The Supercar Registry - It's HEMI time !!! Compliments of NJSteve

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Steve - I wasn't sure which decal you needed -I have an extra of the one that's on E-bay (but real)- shoot me your address
(just as long as your car doesn't haunt me in the future!!)

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Steve
Great story, I just experienced this very same scenario 2 weeks ago in AZ. with the original owner of my car.
Bruce

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Steve,
I'm not aware of an "archive" of old Raceway Park News issues. The original text might exist in a paper folder and/or they might actually have saved each issue and have them stuffed away somewhere.

The decal Kevin referred to on ebay is just like the original I have from '69-'70. Those are the ones that were given out in that era. The original actually has some water soluable glue on the face as well, with instructions how to mount it outside OR inside the glass.

If you want it, pm me with your mailing address. (You've probably done that before, but I'm not as organized as I used to be https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/blush.gif)

Verne https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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More coincidental weirdness: they cloned my car into 1/18th scale just in time for my birthday!

http://www.supercar1.com/catalog/ind...oducts_id=4064

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...268/toycar.jpg

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Glenn, Verne, thanks for the donation!

The car is happy. (You are now on her "friends" list). https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...8a/sticker.jpg

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OK, so anyone familiar with the crazy Charger and its haunted nature will appreciate today's episode...

So I decided to go to the local Cops and Rodders show in North Brunswick, NJ. Lots of neat stuff shows up and its for a good cause - the PBA widow and orphan fund.

Anyway. As is the usual procedure I park, open the trunk and wait the obligatory ten minutes for the genie to emerge from the bottle. If you recall, anytime I go to a car show and open the trunk, the original mechanic and his son soon appear like clockwork. And so it happened on cue: Larry and John Ehnat appear once again:

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/S7003133.jpg

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And if you thought that was it, you are mistaken. Within 20 minutes after that, the second owner Steve Martin shows up with his son. I only spoke to Mr. Martin once about 12 years ago for a brief few minutes. He walks up to the car and immediately recognizes it as the car he bought from Richard Wickberg in 1976.

We talked a while and he gave me some more great stories on the car and corroborated a lot of the existing ones as well. He said he bought the car for $1700 plus $1000 for a load of extra parts back in 1976 after Richard Wickberg blew the engine up.

Here he is with his son in the car:

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/S7003154.jpg

While he was sitting there I had him open the glove box and tell me what was there:

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/S7003157.jpg

He started laughing when he saw the original piston that he installed backwards after drinking a case of beer and assembling the engine. This was a priceless photo of his reaction at the time.

We had a fun time talking cars and politics. He also said that he has the original block from the car. He said he bought the original busted up block from Richard Wickberg in the $1000 extra parts package. Though we now have two contradictory stories on what happened to the blown up block, I always side with the optomistic story just in case it's true. I gave him a standing offer of a new block or cash for that old one, plus the chance to drive the car once the original motor goes back in. He said he'll think on it (he is building his own hemi car as a project now and is using that block I think).

All in all it was just another entertaining day in the life of the most haunted hemi car in the universe.

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