I had no idea the black Ghost needed this much work. WOW

[Pro Stock John]

That the car was a little modded and occasionally ran people on street is highly plausible, and the fact that it's a matching numbers hemi Challenger makes the story even more interesting.

I didn't grow up in that era and not in Detroit either so we just go by the stories and some of the eye witness accounts.

That doesn't mean the car was a fierce street beater the likes of some cars. Stories get embellished over time.

You take the Chicago scene as an example, and it was not just one scene, it was many. I have older buddies who were out every night and they never met or raced similar guys who lived 25 miles away. The way my buddy Al says it, all his buddies were on racing gas and had 4.88 gears so you drove around going 30 mph on the North side and you would never even think to drive down to Cicero/Berwyn to race other people it was just too far. This was the late 70s and early 80s.