1967-68 SS/C-D Hemi B-Body: Cold Air or Flat Hood?

[Steve Stasko]

Originally Posted by Rat Patrol

Steve - you may find these lists useful/interesting/hopelessly incorrect! ��

64 Race Hemi A864 - Car , Driver, Team

Hoeferts Hurricane - Claude Bradshaw Sr - Hoefert Dodge, Alton Ill
Eddie Smith - West Virginia -
Snorkasaurus IV - Blue Barnes
Bob Cain - Fred F Cain Plymouth
Melrose Missile VI - Tommy Grove - Melrose Plymouth (2% car...not counted in regular production)
Hemi Honker - Bud Faubel - Shively Motors (Sedan & Hardtop) ( Hardtop converted from Max wedge)
Golden Commando 5 & 6- Forest Pitcock - Hamilton Motors (Sedan & Hardtop)
Candymatic - Jim Thornton - Ramchargers - Hodges Dodges (2% car not counted in regular production)
Candymatic Too - Mike Buckel - Ramchargers - Hodges Dodges
‘Our Bear’? - Dave Strickler - Dodge Boys (Sedan & Hardtop) - Ill. Hardtop was Max Wedge car
Larry Lawrence - The Dodge Boys, Portland Oregon
Yankee Peddler - Wild Bill Flynn - County Dodge (Hardtop) Max Wedge Car
Color Me Gone - Roger Lindamood (2% car not counted in regular production)
Hustler - Pat Minick - Grand Spaulding Dodge
Hemi-Charger - Dick Landy - Automotive Research
Mayflower V - Hank Taylor - (Hank Taylor in his 1964 Plymouth S/SA 'Mayflower V' was the first S/SA to go under 11.50. He did it at Phenix City, Alabama in August 1964. He re-set the S/SA National Record.)
Paul Rossi- Westborn Chrysler Raiders
Dick Lohr - Hine Motors (Jack Eakin's car...Lohr's was a Max Wedge)
The Hemi-Roid - Gene Snow - Melton & Snow Autos
Mr Plymouth 426 - Robert Nance
Lawman - Al Ekstrand (Sedan 2% car not counted in regular production, also had a MW hardtop)
777 - Jakes Speed Equipment
The Butcher - Jim Ford (Hardtop)
Ramrunner Too - Miller/Kruger Illinois Dodge
Lee Smith - Nate Learners Chrysler (Sedan & Hardtop)
The Warsaw Rebel (Hardtop) - (Some question over this car)
Joe Smith - Fenner Tubbs (Hardtop)
Born Wild
Its a Hemi - Tom Strunk & Hayden Proffit - Yeakel Plymouth Center (Sedan & Hardtop)
Big Red - Dave Lewis
Missouri Mule- Doc Spence - Site Bros I know they had a 65 car...
Bill Barton - Burgoise & Wade Earl Wade, double listed
Maverick - Bill ‘Maverick’ Golden - Orange County Dodge
Earl Wade - Speed Enterprises
Jim Rodgers - Town & Country Chrysler Plymouth
Flying Carpet - Bob Harrop - Harrop Crescent Dodge
Suspect Max Wedge Car
Hemi-Munster
Flying Dutchman - Al Vandervoude - Culver City Plymouth
Tax Dodge - Joe ? Later owner
Billy West - The Little Pilgrim - Yates Motor Company NC
The Iron Butterfly - Ted Spehar Six cylinder car built for competition in 1969
Grey Ghost - Jim Hale - Jim’s Speedshop Not original owner
Quarterbender - Bill Rieck - Lompoc Performance Center
Suddenly II - The Dodge Boys - Larry ? /Melvyn ?/ Tex ?
Hurricane - Herb Freels - Francis & Parsons
Satellite - Harold Laplatte - Ferriero Motor Sales
Mr Black - Ron Powers - Powers Automotive Is this the Reverend Mr Black car? MW Hardtop...
Determination - Jim Clark Max Wedge Car
Big Money Dodge (ex Ramchargers car)
Rebel - Penn- Can Motors
Roadrunner -
Tickles me pink -
Jayhawker - Jon Thorne "63 Max Wedge car with '64 front sheet metal
Goldfinger Hawaiian Style
11th Commandment II - Joe Bambace
Jerry Maycock - Mckay/Swift Dodge
Gary Ostrich - Chuck Ostrich Inc. - (Hardtop)
Hemi-Head Plymouth - Bill Dill - Minnesota (Hardtop)
Tim Hennessey/Bill Drakes (Hardtop)
Lynn Ferguson - Lundy Motors, StJohns Michigan (Hardtop)
Al’s Auto Sales (Hardtop)
Hair bender - Dick Hansen/Gordon Stewart - Sioux Falls
McCullach-Ricci Chrysler Plymouth - Detroit Max Wedge car
Hahn Motor Company Ex-Melrose Missile
Mr Motech- John Tedder - Michigan New one on me...
Jay Miner - New York
King of the Goats - ‘Big Deal’ Jacobs - Alabama
Teachers Pet - Jerry Stein Jerry ran Max Wedge's...was an original owner of a '63 car.
Don Owens - Pink Panther Max Wedge car
Jersey Duke 2- Jack Werst - Duke Motors
Rumblebee - Assay -Bruno Motors, NJ (Later Wild Man)
Pandemonium - Jim O’Connor

Just a few things I see off the top of my head added in red...will touch on your '65 list later...

[Bballfan1]

Can anyone give me contact info on Rat Patrol? My dad is on his 64 hemi list and I would like more info.

[Rat Patrol]

Originally Posted by Bballfan1

Can anyone give me contact info on Rat Patrol? My dad is on his 64 hemi list and I would like more info.

PM’d you.

[Rat Patrol]

Originally Posted by Steve Stasko

Just a few things I see off the top of my head added in red...will touch on your '65 list later...

Thx Steve...a lot of these I just pulled off George Klass remembers....and could only go by the scoop! 😆

Others were memories from members of Harold Laplattes FB page..and could not be verified.

[Rat Patrol]

Steve Sasko -

- I found a pic of a 1963 MW ‘Iron Butterfly’.....are you sure the Hemi version came along so much later?

[Steve Stasko]

Originally Posted by Rat Patrol

Steve Sasko -

- I found a pic of a 1963 MW ‘Iron Butterfly’.....are you sure the Hemi version came along so much later?

Yes. It was Ted's wife, Tina's, personal car. Tina told me herself that Ted took the car and made a race car out of it. This car was built for Indy in 1969...the automatic equivalent to Vanke's '65 Belvedere.

EDIT...That is a '64 car in your picture. Wally drove at Indy, Dick Oldfield at Dallas.