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12-12-2008, 09:47 PM | #1 |
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Attn: Stephen Johnson
Thought you might be interested in this link.
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12-13-2008, 12:04 AM | #2 |
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Re: Attn: Stephen Johnson
thanks alot, except for the hood and the name on the door, the car looks exaclty like that now.
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12-13-2008, 12:34 AM | #3 |
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Stephen, I talked with Jim Paquet today at the PRI show in Orlando. We talked about your car. I didn't realize it was VanCleve's car. Jim
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12-13-2008, 01:10 PM | #4 |
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Not that it matters, but the photo of your car was taken at woodburn dragstrip.
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I had watched Jim drive that car in Super Stock at a lot of West Coast drag races without really knowing where it was from. I had seen his name in Dragster on the records page, which lists home towns for record holders, but I had never been to Washington, so it didn't mean anything to me.
My wife and I were on vacation in 1991, and driving around the base of Mount Shasta and I came to a stop at a stop sign, looked to my right and saw "Van Cleve Motors," on the building on the corner.... and then it hit me... "Morton, Washington!!!" I had wondered why that name sounded familiar to me as I had just driven past the identifying sign on the outskirts of town. There was a lot adjacent to the dealership, so I pulled over and just sat there for a few minutes, and my wife said, "What are you DOING?" I said, "Just paying a little homage to a friend I've never met... the guy who's name is on that dealership." After a while, I took off, but I'm not sure she ever understood... It's very gratifying that that car ended up in the hands of some guys who respect it and are doing right by it!
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thank you, thats a test to my ole man!!! Very Hard Worker!!! Stephen Johnson #2162 Horace Johnson #2162 SS/D 427 Ford Fairlane NHRA-IHRA |
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Bill,,,You've got great eyesight if you saw Van Cleve Motors in Morton, Washington from the base of Mt. Shasta,,which is in California!!!! Perhaps you meant Mt. Rainier, which is a few miles up the road from beautiful downtown Morton. Sorry,,,I had to do it.
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Hey, Danny... you're RIGHT!! It WAS Mt. Rainier!
Wait 'til you're 70... LOL! Somedays, I can't remember which shoe goes on which foot... BUT, I easily remember that a '57 Chevy 220hp 283 Power Pack motor had 300 ft. pounds of torque (according to the factory), and that the 283 hp fuel injected motor had pop-up pistons and swirl-polished valves... What's WRONG with me??? I'm not even a Chevy guy....
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