Old Mopar photos

[Jason Oldfield]

Originally Posted by Bob Rice

Danny,
A lot of those pictures came from one particular Yahoo group. It would have been nice if the gentleman would have posted the proper credit to the photographers. The information was supplied when the pictures were posted to the group.
Bob Rice

Bob,

Worse yet, many of these pictures came from people's personal collections that they've posted on the web for others to enjoy. I can tell you first hand that the ALL of the photos of the Motown / Mopar Missile, including the yellow car (small block duster), wire car, pictures of Don Carlton, pictures of my uncle racing, the Accel poster autographed by Joe Pappas and my uncle (I have a full-size framed poster hanging on my wall right next to me), and all the pictures of Nelson Des Champs came from the private collections of the above mentioned people, and Stewart Pomeroy, through the efforts of Stewart Pomeroy (heck, there's even a recent picture of Stewart Pomeroy, John Wehrly, Tom Coddington, and my uncle!)

Anyway, you can see a history of the Missile program here, which includes all of these pictures, that Mr. Pomeroy put together through many hours of hard work:

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/...eroTests.shtml

I don't know if any of these guys will care or not, but they still should have been credited, or linked to, not posted on this person's website as their own. Interestingly enough, the owner of the site, Bob, also wrote a computer program called "Picture Poacher" to "easily extract images from various webpages and optionally save a copy locally for your own archives. The program came about as a result of my obsessive web picture collecting." Go figure.

Originally Posted by Earle Holt

I love the days when most of the cars had a name painted on the side. I always loved the name "Motown Missle!" Great stuff.

I agree Earle. I was just saying that to somebody the other day as I was working on my nameless car. There was just something unique about all the cars having names. Since you like the Missile so much, here's one from my personal collection (thanks to Stewart Pomeroy for helping stitch the scan together):

http://oldfieldweb.net/70_Missile_Small.jpg

Originally Posted by Joe Pinkston

I have a question about the purple Cuda of Stewart Pomeroy near the end of the page. Can anyone verify the history and/or the future of that car from the time that picture must have been taken.

Joe, I e-mailed Stewart with your question. I would expect that he'll post an answer here shortly (and if he doesn't, I'll post the answer for him.)