LOOKING TOWARDS FORD MUSTANG 40 Upcoming Events

2 THE FUTURE 20 Shelby GT350 43 SWAP SHOP Club President "Skovy" Returns! 44 GHOSTS OF N.DAK 3 BIRTHDAYS (Feb) 21 JAMESTOWN ELKS Berlin, North Dakota 3 ACTIVE MEMBERS 22 JAMESTOWN DEVILS RUN 4 DEVILS RUN CLASSIC CAR CLUB 47&48 BUFFALO CITY SWAP THOSE WERE THE After Nearly 20 years MEET 48 CLUB APPLICATION 5 DAYS MY FRIENDS I 22 John Force Racing HOPE THEY NEVER END returns to Chevrolet

8 CLASSIC CAR COLORS 23 CLASSIC CAR REVIEW What's in a Name? 1956 Ford Thunderbird RUMBLER MINISTRY HIGHWAY TO HELL(cat)

11 Scott W. Block 26 Owner wrecks 707hp WWJD? (Part 2) 1 hour after purchase THINGS GOT YOU 28 CLASSIC CAR REVIEW

12 DOWN? Well then 1974 AMC Javelin Consider these 30 2001 Dodge Dakota RUMBLER SAFETY Dad's Hot Rod.

13 Scott W. Block 31 CLASSIC CAR REVIEW 1929 Peerless Model Bullet Proof Vest 13 BRIAN KAMLITZ 6-81 MARTY ROBBINS Motorhead Central 15 5 AUTOMOTIVE 34 Old Car Sparks INVENTIONS "RAT ROD" Hobby 16 AROUND MILL HILL 36 CLASSIC CAR REVIEW Dinner: Sabir's Valley City 1969 Dodge Charger MILLION DOLLAR CLAIM Show: Jupiter Ascending 2015 CORVETTE 38 The "BULLITT"

17 On Notice: Goodbye 1968 Dodge Charger ZR1 & Everybody Else 39 What's Sitting in your Barn or Back Yard?

P a g e | 2 LOOKING TOWARDS be playing 70’s music all night “RUMBLER” set up on our web THE FUTURE and if you come dressed in 70’s page. Our biggest complaint is Story & Photos by Skovy garb there will be a special gift for the magazine is getting so big you. Skovy already has his people can’t open it up via e-mail. platform shoes and afro wig. We Now we just send a link to our will be closing off the street right web page in front of the Toy box and only www.jamesvalleystreetmachines. collector cars will be parked on com and the magazine pops up. that street. Should be a great night of Food, Dancing, Cool Come to the meeting on March cars, and fun! 18th and hear of all the fun goings on that is happening this year. Our 2nd annual Dakota Blacktop We will meet again in the back tour is going to invade room of Fred’s Den 113 1st Minnesota. Our committee has Avenue South right here in the route platted and we will be Jamestown. Meeting starts at Tick Tock, Tick Tock. Sitting here sending that out with future e- 7:00. See you there! looking outside and hoping for mails and “RUMBLERS”. Get warmer weather to come. How I your vacation requests in. It’s Want to get on the “RUMBLER” enjoy jumping in one of my only 3 days (Friday 07/24, email list? “RUMBLER” issues to classics and cruising around. Saturday 07/25 & Sunday 07/26) date … 10,039! Hitting the drag strip in one of my and we want you to come along! quarter mile fun cars. Oh there I [email protected] go again and regress. I know that Our summer cookouts are we have a couple more months planned this summer also. of this fine weather and then Whoo Hoo it’s off to the fun stuff 05/13 S&R Truck Plaza again. 06/17 Sabir’s II (the old Buffalo City Rotisserie Grille) 2015 is setting up to be a very 08/12 S&R Truck Plaza busy summer for the James 09/16 Sabir’s II Valley Street Machines and (the old Buffalo City Rotisserie Grille) friends. At the meeting this week we will hammer down the date or There will be a concert this our springtime “Hoedown summer but we are still working Hootenanny” that will be held in out the details. Max Brandenburger barn. School of Rock will be providing the Our September Car Show (09/26 music for the Hoedown and the th Street Machines will bring 5 Annual Dan Wilhelm Car chicken. Pot luck for the to go Show supporting Huntington’s with. Should be an afternoon of disease at Don Wilhelm fun for family and friends. Will Chevrolet), might have some have the date for the Hoedown in special guests but we can’t the next “RUMBLER”. disclose until contracts are signed. More information in future “RUMBLERS”. Another party will be the 70’s Boogie Nights at the Skovy Toy box. This is going to be held on We’ve broke 10,000 issues of the May 8th. This is going to be a “RUMBLER” magazine this great spring kick off for the 2015 month. 10,039 people are now activities. Hamburgers, brats & receiving this magazine via e- refreshments will be served (free mail. With the help of Vice to members). School of Rock will President Tom Ravely he has the

P a g e | 3 Bachmeier, Donovan & Karla Lulay, Bob & Alma Balvitsch, Wayne Lynn, Randy Behm, Earl & Connie Lynn, Tyler & Pauline Bensch, Paul & Janis Martin, Randy & Patti Berg, Wayne & Tami Mathias, Roger & Bonnie Beyer, James McCreedy, Terrance Block, Scott & Pat McCullough, Gary & Billie Brandenburger, Max & Williams, McIlonie, Bernie & Darlene Laura Meidinger, Jamie Briese, Lee & Penny Meyer, Ken & Annie Calheim, Clifford & Marla Miller, Randy & Crystel Carow, Billy & Candace Mischka, Kenneth & Judy MEMBERS BIRTHDAYS Christianson, Glenn & Lucinda Mittleider, Cody & Elaine Dewald, Joel & Della Mitzel, LeRoy Andy Gray 02/01 Dodd, Jim & Mary Jo Moser, LeRoy & Gloria Sue Huber 02/04 Emo, Paul Nelson, Troy & Lois Skovy 02/04 Erdahl, Shawn (Shady) & Dawn Troy Thomas 02/09 Nenow, Roger & Lois Frank, Tracy Diane Gibson 02/10 Nogosek, Aaron & Amy Collin Godfrey 02/10 Gaier, Craig & Johnston, Ruth Obrigewitsch, Les & Sheryl Taylor Vining 02/15 Gehring, Duane & Kathleen Olson, David & Adele Mike Allmer 02/16 Geisler, David Olson, Taylor Kathy Gehring 02/16 Gibson, Teddy & Diane Orness, Stan & Sharon Gary Specht 02/21 Gilbertson, Mike & Murray, Kim Patzner, Elroy & Elayne Jeff Kummer 02/24 Gilge, Larry & Cindy Petrek, Gary Beverly Wolff 02/24 Godfrey, Collin Poppe, Jerry & Ardie Leslie Specht 02/25 Gray, JeriLynn & Andy Bernie McIlonie 02/26 Ravely, Thomas & Rhonda Greenlund, Ron & Darlene Redinger, Dale Miss your birthday? Please Gums, Robert & Candace Rixen, Dennis contact me at 701-202-7067 Guthmiller, Neil & Linda Schauer, Ronald & Cindy whereas I can update your Heiman, Tyler Seckerson, Kelly & Tricia records. Holzkamm, Al & Cindy Seher, Jeff Houge, Jason & Ann Marie Specht, Gary & Margaret Huber, Al & Sue Specht, Leslie & Debra Jacobson, Verdell (Jake) & Linda Speckman, Dale & Pamela Jangula, Duane Stromberg, Bryan Jaskoviak, Steven (Skovy) Swedlund, Troy & Emmy Jensen, Paul & Sue Thoele, Kevin & Kim Johnson, Brandon & Sonia Thomas, Troy & Tricia Kamlitz, Brian Titman, Nick Karn, Dale & Sue Tracy, Dean & Martha Keim, Lyman & Darlene VanFleet, Richard Kessler, Michael & Mary Vining, Taylor Kleinknecht, Delno & Phyllis Wegenast, Colin & Toni Kolb, Dale & Nidia ACTIVE MEMBERS Westerhausen, Leon & Mary Jane Kummer, Jeffrey & Erin Allmer, Michael Wiest, J.P. & Judy Lade, Joshua Andersen, Jeff(Andy) & Karla Wilhelm, Jeff Lang, John (JR) Anderson, Bruce & Kathy Wilhelm, Rod & Sandy Layton, Viril & Mary Anderson, Roger & Meleia Willman, Casey & Jessica Loose, Larry & Bonita Anderson, Scott & Kim Wolf, Cameron

P a g e | 4 Wolff, Clayton & Beverly NEW, $10,000 Poker Run Friday 80 Car Auction Saturday of Wonnenberg, Douglas & Robyn sponsored by the Spirit Lake collector cars by Masters Casino & Resort Auctions www.masternd.com contact George at 701-240-6771 New location, Burnouts, etc. sponsored by the Spirit Lake As always expect 10 Free Meals Casino & Resort Friday As always Live Entertainment NEW, NASCAR Simulator Saturday & Sunday Sponsored sponsored by the Spirit Lake by Radio Works Casino & Resort (at the Casino Friday, in Roosevelt Park on Women’s World Extravaganza Saturday) [email protected] 701-351- 6587 NEW, ¼ Mile Simulator sponsored by The Spirit Lake FREE Dash plaques to the first Casino & Resort (at the Casino 750 registered Sponsored by Friday, in Roosevelt Park on Radio Works Saturday) City Wide Rummage Sale Robi’s Dyno will be setup at the sponsored by the Devils Lake Spirit Lake Casino on Friday and Daily Journal in Roosevelt Park on Saturday & Sunday Buses will run from the park to the Spirit Lake Casino, Car SCCA Autocross will be held in Auction and Devils Lake Ruger Park on Saturday, for shopping areas all day Saturday. more information contact Cletus Sponsored by Lake Region 701-662-4071 Chamber of Commerce

NEW, “Rat Agent” Cody along A Tentative Schedule, motel info Hello Everyone, with his wife Amber and the “Rug and entry forms are at Rats” will be here to sign “Rat www.greaterdakotaclassics.com Fink” Ed Roth’s t-shirts (first time Dorm rooms are still available at Even after 23 years we try hard in North Dakota) sponsored by the College and self-contained to make Devils Run NEW & Greater Dakota Classics EXCITING, “North America’s camping will be available Hottest Car Show/Rod Run”. NEW, Pinky’s Tuscadaro’s 1956 Be there or be square!! See Lincoln Premier Convertible will This year’s dates are May 29th, you soon! th st be on display sponsored by 30 & 31 , 2015. Marvin Windows and “The Shed”

Warroad, MN (this is the car used Here are some of the things we on Happy Days and Laverne & have planned: Shirley) How many Laverne and Pre-Devils Run Steak Fry at Shirley's or Pinky's will show up Lakota, fund raiser for the Lakota for pictures? Fire Department NEW, 1940 Cars (75th Muscle Car Show at the Spirit Anniversary) will lead the Lake Casino & Resort Saturday AM parade & have special parking in Roosevelt Park

P a g e | 5 THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND, I HOPE THEY NEVER END Photos sent by Jim Dodd (e-mail)

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P a g e | 8 CLASSIC CAR COLORS Playmate Pink What’s in a Name? Story & Photos by Historical Vehicle Association.org

Candy-Apple Red

When Donna Michelle was named Playboy’s 1964 Playmate of The Year, Ford decided to drum up a little marketing hype by giving Ms. Michelle a 1964 ½ Driving home one night Ford Mustang convertible in a somewhere in California, color they called “playmate pink.” legendary car customizer Joe The magazine ran a picture of Bailon became entranced by the the car (see above), which glowing taillights ahead of him. resulted in rush of the special Bailon thought the lights were so order paintjob. Ford’s playmate pretty he began wondering what pink, exterior paint color is often an entire car painted the color of confused with “dusk rose,” a then a taillight might look like. standard color (Code S) that Ford According to the tale, Bailon offered in the 1967 model year. worked for the next decade Today, genuine playmate-pink mixing and layering various Mustangs are rare. While no solid paints, trying and failing to find data exists regarding total the perfect red. Then it 1956, production figures, the quickest history was made when he “threw way to tell an original is by the some gold powder on the bench, six-digit DSO on the data plate mixed it with Sherman-Williams and a blank exterior color code. extra-brilliant maroon and clear lacquer.” Although he wasn’t the Plum-Crazy Purple only hot rod enthusiast toying around (and having some success) with candy-colored paint formulas in the 1950s, Bailon is today considered the first to discover the basic formula. But it wasn’t until 1966 that the color went main stream when Ford began offering candy-apple red as a paint option on Fairlane, Falcon, Galaxie, and One of the most iconic Thunderbird. automotive colors of all time, “plum-crazy” purple was just one in an entire palette of flamboyant colors Chrysler introduced in 1969 for its groundbreaking muscle car lineup, which included the Charger, Challenger and

