Wanted 69 RoadRunner or 70 Challenger

**gb70** · #1 05-02-2009, 04:05 AM

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Charley,

Real deal R code 426 Hemi or a clone?

**Charley Lillard** · #2 05-02-2009, 04:20 AM

Real Hemi Challenger that came from the factory with the N94 hood. Two Hemi Challengers were built with the hood, my red one and a black one that I'm told was destroyed. A member here used to own this car. Sold new at Vissing's Dodge in Jeffersonville In. I have letter from William Vissing telling me that a salesman ordered the car for drag racing. Orig fender tag, build sheet, engine.

**Charley Lillard** · #3 05-02-2009, 04:29 AM

picture of it in about 1973

**Charley Lillard** · #4 05-02-2009, 04:36 AM

I also have a letter from the orig owner written in 2004 telling how he had returned from Viet Nam in 1969 and ordered a red Hemi Charger 4 speed car. In winter of 69-70 he learned how to handle running SS/DA but wanted a newer Cuda -Challenger type car, started working part time at Vissings, they let him order the Challenger as a demo car with his promise that he would buy it within a year. Ran 11:50's on sicks with lots of mods...

**gb70** · #5 05-02-2009, 04:46 AM

wow, that is amzing. Speachless.

**gb70** · #6 05-02-2009, 04:53 AM

N96 was for the Shaker Hood which all 426 Hemis came with, now with the exception as we see it. I never knew this. I have been a Mopar guy my whole life. Learn something new every day, thanks for sharing! Cool history to boot!

**njsteve** · #7 05-02-2009, 05:36 AM

The N96 shaker hood was standard on the Hemi Cuda but an option on the Hemi Challanger. The "Raisin Bran" (2-Scoop) hood was standard on the Challenger. In mid-1970 there was an issue with the Challenger shaker hood. I think it was a problem with the crash test results and the hood slicing through the windshield and decapitating people, but I may be wrong, and it was stopped for a while until the inner structure was altered to permit the hood to fold in half in an impact instead of shearing the hinge bolts and acting as a guillotine. I believe the fibreglass T/A hood was used as an alternative for the people in the know who knew the option code existed. Otherwise the car defaulted back to the 2-scoop hood.

**Charley Lillard** · #8 05-02-2009, 06:51 AM

**Charley Lillard** · #9 05-02-2009, 06:52 AM

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**Charley Lillard** · #10 05-02-2009, 06:53 AM

Sorry for the thread hijack Mike.

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