[jannes_z-28]

Hi Brian,

I hope you got my mail I sent you yesterday.

The story about "Pizza Racer" is not true. The term "Pizza Racer" was founded for 2nd gen Trans AM's. In the mid 70's every Pizza restaurant owner in Stockholm had a 2nd gen Trans AM, it was their way of showing off. That resulted in that nobody else wanted a Trans AM for not to be associated with "greasy" Italians.

The Challenger Hemi Cab was called something else. There is no equivalent English word so I try to explain the category it was called to belong to.

We have had a car culture over here since the early 50's that is more or less people driving around in American cars on Friday and Saturday nights. You jam in as many people as you can in the car, preferably girls, everybody is drunk (except the driver), screaming, throwing beer cans and misbehave in general. Loud rock'n'roll music too.

I guess you can call it "Heavy Cruising", it isn't so much showing your car and race at the stop light. It is more street party.

But at the same time in Stockholm the guys with the Musclecars were cruising along with the drunk pack, eventually they came up next to another Muscle car and then they raced at the redlights. Since that Challenger were often driving on the cruising streets it got classified as one of the Party Cars and that is a reputation that still lives here in Sweden.

We have had other examples that had fallen in to that Category, COPO_Anders' Camaro was an even more case of a "Heavy Cruising" car.

Enclosed is a picture of the Challenger as it looked when it came to Sweden, it doesn't look anything like it now. Here it is Black with white top, not the wheels, the AO5 - Protection group option, if you look close it also had the fender mounted turn signal indicators. Original engine was changed and where it is now nobody knows.

I had a piece written on it in my book.


Jan