P a g e | 9 Road Runner. Like red Mustangs 1970s. In 1969 and 1970, AMC and black Model Ts, plum-crazy offered three "Big Bad" color purple and the Dodge Charger options on its model year now seem like a car/color paint Javelins and AMX's. While combination made in heaven. AMC’s neon green and orange big-bad color variations were far Sublime better sellers, big-bad blue was 1970 Ford Mustang something truly unique. According to the AMC Big Bad Another iconic color made Javelin and AMX Registry, each popular by Ford, “grabber blue” big-bad color option in 1969 also was first used as a Shelby included matching color bumpers Mustang color option in 1969. and special chrome front bumper Car buyers reacted so positively trim. to the color that Ford made it an option for all their pony cars, as Ivy Green well as on the Falcon and on certain trucks. Grabber blue When Chrysler debuted its “High eventually disappeared from the Impact Paint” or “H.I.P.” (Get it?) Mustang lineup in 1974, until it Exterior paint hues in 1969, the was reintroduced in 2010. hope was to “rev up” sales with a fun and stylish new color palate that would complement the exciting new direction the company was taking with its cars. While plum-crazy purple and 1963 Chevrolet Impala HEMI® orange were two colors from the era that made a lasting In psychology circles, a fondness impression on car enthusiasts, a for the color green supposedly few others—like “sublime”—were means you are a down-to-earth- not so well received at the time. person who loves nature and Sublime was only available for strives for balance in everything the 1970 production year. Today, you do. In the classic car world, however, original examples of the most enduring and iconic Chrysler and Plymouth vehicles green tone is arguably known as done up in this wildly bold color “ivy green.” First used by Cadillac are coveted by virtue of them in 1942, according to being quite rare. Paintref.com, ivy green as a factory paint color for cars saw its Big Bad Blue greatest popularity in the 1960s among automakers Chrysler and Ford. From the Fairlane to the Falcon, the Thunderbird to the

Barracuda—in that decade, the color was an option on just about

all of their most popular models. The color was especially popular among Mustang owners, especially after Steve McQueen Chrysler wasn’t the only drove a dark green variant in his company to capitalize on what 1968 blockbuster, Bullitt. became a sadly short-lived color revolution that came over the Grabber Blue automotive world in the early

P a g e | 10 Chevelle, Pontiac, Nova, and Kevin DiOssi’s well-written Chevy II. history of the Blue Bird for the Hot Rod Network, the original Orbit Orange name was already trademarked by a then popular manufacturer of school buses (Blue Bird Corporation), which forced Pontiac to adopt a new moniker—the Sky Bird, which Sassy Grass Green only appeared in this rare color for one model year.

“Orbit Orange” was used only for the 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge. Factory records indicate only 618 1971 Chrysler Challenger R/T Judge GTOs were ever produced with this rare and racy-looking According to Paintref.com, “sassy hue. An orbit orange 1970 GTO grass green” (also known as was one of the cars featured in “green go”) was a paint color the cross-country race movie option used between 1970 and Two-Lane Blacktop, starring 1983, primarily by Chrysler and James Taylor. seen today mostly on Chargers, Coronets, Challengers and Lombard Blue Barracudas from that era. While considered one of the most iconic muscle car colors of all time, everything from to the Dart to the Polara could be ordered in this distinct, eye-catching color.

Evening Orchid

Looking to catch the eye of the female market in the early 1970s, Pontiac's Special Edition Sky Bird debuted in 1976 at the Chicago Auto Show. The first in a series 1965 Chevrolet Impala (Special Order) of “Firebirds for the ladies” (followed by the Red Bird and Offered by GM for only one year, Yellow Bird), the Sky Bird came 1965, the wonderfully rare and in a special blue color (known as beautiful color known as “evening Lombard blue) not offered on orchid” (also known by its other Firebird models. Originally promotional name “iris mist”) was known as the “The Blue Bird,” the available by special order or as a car was such a showstopper that factory color option on the Pontiac immediately set plans to Tempest, Chevrolet, Corvair, begin production the following year. Unfortunately, according

P a g e | 11 RUMBLER MINISTRY We know from reading the Old involved in a crash. For we read, Story & Photos by Scott W. Block Testament that Moses rode an “And they shall come against you old motorcycle or an old car for with chariots and Wagons.” the Bible tells us that Moses and Crashes were numerous for they the Israelites sang a song of had demolition derbies. We read victory whereby the “roar of that others would “deal with you Moses’ Triumph is heard in the in a Fury.” That’s why they were hills” (translation altered). Moses protected with a “buckler, shield, had a “sidekick”, a man named and helmet.” Seat belts were Joshua. Now Joshua was a good around back then, why were they man and followed in the footsteps lost during the fifties and sixties? of Moses. Like Moses, we really don’t know if Joshua drove a Fords, back then as now, were motorcycle or a car for we read popular. But sometimes during that “Joshua’s Triumph is heard emergencies they were left was heard throughout the land” behind. From Genesis we read (translation altered). I would that Jacob took his family and venture a guess that Moses crossed over the Ford Jabbok.” drove a car because he was He appears that Jacob really older and had difficulty getting liked his car, so much so, that he around. We know this for he had named it. a wooden staff which would make it difficult to drive a motorcycle. Joshua, being of the younger generation, would want to be cooler than Moses, so I would bet he chose the WWJD? (Part 2) motorcycle. We read that Joshua was told “Go up and Triumph” Last month we started dealing which leads me to believe it was with the acronym WWJD. We an old way of saying “go Moto-X” know it used to mean Would or “go up the mountain”…..but I Jesus Do?” But we changed it. might be wrong! Either way, both With the twisted minds that we vehicles had lousy muffler have, well, we simply couldn’t systems for both of them were leave it alone. So with tongue in heard a long ways away. They cheek, and lots of humor (and needed to Midasize! forgiveness!) we changed it to “what would Jesus drive”? Yep, We know from reading like I said last month, twisted Deuteronomy there were drive- minds. ins and car shows in the early days. For the group of Israelites were told to “keep the festival of You may be familiar with the weeks, the first fruits and have a Bible. It consists of two parts, the Ford dealerships were commonly festival at the turn of the year.” Old Testament and the New used for gathering places. They Three times a year they were Testament. The Old Testament held festivals there as well. also to return and hold “the basically is “Jesus is coming” and Mainly though we see that festival of the booths.” the New Testament is “Jesus is women used the Ford here.” In the Old Testament there dealerships more than men. It Station wagons were popular was a man named Moses. He is reads, “So the daughters of Moab back in the day. They were seen the giver of the Ten (a city) shall be at the Fords of as “good” as they could carry a Commandments. Arnon (another city). bunch of people, and would also

help shield them if they were

P a g e | 12 Like today, cars were heavily No one could solve the mystery Two animal rights defenders customized. Many cars had four as to why the deaths occurred were protesting the cruelty of bronze wheels with axles of around 11:00 AM Sunday, so a sending pigs to a slaughterhouse bronze. The four wheels had a lift worldwide team of experts was in Bonn, Germany . Suddenly, kit too for there were supports at assembled to investigate the all two thousand pigs broke loose the four corners. The doors were cause of the incidents The next and escaped through a broken round and there were carvings all Sunday morning, a few minutes fence, stampeding madly. The around the perimeters. They had before 11:00 AM all of the two helpless protesters were rims, spokes, and hubs that were doctors and nurses nervously trampled to death. all cast. They would decorate the waited outside the ward to see cars with angels, lions, palm for themselves what the terrible trees, and wreaths (1 Kings 7:32- phenomenon was all about. 37). Some were holding wooden Well, that’s enough of that. It was crosses, prayer books, and other fun while it lasted. Thankfully it’s holy objects to ward off the evil over. Whew! Thanks for hanging spirits Just when the clock struck in me with it. But I tell you, there 11:00, Fernando Rodriguez , the is more humor stored in those part-time Sunday sweeper, pages of the Holy Bible. We entered the ward and unplugged could have had even more the life support system so he laughs for I found so much more! could use the vacuum cleaner.

What would Jesus drive? Well, Still Having a Bad Day? now it’s your turn to have some fun, so read and study the Bible The average cost of rehabilitating and let me know what you find! a seal after the Exxon Valdez Oil spill in Alaska was $80,000.00 At One again, peace to you dear a special ceremony, two of the readers of my humble articles. most expensively saved animals May you have a blessed day? were being released back into May God fill you with all good the wild amid cheers and things, pour them into you so applause from onlookers.. A much so your cup runs over and minute later, in full view, a killer spills into your lap. May you whale ate them both. enjoy good health? Still think you are having a Bad Keep on cruising, keep on Day? laughing, and keep on reading A woman came home to find her the Rumbler. Stays warm my husband in the kitchen shaking friends! frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards Things Got You Down? the electric kettle. Intending to jolt Well Then, Consider These: him away from the deadly Story E-Mailed by David Olson current, she ran outside and grabbed a handy plank of wood What? STILL having a Bad In a hospital's Intensive Care and smacked him with it, Day? Unit, patients always died in the breaking his arm in two places. same bed, on Sunday morning, Up to that moment, he had been Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet at about 11:00 am, regardless of happily listening to his iPod didn't pay enough postage on a their medical condition. This letter bomb. It came back with puzzled the doctors and some Are You OK Now? - No? 'Return to Sender' stamped on it. even thought it had something to Forgetting it was the bomb; he do with the supernatural.

P a g e | 13 opened it and was blown to bits. reach out and help one of our MOTORHEAD CENTRAL God is good! own members be safe. Story & Photos by Brian Kamlitz

There now, Feeling Better? Here is what Scott wrote back to us. Great job Street Machines!

Jamestown North Dakota, a town of 15,427 with increasing population as of the 2010 census. This has always been a Motorhead community.

I was a student at NDSCS in Wahpeton, North Dakota. My Thank you! Thank you! Thank teachers would say your town you! has a lot Hot Rodders and fast cars. They said when they would Thank you to the James Valley travel through Jamestown, Street Machines who so sometimes at odd hours, and graciously donated a bullet-proof there would be some sort of vest. I am currently the only classic car out cruising. Police Chaplain, and it is a volunteer position. During a few As I have been involved in many

ride-along, for my safety, I found of these clubs here in Jamestown it necessary to have some I decided to put a list of motor RUMBLER SAFETY protection. Riding with the Police clubs together and the events Story & Photos by Scott W. Block put me at risk and like they are a they organizations hold. This has target of course, made me a become a very impressive my Last month, the James Valley “target”. list. Street Machines helped one of its own. Pastor Scott Block is a I appreciate so much how the I want to tell you a little story that volunteer Crisis Pastor and is Club thought about this and has been told to me over the called upon to consult people donated the money for me to years, if we would have got sometimes in dangerous purchase a Level 3 Kevlar vest. cooperation with the state of situations. North Dakota and the City of Jamestown back in the 1950's we Members at the James Valley This vest will provide protection up to a .44 magnum! would have been what is now Street Machines felt the need to Brainerd International Motorplex as I'm hearing the push for this Thank you once again.

P a g e | 14 type of venue was not supported without you this all wouldn't be year’s event was a huge back then and would have really possible. success! Memorabilia, Parts, changed the outcome of this Race cars, Drag cars, town if that would have been built Motorcycles, Snowmobiles and back in the day. Mud Trucks were all here to see to buy from area Organizations. Today we have plenty of local support from the city and local This year’s event will be hosting commissioners for our new area seminars and specialty venture … A drag strip right here booths for all that attends. $5.00 in the Jamestown area. admittance is one of the cheaper fees to attend an event like this. Here is list of clubs we have in 1000's of people flow through the town that all are very active: Civic Center searching for that one special item or tool for their Buffalo City Karting Association shop or needed to complete their Buffalo City Remote Control Squadron projects. Also area clubs will be Christian Motorcycle Association advertising there summer events. Dakota Motocross I started a group on Facebook FM Crusaders Jamestown Chapter Harley Owners Group (HOG) called Motorsports Capital of So mark this on your calendar Individuals Motorcycle Club North Dakota. It has all the clubs and I hope to see you there. Jamestown Classic Car Club listed and I post events and Jamestown Demolition Club upcoming notices for meetings Jamestown Drag Racing Association Please feel free to contact me via Jamestown Speedway and important items of club email if you are looking for any James Valley Off-Roaders members. info on any of these clubs, here is James Valley Street Machines my email [email protected]. Jim River Drift Skippers Facebook has become a huge Southeastern Pickup Pulling Association help for promoting clubs, What a strong showing for clubs announcing club events, selling in our community of Jamestown, fundraising tickets and items. North Dakota. I’m currently working on all the events and The internet has become a huge members these clubs have and bonus for all involved. Web they all have years of activity. pages are instrumental for advertising everyone's web sites. I'm am proud to say that I'm a The amount of people that are founding member of 3 of these on-line today is unbelievable! clubs and have been part Twitter has 2 billion tweeters of....either member, organizer, alone each day. participant or worker of 8 current clubs over the years. The internet today has made

organizations grow, made public

There is currently no other city in aware of current events and . North Dakota supporting this sponsors supporting the event. many motor clubs. Anybody from Selling advertising on your web Jamestown, or the surrounding site is a good way to fund your area should be honored to have club and host events. We such entertainment in the area. encourage all our participants Each and every year our and Spector's to support our local supporters and advertisers need sponsors for our clubs. to be recognized by each and March 7th, 2015 right here in every one of you, the fan, nd readers and Spector's because Jamestown, will be the 2 Annual Buffalo City Motorsports Swap Meet from 9:00-4:00. Last

P a g e | 15 dangerous driving habits and a actually got moving and the dog, general disrespect for the basic peppered with road grit and rules of the road. The tradition of flipped out with fear, tried to claw reckless driving goes back to the and chew its way out of the early days of the automobile, and sack? here’s a little proof. In 1924, pedestrian casualties caused by Poison Gas Shooting Riot Car French drivers apparently reached such disturbing proportion that mounting a net on the front of vehicle was considered a great idea by at least one inventor.

