Just saw this new diecast

[bluefury361]

I spent the summer of 69 crewing for Wally in this dodge....... Great memory....

Diecast Model : 1969 Wally Booth NHRA Dodge Coronet Super Bee | Fairfield Collectibles

The real one......At York US30 dragway in 69. And Indy Nationals146174[/ATTACH]

 

[1978 NYB]

Very, very cool Will!!!!

 

[Wonderwagon]

Had tp be an interesting summer

 

[live4theking]

Cool.

 

[1978 NYB]

Will, what year did you do that?

 

[LocuMob]

I spent the summer of 69

^^^^

 

[bluefury361]

Will, what year did you do that?

1969 Bob. A great summer. I returned from Viet Nam in March. Ordered my A12 Runner in March. Picked up a brand new Super Bee and converted it to a race car in Wally's garage. All the east coast NHRA nationals and a bunch of testing with the Chrysler guys at Detroit dragway, (long gone now). Never be able to repeat that one.

 

[1978 NYB]

1969 Bob. A great summer. I returned from Viet Nam in March. Ordered my A12 Runner in March. Picked up a brand new Super Bee and converted it to a race car in Wally's garage. All the east coast NHRA nationals and a bunch of testing with the Chrysler guys at Detroit dragway, (long gone now). Never be able to repeat that one.

Did you ever get to Great Lakes Dragway? Union Grove, Wisconsin.

Thanks for your service Will!

I know 1968-1969 was terrible years over there!

 

[bigmoparjeff]

Neat!

They did a very good job of reproducing the details of the real car.

 

[mdh157]

As soon as the Tet Offensive started Will decided he'd had enough........

 

[detmatt]

I'm assuming you bought one or two of those Will?

 

[bluefury361]

Did you ever get to Great Lakes Dragway? Union Grove, Wisconsin.

I'm assuming you bought one or two of those Will?

We pretty much traveled the mid west and N/SE Bob. NHRA national events. We had the use of a new 69 Polara wagon in matching green as a tow car.

No Matt. I haven't bought one. It's cool but is just another Chinese POS to collect dust. Maybe if I see a cheap one.

 

[1978 NYB]

Did you ever get to Great Lakes Dragway? Union Grove, Wisconsin.





We pretty much traveled the mid west and N/SE Bob. NHRA national events. We had the use of a new 69 Polara wagon in matching green as a tow car.

No Matt. I haven't bought one. It's cool but is just another Chinese POS to collect dust. Maybe if I see a cheap one.

What kind of ET's and MPH were you guys running?

 

[bluefury361]

What kind of ET's and MPH were you guys running?

We ran in SS/E class and I remember going 10.99. "This was with a street hemi", which was under the record at the time. It was a long time ago and I don't remember specific speeds. Lowering ET's was the goal.
A cool commentary. We were experiencing axle hop off the line and into 2nd. My brother came up with shimming the rear pinion snubber with washers to 1/2" of the floor pan. Good for almost three tenths off the ET. Word got out and next thing everyone was doing it. After that Gratiot Auto Supply had modified snubbers on the shelf. My brother was kicking himself for not copy righting the idea.
Another "trick" was reaming the front sway bar bushings so there was no resistance on the sway bar. Improved front lift.

 

[69monaco]

Any pics of the coronet and polara together ??

 

[1978 NYB]

We ran in SS/E class and I remember going 10.99. "This was with a street hemi", which was under the record at the time. It was a long time ago and I don't remember specific speeds. Lowering ET's was the goal.
A cool commentary. We were experiencing axle hop off the line and into 2nd. My brother came up with shimming the rear pinion snubber with washers to 1/2" of the floor pan. Good for almost three tenths off the ET. Word got out and next thing everyone was doing it. After that Gratiot Auto Supply had modified snubbers on the shelf. My brother was kicking himself for not copy righting the idea.
Another "trick" was reaming the front sway bar bushings so there was no resistance on the sway bar. Improved front lift.

Very cool Will!

 

[commando1]

Will is not only the coolest guy on earth, he is part of muscle era Mopar history, too. I'm honored to be a friend of his.

 

[bluefury361]

Any pics of the coronet and polara together ??

Not that I have, except one taken through he windshield on the PA turnpike.
That's Dick Arons Camaro. We usually caravanned with some of the Detroit based racers.

 

[LocuMob]

How cool!

 

[bluefury361]

Were all ole guys now. I just took all this for granted back in the day. Now I've forgotten more than I know.