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#1
09-03-2008, 09:24 AM
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Re: Hemmings Muscle Machines Musclecar of the Year
I have one of each. My huffy Rail is unrestored 1969 with the city sticker. Also have a 1970 stingray in parts. I will get a photo of my 1969 w/5speed. Do have a good restorer that you could recomend?
 Huffy Rail Rider
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09-03-2008, 09:59 AM
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Re: Hemmings Muscle Machines Musclecar of the Year
Huffy,
If you mean for your '70 vette I would recommend John Scholz; I'll bet he could make you a beautiful Motion (even Baldwin if you want) LS7 Supercar. 
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09-03-2008, 06:06 PM
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Re: Hemmings Muscle Machines Musclecar of the Year
I read Steve's post right after he had written it. I remembered reading about his awesome car, so I decided to vote for it. After going to Hemmings and scrolling down to find his car, I saw my car. I recognized it immediately LOL. I told my wife about it and she jokingly said that I should vote for my own car. That way I wouldn't get skunked. Sorry Steve, I did vote for my own car. I'm proud to think that the Hemmings editors thought enough of my car to nominate it. Every one of the cars on the list deserves to be there. I wish I could vote for every one of them. Whether the cars are original, restored or manufactured, everyone of them is beautiful in its own unique way. Even though Chevrolet is my favorite, I still like the other manufacturers also. It would be a boring world if we couldn't race and beat the other manufacturers with our Chevrolets. Car owners are proud of their cars or they wouldn't keep them in the condition that they do. Hemmings chose this group of cars because they thought they were the best choice from each magazine. The Ranchero was at Musclepalooza on Sunday. Although I did not get to talk to the owner, he keeps the car in beautiful shape. I was glad that I got a chance to see it. As for my car(the one I was only going to keep for a year) I'm awfully glad that I hung onto it so that the people who weren't there could see how they were originally built. No matter which car wins, it will be the people's choice and good luck to all.
Jim
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#6
09-03-2008, 06:56 PM
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Re: Hemmings Muscle Machines Musclecar of the Year
------Im struck by the fact that the owners of the two Camaros we are talking about are not only NOT arguing about which car is best but seem to genuinely like the others car. Others who dont have a car on the list seem more inclined to place one over the other. Get over it,,,They are all great and I believe that all the owners are ecstatic over just being on the list. We should just be happy for them all, and reflect on how awesome it is that our forum has sooooo many contenders!!!!!.......Bill S
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09-03-2008, 06:59 PM
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Re: Hemmings Muscle Machines Musclecar of the Year
Bill: I agree 100%. We are all into old cars and should respect the fact that there are alot of very nice car out hear. Frank261
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09-03-2008, 05:55 PM
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Re: Hemmings Muscle Machines Musclecar of the Year
[ QUOTE ]
I have one of each. My huffy Rail is unrestored 1969 with the city sticker. Also have a 1970 stingray in parts. I will get a photo of my 1969 w/5speed. Do have a good restorer that you could recomend? Huffy Rail Rider [/ QUOTE ] You mean the City Slicker? Was that the neat extra shifter handle that activated the rear brake to leave a big black patch of rubber on the street? I restored mine myself. There are rather easy to do. I used a wire brush and drill to strip the frame. The main expense was rechroming and polishing the stainless. As for paint, it turned out that when the paint store did the photo analysis of the color, it was a dead on match for 1970 International Truck Schoolbus Yellow. I had them make it up into individual spray cans since I don't have a spray gun or compressor. There are a lot of people reproducing the decals and graphics for these bikes. But remember before removing or disassembling anything, always take a ton of photos, especially of any graphics. Place a ruler next to the decals in the photo - so you can blow the photo back up to the right size if you're having a decal maker reproduce them for you. Let's see the bike! Frank, do the Huffy's have a single color or does it fade from one color to another like the photo above? (Huffys were cool, my little brother had one)
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#10
09-03-2008, 06:40 PM
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Re: Hemmings Muscle Machines Musclecar of the Year
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] I have one of each. My huffy Rail is unrestored 1969 with the city sticker. Also have a 1970 stingray in parts. I  will get a photo of my 1969 w/5speed. Do have a good restorer that you could recomend? Huffy Rail Rider [/ QUOTE ] Hear my unrestored Huffy Rail Bike You mean the City Slicker? Was that the neat extra shifter handle that activated the rear brake to leave a big black patch of rubber on the street? I restored mine myself. There are rather easy to do. I used a wire brush and drill to strip the frame. The main expense was rechroming and polishing the stainless. As for paint, it turned out that when the paint store did the photo analysis of the color, it was a dead on match for 1970 International Truck Schoolbus Yellow. I had them make it up into individual spray cans since I don't have a spray gun or compressor. There are a lot of people reproducing the decals and graphics for these bikes. But remember before removing or disassembling anything, always take a ton of photos, especially of any graphics. Place a ruler next to the decals in the photo - so you can blow the photo back up to the right size if you're having a decal maker reproduce them for you. Let's see the bike! Frank, do the Huffy's have a single color or does it fade from one color to another like the photo above? (Huffys were cool, my little brother had one) [/ QUOTE ]
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