Any Concord Ca. guys, from back in the day

[Meep-Meep]

Yeah - as I remember, Linda was easy on the eyes in addition to being a nice girl and into Mopars. I winning combination! I had an earthquake experience while I was there, too. One day I was sitting in my GTX parked - working on the stereo or something - when it started rolling back and forth a little. I thought someone was pushing on it from behind - like rocking it while it was still in gear. I even got out and walked around it to find no one around. It wasn't until later that my brother told me about an earthquake that hit Coalinga, CA that day - some 400 miles away from us. But we still felt it in Santa Clara.

Yep, you remember correctly. She was easy on the eyes!

 

[Budnicks]

Dvm

Somehow I missed this post earlier. I remember MMCI and I knew Linda very well. She had her dad's green 69 Coronet 440 that she had restored and made sort of a hot rod out of. Very nice car. She used to date my neighbor but I haven't seen her in years. Her and I, with a couple of others, were the founders of this local MoPar club called Diablo MoPar Association but eventually it got taken over by a group that wanted to be all formal and adult like. All I wanted to do was drag race so my buddies and I left.

Yep good old Diablo Valley Mopars, Linda & Roland & Sue Merman were tight, at 1 point any way, I didn't know her personally... I think they are still in around, I have seen some car show advertisements sponsored by them... I never joined any of the clubs, knew a bunch of people in them, I was always a "Lone Wolf" so to speak, I didn't really like someone dictating, what I did & were to go, with my cars, too many in the clubs were "way to bossy" for me, too political & cliche, too many rules, all I cared about was chasing some tail & having some fast cars & the occasional race... I visited many shows & did some drive byes, or tryed to get a race going or something, I really never was a "show car guy" in my youth, a bunch of my friends would go to local shows, Car Craft, Good Guys, World of Wheels, Oakland Roadster Show, Gary Meterzs shows & the likes, spend all that time building there cars, then just sit by their cars {I understand it now, I didn't back then}, that they put a ton of money in & just baby them, I was more of the, go out & "beat the crap out of it" type & there were allot of so called "No go show boats" back in the day, you know, I was just a racer at heart... Oh my misspent youth...

 

[Meep-Meep]

There you go speaking my language again. I had the white 68 Road Runner with a brown hood and a black primer door and some other color trunk lid, mismatched wheels, rip and roll upholstery and a big hole in the rug to clear the 4 spd hump I put in. For a while I didn't have the hump so I just threw a floor mat over the hole. But the car ran mid 13's on street tires when the show boats could barely get out of their own way. I'm still not a big car show guy (usually hang out in the swap meet section all day) but I do like the informal parking lot gatherings. Diablo MoPar was my first car club and I don't plan on joining another and it's not because I have a problem hanging out with car people. I just don't want to deal with politics and cliches.

 

[Meep-Meep]

Oh yeah, I saw Brian Smith tonight and his 68 GTX that was often seen at Encina Grande Shopping Center was any one of the following colors: Light blue, black primer and red. Just not sure in what order. Prior to that he had a 67 GTX. He also reminded me that Fatty had a light yellow 69 HEMI Charger 500 4 spd that he bought from Roland. Probably paid the equivalent of $6000 coke dollars for it.

 

[Budnicks]

Yep

Oh yeah, I saw Brian Smith tonight and his 68 GTX that was often seen at Encina Grande Shopping Center was any one of the following colors: Light blue, black primer and red. Just not sure in what order. Prior to that he had a 67 GTX. He also reminded me that Fatty had a light yellow 69 HEMI Charger 500 4 spd that he bought from Roland. Probably paid the equivalent of $6000 coke dollars for it.

:iamwithstupid: I started laughing as soon as I saw the post about "fatty" buying a car from Roland, the price was probably more than that even on the scales... I'm not sure if it's the same guy but I think I know Brian maybe, it was more casual acquaintance, I'm not the best when it comes to names, I remember cars pretty well...

