Cars with Cragars

[leach]

This is my 1970 Chevelle L78 4:10 rear-end 12 bolt paint stripe delete I ordered from Vietnam through Karen Chevrolet Phillipsburg, NJ. These mags were put on when I got home May 1970 came home Christmas week 1969 my dad worked at Karen Chevy and had car sitting in garage when I got home that week to drive then put back in garage until I got home in May 1970 then put the Hooker headers on, Intake and Holley, air shocks and rest of stuff to street race in Easton,Pa. where everyone would go to race on main street through town and on Route 22. Green house my dads house 25 Wilson St. 6 houses down from where Karen Chevrolet used to be my dad would walk up the alley to work Phillipsburg, NJ

[mockingbird812]

Terrific! Is that Astros blue?

[chevyandpontiac]

Great story. Love the car!

[Day2_69Z]

Barry,
do you have that still or was it traded off?
My Dad, in 70, bought a rolled over LS6 from a Viet Nam Vet,,,,a week before his mom cosigned 1/2 the loan just as he got home from Nam....no insurance and out of cash, he sold it wrecked.
As a pre-teen my uncle showed me how to "cut up a car" with an acetylene torch... Just in the last few years I sold off the engine & trans (M22/LS6 combo)
The bench seat shifter sold at Carlisle, the ZL2 COWL INDUCTION air cleaner ,I still have.
Astonishing,,,,, a week later Dad bought another 70 Cowl hood car that a discharged Nam Vet had run off the road into ambutment (Silver / Black) LS5 ,,,,,I have that AC as well.
Word got around and don't you know a Daytona Yellow Z/28 and an L88 Corvette was acquired in similar cases. All wrecked before the first payments were made,all un-insured and by service men home from Nam.
At one time that summer and fall , I think there were as many as 7 wrecked/totaled Chevy Hi perf cars in our driveway and back yard.
Interesting enough we still have parts & pieces left from those. .. I was 11 and the second coolest kid in our neighborhood.
Tom

[Day2_69Z]

yep...
an old "tired" 68 Corvette 350 horse
327 , Zip 510 750dp mallory & 3:73's
ran 12.50-12.80 off the street @ 106-109 mph.....
a little faster with small slicks ....
little car with small tires, would pull the wheels a few inches on launch.
I did have Lakewood slappers on it with Gabriel adjustable drag shocks on 4 corners.
The car was extremely quick,fast and launched hard.

[NickZ]

does this count? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

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[Day2_69Z]

OMG. #&amp;%$@'&amp;$ SO UGLY YET SO KOOL... THATS THE BEST ONE I EVER SAW.....JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW CRAGARS CAN &quot;KNOCK THE FUGLY&quot; OFF ANYTHING !!!
his retro tastes are well covered in a shrunk down 70's love machine...geez, I can't believe I like it. hope no one else sees this thread...lol

[markinnaples]

Day2, Do you have some pics of your car(s), old or new?

An acquaintance of mine's son has that yellow/black '69 RS with the tunnel ram, and I believe he has another '69 in blue maybe?

My brother and his buddies used to go to New Stanton; my brother had a burgundy Fox body convertible and his buddy had a series of Mopars (71 Cuda as well as a twin turbo Viper now).

I miss the car scene in WPA.

[novadude]

Mark... you must be talking about Donnie Bell. Yellow '69 RS w/ black stripes and a tunnel ram. His other '69 is a red convertible.

That yellow '69 used to get driven a lot, yet he kept it spotless. It used to make some appearances at the Sunday night street races in Crafton in the early 1990s too.

The &quot;mopar&quot; guy you mentioned... is he from Washington, PA? There used to be a guy that had a 'lil red express, a white AAR cuda (clone maybe), and a green '68 Dart GT 340 4-spd that he used to run down in Crafton.

[markinnaples]

Day2's Old Camaro