Lets see some pictures

[njsteve]

My first car(s). In 1977 I saved my $$$ and bought a 69 Z11 pace car with the wrong motor, trans, etc: I had no clue at the time. I bought it when I was 14. My father was confused at the time due to the large number of children in our household. When we got the car home my mom says to him: "Honey you know his brother just turned 16, he's 14!" Dad looked at me like I was supposed to remind him which kid I was. The car next to it was a 1970 Plymouth Superbird with a 440 Magnum and automatic. My dad and I bought it based on the fact that someone was going to buy the Z11. Of course they didn't and I got "stuck" driving both cars to high school. He eventually sold both of them when I moved out to Colorado to go to Diesel repair school in 1980. I tracked down the current owner of the Z11. He's in CT and got a kick out of being called out of the blue by me. It's not everyday that the almost original owner of your car hunts you down to tell you about your car . The car in the foreground is my brother's 75 Monte Carlo. He sold his LA-built 1969 Daytona Yellow SS396 4 speed Camaro to buy that disco-clunker. What a dummy.

[GaryH]

Wow Steve! Look at that hair do! Whoops, come to thing of it, I had one just like it

[njsteve]

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Wow Steve! Look at that hair do! Whoops, come to thing of it, I had one just like it

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Of course I still have that fleece-lined denim vest and the 1979 Street Machine Nationals belt buckle. I think I can get some big bux for them on eBay. Let the bidding wars begin!

[Bill Pritchard]

I sold my Hemi car, too, but can't really say I regret it This pic was about 1990.

[Bill Pritchard]

engine part way thru the restoration.....

[Bill Pritchard]

Current toy....20,000 mile semi-survivor.

[MosportGreen66]

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Current toy....20,000 mile semi-survivor.

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That is STUNNING! I love those 1969's! Bill - tell us more!

[ssl78]

I am getting sprimg fever looking at theese pictures. Here is a family picture minus the new addition. I will post a picture of that one when I take a picture of it.

[njsteve]

This was the beginning of the Mopar Muscle Magazine Project Pit Viper circa January 1993. The car is rolling down the assembly line. I got an insiders press pass as I was the Tech/Managing Editor of Mopar Muscle and Musclecar Review at the time. The guys at the New Mack assembly plant were great but extremely security conscious about where my camera was pointing. I have about 500 slides of the whole assembly plant process. Maybe I'll publish them someday. Anyway, this car, VIN #00102 was mine and I must have spooked them so much that they left a brand new Snap-On 1/4 inch drive ratchet set in the trunk. It was there when I took delivery! The car was sold to us (me) at a deep discount as we were going to use it as the project car for the magazine. It was great time. For months after delivery the guys at Team Viper would send spare parts to us in unmarked boxes for the various articles we were writing. I took delivery in Jan of 1993 and we immediately disassembled the body for repaint. The car was going to be the "Bonzai Blue" of the GTS Show Car, only Dodge had no way of painting the prepainted panels prior to delivery. I remember a funny phone call to the Viper guys when I asked for the paint code for the show car's paint. They said: "Well we can't give you the paint code because it's secret...but we can send you all of the paint and all of the emblems and decals, etc." Not being one to argue, I said Okey Dokey!

[njsteve]

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Here is the assembly line build sheet package. They wouldn't let me keep any of the paperwork but did let me take a photo or 2 of it. No build sheets of any kind ever were left in the cars. They were completely sanitized prior to delivery.