It's HEMI time !!! Compliments of NJSteve

[njsteve]

Yes, many, many years ago Vinny Diguiseppe did the original (first) paint job on it back in 1990 at Connecticut Auto Restorations. It was at his shop from 1987 to 1990. I got my entire law degree during the time was at his shop. I would commute home every weekend from Boston and work on the car at his shop just to keep the project going. It was finally finished in Summer of 1990.

Rich Pasquelone did the recent one as the enamel paint was wearing thin in places after 15 years.

[RPOZ26]

I worked for Vinny. Ed

[njsteve]

Ed, were you there during the hey-day about 1983 to 1990? That's when my series of 71 Cuda ragtops (the yellow 383, the orange 440 Six barrel and the yellow hemi, as well as the Charger) were painted by the shop.

[RPOZ26]

Steve it was after that,at the time we had a 70 AAR Cuda,70 LS6 Chevelle,66 L79 Nova,69 L78 Camaro,68 Roadrunner and many others in the shop. I don't know what Vinny is doing now,I have not seen him in about a year. Here is a link to his web site. Ed
http://www.oldcarwarehouse.com/

[Xplantdad]

That guy with the glasses on on page 2 of their website looks like Norm from "This Old House".

[Casey Marks]

Steve,

AWESOME car !

I did the driveline on a friends '70 lime green R/T with the 440 hood callouts (rare option by the way). I'm just curious, what is the designation for not having the scallops blacked out with the engine designation. I see that yours are body color ?

Great car. I've got a '70 SE 500 - A4 silver.

[njsteve]

V21 and V24 are the two option codes. You could get the call outs on a body colored hood, or with the black outs, or just the black out, or nothing at all.

[njsteve]

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That guy with the glasses on on page 2 of their website looks like Norm from "This Old House".

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That's Vinny. I have no idea if the shop is still in business at that location. But he still has the link to my old 71 hemicuda ragtop later formerly owned by Kevin Suydam on his site. (see the "one of our finest restorations" link on his site)

[njsteve]

I had the Charger out last weekend. I went to this local hamburger joint that I hadn't visited in about 4 years. The last time I went there I ran into a high school buddy of the original owner of the car who regaled me with the story of how the kid lost control of the car in the high school parking lot and crashed into his algebra teacher's car. This was due to a temporary loss of concentration while he was trying to make out with his girlfriend, while driving.

Well anyway, I park the car and a guy walks up and it turns out he remembered the car from high school, as he was a year ahead of the original owner. In fact, he raced the car and beat it with his tunnel-rammed 327 Chevelle on I-287 in Jersey! He commented that the kid just could not drive the car.

You know, it's kinda fun living in the same area that the car is from: a new story every time you take it out for a spin.