when ordering their new car. “Jack was making low weekly wages at the time,” she said. “He was working in an automatic screw machine shop. Before we got married, he was doing construction work and building Esther Williams swimming pools. Two weeks before our wedding, his brother got him a job in the machine shop.” They kept racing at the local drag strips, winning more often than not. They kept tinkering with the Chrysler, replacing the engine with bigger ones until they ended up with a hemi 600-horsepower motor. Anne said it did not take any special skills to drive the car — just a good set of nerves. “When it had the hemi in it and the 600 horsepower, you had to aim it,” she said. “You couldn't really steer the car. You put your hands on the steering wheel and more or less aimed it.” FAST AND LOUD One time Jack was out of town and Anne decided to visit her aunt in Pontiac. She was driving along Woodward through Birmingham, her 3-year-old asleep in the back seat of the Chrysler, when she came across three guys cruising around in a '57 Plymouth. “Somehow we looked at each and decided we would go for it at the light,” she said. “I beat them — twice. And I thought, ‘Well, there are three of them so they can't pretend it didn't happen.' Oh, and I was pregnant at the time.” A police officer happened to spot the two cars and ticketed both drivers for drag racing, a $50 fine. Anne pleaded with the judge, claiming the guys were chasing her, and got the ticket dismissed. Another time she was nine months pregnant when she took the Chrysler to a drag strip in New Baltimore, hoping to burn off some nervous energy. Jack stayed home with their daughter. She won seven of her races and gave birth to a second daughter two days later. FINAL LAP They moved from Clawson to Bloomfield Township in 1965 and raced for several more years. Jack was growing tired of the racing circuit and one day sold the hemi motor without telling Anne. They almost didn't speak to each other for two weeks. “I drove the car,” she said. “I thought we're a married couple and we're supposed to tell each other these things.” Years passed, the kids grew into adults, the drag strips closed and the Chrysler stayed in the garage under a dust cover. It only came out in nice weather. In 1998, Jack and Anne decided to restore it. They took the car completely apart — all the chrome, the bumpers, the engine, the interior — and sent the frame to a body shop. A few weeks later, Jack had open heart surgery and died. He was 60. It was left to Anne to put the car together. She had an original dealership parts manual that was six inches thick and help from an old family friend. Otherwise she was on her own. “The hardest part was finding all the parts,” she said. “What I took off I put in zip-lock baggies and labeled. What Jack took off went in tool boxes, coffee cans and drawers.” It took her more than a decade to finish the job. Some of the time she spent waiting on parts. During the winter months she stayed indoors, choosing not to spend her evenings alone in a cold garage. Every road has its curves. In 2002, Anne's daughter died unexpectedly from heart disease. A few weeks later, Anne herself was diagnosed with breast cancer. Bumps and blind spots, hills and detours. In August 2011, nearly 50 years after she first set sight on the Chrysler 300, Anne made the car drivable again. Her son Duane was alongside her at last year's Dream Cruise. She plans to display it at the Detroit Autorama show later this month. “Jack would be proud,” she said with a smile. She turns 72 in June. Look for her at the next light along Woodward. She'll be the one shifting into high gear, open road ahead. jgrossman@hometownlife.com (586) 826-7030 (bilde2.jpg) (bilde.jpg) Attachments ---------------- bilde2.jpg (36KB - 501 downloads) bilde.jpg (130KB - 430 downloads) | ||
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