In 1980 I bought a 71 Hemi Challenger for $400.00, 4 Spd, 4.10 Dana not running, engine apart but freshly machined with all the parts to put it together...
remember when ?
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In 1980 I bought a 71 Hemi Challenger for $400.00, 4 Spd, 4.10 Dana not running, engine apart but freshly machined with all the parts to put it together...
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Before the interweb we had Tradin Post.
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We had.....
PAW Catalogs
Any of you from iowa remember
Bill Couchs speed shop in Des Moines ?
& Lavertys in Carlilse ?
Couchs was left over from the 50s , in the 70s he still had flat head speed parts hanging on the wall.
They looked gold plated from all the cig smoke over the years.lol
Bill Couchs speed shop in Des Moines ?
& Lavertys in Carlilse ?
Couchs was left over from the 50s , in the 70s he still had flat head speed parts hanging on the wall.
They looked gold plated from all the cig smoke over the years.lol
Laverty Performance? Here's Charley Malyuke .
I worked at Esco/Central States in Waterloo and managed Esco 2 in Cedar Falls.
Aarons Air
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I am lucky, to STILL have, kammer & Kammer speed shop. They're local Mopar boys.
Yep, Mike that's them, lol.
Thanks for posting up the pics. I used to buy parts from them 70s and 80s.
Small world. I'm going to copy and save that one.
Cool Esco pics also.
Slap Stick
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Imagine...a counter guy at a speed shop wearing a suit!
Yes, those smocks did keep our clothes clean. It was easy to tell who worked there though.
Aarons Air
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Looks like a canned pop machine. About 25 30 cents a can, back then, iirc.
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My first thought was you might be having a stroke until I listened to the vid.....and heck, I don't even re-mem-mem-mem-ber them lol
Used to have a USA Speed locally until the only guy in the place had and heart attack and died. He was pretty much the only place around here that stocked Mopar stuff even though it was mostly a Chevy place. But he would order whatever I needed if it wasn't in stock without me having to go pay for it first. After that shop closed down, Clear Lake Speed, was the next place to trade with but the owner was a tight wad so I tried to always deal with his new at the time wife instead because her husband wanted me to drive the 15 miles to the dang store and she would order for me without having to do that. She was the widow of another racer that got killed at the old Houston track when his Corvette rolled over and she married another Corvette guy....Lindley Isonhood (class and .90 racer) was her new husband and David Baker was the one that passed on from the crash. Don't know if anyone here ever heard of them but they were both well known around these parts. A 3 minute vid of the old Houston track a lot of years ago and before delay boxes and all of that electronic junk....
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So the Hemi Chally would only be $24,400 in today's money.
I still do pump gas,behind the license plate!
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Man I like that color scheme
David martin
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And don’t forget that used to when you went to the parts house the guy not woman knew what you wanted and gave pretty good advice and was usually smoking a cigarette or cigar
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