It's HEMI time !!! Compliments of NJSteve

[Mr70]

Nice car Steve.I love the way it sits.
The Dicky Wickberg story alone is priceless.

[njsteve]

Here is a photo of the car when I first saw it back in 1987, moments after the 3rd owner pulled the tarp off it...you can almost hear the Twilight Zone theme playing in the background.

[427TJ]

Love the flower mags--I wish American would produce them nowadays. I also like the 1987 shot with the skinny Cragars on the front--very "Dick Landy."

[Charley Lillard]

I think you can still get those wheels. American 200S

[427TJ]

Thanks Charley. Steve's wheels are the original one-piece cast aluminum type. His also have the original hex-shaped center caps. The current "200S" wheels have a stamped steel rim and cast centers.

[MosportGreen66]

Maybe these will spark your interest?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...04700&rd=1

-Dan

[427TJ]

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

[njsteve]

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Thanks Charley. Steve's wheels are the original one-piece cast aluminum type. His also have the original hex-shaped center caps. The current "200S" wheels have a stamped steel rim and cast centers.

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Very observant of you Those are 1970 dated wheels with the 1970 twin, half-circle, logo center caps. American racing changed to a different logo in 1971. I recently picked up a set of NOS center caps from AKH Wheels for about $20 apiece. I always thought the logo colors were black and silver. It turns out mine had faded over the years from the original red and royal blue!

[427TJ]

Yeah, I've been crazy about those wheels for years. In the mid-70s a guy on my paper route had a '70 Boss 302 that had American 200S wheels, 15x7 front, 15x8 back. He ran the original Radial T/A 50s that said "Radial T/A 50" on the sidewall and it had a mean rake. The car had the look of the Bud Moore Trans Am racers. I'd always stop and gawk at that car and especially the wheels. That's how I learned to ID them, sitting on the sidewalk at 13 years old and staring at that Boss parked at the curb.

Oh, and when I first saw the Musclecar Color History book on the Hemi with your '70 on the cover with those wheels I flipped. Yep, bought the book on the spot.

I still think you should have a set of 'Dick Landy' skinny Cragars to swap on once in a while... Perhaps some NOS 7-9" slicks out back?

[njsteve]

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Nice car Steve.I love the way it sits.
The Dicky Wickberg story alone is priceless.

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A couple years ago I called Dicky Wickburg and his dad. They are still in the phonebook here in Jersey. The son honestly sounded scared on the phone that the car was still "alive". It was literally like a ghost from his past calling for him. I offered to bring the car over and show it to him and I swear I could hear him sweating on other end of the phone. He refused to see the car.

I also contacted the second owner (the bear-drinking engine assembler). He told me he still had the original grenaded block from the car. I offered to buy it from him at whatever price he wanted and he got really freaked out. He started stuttering and hung up. I called him back a month later and he said his dad threw out the engine block right after I called. Very strange.

I don't think the car liked them...Luckily I think this car likes our family and wants to stay. It's the only car I've ever had, musclecar or everyday driver, that starts on the first turn of the key. It could have sat for a year and it still starts right up. Kind of like your family dog wanting to go for a walk the minute he hears the leash jingle....By now I've probably scared you all enough, but hey, us Mopar guys are a little weird anyway