67 hemi is back after 3 yrs

**black69** · #1 11-09-2010, 07:39 AM

Finally got the original motor and trans in it. It will keep the black 69 L78 camaro company over the winter. I forgot how dang HUGE that motor is. Would like to send the carbs out to be colored to look more like originals. Oil pan choice turned out sweet. Racemaster pie crusts in back are next.

**brent396** · #2 11-09-2010, 02:04 PM

Thats sweet. Love the color.Your car remines me of the silver bullet. Iam working on my 67gtx now to.I wish i had a hemi in mine .what size are your front tires [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/worship.gif[/img]

**black69** · #3 11-09-2010, 11:50 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: brent396</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thats sweet. Love the color.Your car remines me of the silver bullet. Iam working on my 67gtx now to.I wish i had a hemi in mine .what size are your front tires [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/worship.gif[/img]</div></div>

I checked the tires and they are pro tracks that say P215/75 15.

**Tenney** · #4 11-10-2010, 01:19 AM

Cool car (and history!). That altered-wheelbase looks action-packed, too!

**Geoff Padgett** · #5 11-10-2010, 09:11 PM

Hello by chance do you have any pictures of the " silver bullet" my uncle years ago campained a 67 hemi GTX in Calif and i believe it was called the silver bullet. Geoff.

**PeteLeathersac** · #6 11-10-2010, 10:44 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Geoff Padgett</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Hello by chance do you have any pictures of the " silver bullet" my uncle years ago campained a 67 hemi GTX in Calif and i believe it was called the silver bullet. Geoff.</span> </div></div>

Brent's probably referring to a different Silver Bullet, Jimmy Addison's famous Woodward Ave. Hemi powered '67 GTX?.

W[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/shocked.gif[/img]W, congrats on the above car...what a sweet piece!!!
I love these 66/67 cars and my best pal has a real '66 Hemi Charger 4-Spd car w/ NOM Ray Barton built Hemi..
Best of all he hands me the keys whenever we're together and just smiles the more sideways I get and the harder I flog it!.
Did I mention he's my best pal?.
Always looking for new friends!.

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**mockingbird812** · #7 11-09-2010, 04:08 PM

Wonderful. Let's here more about its past!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/

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**black69** · #8 11-09-2010, 10:28 PM

Car is for me, a keeper, it took a lot of research to find the original driveline (rear end is likely gone forever). Car had only 4K miles on it until 2001, where it was driven up to 2005 when I bought it with another hemi in it.

What is cool about the car is it has been drag raced since it was new in southern IL, and was raced at Indy's track too. The first owner was a loyalist to sox and martin and followed them around. His girl friend (their car club was called the hoky racers) actually would net better times than he would. She drove it like she stole it and is still around today (he is deceased). Then he got a 69 429 boss, and sold the car to a chap that owned the Kentucky Colonel Hemi altered wheelbase car. He drag raced it for a while, then plucked the original motor out (4K miles), had Wayne County speed shop (of Chrysler fame) balance it with their good tricks (not their bad tricks), then installed it in a new 70 duster. He never got the duster to 'steer right', so it eventually got removed and stored away, with a fresh rebuild on it (the duster never went down the track).

Car is totally rust free and has still the odd fitting drivers door like when new in the picture back in 67-68. I have more pictures to scan, especially with a blue lace paint job it had for a while with the same silver + blue-aqua shade the Kentuckly Colonel had (same painter). It had a super stock hood for quite a while. It always had PLYMOUTH proudly on the doors.

It's definitely is an intimidating machine (which is a good thing). All the Wayne county speed shop aspects are still in the motor (ahead of their time). I still tell myself the front tire is off the ground (barely) in that old launch picture. That is a lot of weight to get off the ground, which is impressive.
Here is a shot of its garage partner back in the 60s.

**markjohnson** · #9 11-09-2010, 10:26 PM

Wow! I'm feelin' it! What a bad-ass'd musclecar!

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