I hate to tell you that..., it's partly my fault... Last september I bought a '57 Dodge CRL D500 of eBay, from Bremerton, WA. The former owner used to take it to shows in the direct vacinity. I took it home and it's in The Netherlands now. Jim Hoekendijk The Netherlands '57 Dodge CRL D500 4dr. '57 Dodge RL D500 2dr. ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: Bill Hughes <bhughes@xxxxxxx> Datum: maandag, mei 2, 2005 7:01 am Onderwerp: [FWDLK] Back from Mopars Unlimited Seattle > Just got back from the Annual Mopars Unlimited event in > Seattle/Bellevue/Bremerton, WA. > > I am astounded by the number of Chrysler products that are roaming the > street and drag strips of the Pacific Northwest. The drag/bracket > racing at > Bremerton on Saturday kept me there until 6:30 PM to see who would > win the > Sportsman class. Came down to a .02 second breakout loss by a > Canadian from > Duncan, BC, Canada. He was running a 72 Plymouth Sport Fury 318 > ci dual > carb. > > While it was exciting to see the number of Mopar cars that were > shown on the > Sunday at the Bellevue Community College grounds, it was > disappointing to > see only a handful of ForwardLook cars there. There had to be 200- 250 > Mopars there registered for the show, plus if you walked the > parking lot > areas there were dozens more. The predominance was late 60, early > 70¹sMopar muscle cars. I made a comment to my daughter that if on > the stroke of > noon, they had fired up all the cars there that it would register > on the > earthquake monitors. > > There was only one 56 Dodge Coronet, one 58 Dodge Custom Royal > (mint), and a > couple of other ForwardLook cars represented. Probably less than > an dozen. > A comment made by a local ForwardLook owner was that years ago the > show had > dozens of late 50¹s early 60¹s cars. Where are all our cars? We > should be > registering for these kind of shows even though we do not have a > trophy-winning car. We have to keep our era represented and not be > sidelined by to Mopar muscle cars. > > My opinion, yours is welcome. > > Bill Hughes > Vancouver, B.C. > > ************************************************************* > > To unsubscribe or set your subscription options, please go to > http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=l-forwardlook&A=1 > ************************************************************* To unsubscribe or set your subscription options, please go to http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=l-forwardlook&A=1 |