The Original “Doggie Bag”

FIVE AUTOMOTIVE INVENTIONS That never made it because they were fundamentally impractical, Dangerous and/or just plain stupid. Story & Photos by Historical Vehicle Association.org

In the mind of the inventor, the Patented in 1938 by New Yorker line between insanity and sheer Victorino Tunaya but never genius is often very thin. But on actually built, this futuristic- that, we’ll let you be the judge. looking vehicle was designed to From pedestrian nets to the in- mow down angry crowds of car minibar, here’s a nostalgic protestors, rioters or any look back at a selection of annoying group of agitators with automotive inventions that never Popular Mechanics, 1935 streams of poisonous gas, really took off. powerful water jets or a hail of There are so many obvious bullets. Pedestrian Net reasons why having to forcibly wrestle the family dog into a big In Car Mini-Bar canvas bag every time you wanted to go for a drive never really caught on with the American driver/dog owner. But let’s leave modern morality and concerns about animal welfare out of it and keep this strictly about cars. The old ad in Popular Mechanics promised that the head hole in “the dog sack” was covered with small rubber tubing If you’re old enough to remember Last year, a European road designed to protect your car’s when Perry Mason and I Love survey found 60-percent of finish. But what about that Lucy were two of the most French drivers freely admitting to precious paint job when the car popular shows on television, then

P a g e | 16 you also probably remember one AROUND MILL HILL of the biggest headaches with (DINNER) cars back in the day: there was Story & Photos by JVSM Evaluation Team never a handy place to put your drink. Cadillac tackled this problem head on when it offered this magnetized glove-box minibar as a standard option on its 1957 Eldorado Brougham.

Illuminating Tires SABIR’S VALLEY CITY

Around Mill Hill is going to be a monthly evaluation of area businesses. If you are a paid member of the JVSM and would 4 STARS OUT OF 4! like to take part in this program, please let me know Appetizers were the Calamari, [email protected] and I will Beef Tips with Portabella add your name to the list. Mushrooms, and Sham with Bread. Main Course was Last month, Skovy along with 7 Combination 10oz New York other members of the James Steak with 6oz Walleye Fillet. Valley Street Machines went to Desert was Turtle Cheesecake. the Sabir’s in Valley City and evaluated the service and food MEET & GREET: we received. 1. Convey the feeling that you were a valued customer:

34 points 97.14% Mind you, this article is not 2. Seat you and deliver menus in a written to slam and business, but courteous manner: To make tires glow in 1961, it is written to make the public 35 points 100.00% engineers at Goodyear 3. Was the staff properly attired? aware of services the Jamestown supposedly used special 35 points 100.00% area residence are getting. synthetic rubber and mounted SERVER: actual light bulbs on the inner Evaluations are based on a 0 to 5 1. Suggest a beverage or specialty wall of a tire’s rim. Called drink: rating. A number 5 is the best “entertaining but ultimately 32 points 91.43% rating and a 0 rating is area pointless” by the press (and a 2. Appear to be knowledgeable about needing work. There is a total of the menu items: road hazard by anyone else who 700 points to be scored. 35 34 Points 97.14% understood how broken glass 3. Remain attentive throughout the points per line and there are 20 and inflatable rubber tubes don’t dining experience: fields that are evaluated. Again, mix), illuminating tires looked 34 Points 97.14% these evaluations are not for the 4. Mention/Offer Appetizer? Options: pretty cool but never really intention for getting anybody fired 30 points 85.71% caught on. or to slam a business. It is a fact APPETIZER: finding mission. 1. Serve the soup or salad within a reasonable time: 35 Points 100.00% 2. Was the order correct, complete and properly prepared? 34 points 97.14%

ENTRÉE: 1. Were appropriate condiments served? 34 Points 97.14%

P a g e | 17 2. Check back to ensure that your AROUND MILL HILL 2015 CHEVROLET meal was satisfactory: 35 Points 100.00% (MOVIE) CORVETTE Z06. 3. Offer refills on beverage/drinks: Story & Photos by JVSM Evaluation Team On Notice: Goodbye, ZR1 34 Points 97.14% 4. Was the order correct, complete and Everybody Else and properly prepared? Story & Photos by Carlos Lago (Motor Trend 35 Points 100.00% Magazine)

DESERT: 1. Mention/Offer Desert? Options? 53 Points 96.36% 2. Was the order correct, complete and properly prepared? 53 Points 96.36%

GENERAL: 1. Did they appear to be busy and efficient in their work? 34 Points 97.14% 2. Were the tables properly bussed? 35 Points 100.00% Our resident hot shoe Randy 3. Did the bartenders appear neat and professional in their appearance? Pobst idles back into the pits in 35 Points 100.00% the Z06. It's turned into a humid, 4. Did the overall dining experience 85-degree afternoon here at meet or exceed your expectations: Road Atlanta -- we'd spent the 35 Points 100.00% 5. Were there enough employees to morning in the garages waiting take care of guests? out a rainstorm -- and the white In a bright and colorful future, a 35 Points 100.00% car with the black wheels and young destitute caretaker gets black wings looks purposeful targeted by the ruthless son of a against the tarmac and bright TOTAL POINTS: powerful family who lives on a green trees. Pobst gets out, and 684 points 97.71% planet in need of a new heir, so the small group of Chevrolet she travels with a genetically engineers approaches, eager to engineered warrior to the planet Sabir’s Valley City … This hear his thoughts. Impatient for in order to stop his tyrant reign. month’s rating is 4 stars out of 4. our data acquisition hardware's Fantastic Job! Only 2 other Director: results, they'd been timing his restaurants have achieved a 4 Andy Wachowski laps on their phones: 1:30.17, star rating since we started doing Writers: 1:30.21, 1:30.67. One of Pobst's these evaluations 2 years ago. Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski thoughts: "The power felt great. Congratulations! Stars: Honestly, I want another hundred more. It's stable enough. You Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne don't feel threatened."

James Valley Street Machines It's a strange comment when you Evaluation: consider the last-generation ZR1, whose power band made you * Storyline was a little hard to keenly aware of its awesome follow at first, but once you were potential. During our 2009 Best able to get into the show it flowed Driver's Car test at Mazda pretty good. Action was great and Raceway Laguna Seca, Pobst CG was excellent. said, "It's one of the very few cars * Great Sci-Fi flick. Storyline I've ever driven here where I good. Cinematics and Effects didn't want to keep my foot down great. Nice set up for future over Turn 1." This new Z06 not episodes. only generates more power, * Visually Amazing. Promising making it the most powerful Future for more films. Excellent vehicle General Motors has ever storyline.

P a g e | 18 produced, but this white one the packaging constraints, or met Exercise some patience, find the Pobst just exited also has an weight targets. They built an right amount of tire chatter, and automatic and a removable roof. automatic that would, and the you'll reach 60 mph in 3.2 It's also available as a remarkably compact result seconds and the quarter mile in convertible. And Pobst wants weighs only 8 pounds more than 11.3 seconds at 126.2 mph. Peak more power. The world's gone the manual. With faster and more stopping performance -- 91 feet mad. aggressive shifts, a wider ratio from 60 mph -- remains as spread, and a tall eighth gear absurdly low as the last ZR1's, Tadge Juechter, the chief (1,200 rpm at 60 mph), it benefits and all stops during this test engineer of Corvette, is in the both performance and fuel stayed under 100 feet. group. Earlier he told us the economy. It also helps produce automatic gearbox and roofless an utterly satisfying bark on full Would it be shocking to call the construction were part of the throttle upshifts. Z06's lateral capabilities more goal, but supplanting the ZR1 impressive than its acceleration? wasn't. They'd started with a “The Z06 appears to be the Its 22.5-second lap on the figure high-revving, big-displacement product of the Have Your Cake eight is the second-fastest "spinner" V-8 like the 7.0-liter in and Eat It Department” production car we've tested the last Z06, but they couldn't hit behind the Porsche 918's 22.2 emissions targets. So they hit seconds; the Z06's 1.16 average reset and started again with a lateral g is the highest we've supercharger. It's a compact seen from anything that wasn't a Eaton TVS Roots-type unit, race car. Credit the Michelin Pilot smaller in displacement and Sport Cup 2 tires included in the more compact than the blower Z07 package. Their bare atop the ZR1's mill. Versus that shoulders have small "vestigial" engine, at 650 hp and 650 lb-ft of tread marks, per Juechter, and torque, the Z06's LT4 V-8 makes their combined section width more power (12 hp and 46 lb-ft of totals 4.1 feet. With my right knee torque), weighs 33 pounds less, Leave the transmission to its own and elbow against the tunnel, my and employs direct injection and devices in Track mode, and it left against the door, it felt like cylinder deactivation. makes impeccable gear driving a Tilt-A-Whirl. selections, even finding speed by Advancements in aluminum shifting in places you normally construction permitted a stronger wouldn't. Road Atlanta's Turn 3 chassis that doesn't suffer a at race speed puts two wheels in performance penalty when you the air. You want to downshift for remove the roof. It is heavier, the next corner, but this isn't the though. The Z06 we tested had a time to take one hand off the Z07 package ($7,995 for carbon- wheel. "Consistently I'd go over ceramic brakes, third-stage aero the bump," Pobst said. "The “It’s one of those cars that make the end package, and gumball tires) and landing is sweet, so sweet -- and I'd go to the power and say of the straightaway here at Road a seven-speed manual. At 3,533 Atlanta—what they call Turn 9—it makes pounds on our scales, it has 'Whoa!' I was not expecting to be that a corner,” Pobst said. gained 189 pounds versus the in that low of a gear, but it put the last ZR1 we tested. power to the ground." The The section between Road automatic makes the shift in the Atlanta's Turn 3 and Turn 5, a That new eight-speed automatic air. rapid switchback of esses, must add more, right? Nope, it exhibits just how much cornering appears to be the product of the While the automatic makes the force is at the Z06's disposal. The Have Your Cake and Eat It Z06 the faster car, limited vehicle data from Pobst's lap show six Department. Chevy engineers availability meant we could only alternating 1.0-plus g moments in looked into twin-clutch gearboxes run performance tests on a the span of 14 seconds. Although but couldn't find one that manual. As with the last-gen our test cars had the optional withstood the torque output, fit ZR1, launch control is more bucket seats, they weren't consistent but ultimately slower. enough. "The seat is actually

P a g e | 19 really supportive for a street Another neat trick: A aggressive setting, the Corvette seat," Pobst said. "But this is not Performance Data Recorder makes more downforce than any doing street things out there. I stores images and data from a other car they've tested in GM's need belts or something to hold front-mounted camera, vehicle wind tunnel. Some cars GM have me in place." sensors, and a 5-Hz GPS sensor tested: Porsche 911 Turbo S, to a video file on an SD card. The Ferrari 458, and McLaren 12C. YouTube-ready video file shows throttle and brake position, g readouts, and so on. Provided software incorporates top-view satellite images to show your placement lap by lap. Owners can even use the system to discourage would-be hot-shoe valets.

“The price is bewildering, as you’d need to spend nearly $1 million elsewhere to reach Z06 performance.”

