Old Mopar photos

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Jim Wahl

Myron and Ed

That car looks an awful lot like Mevin Yowell's car. That was his paint style. It looks like the name has been taken off the door above the western scene. Maybe? Jim

Jim;
I thing the paint scheme also had the silhouete of a coyote howling.

Ed F.

[Jason Oldfield]

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.

I have been told that was an original Hurst/Sox and Martin car, later owned by Pomeroy, then sold to someone in the Ocala, Fl. area.

The first drag race I attended was a bracket race at Gainesville in early 1980, and there was a man named Tom Shively running a Hemi Cuda there at the bracket race, and I was told this was the car.

I know the car that Shively had was sold to someone else in the area then sold to another person in south Fla. and I am told the car was destroyed when the throttle hung open on the car inside of a garage.

Can anyone verify this?

OK, I just heard back from Stewart. This is what he had to say:

"yep, it was the S&M A/MP car --- after Pomeroy it went to Warfel and after that I do not know -- it was wrecked about 15 years ago, but I believe it is being "restored" now"

Hope that helps...

[tpoh815]

jason thanks for all the prior photos, i really really enjoyed them! thats good stuff. your uncle still looks great! you know i will always be a mopar man!

[Joe Pinkston]

Thank you Jason, and relay my thanks to Mr. Pomeroy also.

[art leong]

I finally got a chance to look at them in depth. Real nice.
Have you guys noticed some of the tow rigs. Man does that bring back memories.

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Jim Wahl

Myron and Ed

That car looks an awful lot like Mevin Yowell's car. That was his paint style. It looks like the name has been taken off the door above the western scene. Maybe? Jim

After a little checking, there is a Melvin Yow and a Bobby Yowell. Not saying that it can't be one of theirs, but their isn't any hint that it is either.

Yow:
http://www.mlodeent.com/OLDDRAG/PROSTOCK/myow1.jpg
Also had a dark blue '72 Challenger which is at the end of the Yowell album in the last link below.

Yowell:
http://www.mlodeent.com/OLDDRAG/PROSTOCK/yowell.jpg
http://www.draglist.com/artman/uploa...bby_yowell.jpg
http://www.prostockhemi.com/gallery2...?g2_itemId=803

[Jason Oldfield]

Originally Posted by tpoh815

jason thanks for all the prior photos, i really really enjoyed them! thats good stuff. your uncle still looks great! you know i will always be a mopar man!

Don't thank me! I only provided one of the pictures, and a link to the Hamtramck Registery. You can thank Joe Pappas, Stewart Pomerory (for scanning so many of the pictures), and my uncle (the next time you see him at the races). And yes, he does still look good, though he looks a LOT better now than a couple of years ago when he was walking around with that stupid staph infection...

Originally Posted by Joe Pinkston

Thank you Jason, and relay my thanks to Mr. Pomeroy also.

You're welcome Joe, and I will let Stewart know you thanked him as well (though he's probably reading this post, so he probably already knows...)

Since we're kind of on this subject, I'll post one more...it's one of the saddest pictures you'll ever see. Here's the '72 Motown Missile in it's current state:

http://oldfieldweb.net/72Missile.jpg

Makes me want to cry every time I see it...

[rallye bob]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Is'nt that Billy Stepp's old car?

Ed F.

Looks like a Bobby Yowell ride/s that I remember, from the early '70's
They were big into the mural paint schemes. I remember at the '72 U.S. nats. they had a scene with old wooden ships on the trunk lid, and it said, Wooden ships, on the water.....Very free. Or something to that effect. I have a picture someplace......

[StewartP]

Good morning All and a Great New Year to each of you. As Jason said, I have a good collection of old Mopar photos, most of them of the Mopar Missile. The photos were supplied by Dick Oldfield, Joe Pappas, Dave Koffel, John Wehrly, Dave Christie, and others. I am trying to save and share these historical photos. If you have any old photos, I would be honored to scan them to disc for you. There is absolutely NO CHARGE - I EVEN PAY THE RETURN POSTAGE. I do not use the photos for any commerical gain at all. And if you are looking for any Missile photos, please feel free to contact me via my profile email.

I hope a lot of you all are planning to attend the Hemi Reunion, in August, and we get a chance to meet and try to relive the old days, thru our shared memories.

Stewart Pomeroy

[b-1duster]

I actually own the Wally Booth super bee. If anyone has pictures please email them to me
josh@pentastarpromotions.com