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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-24 4:25 PM (#186140 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Posted 2009-08-24 5:08 PM (#186146 - in reply to #186140)
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Posted 2009-08-24 5:51 PM (#186151 - in reply to #178862)
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Location: bishop, ca		Thanks, Danny!

On some other thread I'd asked someone to post-up this pic; turns out that this race was held in Havana, Cuba.

Look at the two cars' attitude; the Roadmonster is late-braking and has the wrong cornering line. The Dodge is accelerating
and cornering very neutrally as it is about to pass (lap, probably) the Boo-yuck.





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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-24 8:28 PM (#186175 - in reply to #178862)
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d500neil
Posted 2009-08-24 8:47 PM (#186179 - in reply to #186175)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		...Talk about your Bad-days....they might not be synchronized swimming, but they're sure synchronized SPINNING.

Y'all notice who one of the primary sponsors was, scuse me: OWNER was, of that convie?







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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-24 9:02 PM (#186180 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: Parts Unknown		How bout what could have been one of the most exciting series and best things to happen to Ma MoPar if it would have continued . . . ?



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dukeboy
Posted 2009-08-24 9:27 PM (#186182 - in reply to #186180)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: Big pimpin'		Aw Dammit, Photobucket must be actin' up again...Try these B/G 61..

One of Christine WFO..
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One of Christine..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaNhpv_s4F8

Another before paint...
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d500neil
Posted 2009-08-24 9:39 PM (#186185 - in reply to #186182)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		And, of course, it DIDN'T continue, because the Valiants kicked ASS---if the Chubsters had won, they'd STILL
be racing them.


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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-24 9:41 PM (#186186 - in reply to #186182)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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...Try these B/G 61..




O.k. Bro - Your "in" -
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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-24 10:00 PM (#186191 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: Parts Unknown		Anyone know who #43 is ???? And here's some Bonneville stuff Neil sent me . . .

Edited by B/G 61 2009-08-24 10:05 PM




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dukeboy
Posted 2009-08-24 10:26 PM (#186196 - in reply to #186191)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Posted 2009-08-25 2:57 PM (#186257 - in reply to #186196)
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Posted 2009-08-25 3:18 PM (#186259 - in reply to #186257)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		..That Model A didn't stand much of a chance.....

Note the small hood scoop of Thatcher's car; it appears that he drove his 60 Dart at Bonneville, in 1961, but with a
(blown-) Chrysler mill.

Whereas cars are slammed to the ground, today, back then the thinking was not to 'trap' air underneath the car, but
to let it pass through the air, like an arrow.




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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-26 6:09 PM (#186373 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-27 5:28 PM (#186484 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: Parts Unknown		WOW ! ! ! The Dec '09 MOPAR ACTION has THE BEST ARTICLE I have seen in a mag in a while . . .



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d500neil
Posted 2009-08-27 5:43 PM (#186489 - in reply to #186484)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		Has 12/09 occurred, yet?

Nice torque the Ramchargermobile is exhibiting, half-way down the track!!!!!






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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-27 5:52 PM (#186490 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: Parts Unknown		No, but when you have to have a second job to cover you mag subs each month you get the issues before they hit the news-stands . . . How funny will it be in a few years when people LAUGH at the idea of magazines being printed instead of just gettin them "on-line" !?!? How funny will it be tryin to explain to people about "news-stands" !?!?!? My brother-in-law just told me yesterday he was driving his daughter and her friend home in his beater Honda and the kids were complaining of the heat - he told his daughters girl friend to roll down the window . . . She didn't do anything because she couldn't find the "button" . . . He actually had to show her how to "roll" down the window using a crank ! ! ! ! ! !
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Posted 2009-08-28 12:01 AM (#186549 - in reply to #178862)
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Posted 2009-08-28 5:02 PM (#186640 - in reply to #178862)
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Location: bishop, ca		Dave Strickler did, but did Grumpy ever come over, from the Dark Side?

Were there any other big-name Generic Motors types who stayed true to their corporate feeders?

Bill maverick Golden came over----but, the Lawman--whatis-name--went over to Farts, in the middle-late 60's; anybody
else who turned-coat?




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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-28 5:48 PM (#186646 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: Parts Unknown		1964 Hemi Dodge "The Dodge Boys" - Owned by Dave Strickler, wrenched by Bill Jenkins. Ran in A/FX - A/Factory Experimental. 1965 Hemi Plymouth "The Black Arrow" - Owned by Doc Burgess, wrenched by Bill Jenkins. Ran in FX - Factory Experimental and S/S - Super Stock. Then I think he went back to the "other" side . . . Ronnie Sox started out on the "other" side as well and ended his career over there too . . .
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Posted 2009-08-28 6:23 PM (#186652 - in reply to #186640)
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Grumpy worked with Dave Strickler and then struck out on his own in '64-65 driving Dodges. When he couldn't come to a deal with Mopar in '66, he switched to Chevrolet.
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Posted 2009-08-28 7:01 PM (#186659 - in reply to #186652)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		The Grumpster was 1965 Mr. Stock Eliminator, and he (ma MoPar) couldn't strike a contract deal, for '66?

