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Paul you might be corect, but I can;t recal any 426HEMI on the front. When Sam and I picked up the Cuda Ronnie had a match race with the dragon lady at a track in Va.We went there that day, Sam paid Buddy and we loaded the car and took the whole rig (car, cewcab truck, and trailer) back to Sam's car lot in Md. Might add the car had aluminum heads on it at the time and was in match race trim.ET;s that day were in the 10.4's-10.5's.Sam drove it the rest of the yeart till he put me in the seat later that year.At the end of the season Sam sold the cuda to me along with rig and spare parts.The next March I took the car to Cicle County,after we had found a bad ground cable in the trunk, and made three 10.2's, with no outher changes to the car. Bet Ronnie had been chaseing that problem for some time!!! It was dumb luck on my part that we found it.NOTE, on the trunk lid was (THE BEAP BEAP BEAT GOES ON) .
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11-16-2009, 05:07 AM | #242 |
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Jack,
It always perplexed me, to find out what that little scrol-design was on the front-center grille (upper portion). I'll post the site where I found it, so you can check it out too. All the Super Stockers at York had "X's" on the window, instead of the SS/B. Jenkins ran his 68" SS/C Camaro with a tunnel-ram in the X/SS "Heads-Up" match. I imagine all Hemi cars ran in match race trim, aluminum heads and roller cams for the Super Stock Magazine sponsored event. Two weeks later they were at Indy, for the Nationals. Ground wire,,,,,,,,sounds positively negative....................... If you got the car in match-race trim, that means you had to be at Dover Drag Strip, Wingdale, NY in 1970, in Pro/Stock. I have to see if I have results of the meet. Rich Mirarcki/Bill Blandings "MIMI" 427 Camaro was doing a number on all the Mopars back then at Dover. Hope I can find that you outran him. Paul |
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Here goes. Check THE H.A.M.B. site, go to the NHRA Junior Stock forum. Page 55, post #1094. Photo of the 69' NHRA Winternationals, (February 69'), staging lane shot of all the stockers. Upper right, 68' Hemi Super Stock (SS/BA) Cuda. NHRA #719. Center-stripe hood only, kind of like a Sox & Martin paint scheme. Can't see the name of the driver on the passengers side door. But the name above "Plymouth" looks like Bender or Senker or Benker???? Paul |
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Mopar Steve,
Thanks for clearing that up. I was so used to Judy Lilly's paint scheme, that I was not sure of that one. The name on the door looks like Judy Lilly. And the car, does have a Sox & Martin paint scheme. Though only FRAM, SW and HOOKER emblems on front fender. I wasn't aware that she got a Hemi Cuda so early. I'm also guessing, probably Denver Plymouth Dealers Association (the part we cannot see). Does anyone have an accurate guess, to how many Cuda's, the Burlington, NC team of Sox & Martin put out there. Not all could have been original BO29 cars. Must have been in the early Christmas present shipment of cars in September 68. Paul |
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Jack,,,,
If you go to the site www.thevintageracer.com go to York US30 Dragway, the Jere Stahl collection of photo's. The 69' X/SS meet, with your Cuda there (soon to be yours). Several pictures with the little scroll-design on the front grille. In a close-up, I got "426 Hemi" in gold lettering. The letters don't appear much larger than 2". Also, check out the monster tunnel-ram on Jenkins 68' Camaro, with a 427 (Not sure if it was a ZL-1 All-Aluminum engine in there) in several of the photo's. The Holley carbs look like thirsty 770-CFM units... Paul |
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Question about the early Christmas present, Sept. of '68 would have been a '69 car. Do you mean '67? |
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X-Tech Man,
I am not a Chevy guy, but that 68' Camaro of Jenkins does impress me. Now for a mind-bender. At the 69' Super/Stock Magazine Nationals at York (8/10/69), Charlie Castaldo won the S/S event with his SS/BA Hemi Dart, yet Bill Jenkins won the All-Enduro Super Stock Eliminator with his 69' ZL-1 All-Aluminum engine Camaro...Does that sound correct?? What the hell was the All-Enduro Eliminator?? Pro/Stock type Heads-Up racing? Mopar Steve, It was either September or October 68'. Right after the end of the 68' production year, and beginning of the 69' production run. I have to research Sox & Martin shop photo's. Photo's taken inside the garage and out through the garage door. (4) new Cuda's on a transporter. (2) 68's with the round fender side-lights, and (2) with the reactangle-shaped side lights. paul |
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