The second-stage aero package and It may sound like the Z06 follows wider body (2.2 inches front, 3.2 inches rear) give the Z06 a purposeful look. the "No Duh" approach to fast car development: Low weight and But for the technical prowess, ludicrous quantities of power and you might be surprised to learn tire. But there's sophistication that the Z06 eschews active aero between those parts. Fast- for a far simpler solution: three reacting magnetorheological aero packages in increasing Considering the capability of the fluid-filled shocks provide aggressiveness. The first is the optional tires, brakes, and excellent control, especially when Z06's standard equipment, and aerodynamics, we were surprised you have two wheels in the air. the second adds a front splitter to hear that when Pobst pulled An electronically controlled with end plates, rocker panel back into the pits after his fourth locking differential biases power extensions, and a spoiler—all of lap, it wasn't because he wanted where and when it's needed, it in carbon fiber, and all of it to stop. The car had flashed an even helping to prevent the tank fixed. The third stage uses the oil-temperature warning on the slap-like behavior you get when second-stage components as back straight. "So I stuck it in you don't come out of a power mounts, attaching larger end neutral and let it idle even though slide perfectly. Chevrolet's plates to the splitter and an we're going 140 mph," he said. fantastic Performance Traction adjustable wicker bill to the It's something to be aware of if Management allows you to learn spoiler, like the Z/28's. The you hold wins at the 24 Hours of and explore the car's limits with Chevy team says there's extra Daytona or SCCA World less fear. These components meat on the movable parts Challenge GT series and plan on make the Z06 controlled, should the more serious owners tracking your Z06 on a warm, compliant, and easy to approach. want to drill their own holes. humid day. For the rest of us, the Juechter says that in its most

P a g e | 20 extreme level of performance the one in the C6.R and still uses FORD MUSTANG available leaves plenty of a six-speed sequential SHELBY GT350 headroom. transmission, but it now has direct injection, which improves RETURNS! Story & Photos by (foxnews.com) You'll also find it bizarrely easy to throttle control and fuel economy drive around town. At low -- pit stops matter. speeds, it's like a normal Corvette, with nimble steering The same new types of and ample cargo capacity under aluminum construction that that hatch. The power band’s improve the Z06 translate to the sheer breadth means you can C7.R. Using the production car's treat the manual like a three- aluminum frame increases the speed. Dig into the infotainment race car's stiffness by 40 percent system and you'll find over its predecessor, according Fifty years after the original made adjustments for the exhaust to Chevrolet. Both race car and history, Ford has introduced an volume, from full-on freeway- street car chassis are built in the all-new Mustang Shelby GT350. droning madness to near silence. Corvette's assembly plant in It has cooled seats. Wi-Fi, even. Bowling Green, Kentucky. The The super high performance The price makes this all the more two cars look similar, too, sharing pony car is the Blue Oval brand’s bewildering, as you'd need to similar ideas about airflow. Never answer to the Chevrolet Camaro spend nearly $1 million mind that the C7.R is 3.3 inches Z/28. Like its crosstown rival, it’s elsewhere to reach the lower and 4.8 inches wider. It a street-legal road racer filled performance our Z06 offers at an also omits the inlets above the with racing technology. as-tested $105,210. production car's rear wheels in favor of airflow. A top on the list is a 5.2-liter V8 With that comes the clear that features a flat-plane crank – message this car sends to the The C7.R also dons Michelin an engine design rarely seen on rest of the world: Bring it on. racing slicks and smaller- the road in cars that aren’t made diameter steel brakes with by Ferrari. It provides better Z06 to C7.R beefier braking hardware (six- engine breathing, improved piston rear calipers!), and it responsiveness and potentially eschews the road car's sky-high revs, but is difficult to transverse leaf springs and MR engineer in terms of refinement shocks for race-specific coil- compared to a conventional overs. As it's a race car, it can do cross-plane crank design, so without the things that make most companies don't go to the commuting more pleasant -- trouble. goodbye cooled seats and Wi-Fi. And despite the roughly 150-hp power deficit, the C7.R is faster. Competitors include the Porsche 911 RSR and Ferrari 458 Italia GT2.

Want another Z06 bragging right? It's more powerful than its C7.R road racing counterpart you'll see at the Tudor United Sport scar Championship and 24 In the GT350 it’s good for “more Hours of Le Mans. The C7.R than” 500 hp, the most of any makes around 500 hp because naturally-aspirated Ford in regulations limit displacement to history, and over 400 lb-ft of 5.5 liters and forbid forced torque. That power goes to the induction and variable valve rear Torsen limited-slip timing. The engine is based off differential via a six-speed

P a g e | 21 manual transmission, and to the secure the Mustang's status as Christenson (Wahpeton). While road through 19-inch diameter an icon of the American road. Jamestown didn't have any first wheels with 11-inch wide tires, Ford hasn’t yet announced when place winners this year we had complimenting the 10.5-inch tires the GT350 will go on sale, or how some second place winners in up front. much it will cost, but it makes its Olivia Larson and Kade public debut at the Los Angeles Schumacher. Great job kids and There, 15.5-inch brakes with six- Auto Show this week when more thanks to Jamestown's Jeff piston Brembo calipers do the details are expected to be Douty, our State Elks Hoop stopping with likely more than a revealed. Shoot Director for his great job of little help from the 14.5-inch four- coordinating the program and piston set in the rear. A stiffened Elks State President Elect Larry chassis and MagneRide active Larson for helping with the trophy suspension, like many of those selection. Ferrari’s and GM performance cars use, manage the car The Bison Championship game through the turns. brought a crowd to the Lodge on Jan. 10th and everyone had a great time watching one of our four big screen TV's and the Elkettes had a nice crowd on Super Saturday Feb. 7th.

This month we are having "Election of Officers” and "Old JAMESTOWN ELKS #995 Timer's Night" on Feb. 19th, to CLUB NEWS choose the coming year’s officers Story & Photos by Craig Gaier (Exalted and commemorate our new The aggressive bodywork has Ruler) Lifetime Members. been optimized for both aerodynamics and cooling. The Giving Hearts Day has come and nose of the car is much lower gone by this newsletter and we than the one on the Mustang GT all hope it does as well as last and features a carbon fiber grille year because this gives our State insert, while the various hood and Elks a boost in that the monies fender vents were designed to so designated go to our number extract heat and reduce pressure one project and commitment, in the engine compartment for which is Elks Camp Grassick improved downforce. For the (wholly supported by North most serious customers, a Track As always we have something Dakota Elks Clubs and members Pack is available that adds new every month. While through charitable donations). engine oil and transmission Jamestown was the site of the cooling systems. State Elks Association meeting Don't forget "Running O' the last month we were also the site Green" coming up next month. for the State Elks Hoop Shoot The largest party for charity in event, where the best free throw town for the year. Make your shooters in the State from ages 8 plans now. through 13 competed to go to the Regional Championships to be Stop on down whenever our held in Rapid City, SD. First doors are open at 324 2nd Ave. place winners moving on are SW, Jamestown for a cool one Jake Wendorff (Wahpeton), and comradery with your friends,

Madison Eckelberg (Dickinson), and don't forget we have party The original Shelby GT350 is one Jaycee Richter (Bismarck), space available with kitchen of the most celebrated racing Mitchell Leas (Devils Lake), facilities for your various cars of all time, and helped Avery Rath (Bismarck) and Luke functions. Just see our club

P a g e | 22 manager, Scott Anderson, at the "People's Choice Award" and the winningest driver in drag racing Elks Club or Cork N' Barrel "Mayors Pick Award" and history began his professional Liquor’s off sale. everybody always gets a nice career more than 30 years ago. picture plaque for entering. The Lodge Clubroom/Tavern is Remember if you did or didn't “We signed the deal right before open to "everyone" (non- make it, we never have the same Christmas,” Force said. “That members welcome) Monday car there two years in a row and was the biggest Christmas through Friday from late always have something new and present I’ve ever gotten.” afternoons until the patrons leave exciting featured, so think of that in the evening. So come on next year and think about brining Force, his daughter and Hight will down and check us out and if you your car for display. drive Chevrolet Camaro Funny like what you see and what we Cars in the 24-race 2015 NHRA do, we're always seeking new Watch the Jamestown Sun for Mello Yello Drag Racing Series membership (no strings attached our next meeting. The meeting is season. Force’s other daughter, and low cost dues). tentatively scheduled at the Jamestown Vocational Center for Brittany, will also carry Chevy sponsorship on her Top Fuel JAMESTOWN CLASSIC Tuesday February 24th. dragster. CAR CLUB NEWS Story & Photos by Craig Gaier AFTER NEARLY 20 (President) YEARS AWAY, JOHN “I get the opportunity to go back to my roots,” Force said. “It’s FORCE RACING personal for me. I got my first RETURNS TO (NHRA) win with Chevrolet, my CHEVROLET/GM IN 2015 first championship with NHRA Story & Photos by Jerry Bonkowski and six (championships) overall (motorsportstalk.com) with GM.

“People wanted to know ‘where’s he going with the manufacturer?’ Everybody told me they wanted me to stay with Detroit. GM was Our annual "Winter Wheels" car where I wanted to land. show at the Jamestown Civic Center was a big mid-winter hit “At the end of the day, if you again as usual, bringing in many don’t have a manufacturer, you’re crowds to see all the cars. The in big trouble. … It’s a change weather co-operated and with the John Force's new 2015 Chevrolet Camaro and change is good. I’m ready to specialty cars (1936 Funny Car go drag racing. It’s an exciting Supercharged Auburn - 1 of only time.” 52 built and a Corvette chassised After months of rumors and 789 - #15 of only a handful built), speculation about which car With no other Chevrolet-branded we couldn't ask for a better turn- manufacturer he’ll represent, 16- Nitro Funny Cars in the sport, out. The full featured time NHRA Funny Car champ John Force Racing will computerized stock car open to John Force has made it official. essentially have the Chevy brand the public to drive was a hit, as exclusively all to itself. well as the video racers display. Force announced Thursday in a We gave trophies away for those teleconference that after nearly “That was it,” Force said when for the fastest times and it was a 20 years with Ford as the asked by MotorSportsTalk. “That father-son team that swept (good manufacturer of record on his was the key with my past with going Shawn (Shady) Erdahl & Funny Car and those of daughter GM. We got an exclusive. … Son). George Masters of Minot Courtney and son-in-law Robert We’re just getting started. This was a two-way winner with his Hight, John Force Racing has whole thing, you don’t do all this 1955 Chevrolet Nomad Wagon now switched affiliations and will change overnight. We’re going to as he cleaned up with the return to Chevrolet, where the hit the track running.

P a g e | 23 “We’re going to have our first test drivers (Ron Capps, Jack excited about getting to the race at Phoenix next Monday. I have Beckman, Tommy Johnson Jr. track, John, and welcome home.” great financial backing with GM. and defending 2014 Funny Car … We have an exclusive and that champ Matt Hagan) that will drive CLASSIC CAR REVIEW makes it great. Isn’t anybody that 2015 Dodge Charger R/Ts, but 1956 Ford Thunderbird loves drag racing more than I do? they won’t be the more vaunted Story & Photos by Brian Earnest (Old Cars I feel like a little kid, I feel like I’m HellCat. Weekly) 16 all over again. But in that race car, I’m 21 again and I’m a bad The HellCat is the most powerful hombre when you put me in a fire stock street car built in the U.S., suit.” with 707 horsepower under the hood. At the present time, no The agreement between JFR and NHRA Funny Car team has Chevrolet is a multi-year deal. affiliated with the HellCat.

“It’s a big day for the sport,” Despite all the rumors and media NHRA president Tom Compton reports, Force surprised those on said. “Welcome back, GM. We’re the conference call when he said, really proud to work for you.” “I never had a conversation with When it finally came time to let it Dodge.” snap and find the car he had Ford announced near the end of been dreaming about for three the 2013 season that 2014 would Toyota, meanwhile, has Alexis decades, James Pantelis wasn’t be its last with Force, choosing to DeJoria, Cruz Pedregon, Chad taking any chances. allocate resources in another Head, Del Worsham and Tony direction in its motorsports Pedregon in its own Funny Car The Melbourne, Australia, program in 2015. lineup. resident had been fawning over the first-generation Ford Ford followed Castrol Oil, which “My conversation with Toyota, we Thunderbirds — the “Baby Birds” had sponsored Force for the last had a brief conversation, but — since he first laid eyes on one. 30 years, in leaving the Force nothing in writing or on the table,” He isn’t sure, but he thought the camp at the end of the 2014 Force said. “This is where I red ’56 Thunderbird he first season to go in another direction. wanted to land. I’m back to my spotted on display — but not for roots, back to where I sale — in a showroom back in the 1980s might have been the “I was in trouble and dancing like started. This is an easy transition for us.” only one of its kind in Australia at a mad man (for funding),” Force the time. The car was way out of said. “We did approach others in his league, and he knew it, but the industry, but my hearts with Chevrolet won 11 major Pantelis never completely gave Detroit. My company is called championships in five different up hope that he’d have such a ‘John Force, American Made.’ It’s forms of motorsport in 2014 machine someday. where I needed to land. My other (including Erica Enders-Stevens partner (Ford) was great, but this winning the NHRA Pro Stock “I was mesmerized,” laughs is a new relationship.” championship) and looks to have Pantelis. “First, a car like that Force to win a record 17th Funny would have been selling for about Initial reports had John Force Car championship in 2015. $120,000 here back then. I just Racing potentially signing with remember stopping late at night Dodge to represent its HellCat “We need John Force Racing, and thinking, ‘Wow, 120 grand for R/T Challenger or Charger. every person in the organization, a two-seater that you’ll probably There were also reports that to focus and win races and rarely drive.’ And second, ‘What Force was also talking with championships for us,” said Jim must you do to be able to afford Toyota. Campbell, Chevrolet Vice to add one of those to your President for Performance collection?’” However, Force rival Don Vehicles and Motorsports. “We’re Schumacher Racing has four

