It's HEMI time !!! Compliments of NJSteve

**njsteve** · #1 08-21-2011, 04:02 PM

Took her out for the first time this year (the last local cruise night in town for the summer).

Since it was "race car night", I put the original owner's set of 1970 15x4 and 15x7 Cragars on. Those 40-year old Parnelli Jones Firestones were no fun to drive on. On the drive over, I didn't go over 40 mph due to the fact that they have hardened into something resembling bakelite.

I even had a bunch of trouble trying to just get out of the garage this afternoon. The car wouldn't back over the small 2"x4" block of wood I use as a wheel chock. The tires would just spin in place. It reminded me of those old AFX slot cars, you had as a kid when you tried to duplicate a real car doing a burn out by holding it in place and hitting the throttle. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

That 56 Vette in front of my car is owned by a buddy of the guy I bought the Charger from back in 1987. The car has been a race car for a few decades.

**Xplantdad** · #2 08-21-2011, 04:36 PM

Neat stuff Steve!

**SmallHurst** · #3 08-27-2011, 02:08 AM

Steve,

I know that the other woman is up for a new home, but while she is still being seen on the town with you..... buy her some shoes!!!!!!!!

Call me for some L-60 Polyglas!!!

**black69** · #4 08-27-2011, 03:01 PM

that charger looks so dam good with those wheels and tires....

**njsteve** · #5 11-11-2011, 11:38 PM

Spent the day printing out some photos and text for the display at MCACN next week.

This one is the sequence of the three prior owners, and their reunions with the car, plus the original mechanic and his son on the right (four generations of his family worked at Suburban Dodge over the years)

I have enough of these frames now, with the original documentation and paperwork, I can encircle the entire car!

If you are at the show, come on by and say hi. I'll be in the SYC display. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

**njsteve** · #6 11-22-2011, 01:40 AM

We just made it home from MCACN 2011 at 5:00PM Monday, after leaving at 7:00 PM Sunday night. (Stopped for a 5 hour catnap in Indiana at midnight).

Average diesel fuel mileage with the old 95 6.5 Diesel Suburban was 9 mpg for the 1,754 mile round trip. I weighed the rig after a fillup and the total truck and tralier weight was 16,540 lbs (8,550 lbs for the K2500 suburban and 7,900 lbs. for the trailer with the 4,040 lb. Charger inside).

I never realized the entire freight train was that heavy!

It was an awesome show and I got to meet a great bunch of equally warped individuals (like me). Cant wait for next year.

Here's a couple shots of the charger surrounded by "The Ring of Paper"....

**njsteve** · #7 11-22-2011, 02:29 AM

Oh, I almost forgot...another story from the road.

As usual where ever I go with this car, someone inevitably pops up with some more material for the never ending story.

I was hanging out next to the Charger and a guy comes up and introduces himself as a doctor who remembers my car from back in 1991 when he was a resident in Gainesville, Florida.

At the time he decided to go to his first car show event, which just happened to be SuperFord Sunday at Gainesville Raceway which was sponsored by Dobbs Publishing Group (the guys that put out Mopar Muscle, Musclecar Review, Mustang Monthly, Corvette Fever, Superford, etc). I was a tech editor at the time and me and the girlfriend (now wife of 18 years, or so) drove the Charger up to the event.

The Doctor told me how he looked across the staging area and saw me pull up in the Charger, open the trunk and drag out a pair of slicks and swap them out for the street tires. He said I then proceeded to "beat the pants off of every Ford I raced" (his recollection, not mine [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img])

While this alleged superhuman feat was being accomplished he said the "really hot chick" I arrived with was loyally sitting on my street tires in the staging lanes so no one would steal them.

He said he has all sorts of old photos of the event that he would send me when he gets back home.

I couldn't wait to tell the wife, so I texted her the following:

"Honey, guess what? A guy here at the show remembered me racing the Charger and beating a whole bunch of cars back in 1991 in Gainesville. He has photos! He said I was with some really hot chick who sat by and made sure no one stole my tires. Any idea who that girl was?"

Her response was as follows:

F#$% #*0

She is such a great gal. I really need to get her a new phone. There's gotta be something wrong with those text keys.

**WILMASBOYL78** · #8 11-22-2011, 03:07 AM

Does the doctor have any photos of the "hot chick"..?? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

x Baldwin Motion · #9 11-23-2011, 01:59 AM

Hey Darren!!, I sure missed seeing all you guys and the cars too. Next year, for sure!!

**njsteve** · #10 11-23-2011, 04:18 PM

One of my buddies just sent me some photos. Great overhead shot...and he is only 5'7" tall? I asked him what kind of camera he was using because it was able to get a nice photo and compensate for the weird sodium vapor lighting system they were using in the complex. Havent got an answer back yet.

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