Spring Fling 36 Apr 20 & 21, 2024 Van Nuys CA -info & roll call

[Dennis H]

Toluca Woods! AKA Burbank.

 

[watermelon]

made it


watermelon

 

[Kern Dog]

Swap meet

 

[Kern Dog]

This seemed a little weird.

Closer.

My wife pointed this out.
Uhhh… “Motor ASSY grease”???
You and I know this is short for assembly but to other people, “assy grease” means something a LOT different.

 

[watermelon]

Kern Dog holding court


watermelon

 

[Kern Dog]

Good to see so Many faces that I only get to see a couple times a year, if that.
I saw Eric/Watermelon’s car.

Very nice. In pictures it seems to have a green tinge to it. In person it is more gold. Very clean. Great license plate too. I meant to ask him
Why he uses that screen name, “Watermelon”. His head seemed perfectly normal.

Other cars here:

1979 LRE for $24,500.

This SuperBird…

Had the most gorgeous shade of blue on it.

Good turnout.

 

[gtx6970]

Had a good day.

Will be there tomorrow.

Then 10 hrs drive home....yuk

 

[Kern Dog]

Back to the swap meet though…

Who remembers THIS stuff ??

Slick 50 ???

Hey… is anyone looking for a horse for a lawn ornament?

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Swap was pretty good, seemed like a lot more rally dashes than usual... I think guys are pulling the originals and putting in Dakota Digital then trying to recoup some of the $$ by selling the old cluster...

 

[watermelon]

some randomness

had a quick chat with Jay Leno

met some heroes Kern Dog n ckessel n JimKueneman…all brought awesome Mopars

spent a lot of time walkin n talking to Mopar owners


watermelon

 

[autoxcuda]

Some pictures

 

[Kern Dog]

Correct me if I have this wrong….
There were years when this show was in May and the temperatures sometimes got over 100.
That was not the case this time. It wasn’t even 80 degrees. The sky was overcast early on but it did clear up.
I would have liked to see more trucks and vans. I did love seeing the luxury c bodies and Imperials. There was a white 57 or 58 Fury with gold trim that was amazing. Stupid me, I was awe struck and didn’t take any pictures of it.

 

[autoxcuda]

Correct me if I have this wrong….
There were years when this show was in May and the temperatures sometimes got over 100.
That was not the case this time. It wasn’t even 80 degrees. The sky was overcast early on but it did clear up.
I would have liked to see more trucks and vans. I did love seeing the luxury c bodies and Imperials. There was a white 57 or 58 Fury with gold trim that was amazing. Stupid me, I was awe struck and didn’t take any pictures of it.

 

[Kern Dog]

Yep, that is the one. I was wrong about the color, it isn’t exactly white.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

The White 300D FI car owned by Pre is damn impressive...

 

[Kern Dog]

Fuzzy memory alert…
Wasn’t there ONE remaining white 1958 model that retains the fuel injection but utilized some custom programming to control the functions?
I read years ago about the car in some magazine. I recall something about the “Fuel Injection” emblems being found by sheer luck from some unlikely source too. Interesting story.

 

[autoxcuda]

Parts

 

[Kern Dog]

Looking closer….

Slick 50 for manual transmissions???

 

[eldubb440]

somehow I lost one of those........ I do have a maroon one with the stainless though

 

[eldubb440]

Looking closer….

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Slick 50 for manual transmissions???

why not....... sell them something for each system