A990 Super Stockers

[gregwho]

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

So do you own this car now, if so how long have you had it...tell us more about the Dick Branster connection or the Mancini's, do you have any good stories from back then that you might recall.

No, I sold the car sometime in 1973, I heard that Ron Cheshier owned it for a while and lost track of it. If anyone knows where it is, let me know. It was a very original A990 when I ran it. I never evan tied the subframes together and it did start to "bend" as they would.
Ron Mancini worked in the trans lab back then and I was the new kid in the Dyno Lab (next building over) 1967. I found Ron and used to sneek awy from my lab and we would bench race allot. All I wanted to do back then was DRAGRACE, anything at all, it was a true passion. I'm sure I drove everyone nuts. I literally almost lost my job at Chrysler because of all the time off for racing. I would go to allmost every test day at Detroit dragway or Milan when the Racegroup would rent the track. Yea, I had the Dream Job, everything just kinda fell into place. Early on I had a 440 maxwedge Plymouth that I would take to the test days and make about 50 or so runs in a day. Got a lot of practice with the 4spd.
Oh well, great fun! Thanks for the intrest.
Greg

[gregwho]

Originally Posted by jnor

I last saw this car in Gail Parson's garage in Newark, Ohio.....Gail bought it, and he, and Ron Garey were going to race it, but it didn't happen, and Gail sold it to someone...

Any contact info on Gail Parson would be appreciated!

Greg Who

[Hemi Moose]

Here's a few of Shirley Shahan's '65 A990 Plymouth Belvedere called "Drag-On-Lady"...in the first photo shows it with no hood scoop, was it a pin on hood because I don't see any hood hinges.

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by copo69

A couple from WV.

Anyone know what ever happened to these two '65 A990's...

[Hemi Moose]

Chuck Ostrich '65 A990 Plymouth called 'The Defender'...



And one of Bill Shirley's '65 Plymouth A/FX called 'The Professor'...

[jnor]

Originally Posted by gregwho

Any contact info on Gail Parson would be appreciated!

Greg Who

Greg, Gail died a couple of years ago sorry to say........

[Paul Ceasrine]

John John Livingston,,,,,,,

[Hemi Moose]

Here's a '65 Plymouth that looks like one...notice the hood emblem and small hood scoop.

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by Paul Ceasrine

John John Livingston,,,,,,,

I wonder why the two names on the upper door saying 'John John'...
are they of the father & son.

[gregwho]

Originally Posted by jnor

Greg, Gail died a couple of years ago sorry to say........

Thanks for letting me know, sorry to hear.
I didn't know Gail other than selling my car to him, this made me remember what must have been, a ride of a lifetime, I gave him when he came to look at the car. I can only emagin how narrow my side street must have looked from the passenger seat, at the top end of third gear!
It was realy nuts when I think now, the rear tires had at least 3 lbs of air and it was real dark and very laoud! I think Gail's eyes got real big and he said, "I'll take it"