I live near a town that's all of 2 blocks long. Had taken one of my motorcycles out for a quick spin about 6:00PM. Stop at the one stop sign in town and a tired looking 68 Coronet R/T came rumbling by (and I do mean rumbling) and made a left turn as I sat there. I was delayed a little bit by other traffic but even from a distance could tell he'd put his foot in it at the edge of town.
The car sounded good! I had to chase him down. As I caught up to him I could make out a chrome Dana cover and some fairly wide rear tires. Followed for a bit and about another mile down the road passed him, giving a thumbs up as I went by, and I then stopped at another stop sign and pulled over.
He pulled up beside me and stopped. It was then I noticed the Hemi badge on the front fender, and a brown 4 speed knob was visible through the open windows. We visited for a bit and it turns out he lives just a few miles away. He's had the car about 4 years he said. It is a J code car. Right out of the 70's. Tired blue paint with highlites and cobweb paint along the sides. Old 5 spoke mags. The car was great!
He knew some history on the car and told me it had been ordered new in Minnesota and had been drag raced pretty regularly in the early 70's at Minnesota drag ways. Apparently the hemi had been removed to put in another race car and this one sat for years. He's got a hemi back in it. I can't recall now if it was the original one or not, I was trying to take everything in; mind on information overload. I couldn't believe I'd not seen or heard of it before.
As an aside, when I turned around to head home, 4 guys on Harley's who'd just a few moments before had gone by us as we visited, had lined up across the road in both lanes to have a little drag race of their own. The road there is straight, level, wide open and very little traffic. I use it regularly to try things out.
Any way, I slowed down, stopped behind them as they took off, and then blew by them all. Not much of a race with me on a Suzuki TL1000R.
Nice guy, great end to the day, but now somehow everything I own seems inadequate.
The car sounded good! I had to chase him down. As I caught up to him I could make out a chrome Dana cover and some fairly wide rear tires. Followed for a bit and about another mile down the road passed him, giving a thumbs up as I went by, and I then stopped at another stop sign and pulled over.
He pulled up beside me and stopped. It was then I noticed the Hemi badge on the front fender, and a brown 4 speed knob was visible through the open windows. We visited for a bit and it turns out he lives just a few miles away. He's had the car about 4 years he said. It is a J code car. Right out of the 70's. Tired blue paint with highlites and cobweb paint along the sides. Old 5 spoke mags. The car was great!
He knew some history on the car and told me it had been ordered new in Minnesota and had been drag raced pretty regularly in the early 70's at Minnesota drag ways. Apparently the hemi had been removed to put in another race car and this one sat for years. He's got a hemi back in it. I can't recall now if it was the original one or not, I was trying to take everything in; mind on information overload. I couldn't believe I'd not seen or heard of it before.
As an aside, when I turned around to head home, 4 guys on Harley's who'd just a few moments before had gone by us as we visited, had lined up across the road in both lanes to have a little drag race of their own. The road there is straight, level, wide open and very little traffic. I use it regularly to try things out.
Any way, I slowed down, stopped behind them as they took off, and then blew by them all. Not much of a race with me on a Suzuki TL1000R.
Nice guy, great end to the day, but now somehow everything I own seems inadequate.
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cool story 
