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I have had Mike Robbins as a customer for quite a few years. He has used my engines in some heads up programs. I was unaware of a tornado hitting Ringgold Ga. until I read this thread. Mike is the current owner of the dealership Mr. Nance owned.
I E-mailed him and got this response: Adger, here are pics of the damage it was an ef4 My dad bought the dealership from two partners Raymond Beasley and Robert Nance. As a kid I helped Robert work on a ss/aa dart named "Car Wars" he made me do all the hard work like lay under the dash and run wires. he was all hemi or small block. He thought the big blocks were crap... Mike The pictures show a pretty well torn up dealership and the area around it. Looks like the parts dept and service dept were hit the hardest. One of the pictures has a 5 gal bucket, looks like paint or dry wall, and there are some long pieces of wood blown completely through the bucket. UGH!! I can't post pictures if some one wants to I will e-mail them and let them post. Any of the "Car Wars" pictures floating around out there? Please post'em.
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I just got another e-mail from Mike Robbins. I thought it was interesting.
I cant post yet but if I remember correctly Robert was big into acid dipping, and I am almost sure the fenders and the doors were dipped on that duster. the fenders would bend super easy when working on it...
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Just got another e-mail from Mike:
I have signed up for an account on that site but the mods have not o.k.ed me to post yet. I have some of those pics I can post on the thread, plus I have some race car pics I want to post too. I also have a you tube video that was taken from a 1977 8mm movie of Robert Nance Johnny Laboose and a lot of those cars mentioned in the thread I want to post it too. but you can give them an update and tell them to stay tuned... Mike Looks like he has some more interesting "Stuff" for this thread when the moderators approve his membership. Come on Ken get him locked and loaded into class Racer !! :~)
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If you haven't seen it yet I made a post here a couple years back on this forum "Original Hemi Dart Information". Any & all info would be greatly appreciated. Thanx liteweight |
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Ok, I guess I'm Mike's poster "Boy" untill he gets accepted by the moderators... Here is another e-mail with a link to You Tube viedo.
Mike wrote: If you look close at the very first of the video you can see Mr Plymouth being towed with a tow bar at the gas station... You will also see Cotton Perry's "pocket rocket" 66 Chevy II in the video Cotton Perry, from Ringgold, GA., drove a bread truck route during the week. Perry teamed up with engine builder, Jim Headrick, to run one of the dominating cars in NHRA MODIFIED class. The Chevy II was powered by a 301 CU. IN. straight 6 CYL. engine with a Doug Nash 5-speed transmission. The car ran mid 6'S in the 1/8 MI. and mid 10'S in the 1/4 MI. His biggest win was the US NATIONALS. Cotton also drove the SS/L Chevy II of Jim Daniels to a win in the 1978 GATORNATIONALS.
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OK More from Mike Robbins,
Esp for Liteweight.. Mike wrote: Tell the last poster that Robert was on Chrysler's special list. They gave two cars in Ga. Robert got the auto and Harold Dutton got the four speed, Roberts was delivered to our dealership... not sure if Dutton's was also, I can find out I go to church with Raymond Beasley he would know... Here is a link to the 65 superstock list... http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.c...ockowners.html
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