P a g e | 24 Angeles, checked out several get from Shanghai to Melbourne cars, and even shopped for and about a week to get it out of prospects at the Fabulous Fords Customs here. I was just hoping Forever Day at Knott’s Berry nothing got nicked or scratched. Farm, but had no luck. “Sadly, no Fortunately, it was just the way I ’56s were for sale and I knew dropped it off, except for a little then, that I had to make the trip dust and moisture.” to Vancouver,” he recalled. Without giving himself time to Ironically, the ’56 that he had change his mind, Pantelis lusted after in Melbourne also hopped a flight to Canada to came up for sale around the time check out a white ’56 convertible he was Thunderbird shopping, with Fiesta Red/White interior — but Pantelis passed. “They “my preferred color combination,” wanted $85,000, and there were he says. “I had spoken to the a lot of cars in the United States man that had owned this car with all the things I wanted going In the years that followed, the [previously]. He owned it and for $40,000 to $50, 000,” he now-55-year-old Pantelis did restored it, and I had talked to says. “It was just smarter to manage to enjoy his share of him at length. He had sold it and search longer and keep looking “toys,” including several Harley- only about six months into new for cars that met those Davidsons, a “few exotics” and a person’s ownership it was put up requirements that I wanted.” nicely restored 1965 Mustang for sale again because the guy’s convertible that had been marriage was falling apart and it Those criteria included the car converted to right-hand drive, per had to be sold quickly, along with being recently restored and high Australian law. Eventually, by his other cars.” quality, automatic transmission, 2010, the idea of finding and power steering, power brakes importing a Thunderbird seemed Some bad weather on the first and both hard and soft tops. And within his reach. He ultimately day prevented Pantelis from why did it have to be a ’56? “I zeroed in on three cars in taking the car for a spin, but always gravitated to that California, one in Arizona, one in eventually everything checked continental kit,” he says. “Out of Portland and a beautiful red ’56 out “and it drove as good as it the ‘Baby Birds’ it was always the in Vancouver, B.C. Pantelis had looked and we did the deal.” continental kit on the ’56 that plenty of conversations with the attracted me the most.” various sellers — sometimes calling at 3 or 4 a.m. Melbourne time — and he was encouraged by what he heard. “After speaking with a few people here in Melbourne who had purchased cars ‘sight unseen’ and hearing of the disappointment in importing American Muscle or Classic cars only to find that they were duped by selective photo angles and shiny tar on the “We drove the car together to the The standard continental tire kit underside, I decided it was time shipping container yard, I went on the rear of the car was the to ‘bite the bullet’ and make my back to LA and enjoyed about 10 most obvious new feature on the travel plans,” he said. He simply days of playing tourist … and second-year Thunderbird. It was had to lay eyes on a car in then it took about two months for an add-on the year before, when person before he went through all the car to get to Australia! I was the new T-Bird made one of the the effort and expense of praying nothing was [wrecked] in most anticipated debuts in the shipping it home. the shipping process. It got to Ford product line in many years. Shanghai in two days and then it A total of 16,155 cars were built Pantelis and his wife and sat there for the next six weeks. for 1955, and that number youngest son traveled to Los Then it took about three days to

P a g e | 25 actually dipped slightly, to cost extra, though. Some Ford For Pantelis, it was critical to find 15,631, for 1956. dealers added the porthole a car that was “done” and windows to the standard-style wouldn’t need much attention Cars built before Nov. 14, 1955 hardtop when buyers found their once it landed Down Under. He had their continental spare tires Thunderbirds claustrophobic or simply didn’t want to deal with the raised for added ground complained about blind spots. headache of tracking down parts clearance. Later, Ford dealers The hardtop version carried a on distant shores, or try to find a had to recall these cars to base price of $3,158, while the shop that specialized in fixing change the height of the convertible was priced at $3,233. American basket cases. continental kits by 1 3/8 inches. The 1956 frame had to be The 1956 Thunderbird’s interior modified for this feature, since door panels had new “stitching” the original 1955 frame couldn’t embossments molded into the tolerate the “cantilever” effect of seams in the vinyl. The the heavy continental kit at the patterning on the seats, supplied extreme rear of the vehicle. by McInerney Spring & Wire Company, was also changed. In Other changes included the gas 1955, the vertically ribbed insert filler door losing the checkered sections of the seats were flag emblem used to dress it up separate from each other. The in 1955. Slight modifications were 1956 design brought the ribs also made to the Thunderbird’s across the center of the backrest. tail lights. Though still large and They ran nearly the full width of circular, the rear red lenses had a the seat back and gave the visual wider center protrusion with more impression that the seat had elaborate chrome trim. The arch- been widened. shaped area above the round red lens was also restyled. A small, Standard equipment included Above all, Pantelis wanted circular reflector was added to the 92-cid Y-block V-8 engine something he could drive often the chrome molding right at the rated at 202 hp; 12-volt electrical that was still nice enough to wax top of the arch. Back-up lamps system; dual exhausts; three- up and take to shows. “I take it could again be ordered in place speed manual transmission; dual out very regularly and I do get to of the metal filler plate. Offered horns; half-circle steering wheel enjoy it,” he says. “It’s not a daily again was the same fiberglass horn ring; and glass-fiber driver, but I drive it a lot. You do hardtop used in 1955. A new hardtop. The option list included always treat them with kid gloves, version with “port” windows in its a four-way power seat; power but too many people are scared side panels was also available for brakes; power steering; power to take their classic cars out and 1956. windows; overdrive; wide drive them… They’re afraid of sidewall tires; radio; heater; wire them overheating or afraid of the wheel covers; and fender skirts. brakes or the way they run or Three optional engines were also handle. I guess I’m just lucky that available: 215- and 225-hp I got a good car to begin with.” versions of the 312-cid Thunderbird Special V-8, and a Fortunately, Australian laws have 260-hp version with dual quads. changed and now allow cars 25 years or older to remain left- hand-drive, so Pantelis hasn’t had to have it “engineered.” The only changes he has made to the T-Bird are the addition of a The hardtop in matching body thermatic fan to help with the color (with or without port engine temperature, aftermarket windows) was optional at no front and rear sway bars to extra cost. Having the top bolster the handling, and an extra finished in a contrasting color did

P a g e | 26 leaf spring in back to beef up the some more company on the of excessive speeding. All three suspension. “The sway bars have road, which is where he likes to occupants were unhurt.” been the single best investment be. as I can now truly enjoy driving it and not just enjoy being seen in “I drive my Baby Bird very it,” he says. “I would say that it frequently,” he says happily. “So drives and corners more like a long as there is no rain on the ’60s or even ’70s Ford rather radar I am still keen to get this than a soft marshmallow ’50s car out and show it off.” classic.” HIGHWAY TO HELL (cat): Any Baby Bird will be a conversation piece pretty much anywhere it travels, and Pantelis Owner wrecks 707hp Dodge said the reception the car has Challenger SRT Hellcat one gotten in Melbourne has been a hour after buying it. little overwhelming. “I make so Story & Photos by Jerry Bonkowski many friends at traffic lights,” he (motorsportstalk.com) chuckles. “You hear, ‘that’s American, what is it? It’s so great. It’s a ’56? Oh, that’s the car from ‘American Graffiti!’

“I would say that people with salt and pepper in their hair recognize it as a T-Bird, and people 30 and younger recognize it as an American classic, but they’re not We refrained from identifying the driver of all sure what they’re looking at. the first Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat to One thing is the port hole. They be wrecked — mainly because we didn’t want to embarrass him. Honestly, we know the car with the port hole.” really do feel bad for him and what happened. But the Colorado State Patrol recently released a report on the Dec. 19 mishap that totaled the $60,000 hot rod, including identifying the driver, so we felt obligated, as the late Paul Harvey used to say, to tell “the rest of the story”.

Colorado State Patrol statement:

“The 2015 Dodge Challenger Pantelis has been to plenty of car Hellcat driver, 34-year-old Lance shows in the past three years Utley of Winter Park, CO, was To date, Utley has not and collected some nice traveling northbound on commented to the media about hardware for his trophy case. It Riverdale Rd. The driver lost his mishap. Really, Lance, we do was also selected by Old Cars control to the right, then feel bad for you. Weekly for the cover of the overcorrected and lost control to annual OCW Reader Rides the left, and struck a tree head According to TFLCar.com, the Calendar. on. There were two additional crash occurred in Brighton, occupants in the vehicle. The Colorado, a town of about His ’56 is still one of the only first- driver was charged with careless 35,000, near the South Platte generation Thunderbirds around driving. Drugs or alcohol were not River in Adams County, just in his corner of the world, but involved. There was no mention northeast of Denver. Pantelis wouldn’t mind having

P a g e | 27 When MotorSportsTalk contacted bet the Hellcat owner in question Details about the identity of the the Brighton Police late Sunday is sure glad about that now. owner or where exactly the crash afternoon, they had no details of occurred in the Mile-High state the wreck. INITIAL STORY FOLLOWS: are sketchy.

The road, according to the You knew it was bound to But the above picture tells 1,000 TFLCar.com report, is a twisting happen, sooner or later. words. and winding two-lane road in a semi-rural area that includes We just didn’t think it would be No, make that 10,000 words — crests and dips. The speed limit THAT soon. and half of those are probably the is posted 40 mph. Police are owner cussing himself out. investigating, but the weather and road conditions were When Dodge announced the From what MotorAuthority.com reportedly clear at the time and $60,000 Challenger SRT Hellcat and Charger SRT Hellcat earlier surmised, the driver lost control, it’s not known if speed was a “skidded off the road near a bend factor or not. this year – with 707 horsepower motors that make them the most and crashed head-on into a tree.” powerful stock muscle cars on Here’s part of TFLCar.com’s the streets of America today – it Thankfully, the report said, no report: “The skid marks at the was almost inevitable what might one was seriously injured. scene of the accident show that happen when someone would the driver was traveling north. As push one to … and past … its the car crested the blind hill, the (Well, at least that proves how limits. road drops down to the right, and crash-worthy the new Hellcats the Hellcat may have been in a are, right?) slight drift. The road is very Unfortunately, a motorist in narrow, but in good condition, Colorado found that lesson out well-marked, and with a posted the hard way, according to a 40 MPH speed limits sign. The great story on car started to drift toward the MotorAuthority.com. right ditch after the speed limit sign. The driver tried to correct, The Challenger, which has a but the resulting over-correction reported top speed of 204 mph, sent the car across the lane and has only been in dealer into a large cottonwood (tree). showrooms for about a month. Thankfully, there was no oncoming traffic at this moment.” This is where the story gets, as What a 2015 Dodge Challenger Arte Johnson used to say on the SRT Hellcat looks like in its non- crashed form. To add insult to injury, the report 1960s TV show “Laugh In,” claims the wrecked car was the “Veerrrryyyy interesting.” FIRST such Challenger SRT The same can’t be said about the Hellcat sold in Colorado. There So, apparently an unnamed car, which is apparently a total has been no identification of who individual walks into a dealer’s loss. Like Humpty Dumpty, all the was driving the vehicle. showroom, signs on the dotted king’s horses and all the king’s line and drives off with a brand men – and probably the best mechanics and body shops in the According to AutoEvolution.com, new, bright neon lime green biz – can’t put Humpty Hellcat the National Highway Traffic Challenger Hellcat. back together again. Safety Association just released a report this past week on the The proud new owner’s beautiful crash-worthiness of the base car lasted about an hour, Considering a Hellcat has just model version of the Challenger according to MotorAuthority’s about 40 less horsepower than a (about $40,000 cheaper than the Viknesh Vijayenthiran, whose 2015 Sprint Cup ride (under Hellcat, but built on the same work we always enjoy. NASCAR’s new horsepower platform). The result: a 4-star, reduction rules), it goes without top-of-the-line safety rating. We saying that it’s powerful.

P a g e | 28 In fact, you need TWO keys to Debbie, a brand new 1974 The insurance company operate a Hellcat, either the Javelin for her 16th birthday from considered the car a total loss Challenger or Charger version. Hooker AMC in Sherman, Texas, and wanted to scrap it, but Linda which is about 75 miles from our refused to concede, and instead The first key is to allow you to home in Paris, Texas. Hooker had the Javelin repaired and use the first 500 horsepower in AMC was co-owned by brothers drove it for several more years. In the motor. A. R. Hooker and Howard C. early 1998, we put the Javelin in Hooker. storage, with the goal of having it restored someday. The second key activates all 707 Linda soon fell in love with my horses. sister’s Javelin and wanted one for her. MotorAuthority.com said of the Hellcat’s power:

“We’ve driven the new Challenger SRT Hellcat and found that it delivers performance that will leave even those used to powerful cars awestruck, so this sad sight serves as an important reminder for buyers of such cars to always factor in their own skills and consider whether the cost of a performance driving course On May 24, 1974, Linda and my should be included in their price mother visited Hooker AMC, and estimations.” Linda special ordered her new Javelin with the same options as my sister’s Javelin, except my We couldn’t have said it better. wife wanted G-4 Plum exterior paint. My wife loves anything In May, 2010, we decided it was CLASSIC CAR REVIEW related to the color purple. 1974 AMC JAVELIN time to get the Javelin out of storage, to assess what shape it Story & Photos by Brian Earnest & Dickie The Javelin arrived at Hooker was in, and drive it a little. After Towers (Old Cars Weekly) AMC on July 11, 1974, and we sitting idle for about 12 years, the bought it on July 16. The automatic transmission needed odometer had 6 miles on it when new fluid and the screen cleaned Linda drove it off the sales lot. At before it worked properly. the time, Linda was 21 and I was 22, and we had just returned Linda drove the Javelin on a from West Germany, where I had limited basis for the next been serving in the U.S. Army. two years. In July 2012, we decided it was time to get the The Javelin was the first new Javelin restored, but we had no automobile that we had ever This is a brief recap of how my idea what was involved. Linda purchased. From 1974 until family became a part of the “AMC was not interested in making the 1998, my wife put 118,000 miles Family” and how my wife’s love Javelin a concourse level show on the Javelin as a daily driver. for one particular automobile car, she just wanted it restored inspired her to hold onto the car so she could drive it and enjoy it, In 1982, a massive tornado had for nearly 40 years. as she had in the past. struck Paris, Texas, with little warning. The Javelin was parked The story of my wife, Linda, and Like most folks, we got a few bids in our driveway at the time and her 1974 Javelin actually began on the restoration work, and took was severely damaged on the in April 1974, when my parents the lowest bid. bought my younger sister, top and passenger rear quarter.

