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Old 06-20-2014, 03:25 PM
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Default Re: Norwood Motor Co - Warwick, RI

With the help of Gill427 and a few others, I've pieced together the following.

The salesman that originally sold my car would have been Mel Perry or Roger Booth. Supposedly Mel Perry lives in FL, but I haven't been able to track him down. Apparently Mel Perry had a Motion Performance franchise that he ran out of Norwood Chevrolet in RI.

The old service manager was Dave Kenahan (still around and live's in West Warwick RI). He worked in the high performance department and with the race team...so did Tony Padula, Tommy Ditmare, Nickey Manilla, Joe Vanny and Dick Pinto.

Dick Pinto was the high performance manager and also worked at Scuncio Chevrolet and is still in RI.

Sadly, back in 91 or 92 Jack the lot guy put all the old Norwood paperwork in the dumpster. Norwood sold a few COPO Camaro's and Chevelle's and Ralph Ridgeway had a 69 Z28 called the ridge runner that was sponsered by Norwood and Motion Performance and lives in Massachusetts. Mel Perry was the head of the race team. They also had a Z11 Impala, a few funny cars and some super stocks.

In 1982, the car was on the lot at Wayside Auto Service in Littleton, MA with just over 60k miles. It sold to a local guy and stayed in the area until 2000 when it moved to Shirley, MA. In 2004 it was sold to a fella in Wakefield, MA who had the car until I bought it in 2006 with 106k miles.

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