 

[Budnicks]

A friend

There you go speaking my language again. I had the white 68 Road Runner with a brown hood and a black primer door and some other color trunk lid, mismatched wheels, rip and roll upholstery and a big hole in the rug to clear the 4 spd hump I put in. For a while I didn't have the hump so I just threw a floor mat over the hole. But the car ran mid 13's on street tires when the show boats could barely get out of their own way. I'm still not a big car show guy (usually hang out in the swap meet section all day) but I do like the informal parking lot gatherings. Diablo MoPar was my first car club and I don't plan on joining another and it's not because I have a problem hanging out with car people. I just don't want to deal with politics and cliches.

Talk about a big hole, I had a good friend Jeff Boggs he had a 70's Gremlin that he put a 383 bb/727 from his wrecked 70 Cuda' in it, he cut almost the whole damn firewall out of the car & part of the front part of the tunnel to fit the engine/trans back as far as he could, he drove it like that for a while too, that thing was a death trap to ride in {only once for me, with out a fire wall}, but it was fast as hell, he would beat some of the faster cars back then, with that old piece of **** Gremlin...

 

[Budnicks]

Hey Meep-Meep do you remember a guy named Mike Fuentez {spelling?} he was a friend of Rolands & a die hard older MoPar guy, he had a really nice 70 Challenger 440 SixPac "white" I think... The Bonapart {spelling?} Brothers 1 had a 64-65 Fury or Polara S/S look a like, "I'm not sure now" white with red accents a 426 street wedge 4spd & a STR Cross ram w/2x4bbls "I think", I can't remember their 1st names {Bob maybe on 1} the other brothers car was a Bronze 69 Charger with a 440 with a single then, twin turbos, it never ran like it should have though... Just curious...

 

[Meep-Meep]

I didn't know Mike Fuentez (sp) but I heard the name. Don't remember the other cars and people.

 

[Budnicks]

Shot in the dark

I didn't know Mike Fuentez (sp) but I heard the name. Don't remember the other cars and people.

I was just wondering, it seems you knew most of the rest of the people I knew from Rolands house & Encino Grande....

 

[Budnicks]

I bringing this up for a new member, that grew up the area also at the same time as Me & Meeps... Thanks for finding it alleyoop

 

[Budnicks]

we now have two more Court9155 & also BitchinBbody65 I guess we have quite a few people from the SF, North Bay, South Bay & East Bay Area especially here now... great to see & here from all of them... brings back so many great memories...

 

[MikeStahl]

Well I grew up in fremont grad in 75 from Mission san jose high, spent a lot of time on El camino...santa cruz too am I close enough...lol work at machine shop right next door to Mike at BHJ

 

[Budnicks]

Well I grew up in fremont grad in 75 from Mission san jose high, spent a lot of time on El camino...santa cruz too am I close enough...lol work at machine shop right next door to Mike at BHJ

LOL...Mike, yeah Freemont too, San Jose, Cupertino, El Cerrito, Fairfield, Vacaville, Hayward, Castro Valley, Pleasanton, Danville, Dublin, Livermore, Pleasant Hill, Pacheco, Pittsburg, Walnut Creek, Antioch, Brentwood... hell they all can play too...LOL... I fondly remember all those areas too... Feel free to share any cool old stories, you feel compelled to share with all of us... we had a few new members from the greater bay area & I wanted to share with them, kind of a walk down old memory lane....

 

[Budnicks]

Bump, I thought the new guys would like this, one more try...

 

[Budnicks]

Just reread this figured I'd resurrect it again, see if we have any other new guys in the fray, or if meeps has anything to add

 

[Meep-Meep]

I haven't heard from court in a while and don't know who bbody65 is. Are we it for Concord CA on this site?? A couple of years ago I ran into Steve Hertel in the Sac area. He had a lime green 68 Barracuda notchback with a 383 and a tunnel ram with two Predator carbs. He couldn't beat the white 68 RR with the Max Wedge (mine) but put up a good fight.

 

[Budnicks]

I remember the name Steve Hertel, can't put a face with it,
I also do vaguely remember the green Barracuda with Predator carbs too...

 

[Budnicks]

bump for new member

 

[Meep-Meep]

We have a new Concord member???

 

[Budnicks]

We have a new Concord member???

Yeah I saw it in the welcome wagon section guys location was Concord Ca

he goes by 1BAD426GTX,

he has only one post,

a question about finding out information on his car,
that he bought back in 1976 IIRC, nice green original appearing 69 Hemi GTX...

Figured I'd try anyway....