P a g e | 29 Big, big mistake. To top it off, the shop even had shop had rebuilt the engine, but large dogs in the shop at night, did not order the correct size The agreement with the initial and they urinated on the Javelin’s main and rod bearings, and there body shop was that they would wheels, causing them to rust. was excessive slack in the rods. work on the Javelin part time at Linda actually started to cry when This was the reason the engine night, and on weekends. Initially, she saw how her baby had been would not pump up any oil this body shop did a few repairs treated. Overall, the experience pressure. A new crankshaft and on the body, but after a couple of with the initial body shop was a matching bearing kit had to be months, they basically quit nightmare, and a valuable lesson ordered. The the engine was the working on the Javelin. learned. Some restorers would rebuilt, installed, and the oil have walked away from the pressure was correct. project, considering the mess and disarray the Javelin was in, but Gary Armstrong, of Reno, Texas, agreed to complete the restoration.

Every time we would visit the The Javelin was basically put body shop and inquire about the back as originally equipped from car, they would give an excuse the factory, using original as to why they had not been equipment manufacturer (OEM) working on it, but promised to and new old stock (NOS) parts. start again on it “next week.” For Armstrong had previously Linda did want a few items on the several months, we believed owned and operated a Corvette engine chromed (air cleaner and them, but finally, in June 2013, restoration business in Wylie, valve covers) and she also after the Javelin had been at this Texas, for many years. Our wanted the wheels painted to body shop about 11 months, and car was his first experience in match the color of the body. Also, no work was being done, we restoring a Javelin, or any AMC the exhaust was changed from a knew we had to take the vehicle, so he was unfamiliar with single pipe to a dual exhaust car somewhere else. Fortunately, sources for parts, etc. I agreed to system, still utilizing the factory we found another local man that supply all parts as needed and I free-flow manifolds. The original agreed to restore the Javelin. bought a complete Technical Motorola Multiplex AM radio w/8- Service Manual (TSM) for him to track stereo player was When we picked up the car from use. refurbished. The original 40-year- the initial body shop, it was in old Goodyear F70-14 RWL 1,000 pieces, like a jig-saw In mid-July 2013, work again was Polyglas spare tire is still in the puzzle, with nothing labeled or started on the Javelin at trunk and has never been used. categorized, parts thrown Armstrong’s shop. Along the way All original data plates/tags on everywhere, bolts/nuts just piled there were several bumps in the components are still on the floorboards, chrome trim road, one being that the initial attached. Linda has all original pieces and various parts thrown body shop was supposed to have dealership provided in the trunk. Even the radiator rebuilt the engine, and we took documentation, window sticker, was laying in the back seat, still them at their word, but after Gary car build order, warranty card, with antifreeze in it. The body installed the engine and primed and service pamphlets. shop owners had let their kids everything, there was no oil play in the Javelin and they broke pressure and a very loud noise The restoration has taken nearly several items: front windshield, coming from the bottom end. two years, and overall we spent steering wheel, dome light lens, Gary had to remove the engine about three times what our initial sail panel, turn signal lever, etc. and tear it completely down. He budget had intended for the discovered that the initial body project. But, that tear that I saw in

P a g e | 30 my wife’s eye’s when she was 2001 DODGE DAKOTA second, more reasonable choice handed the keys to her restored DAD’S HOT ROD. was a '70 -'78 Z28 four-speed. I Javelin by Gary Armstrong was Story & Photos by Brad Ocock (hotrod.com). offered to match him dollar for priceless. dollar so he could get a running vehicle, a big consideration given the several non-runners in the Ocock Garage Mahal.

Scouring Craigslist and eBay, he familiarized himself with overpriced, ragged-out cars and screaming deals. Throwing gas on the fire, I volunteered a 350 and Muncie I have, but warned, Boy Wonder turned 15 last "No, you can't put a supercharger summer and put off his birthday on it." shindig to be first in line at the DMV to get his learner's permit. His plan was suede black with He is, after all, my kid. gloss-black rally stripes. The '57 Chevy gasser clone I've been When he was 4 he bawled when building for too long is suede My wife plans to enjoy the Javelin we saw The Jay-Hawker A/FX black and white, and the scheme for many more years, and then Mopar at a show and I wouldn't for the Suburban tow rig will be keep it in the family by passing it buy it. Honestly, I thought being the same. It's hard to beat $18-a- on to our daughter. This 12 feet away from the Hemi, its gallon John Deere Blitz Black for restoration of a piece of AMC zoomies fired up, would have something that'll be beat (my history would have never scared him. But after it shut stuff) or built on a high school occurred without down, he learned that spare budget. Linda’s persistence and pocket change just doesn't go as dedication, and her sentimental far as we'd like. love for this car. Hopefully, her Last fall he started talking about the 2001 Dodge Dakota I parked story, and her Javelin, He rode to elementary school in can provide inspiration to others two years ago. Bought new, it a '54 Buick with straight pipes, received a functional Shaker interested in keeping the AMC we've done two one-way plane name alive. hood, a front bumper cover with ticket car-buying road trips, 'Cuda-style chin spoilers, an watched races at the drags and exhaust system, and a roll pan Road Atlanta, and hauled his with 'Cuda exhaust tips, R/T friends all over creation in our '61 fender flares, and a lowering job, Suburban and '61 Corvair wagon, followed by one-off, 17-inch, six- the only running cars we've had lug, cop-car wheels. For the next for a couple years. decade I used it like a truck, racking up 210,000 miles, a few We yanked him from the second dents, and more needed repairs week of his freshman year for a than I wanted to bother with. road trip to Bonneville for What do you do with a 10-year- Speedweek, figuring there's more old, 210,000 mile truck? I was to life than a classroom going to part it out and scrap the education. How many 12-year- rest until Boy Wonder said, "Um, olds learned to drive stick shift on I know we talked about a the Bonneville Salt Flats? Camaro, but I want the Dakota."

At 14, he wanted his first car to "Huh? Why would you want the be a '67-'69 Camaro, and we had Dakota over a Camaro?" another "Jay-Hawker talk." His

P a g e | 31 "The Dakota's cool! It looks good, but he just told me he wants to CLASSIC CAR REVIEW it sounds great, it's got a hood take his test in the gasser. It's 1929 PEERLESS MODEL 6-81 scoop, and it just needs a little street legal but has a tunnel ram, Story & Photos by Brian Earnest (Old Cars work. And $2,000 would go a lot a fiberglass nose, a 12-point Weekly) farther than $4,000 on a cage, and racing harnesses. I Camaro." Reasonable explained that the instructor will automotive analysis, not fail him rather than climb over the something he learned from me. cage, but as important as his license is to him, he doesn't care. I said, "Yeah, but it's just the He wants to try with the gasser. Dakota." I'm inclined to let him. But you He said, "I've been around Road probably saw that coming. Atlanta and Bristol Motor Speedway in it, we've gone over 100 mph in it, we did donuts in Joanne and Brando Pistorius it"—obviously I've never been in both insist they never planned to the running for Responsible become Peerless experts. They Parent of the Year—"we drove it didn’t even have any particular to Bonneville and I drove it on the interest in owning one of the Salt. I grew up in that truck! I classic pre-war machines that remember the day we bought it!" were part of the “Three P” trio that also included Packard and "You do?" I asked. He was 6. Pierce-Arrow.

"Don't you? You pulled out of the But when the Tampa, Fla., parking lot sideways, burning couple becomes one of the rubber in three gears! You were country’s most prominent getting' it!" Hmmm, that does collectors of the marque in one sound vaguely familiar. fell swoop, well, their learning curve and level of expertise became accelerated just a bit. Then I realized he didn't want my old worn-out truck. He wanted Prior to their annual trip north to Dad's Hot Rod. The "don't tell Hershey, Pa., in 2013 for the big your mother about that" truck. AACA East Region Meet, the The truck he was building couple had owned one Peerless memories in while I was just — a 1931 model. After that trip, doing what I do. the couple wound up with five more. That meant that they had So it's on the way to roadworthy, owned a half-dozen of the 327 with a Blitz Black paintjob and Peerlesses that were known to gloss-black hockey stick stripe. exist through the registry kept by Being a realist, I've always Peerless enthusiasts. expected that he'll do the same stupid things we all did at that “That made us on of the larger age, so we'll run him through a single collectors of Peerlesses driving school at Road Atlanta to around,” laughs Joanna. get him some experience on the “Peerlesses are cool, though. We safety of a track, rather than a just thought, this is a pretty good backcountry road. deal, and not too many people will know Peerlesses as good as It'll be ready in time to take his we do, so we figured it would driver's exam when he turns 16,

P a g e | 32 kind of make us the local experts During the trip, Joanna used her “It’s very cool,” Joanne says. “It’s on them.” time to chase down some leads very roomy. In the back you can on cars that might be for sale. stretch your legs straight out and After making a bunch of calls that not touch the seat. It’s also didn’t yield much, she cold-called roomy in front seat. A lot of cars a man from Valparaiso, Ind., who from that era do not have a lot of had a collection of about eight room in the driver’s compartment cars, including five Peerlesses, … Peerless really has two things. that he wanted to sell off. That One is all that the name implies, meant a detour to the Hoosier but the other is silence and state on the way home to Florida. comfort. This is a very silent and comfortable car to drive.” “Long story short, eventually Brando made a deal to buy all The husband-and-wife duo runs five Peerlesses. None of them their own collector car restoration ran, but they were all in pretty and sales operation — Pistorius decent shape,” Joanne said. Collectible Autos and “Brando’s very good at seeing Carriages — and they are always what a serious problem is and on the lookout for prewar cars what’s not a serious problem … that they can fix up and re-sell. He does all his own work — The deal for five Peerlesses was electric, mechanical. He does a blockbuster move they hadn’t pretty much everything. With planned on, but it proved too these cars, the bodies were all in tempting to turn down. good shape. The upholstery was in good shape. I think only two of “Every year we go to Hershey the five needed upholstery.” and my husband usually buys a car and works on it all year and The cars had been parked in a we take it back to Hershey and barn together in Indiana for the sell it the next year,” Joanne past 23 years. Prior to that they The car was one of 8,318 says. “That year we had a ‘29 had been kept in Pound, Va., as automobiles built by the famed Pierce-Arrow, and when we sold part of the Dexter Dotson company for the model year, it, the guy wanted it delivered to Collection for over 30 years, making 1929 one of the best Buffalo, so we delivered the meaning the quintet had been years on record for Peerless. But Pierce-Arrow up in Buffalo.” together for at least 50 years. for all its wonderful design, craftsmanship, aura and reputation, Peerless — like so many car builders of the time — was not able to endure. Building high-priced cars was a precarious business as the Depression tightened its grip on the nation, and despite the

company’s efforts to offer some One of the stunning cars in the lower-priced cars that would group was a wonderful 1929 appeal to more of the masses, Model Six-81 sedan. The car is Peerless lasted only two more one of only eight known to exist, years. In 1931, the company according to the couple, and still changed courses and turned its resides in their collection after Cleveland, Ohio, plant into a brewing facility. Instead of turning many hours of TLC and restoration work from Brando out stately sedans and touring over the past year.

P a g e | 33 cars, the plant cranked out Getting the car to look good was “Peerless is a car with Carling Black Label Beer. only half the battle. Getting it to distinction,” he concluded. “The run right was the other. guys that sat behind desks and The Pistorius’ four-door sedan engineered this car, they thought features a Continental six- “You can guarantee every time outside the box. I’ve had six of cylinder engine that displaced you have a car like this you will them, and now I’m finding more 248.3 cubic inches and produced have a fuel tank problem. You [laughs]. There will probably be 66 hp. The car rides on a 116- just start by taking the fuel tank more in the years to come.” inch wheel base and features out,” Brando said. “As far as the four-wheel hydraulic brakes, engine compartment, nothing had which was still a rarity at the time. been restored. I believe it was in There is a footrest in the back, a original condition. There were handrail, pull-down shades for little signs. You could see it had privacy and rear-mounted spare been driven, but never rebuilt … I tire. did have to find another carburetor. That’s probably the “It had been restored, we believe only item that I had to find for the somewhere between the late ‘60s car. and early ’90s. We’re not exactly sure when,” Brando said. “But the “This particular car has steel car was never used … It stayed wheels, which is very unusual for in one barn all that time until the a Peerless. I’ve never seen guy I bought it from bought it in another one with steel wheels. I 1991. He also put it in barn and believe it is original because the let it sit. It wasn’t running, and he steering brackets only fit this couldn’t tell me when the last drum. It’s very unusual for those time it was running… If it had days.” been outside for 10 years, I don’t think I would buy it. Then the The olive mohair upholstery had elements take over, but because been redone at least once in the we know this car has been in past, but was still in good storage all its life in a barn in an condition. After the re-chroming enclosed environment, that was and repaint of the car’s body definitely a plus point.” were complete, a green pinstripe finished things off. Brando said the car didn’t need another complete remake, but it needed plenty of attention. That basically meant tearing the car down, cleaning and reinstalling everything, doing a bit of re- chroming, and painting the car Cream and Cinnamon, which were not its original colors but was a factory color combination in 1929. A year later, the car was back at Hershey as the couple’s main source of transportation during the week. “It was the first time we drove it,” Brando said. “We drove around and went to places like the hotel and lodge and drove around sightseeing … Needless to say, there was lot of attention paid to it.

