70 HEMI Charger R/T-SE 4spd, the only red one made

[njsteve]

How's that? (it's recent -give or take a quarter century or so) [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Here's a sampling of some of the original paperwork that this car has:

The original dealer file:



The legal pad sheet with the original negotiation for price, including the set of headers:



How about the original bill of lading from the delivering tractor trailer on New Year's Eve, 1969:



The dealer prep work order, documenting the installation of the headers prior to delivery:




Lots more in the file. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

[K code Mustang]

Steve, I will never forget the moment I found the file for your car. As soon as I saw &quot;Charger R/T&quot; and &quot;Wickberg&quot; on the jacket, I knew it was for your car. I brought the folder home that day and showed my dad, the first thing he said was, you need to track the owner down and give him all this stuff. Then he called my uncle (who also worked at Suburban in 1970) and they told stories for hours about your car and all the other hot Dodge's they sold there.

Good luck with the sale (altho you know I feel connected to the car, and would hate to loose track of it). The fact that Dad prepped it and did other work on it, Suburban was my family dealership and Steve Martin (no...not that one)is a friend too. Not to mention every time I see it and touch it I get a warm feeling,

John

[njsteve]

John, you and your Dad are truly what is &quot;right&quot; about this hobby. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

So many people in this day and age, would have literally held something like that original dealer material, for ransom. Through your detective work, the car went from having no documentation other than gossip and a broadcast sheet, to the mother lode of paperwork.

And I do remember that day, back in 1990 when I was working for Musclecar Review, when you tracked me down and mailed me the entire package, out of the blue. That was right after the car was in the November, 1990 issue.






And you know what is really scary? The storyline I used for that article was just a fantasy of what I thought it must have been like to buy that car back in 1970. It's bizzare how close I was to the real, actual story that I later learned from you and your Dad.

Cue the Twilight Zone theme...again!

And now that I think of it, I should have trademarked the term &quot;DAY TWO,&quot; since as far as I can recall, that was the first time the term appeared in print. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] And I got all sorts of grief for using it as the title since the magazine powers-that-be didn't think anyone would understand what I meant. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Here's how she looks with its 1970 set of 15x4 and 15x7 Cragars that were installed by the original owner back in January, 1970. Of course, they go with the car. Those 1972 Firestone Parnelli Jones L60x15 tires are as hard as hockey pucks now. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[CC Rider]

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