BTW, isn't this car, above, a '66 model?----I'd know the difference, if I saw them side by side, though!




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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-28 7:07 PM (#186660 - in reply to #178862)
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57burb
Posted 2009-08-28 7:12 PM (#186662 - in reply to #178862)
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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-29 5:08 PM (#186791 - in reply to #178862)
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Location: Parts Unknown		Now THIS is COOL ! ! !



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d500neil
Posted 2009-08-29 6:00 PM (#186801 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		Nice to see that the driver is wearing a space suit; looks like he's trying to leave the earth !





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B/G 61
Posted 2009-08-31 4:43 PM (#187064 - in reply to #178862)
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B/G 61
Posted 2009-09-01 6:21 PM (#187235 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: Parts Unknown		Richard Petty drove a '61 Plymouth - Lee Petty drove a '61 Dodge ????? I gotta couple of pics of Lee's 61 all mangled up but have never seen a pic of his ride for '61 before his big wreck - Can anyone help ????
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d500neil
Posted 2009-09-01 7:23 PM (#187250 - in reply to #178862)
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Location: bishop, ca		Well, from the "40 Years of Stock car Racing" (Vol II), I find that Sir Ricardo placed 8th overall, with 24 starts, 2 wins,
10 top-five, and 14 top-ten finishes., in the 1961 NASCAR season.

He won $25,238.52 (about $225,000.00, today).

Lee Petty is not shown as having finished in the top-50 winners, in 1961.

In 1962, Dick Petty finished numero-two, overall (didn't know that!), to Joe Weatherly, winning 8 races (Joe got 9, and
Ned Jarrett, in #3 place, won 6 races) and won $60,763.30 .

Lee Petty did not compete.

In the 1960 season, Richard got a second-overall, again (to Rex White????), winning $41,872.95.

LEE PETTY got 6th overall, that year, winning 5 races (Dick won only 3 !!) ; they both drove 1960 PLY's.

I'll send you a bunch of pics, of the 1960 NASCAR season.






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B/G 61
Posted 2009-09-01 7:48 PM (#187251 - in reply to #178862)
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Location: Parts Unknown		This is the only color pic I have of Lee's ride . . .



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d500neil
Posted 2009-09-01 8:13 PM (#187253 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		That's a 60, Rammie (I THINK!???)---now, where's all-my pho-toes, of the '60 season???

The Good Book says Lee didn't compete, but, I'll check for ANOTHER driver of #42,
in '61.....

OH, HO!!!

Richard Petty drove #42, at least once (at Richmond; 125 miler), in a 1961 PLY, and, also Marvin Panch
drove #42 PLY, in 1961, as did Maurice Petty.

Marvin finished the season in a respectable 18th place (out of 50-official 'placers'), winning one race
and earning $30,477.94 (again, about $270K, today) for his efforts.

If I REALLY checked the book (there's 52 races!!) I probably could figure out which race your photo
depicts, as #42 certainly crashed-out of 'that' race.






Edited by d500neil 2009-09-01 8:40 PM
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B/G 61
Posted 2009-09-01 8:30 PM (#187255 - in reply to #178862)
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Location: Parts Unknown		Here's the black and white pic of Lee's '61 - the caption under the pic states . . . Remains of 1961 car in which Petty was nearly killed at Daytona. It looks like a Plymouth?? I was under the impression he raced Plymouth's . . .



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B/G 61
Posted 2009-09-01 8:34 PM (#187257 - in reply to #178862)
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d500neil
Posted 2009-09-01 8:54 PM (#187262 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		Heh, I just lost ALL of 'this' message, and that was a LOT of message, when I went up to my previous, to edit it to say
that Richard's cousin, Maurice, also drove #42, in 1961...

Shooooit, well, I did write that LEE PETTY did crash out of the "40 Laps at Daytona International Speedway", on FEB 24, 1961
but Lee is 'credited' with driving #42, a PONCHO (typographical error), owned by Petty Enterprises.

Lee started and finished in 15th place.

The race's write up states : " Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp, principles in the stunning inaugural Daytona 500 finish in 1959,
were hurtled [sic] the guard rail while traveling 150 mph. Petty was gravely injured. Speedway medical director A.A. Monaco
said Petty suffered a punctured lung, multiple fractures of the left chest, a fractured left thigh. a broken collar bone and multiple
internal injuries".