P a g e | 34 MARTY ROBBINS’ A night earlier, Robinson — months to a year and moved OLD CAR SPARKS ‘RAT ROD’ Robbins' only son, who currently "from everywhere to anywhere." lives on the Williamson County HOBBY. Photos by Keith Ryan Cartwright property once owned by his The Ring family was poor, but the (Tennessean.com) father — and his wife, Kathy, elder Ring would work on cars were dining with Ring and his during the week to pay for an wife, Keri, when he told Ring he apartment "in the worst places in could have the Plymouth if he any given town." That's where could find a way to get it out of Tommy was taught how to tear that creek. down a transmission and rebuild a motor from the block up. Less than 24 hours later, Ring had it out. On the weekends, his father went door to door trying to set up a local Sunday school class.

Tommy Ring shows off his rat "Once he got the kids, he got the rods — classic cars he rebuilt parents, and once the church got using nontraditional parts — in up to 100, we moved," recalled his garage in Thompson’s Ring. Station. (Photo: Samuel M. Simpkins / the Tennessean) The gypsy lifestyle had made him an outcast.

When Tommy Ring and his pal Ronny Robinson pulled the 1933 Tommy Ring stands next to the After years of being the awkward Plymouth out from the bottom of 1933 Plymouth once owned by new kid, he became a self- the creek, he had no idea what Country Music Hall of Famer proclaimed hellion by the time he would become of the nearly 80- Marty Robbins. It’s one of three was in high school. He year-old car. classic cars of Robbins’ that Ring "befriended all the wrong people" has rebuilt. (Photo: Samuel M. and joined a rock band, which led Country Music Hall of Famer and Simpkins / the Tennessean) to drinking, partying and onetime NASCAR driver Marty eventually doing dope despite his Robbins had discarded the car "His daddy was a car nut," said parents raising him on gospel back in 1976. Ring, speaking of the legendary music. country and western crooner, All those years ago, it had slid who passed away in 1982. "That "I think why I loved music and sideways into the water with the got me back right in the middle of cars so much is that if you grow suicide doors open, and the body things." up an underdog, you never had broke free from the frame when it friends," Ring said. hit the creek bed. Now, on a By "things," Ring was referring to drizzly Saturday morning in 2010, his interest in rebuilding and At 24, he arrived in Los Angeles Ring and Robinson cut the restoring old cars. and got a gig playing piano at the weeds back that had grown high popular Palomino Club in North above the roof line and found the Life on the road Hollywood. He did that for two old Plymouth along with the years before winding up back in remains of several other classic Ring was born in Arkansas and Arkansas and living with his cars. raised in more towns than he parents in a dry county. cares to remember. Robbins had abandoned the "Couldn't get a drink, couldn't get automobiles after becoming His father was a preacher, who drugs and I was strung out," Ring displeased with an attempt to packed up the family every six said. "It's a long story, but I lost refurbish them. everything and went through a divorce. It was a good thing, but I

P a g e | 35 didn't know it then. I was stuck in photographed the car and found Brookland, Ark., a dry drunk a writer to do a feature story for a trying to survive." national rat rod magazine.

Ring went from driving a Corvette "I thought, 'This is cool,'" Ring and living in Hollywood to driving said. "It's something the young a tractor. It was humbling, but he guys are into and I don't have to was clean and sober and, more spend 60 or 80 grand to do it. I importantly, he met his second didn't know I could do it for wife, Keri. $1,500, but I thought I would just experiment." Eventually he landed a job writing jingles for television commercials, It started as a hobby. However, playing gospel music and it's fast-becoming a full-time gig mentoring a youth ministry before between writing a column for Rat he and his wife relocated to Rod magazine, building a garage Williamson County and started a full of rat rods and attending car family of their own. shows throughout the Southeast.

By then he was doing home His monthly column takes repairs and building houses, readers through a step-by-step another trade he picked up as a process of building a rat rod. Ring still has the original kid. Ring also filmed and self- Plymouth he built along with released his own do-it-yourself several other rat rods. Expanding on his hobby DVD. He's sold, traded and been Rings learned to be resourceful. commissioned to build others — After settling in Thompson's rat rods sell for anywhere been Station, Ring had an old car he $9,000 and $22,000 — and is hoped to rebuild, but he and Keri He makes what he can — the currently finishing at 1949 Chevy were raising a family and accelerator in the Plymouth is truck, which Ring described as a strapped for cash, so it sat made out of two heavy-duty "novelty rod." unfinished. washers and two large nails — and bargains everything else. He's thinking of pushing That all changed four years ago, boundaries by building a 1974 when Robinson gave Ring the The roll bars were old monkey Volkswagen, which is popular Plymouth. bars from a playground, which is among German readers of his where he also found the exhaust monthly magazine column. Rat rods had just become pipes he made from basketball popular in the Southeast about a hoops. The dashboard came out of a dump truck. He doesn't use Once the weather warms, Ring year earlier. Rat rods are cars will be easy to spot driving that appear unfinished and, salvage yards, which he said are too expensive, and prefers around Williamson County in the unlike the polished hot rods, are street-legal Plymouth. made from random parts that are searching through scrapyards. from cars not newer than 1963. So instead of paying for parts, However, in recent years, some he's paying for the weight of the "It's low (to the ground) and it's car shows, which draw as many metal. loud," said Ring. "You feel every 15,000 rat rods, allow for builders bump in the road, but it's a great to use car body’s styles as new "That wouldn't have been time. as 1968. accepted when I was a teenager," Ring said, "but now, "It's just the coolest thing." Once Ring was done building the the more creative you get the Plymouth, Nashville better they like it." photographer Russ Harrington

P a g e | 36 CLASSIC CAR REVIEW bought someone else’s [finished it all put back together in very 1969 DODGE CHARGER R/T car] it would not have been what I meticulous OEM style. Story & Photos by Brian Earnest (Old Cars wanted anyway. I had some Weekly) experience because I had just “I found out later the car had gone through it with my [1960 never been in an accident. It Chrysler 300F], so I had no real probably should have been a reservations. I thought this one survivor car and been left alone. would be easier than the Chrysler It was just a case of somebody because I knew all the parts were getting all excited and starting a available.” restoration and then running out of money. The car had about Barrie knew for certain that he 110,000 on odometer. It was just was inheriting a car with a lot of a beautiful car. All the lines potential. The body was off the matched up just like it came out car, but it was straight, rust-free of the factory. I detailed the Most old car buffs have dreams and didn’t need much more than suspension and put everything of their “someday” cars. As in, some sanding and a good paint on new that could be new. The “someday, somehow, I want to job. Some of the important vinyl top had been pulled off the own one of those.” It might be a restoration work had already car and all the holes had been Duesenberg, a split-window been done, and within six months sealed up, but when we decoded Corvette, a 1960s VW Super Barrie had the beautiful Dodge the car we found it had the vinyl Beetle, or a Model T Ford. Quite back on the road. top. It was an R/T and it was an often, they are out of our reach, SE.” but it sure doesn’t hurt to dream. Dodge’s beautiful B-Body muscle Louis Barrie came across his cruiser got a major restyling in personal “someday” machine 1968, and the company didn’t back in 2006. It might not have mess much with a good thing for arrived as he had dreamt – the the 1969 model year. As Motor body had been stripped and was Trend put it, “That brute Charger in a state of partial restoration, styling, that symbol of masculine while most of the rest of the car virility, was still intact.” was in boxes. But it was a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T, and Barrie had wanted one for as long as he could remember.

When opportunity knocks, sometimes you jump now and ask questions later. So Barrie, a resident of West Hills, Calif., decided someday had come. “I grew up in a Mopar family and “The restorer who had done the 1969 was the year I got my work on my Chrysler let me know driver’s license,” he said. We about the car. It was in his shop were big Dodge people and we and he wanted to get it out of had a ’66 Charger and this would there … He had the engine and have been the car I would have had all the parts there. The body wanted, either this or ’70. So this shop was sitting over at the body car was very near and dear to my shop. The engine had been done heart.” and transmission all done and lot of the chrome had been sent out “It was in pieces … but I’m one of and basically just in boxes. I had those guys that prefers perfection, and typically if I

P a g e | 37 The fastback styling gave the Hemi-powered cars had four- want to over-restore the car,” he Chargers a long, lean, “don’t speed manual transmissions in said. “I wanted to make the car a mess with me” appearance. The 1969. good show car, and with that in grille was divided into two mind I wanted to do everything sections and the taillights were as original as possible — at least tweaked slightly. Inside, the dash that could be seen. Putting chalk instruments were given white marks in the trunk and under the lettering on a black background, suspension — I do stuff like that! but not much else differed from But I wanted the car to look right. 1968. I didn’t want that ‘2-foot-deep, shiny paint, clear coat’ paint job. The R/T (Road/Track) was the That just doesn’t look like the car juiced-up member of the Charger was when it was new. lineup. It came only as a two- door hardtop coupe with a base “Mine’s got the leather package, price of $3,592 and a factory woodgrained instrument panel … shipping weight of 3,636 lbs. That air conditioning, 440 Magnum, included the 440-cid Magnum V- power brakes and windows, 8, with a four-barrel carburetor Magnum wheels and Red Stripe and a three-speed TorqueFlite tires, AM radio, Tic-Toc tach. It automatic transmission. The R/T was a nicely equipped car,” package also included low- Barrie said. “To have power restriction dual exhausts with windows and air is really nice. chrome tips, heavy-duty manually The car was ordered new the adjusted drum brakes, F70-14 way I would have ordered it in Red Line tires, and the R/T 1969, which was also very heavy-duty handling package attractive to me. “ and bumblebee stripes. Barrie actually had his Charger With a 3.55:1 rear axle, the painted twice. The first paint job standard-equipped 440-powered wasn’t a very good one, he said, model (which came with a and then “right at the end, the column-mounted gear shift lever restorer basically moved out of no less) was found capable of the state and I had to have running down the quarter-mile in somebody else [Restorations by 13.9 seconds at 101.4 mph. The Julius] finish off the car.” The new R/T was the only Charger interior came from Legendary. available with the Hemi V-8 Barrie was eventually able to engine again this year. The 426- track down some of the parts that cid/425-hp powerhouse had a needed replacing or were $648 price tag in 1969. missing, including a steering wheel and center console. He left

Charger R/T production went the drum brakes on all four from the 1969 total of 17,582 corners intact. Ditto with the 3:55 “And I also want to drive it, too. I units up to 20,057 units. A new Positraction rear end. don’t believe in trailer queens.” option package for Chargers that was also available on the R/T Barrie admits there is a fine line Barrie says he gets the R/T models was the SE (or Special between being “a perfectionist” regular exercise these days and Edition) interior with leather who wants the car to be authentic has no worries about adding a bucket seats, lots of extra lights and look new, and crossing over few more miles to the odometer. and wood-grained trim pieces. into the lunatic fringe, where no The biggest challenge, he says, Sinking in popularity to 400 matter how much time, effort and is finding the right gas. “I wouldn’t production units was the Hemi money you sink into a project, hesitate to take the car Charger R/T. around 192 of the there is always something more anywhere, as long as I can get you could do. “Well, I really didn’t

P a g e | 38 gasoline,” he said. “The biggest exhaust. Everything was as it shown in restored form at SEMA detriment to a road trip has to run should have been.” in 2011. on the racing gas. Basically, we just have lousy gasoline and it’s MILLION DOLLAR hard to get it running well on that 91 octane garbage. Really, it CLAIM: needs to run on the racing gas, The Bullitt 1968 Dodge and around here that’s about 7 Charger? bucks a gallon.” Story & Photos by (bringatrailer.com)

This 1968 Dodge Charger R/T is said to be one of two cars used in the filming of the Bullitt car chase The black plate wouldn’t be hard starring Steve McQueen. The car to reproduce, but a real was found in Arizona and document showing that that plate restored to this condition by the was assigned to the car for sale current owner, who also would be worth bigtime cash. It is documented the odd holes in the interesting that a Charger was floor, door jamb, and trunk that used as a camera car as well as he claims were for the camera on screen. Maybe that external rig. He offers the links below that rig on the passenger side is how The car gets 12-15 mph running show photos of the car being they got all the motion shots of the racing gas, “but I don’t really used for filming. Interestingly, he the two henchmen inside. watch it that close, because says there was a second car that otherwise you get depressed,” was used for the high-speed gas Barrie joked. “I’m not using the station crash at the end of the car every day, so that justifies chase, and that one was not an using the racing gas.” R/T. Find this one here on cars- on-line.com in Tucson, Arizona Challenges keeping the tank for $1,000,000 firm. filled certainly haven’t dimmed Barrie’s enthusiasm for his Charger. He says it is exactly the car he envisioned when he bought the bare body shell and all those boxes of parts. Purported to originally be yellow, the seller claims it was then

repainted black for filming, then repainted factory yellow and The seller apparently didn’t know finally gold prior to resale at of the car’s film history until holes Valley Dodge in Van Nuys, presumably drilled for camera California, in 1970. mounting were discovered underneath the carpet during the disassembly process. The VIN of the actual car is unknown, but there does seem to be quite a bit “It was exactly as I remembered,” of evidence in favor of its movie he said. “My brother had a 69 provenance. The seller, an Coronet R/T and I remember that Arnold Welch, puts much of the car so well. There are certain evidence together on this things you don’t forget. This felt German muscle car site. The pre- the same way. Everything was Factory-equipped with a 440 CID restoration photos are found at familiar, from the whine of the V-8, 4-speed manual and Dana this blog link, and the car was transmission, to the sound of the 60 rear end, the car is said to have 62,000 original miles.

