It's HEMI time !!! Compliments of NJSteve

[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.

[mockingbird812]

Most excellent!

[njsteve]

And here's a photo (courtesy of 67L78conv) from the June 2006 FAST event at Englishtown. Had a little fun running a 13.80 @ 105 mph. Nothing like cleaning the plugs out once in a while! I also had the opportunity to use their scales at the track: 4300 lbs. It's a heavy car (or I'm a real heavy driver)

[sixbrl440]

Enquiring minds want to know...did you beat that big bad GS 'vert?

[njsteve]

Yes. As you can see from the photo I cut a semi-good reaction time as the green light is still illuminated in the photo and I'm already 1-1/2 car lengths in front of the Buick. I ran a 13.80 to his losing 13.40 (I was on street tires and he was on DOT slicks)