Junkyard finds, via Mopar Max

http://www.moparmax.com/features/2007/ii_5-relics-1.html

New car show in July.... a big one. July 14th

In the Carlsbad Westfield Plaza Camino Real, off the 78 and El Camino Real.
It is the South West corner of the Mall.

Mopar Club annual event, avid local celeb car collector Bill Goldberg scheduled to be there, I hope he brings the Lawman, Boss 429 drag race car... one of his many incredible cars.

http://www.moparclubsandiego.org/

What the competition see. Tail lights.

It is so cool to be surprised by the unexpected, like this old Plymouth having a dual quad hemi

More Hemi Bee

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/04/hemi-bee-roams-roads-of-san-diego.html#links

A Hemi Bee roams the roads of San Diego.

Hemi from Summit racing and Indy Cylinder Heads, circa 1998. Crate Motor, and then some.

Look out.

610 HP, 640 Ft / Lbs, Demon Carb, Indy Heads and single plane intake, trunk mounted battery, some extra traction control on the axle, huge exhaust, H pipe, power steering, power brakes, Griffin radiator, a 6 speed Viper trans with 2 over drive gears, fiberglass bumpers, 440 6 pk fiberglass hood in a Road Runner / AAR Cuda rear spring configuration with front hood pins.

This may be the best darn thing to do with a tired old Bee. I know, I had one.

Originally a 383 Bee with a 4 speed. Now even 440 or Hemi correct with the rear side window stainless trim removed. I recall that the 383 bees had the stainless along the bottom of the windows, but the 440 6 pk and Hemi bees didn't, the easy tell, if you were looking for some subtle relatively unmolested item that would give away what it was originally.

WM23H9A251072 just for the curious.

Woody's other beaut

1970 AAR Cuda. Clean, rare, strong and fast. Nuff said.

Woody's 69 Super Bee, as seen in Hemmings Muscle Machines

http://www.hemmings.com/subscribe/current_issue.html?publication=MUS ran a feature on Woody's Super Bee, which was very cool... it centered the issue on the theme of survivor cars, those that are original, and still owned by the first purchaser... never been sold to a second owner.

This car was well written about by Jeff Koch, if I recall right, and he is a really good writer... doesn't bore you with the makers history, specs, all the stuff you already know about a make and model, he goes more for the owners memories of the car... why this type, what's occured with it, why it's still in the original owners hands. That's the type of article I love to read, more than the business decisions that brought about the size, weight, and design.

Anyway, I've talked on a couple of occasions to Woody or his dad Bill about this Super Bee. I had a 69 Super Bee too. .. it can really be informative to talk to other owners of the same make and model and find out what they've experienced mechanically, and where they've brought things to get repaired.. ' cause it'll be the things you'll do too... and the recommendations are priceless.

If you have back issues, or friends that do.. it's in the Oct 2006 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines (#37) pages 32 through 37.

So anyway, this has the 383 4 barrel, and power bulge hood, and the optional bumper guards. Everything is still original that you'll see, paint, chrome, rims, and the 73 thousand miles or so. Nice; all over, under, and inside.

It's Earthweek, and celebrating the natural resources is paramount, so...

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2007/04/2007_earth_week_2.html

has a hilarious entry about a 440 powered Satellite with "Keisler 5-Speed manual that dumps into a set of 3:55 gears. Edelbrock intake and heads coupled with a Demon carburetor and Keith Black pistons ensure the Earth’s precious fossil fuels are burned at a prodigious rate. Quicker than the Arabs can pump it out of the ground"

Very serious, supercharged and rollcaged. Found a hemi instead of the 440 he was looking for..

MOpar PORn

Charger / Coronet / R/T / Superbee porn... nothing but B-bodies ... set to Metallica



About 400 of them, I stopped counting at 100.

Cool new website for mopars

http://www.moparmax.com/

Good articles on Chrysler, the latest from Ma Mopar, the recent shows like Mopars at the Strip (Las Vegas Mar 29-Apr 1) and good photography in the galleries.

Mopars are so cool, Russians post these pics

From http://ziza.ru/2006/12/05/avtomobili_proshlogo_veka_31_foto.html

Mopar rear axle and gears

The unusual mopar engine markings

Where mopar serial numbers are located

Great ads.

If all the trivia from just one car maker were put together it would fill a book. So I won't get close. But I am going to fill you in on some that I think is cool, without trying to saturate you on any one make or model. I've done a lot on the Mustang just due to what was on the top of my head as interesting and maybe totally new to you.

Here are two examples of one manufacturer having seperate ad campaigns for virtually the same cars, but of different divisions, at the same time. The Rapid Transit campaign was for the high performance Plymouth stuff, and the Scat Pack was Dodge. Both had a couple of years of full sell on many fronts... membership clubs, performance clinics with drag racers on tour, patches, jackets, and other memorabilia... most of which is now classic and prized for the quirky '60's ad art, or rarity for the barely seen ads that only ran once in single issues of Road and Track.

Coolest options you could order on a mopar

Hood pins, pistol grip Hurst shifter, 1969 only lift off fiberglass hood, and the fresh air - vacuum operated - pop up hood scoop