P a g e | 39 Ignoring the seven-figure asking years before that. It has leather interior and 1970 DODGE CORENET R/T price for a moment, that’s our only 70,000 miles. Supposedly it had been started 10 years earlier. It had been ideal spec — not including the purchased new by the father of the current ultra-rare 426 Hemi cars, of owner, who won’t sell." course, of which many were equipped with fun-sapping 1968 PONTIAC FIREBIRD TorqueFlite automatics anyway.

We’d love to see what happens to this car in the future. We would think that the big auctions would be all over it if the claims could be substantiated. It just seems so "I found out about this car years ago, and I kept trying to talk to the owners about selling. odd that it was posted to such an I finally got to talk to them and they agreed to odd classified site. We’ll be sell. A few days later, we settled on a price. watching this one. It's 1 of 194 in this color and has the fresh air hood." "My buddy and I were at his girlfriend's WHAT’S SITTING IN house, when he told me that her dad had an old car I might want to see. This car is a 1965 FORD GALAXIE YOUR BARN OR BACK factory 4-speed, looks to have the original 500 YARD? 400, and it's been sitting since 1975. I'm Story & Photos by (carsinbarns.com). trying to see if the car could be bought right now. Wish me luck!"

1954 PONTIAC CHIEFTAIN 1967 FORD MUSTANG

"This car is sitting a few miles down the road from my house. It hasn’t moved in 18 years, and I doubt it will ever move again. The old man refuses to sell the car, and he keeps insisting that he’s going to 'fix it up' "I found this '67 Mustang Fastback along the someday." fence line of an old farm. It looks like it hasn't moved in decades. The trees are growing over it and it is sinking into the dirt. The underside looks pretty rusty, but the car is otherwise complete."

"Found this 1954 Pontiac Chieftain Straight-8 Hydramatic that had been sitting in a barn for about 20 years and in a cellar for several

P a g e | 40 1965 PONTIAC GTO 02/20 Drag Racing Series James Valley Street Machines to CARQUEST Auto Parts 04/15 Regular Meeting 02/22 NHRA Nationals Jamestown, North Dakota Phoenix, Arizona 04/18 Oahe Speedway NASCAR to 11th Annual Fanfest at the Sprint Cup Series 04/19 Pierre Mall Daytona International Pierre, South Dakota 02/22 Speedway NASCAR Daytona 500 Sprint Cup Series Daytona, Florida 04/19 Bristol Motor Speedway NASCAR Bristol, Tennessee Camping World Truck Series NHRA Mello Yellow 02/28 Atlanta Motor Speedway 04/24 Drag Racing Series Atlanta, Georgia to O'REILLY Auto Parts NASCAR 04/26 NHRA Spring nationals Sprint Cup Series Houston, Texas 03/01 Atlanta Motor Speedway Oahe Speedway Atlanta, Georgia 04/25 Chassis Inspection Test & Tune NASCAR 04/26 Shootout Races w/Test & Tune Sprint Cup Series Pierre, South Dakota 03/08 Las Vegas Motor Speedway NASCAR Las Vegas, Nevada Sprint Cup Series NHRA Mello Yellow Richmond International 04/25 "I’ve been trying to buy this car for 13 years 03/12 Drag Racing Series Raceway now. I visit the owner each year, and each to Amalie Motor Oil Richmond, Virginia year I get the same response that he and his son are going to fix it up someday. It has been 03/15 NHRA Gatornationals Jamestown Speedway sitting since the early 70’s when it was hit Gainesville, Florida 05/02 Test & Tune during a snow storm. It still has the original NASCAR Jamestown, North Dakota tri-power 389 and is in very restorable Sprint Cup Series Oahe Speedway condition." 03/15 Phoenix International Raceway 05/02 Shootout Races Phoenix, Arizona 05/03 Coca Cola Points Race James Valley Street Machines Pierre, South Dakota 03/18 Regular Meeting Top End Dragways Jamestown, North Dakota 05/03 Test & Tune NASCAR Sabin, Minnesota Sprint Cup Series NASCAR 03/22 Auto Club Speedway Sprint Cup Series Fontana, California 05/03 Talladega Superspeedway NHRA Mello Yellow Talladega, Alabama 03/27 Drag Racing Series NASCAR to NHRA Camping World Truck Series 03/29 Four-Wide Nationals 05/08 Kansas Speedway Charlotte, North Carolina Kansas City, Kansas NASCAR Jamestown Speedway Camping World Truck Series 05/09 Opening Night James Valley Street Machines 03/28 Martinsville Speedway Jamestown, North Dakota 02/18 Regular Meeting Ridgeway, Virginia 05/09 Top End Dragways Jamestown, North Dakota NASCAR Season Opener-Bracket to NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Weekend Sprint Cup Series 03/29 Martinsville Speedway 05/10 Sabin, Minnesota Daytona International Ridgeway, Virginia NASCAR 02/19 Speedway NHRA Mello Yellow Sprint Cup Series Budweiser Duels 04/10 Drag Racing Series 05/09 Kansas Speedway Daytona, Florida to SUMMIT RACING.com Kansas City, Kansas NASCAR 04/12 NHRA Nationals James Valley Street Machines Camping World Truck Series Las Vegas, Nevada 05/13 Cook Out Car Show Daytona International NASCAR S&R Truck Stop 02/20 Speedway Sprint Cup Series Jamestown, North Dakota Daytona, Florida 04/11 Texas Motor Speedway NASCAR NHRA Mello Yellow Fort Worth, Texas Camping World Truck Series

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P a g e | 42 07/17 St. Paul Street Machine Top End Dragways Brainerd, Minnesota to Nationals 08/01 Hot Rod Drags Jamestown Speedway 07/19 St. Paul, Minnesota Sabin, Minnesota 08/22 Back to School Night 07/18 Jamestown Drag Racing NASCAR Jamestown, North Dakota to Airport 1/8 Mile Drags Camping World Truck Series NASCAR 07/19 Jamestown, North Dakota 08/01 Pocono Raceway Sprint Cup Series Jamestown Speedway Pocono, Pennsylvania 08/22 Bristol Motor Speedway 07/18 Points Race Oahe Speedway Bristol, Tennessee Jamestown, North Dakota 08/01 Shootout Races Jamestown Speedway Top End Dragways 08/01 National Dragster Challenge 08/29 Season Championship 07/18 Tintmasters Street Legal Drags Pierre, South Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota Sabin, Minnesota NASCAR 08/29 Top End Dragways NASCAR Sprint Cup Series to Tintmasters Street Legal Drags Sprint Cup Series 08/02 Pocono Raceway 08/30 Sabin, Minnesota New Hampshire Motor Pocono, Pennsylvania NASCAR 07/19 Speedway NHRA Mello Yellow Camping World Truck Series Loudon, New Hampshire 08/07 Drag Racing Series 08/30 Canadian Tire Motorsport Park Oahe Speedway to NHRA Bowmansville, ON 07/18 Countdown to the Jam 08/09 Northwest Nationals NHRA Mello Yellow 07/19 Points Race Seattle, Washington 09/02 Drag Racing Series Pierre, South Dakota 08/08 Top End Dragways to Chevrolet Performance James Valley Street Machines to Bracket Weekend 09/07 U.S. Nationals 07/22 Regular Meeting 08/09 Sabin, Minnesota Indianapolis, Indiana Jamestown, North Dakota NASCAR Jamestown Speedway NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 09/05 Labor Day Duel (Saturday) Camping World Truck Series 08/09 Watkins Glen International Jamestown, North Dakota 07/22 Eldora Speedway Watkins Glen, New York 09/05 Top End Dragways New Weston, Ohio James Valley Street Machines to Bracket Weekend 07/24 Elks Lodge 995 08/12 Cook Out Car Show 09/06 King of the Track to Elks State Convention S&R Truck Stop Sabin, Minnesota 07/26 Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown Speedway James Valley Street Machines Jamestown Speedway 09/06 Labor Day Duel (Sunday) 07/24 Dakota Blacktop Tour 08/15 Points Race Jamestown, North Dakota to Taking South Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota Oahe Speedway 07/26 by Storm! 08/15 Top End Dragways 09/03 Thunder on the Prairie Jamestown, North Dakota to Bracket Weekend 09/05 Junior Drag Racing NHRA Mello Yellow 08/16 Radial Revolution 09/06 Draggin for Pinks 07/24 Drag Racing Series Sabin, Minnesota 09/07 Points Race to MOPAR Mile-High Oahe Speedway Pierre, South Dakota 07/26 NHRA Nationals 08/15 Shootout Races NASCAR Denver, Colorado 08/16 Gamblers - Small Wheel Race Sprint Cup Series 07/25 Top End Dragways Pierre, South Dakota Richmond International 09/12 to Bracket Weekend NASCAR Raceway 07/26 National Dragster Challenge Camping World Truck Series Richmond, Virginia Sabin, Minnesota Michigan International NASCAR 08/15 Jamestown Speedway Speedway Sprint Cup Series 07/25 MW Mod Festival Brooklyn, Michigan 09/06 Darlington Raceway Jamestown, North Dakota NASCAR Darlington, South Carolina NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 09/12 Top End Dragways Sprint Cup Series Michigan International to Bracket Weekend 08/16 07/26 Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway 09/13 Sabin, Minnesota Indianapolis, Indiana Brooklyn, Michigan James Valley Street Machines NHRA Mello Yellow NASCAR 09/16 Cook Out Car Show 07/31 Drag Racing Series Camping World Truck Series Buffalo City Rotisserie Grille to NHRA 08/19 Bristol Motor Speedway Jamestown, North Dakota 08/02 Sonoma Nationals Bristol, Tennessee 09/17 Oahe Speedway Sonoma, California NHRA Mello Yellow to ET Finals Jamestown Speedway 08/20 Drag Racing Series 09/19 Pierre, South Dakota 08/01 NLRA Late Models to Lucas Oil NHRA Mello Yellow Jamestown, North Dakota 08/23 NHRA Nationals 09/18 Drag Racing Series

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P a g e | 44 Rear quarter panel patch panels, GHOSTS OF NORTH 1910 – 137, 1920 – 130, 1930 – 135, lower section, left & right. 1940 – 132, 1950 – 124, 1960 – 78, DAKOTA 1970 – 76, 1980 – 57, 1990 – 32, 2000 – Windshield and rear glass. Wind 35, 2010 – 34 Wing, door & quarter glass for two door. Big Block aluminized headers for ’55 frame. Ecklers Big Block motor mounts. Two door sedan front bench seat, primered springs. Have 22’ of trailer rubber tread for snow mobile runners. One ‘63 (+ -) 14” Chevy rim. Have pictures for Berlin, North Dakota review. Have other parts. Story by: Troy Larson Located in Fargo. 701-261-2857 (ghostofnorthdakota.com) John

FOR SALE: ‘50/’51 Merc R & L inner front fenders $150 each. ‘49-’50 Merc Coupe upper L.S. ¼ panel N.O.S. $150. ‘49-’50 upper rear pan $75. ‘49-’51 good gas tank $150. (4) ‘49-’51 Merc wheels, nice $60 each. 701-349- 3913 Sterling This old fire station is in quite good condition. Hopefully someone has plans to maintain FOR SALE: ‘34 Plymouth Sedan and/or restore this because the old fire hot rod. Ready to cruise. Info: stations are rapidly disappearing from North 701-678-2908 Bugs Dakota’s dwindling small towns.

FOR SALE: ‘46 ½ ton Ford Pickup with flat head V8. Would make excellent Rat Rod! $1200. 701-220-6771 Eldon

WANTED: Original (usable/patina ok/ repairable) parts for ‘40 Willys Model 440 Berlin, North Dakota is a small Pickup - Front &/or rear bumper, town in Lamoure County in tailgate, tailgate pivots, both front southeastern North Dakota. Berlin Legion Post 206 grille halves, headlight lens (1 or Although many of the structures 2), gas tank (usable or pattern), which once existed in Berlin are seat cushions & seat base. Any now gone, there are some help / leads appreciated. Need impressive structures still items suitable for “Shop” truck, standing. not “Show” truck! 218-681-7073 or 218-686-5611 Phone, text, Sabrina Hornung contributed a pictures. Randy few photos of Berlin in 2011. In the summer of 2012 we were INSPECTIONS: Vehicle able to get to Berlin and capture This is the former bar and service station. inspections done at Dallas these photos for ourselves. Kustoms in Hillsboro, ND. Call 701-436-6399 US Census Data for Berlin Total Population by Place

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Pete’s Ponderosa looks much worse on the The old horse-drawn fire wagon is still inside inside than it does on the outside, as you’ll see the station. below.

The ceiling and the floor of Pete’s Ponderosa — both caved in.

The former blacksmith shop.

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