Marvin Panch primarily drove for Smokey Yunick, driving a Poncho, in 61; he finished this race in 2nd place, but, won the NEXT
race, for Smokey, driving that Poncho, at the Daytona 500 race, on FEB 26, 1961.

Because of the crash 2 days earlier, no Petty Enterprises driver participated in that 500 race.

There are a couple photos of the two crashed cars--I'll send to Rammie....





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B/G 61
Posted 2009-09-01 9:09 PM (#187264 - in reply to #178862)
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B/G 61
Posted 2009-09-02 8:40 PM (#187399 - in reply to #178862)
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dukeboy
Posted 2009-09-03 12:08 AM (#187437 - in reply to #186140)
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HEY DUKEBOY, WHAT KIND OF SICK JOKE ARE YOU PLAYIN ON ME !!! I can't get your link to work !!!! C'MON BRO, MY MIND IS PICTURIN SOME NASTY SIDEWAYS TIRE SMOKE ACTION AND . . .


Try this one B/G...It ain't F> look, but you get the idea...
http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x227/chaney_032/?action=view¤t=f...
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Posted 2009-09-03 2:39 PM (#187480 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Posted 2009-09-03 4:27 PM (#187505 - in reply to #187437)
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Try this one B/G...It ain't F> look, but you get the idea...
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All I get is - "The action that you were trying to perform has failed." - !?!?!?!
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Posted 2009-09-04 6:37 PM (#187677 - in reply to #178862)
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Location: Parts Unknown		Jim Whitman - Looks to me that he might be having some engine probs . . .



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Posted 2009-09-09 7:11 PM (#188238 - in reply to #178862)
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Posted 2009-09-14 12:36 PM (#188830 - in reply to #178862)
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Posted 2009-09-15 6:20 PM (#188989 - in reply to #178862)
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Posted 2009-09-15 11:01 PM (#189040 - in reply to #186137)
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I'd rather run the Demolition Derby!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted 2009-09-22 5:29 PM (#189780 - in reply to #178862)
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2009-09-22 11:13 PM (#189818 - in reply to #189780)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: Parts Unknown		I have always struggled with the original Valiant / Lancer design. It is hard to make 57 NY'er or 58 Plymouth proportions (which I find to be about perfect) work on a canvas as small as the Valiant. Still, for a little car, it is pretty cute. If you take the car from the fin / fender ridge down, it is fantastic. But that bulbous rise from there to the belt line is a major case of "WTF ?". The roofline is absolutely discordant and ugly. Imagine this little critter with a 60-61 Dodge-Plymouth 2HT roof set down low on those fins. Man, THAT would be supremely good looking !

Time for a custom ?
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d500neil
Posted 2009-09-23 5:12 PM (#189893 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		The Valiant/Lancer roofline is not unlike the unfortunate 1962 DOD/PLY rooflines, which completely break-up the
overall appearance-design of those cars.

Look at a 62 DOD/PLY convertible, with or without its top 'up', and you will see a relatively graceful body shape.

The 62(+) Chub's (IIRC) used a C-pillar design that resembled a convertible's roof line, and it looked good.

Too bad our 'Mother' didn't try that, at least with the 62 DOD/PLY stylings.




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B/G 61
Posted 2009-09-23 5:36 PM (#189902 - in reply to #178862)
Subject: RE: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: Parts Unknown		I have always liked the '62 Dodge . . . Then again, I get made fun of for LOVIN the '61 Dodge . . . Here is a '61 Plymouth RACIN ! ! ! !



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d500neil
Posted 2009-09-23 5:49 PM (#189905 - in reply to #189902)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: bishop, ca		Thanks, Rammie/Yikey/B/g; the 62's awkward C-pillar design was also due to the back glass kind of extending out and around
from the C-Pillar sheet metal.

Going back to the Chubster's example, can anyone photo-chop Rammie's 62 Dodge's C-pillar area, so that the back glass profile is
included within the C-pillar?

The resulting shape may resemble the convertible roof shape, but, it will let the roof line look less like it's just been tacked-onto the
body, and more like it is a part OF the body design.

BTW, that photo was taken at Mosher Automotive's shop, in Monrovia, CA.

Been there several times, before (and, YEAH, Gary, we both know who else has shops/office in this area,
but, let's not drop any names, that might not WANT to be 'dropped', here).









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57burb
Posted 2009-09-23 10:17 PM (#189957 - in reply to #189905)
Subject: Re: Cruisin's cool but who goes RACIN!?!?!?!



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Location: DFW, TX		How about a '57-58 Plymouth race car from the 1958 Northern 500?

Appears to be a 4dr HT too!?

Here's the video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkSZ_Oa2FBs



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