It's HEMI time !!! Compliments of NJSteve

[COPO_Anders]

I love those Chargers ! Great car !
My friend Dick bought a -69 R/T 440 4-speed car, outside Cedar Rapids, something like 15 years ago. I ended up buying the car from him when he needed the space. It was a matching numbers car with discbrakes. Green with black vinyltop and black bumblebee-stripe. I shouldn´t have sold it !


The second owner that Dick bought it from, knew that the original owner had traded it in when buying a -70 HEMI Charger !


Anders

[Chris396]

Sweet!

[njsteve]

And here is the infamous piston that saved the car. Had the 2nd owner not been drunk and installed it backwards on the rod, the car would have ended up as a chopped up bracket racer back in 1975. I spoke with one of his buddies who was present at the initial startup of the ill-fated engine. He commented that they all wondered what the "ticking" sound was when it initially fired up. And then the engine just stopped. He noted that when it stopped, it came to such a abrupt stop that the whole body of the car jerked to the left momentarily, compressing the suspension on one side for an instant. I now keep this momento in the glove box.

[MikeA]

Cool car and even cooler stories! I can listen to those stories all day.

[Racefan]

Would you guys please stop coming to Iowa and buying all the good cars and taking them away?!?

[COPO_Anders]

Phil ! Have you heard the story about the -70 Hemi Charger, sitting in a field just a mile from where you live ?

Anders