Vinyl roofs on race cars were something that Smokey Yunick tested on his 67 Camaro.
It went faster with Vinyl roof, Golf ball effect

I don't think Smokey was testing the Bernoulli effect....more like testing the Band-Aid effect of hiding body modifications with a vinyl top with padding. :naughty:

Heavys Dart
Heavy bought it from the Mutt Brothers.
It was the one that won the quarter million quarter mile race against Super John 69 Camaro

He was a lot of things, but the cars and their history were indeed spectacular. ... very consistent in the types of race cars he commissioned.

Heavys Challenger
Ex Billy the Kid
Was sold to England and went back to Long Island

Heavys Duster
Was sold to England and ended up in Sweden

Heavys Cuda

Notice on Heavy Challenger, first picture show 1971 tail lights, and the next 2 pictures shows a 73/74 grill style??

Challenger started as 1970 model and ended up as a 1972 model

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A few more Heavy hitters including one Vega but first, a couple B&W shots of Carmen Rotonda’s ‘68.
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~ Pete

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How many are these cars around and spoken for? Was the challenger and cuda hemi cars?

The ones I know of is
Heavys Duster its in Sweden and is restord
Heavys Challenger on Long Island in pieces
Grumpys Toy IV only the shell remains (I been told)
Heavys 69 Camaro (Im not going to talk about it)

Heavys Challenger was a Sox&Martin built (body in white?)
Heavys Cuda had a Hemi but dont know if it was Original Hemi Cuda. (I dont think so)

Carleen, strange that the Challenger was S&M built body in white as they we PLYMOUTH guys and Landy was the DODGR guys. I have the mag at home with the 1970 Cuda build i think. I do for Grumpys 1970.

Thanks for all of the amazing information and pictures. Such an interesting story.
Anyone have any color pics of Rotonda's Camaro?

Okay now I understand the discussion they had about S&M and Landy. Thank you

Some are building Clones and when they are done it is the real one.

Heavys Sport Dart

Heavys Vega

Heavys 74 Camaro
Pat Musi started to build Engins for Heavy and was one of his Drivers
Pat is still building Engines but his Daughters is probably more famous today
Especially Lizzy

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That would make a fun streetcar today!

I dont know anything about the Cuda
And I dont know much about the Challenger
Challenger as it sits now

Strange, from that angle of the as it sits now shoots, the wheel wells don't seem to be as flared and missing gas cap.

Here you have where Sox&Martin rumor came from

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The Duster is in Sweden as link below also note pic Anders had posted of an old Windshield piece w/ Heavy Racing Decal one of the past owners had saved back in this thread…
https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=100096
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~ Pete

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Looks like the Heavy Decal in the Duster W’shld. as pic Carleen posted a few pages back?:hmmm:
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~ Pete

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Brookly Heavy car?

Sox&Martin Challenger

Heavy Sticker

Heavys Race Cars had this License Plate

No dont think so
Dosent have J&L or Heavy on it
Heavy only had 2 68 Camaro and that is not Grumpys or Green Camaro

I’m not sure if this has been posted yet or not…

Was that car in the pic Hugger Orange.? If so, I believe that was the car that was stored at a gas station in Wantagh Long Island in the very early 80's. I remember it distinctly, Hugger Orange SS/RS, Hockey stick stripe, Vinyl and the cut rear quarters

Yes, that’s the car, and I believe it was an amoco station.

Is that the same car that was a BM car that they took to the track in a HP Cars magazine article in 1969? Seem to recall the magazine car had corvette side exhaust, but was RS/SS, hugger orange and black vinyl top, so very likely same car.

Yes, Heavy bought it from Joel, it was the shop demo and also the car displayed at the NY auto show.

For months I asked the owner of the Amoco station if it was for sale, he consistently told me "no, owner is in jail and getting it when he gets out.." the late Dan Palchanes chased this car to the ends of the earth

And Dan Palchanes found it

I don’t want to start another debate about your car but Martyn Schorr said he was there when Motion put this car together and it was hugger orange from the factory. Your car is originally glacier blue. Joel sourced this car through Baldwin Chevrolet. Your car came from Brahms Chevrolet in Palisades Park, NJ. There are other inconsistencies such as the deluxe interior in the Motion article & auto show pics, yet your trim tag is coded for a standard interior. The article says the Motion car is a factory automatic, but your car is a factory manual. The article states the Motion car as having a factory optioned ZL2 hood. The firewall on your car shows it not having the ZL2 piercing, etc.

I’m not trying to attack you, just pointing out the facts that have already been covered in multiple other threads…