Third Quarter 2007 Volume 3, Issue 3

1 7 8 9 C o u n t y R o u t e 5 0 ( 6 0 7 ) 3 2 4 - 8 3 2 5 A r k p o r t , N e w Y o r k 1 4 8 0 7 W W W . R J C A R S . C O M G REETIN G S FRO M TH E PRESID EN T O F RJ C A RS, IN C . INSIDE THIS ISSUE: shots. It all went and is enjoying the challenges of ur trip to Carlisle O smooth though and her new job. Congratulations this year was a very the photos were Sue! I am very proud of you for Carlisle/ busy one. Pulling in 1 worth all of the time seeing your way to your dream of Open House Thursday to set up spent. Look for both being a teacher! in between rain cars to be featured in I would also like to take this time storms was interest- upcoming issues of to congratulate my Office Man- Rigby 1970 ing. Doing photo 2 Muscle maga- ager, Cindy Gemmill, on step- Challenger shoots with BOTH zine. ping in to take over Sue’s posi- of our display cars Those of you who tion. Cindy has done a fine job and presenting Jim Super Bee/ have been reading with our accounting, record keep- 2 Rigby’s 1970 Chargers Rev It Up! for a while will recall ing and overall office organiza- Challenger R/ T. Wow...were that my wife, Susan, left her role tion. Many of you who have met we ever tired after all that excite- as Office Manger here at RJ Cindy or talked with her by New Web ment! 3 CARS, INC. about 2 years ago to phone have paid her multiple Site It made me sweat a bit driving pursue her dream of being a compliments. Thanks Cindy! the 2 cars to the photo shoots. teacher. I am proud to say that To all...enjoy this beautiful fall The ‘70 ‘Cuda with less than she did a great job with her college weather while it lasts and get Featured 100 miles on a fresh restoration 4 courses receiving a Master’s De- those cars out for a drive before and the ‘70 Challenger with 1- Service gree in Early Childhood/ Child- snow flies! mile doing a run down I-81 at hood & Literacy! She started Russell highway speeds for some action teaching full time this past month CARLISLE ALL & OPEN H OU SE EVEN T By: Cindy Gemmill cesses. Not only did Jim’s Wow! What a spectacular 70 Challenger get to be fa- time at Carlisle again this mous, but so did the 1970 year! The weather was ‘Cuda (featured warm– a bit hot on Sunday, in the 4th Quarter 2006 is- but no rain that interfered sue of Rev It Up!) Car with the show! owner and repeat RJ CARS The best part of the show client, Chris Santomero, was seeing the surprise on graciously let us borrow his Raymond Rigby’s face when car for display in our tent, he realized the beautiful B5 and it too was noticed and We got to meet a lot of new Blue 1970 Dodge Challenger Jim & Raymond realizing their photos were taken. Look for people, re-united with some R/T we had in our tent be- dream come true! both cars to be published clients we hadn’t seen face to longed to his father, RJ soon in Mopar Muscle face in a while (Jeff Shook– CARS client and friend, Jim completed Mopar, a lot more Magazine! don’t be such a stranger– Rigby. The now famous $$$$, the look on Raymond’s With the nice weather the bring the family, too!) and commercial goes; 1– old face– PRICELESS! Carlisle show and the RJ signed some new jobs, too! rusty car, about $10000, 1– The show had other great suc- CARS tent were hoppin’. I’m not sure how we are

Page 2 Rev It Up! Rigby 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T By: Russell Jacobs We gave you a little taste of Jim Rigby’s 70 Challenger in our last newsletter. And well, here it is before and after the 3 year restoration at RJ CARS, INC. I am very proud of this restoration and it’s been one of the most satisfying jobs I have had the pleasure of working on in the last 25 years. We restored this car as per Jim’s request...original engine, drive train, color combination, etc. The car is just a real nice package right from day one and is a real eye catcher, B5 Blue exterior with B5 Blue houndstooth interior, rallye gauges, 4-speed console with a Hurst Pistol grip shifter, 383– 4 barrel engine, power steering, power drum brakes, 3.55 Sure Grip rear axle, white vinyl top and side stripes, and a blackout R/T hood. What more could you ask for?!! Well, it also has the original fender tag and build sheet. The car runs and drives like new. We even found some- one to supply Jim and his son, Raymond, with new 8- Track tapes for the restored original AM Radio/8 Track stereo! I have to say that presenting the finished product to Jim and Ray- mond this year at Carlisle has been one of the highlights of my ca- reer! Hat’s off to Jim for seeing this car through a complete restora- tion and for surprising his son with the car’s debut at Carlisle this year. A memory that will last a life time! My sincere thanks to all of my staff members who each worked hard to finish this car on time for Carlisle ‘07! You can all be proud of this one and look forward to seeing it in Mopar Muscle magazine! CCHHAARRGGEERRSS Super Bee 1969 R/T Jeff Shook made a sur- Art Handzlik found our prise visit to our tent at advertisement in Hem- Carlisle All Chrysler event mings Motor News and this year. After seeing our 2 E– bodies on display he showed up at our 2006 was really excited to get Open House Event to more progress going on check us out. Shortly his 71 Super Bee. Jeff after that Art was work- spent some time looking over Kiesler’s 5-Speed ing with Russell on a transmission kits and RMS AlterKtion Front Ends at plan to get his Charger the show and has opted to add those in for a restoration. It seemed appropriate that we to his restoration. have Art come by the 2007 Open House to drop Since then Jeff vis- his car off and that’s exactly what he did! His res- ited us for our 2007 toration is now un- Open House and to derway and you can check out his car in check the progress person. We’re on the RJ CARS happy to say that our body man, Ron website, Shaw, has been www.rjcars.com. working diligently on the body and it is getting much Thanks Artie (R/T!) closer to a finished product. We hope to have Jeff for stopping’ out to drooling over his own car at the 2008 Carlisle event! see us!

Volume 3, Issue 3 Page 3 C A RLISLE & O PEN H O U SE going to beat the excitement OPEN HOUSE 2007– The at the RJ CARS tent for Car- RJ CARS crew was blessed John Vlajic, J & lisle 2008, but you should all again with great weather for T Auto, Elmira, make plans to stop out and the Open House Event held NY see us! July 28, 2007. We welcomed good friends, family Matt Harrington, and clients to view the Distribu- brand new paint booth tion, Swain, NY (featured in the last is- Carquest Auto, sue of Rev It Up!) and Hornell, NY Tom Snyder’s 1974 Dodge Charger the clean/organized work bays. The kids NAPA Auto, Hor- enjoyed the games, toys nell, NY and a piñata while the Fred Roberts Auto, One of the many great professional shots adults had fun with the Hornell, NY of this beautiful ’Cuda! cars, band and the Jim Der Meid, many door prizes Mac Tools, Way- that were given away. land, NY And Door prizes pro- Jeff Ryan, The Ryan Thanks so much to everyone vided by our Agency, Hornell, NY gave who helps to make our faithful vendors: $50 for a special drawing. Open House a great event every year!

Into the Swing(er) of Things Web Site Up- date Matt’s Dart Swinger is The new design getting a new set of sub- officially launched frame connectors in- on July 8, 2007 stalled. This will really and has been well strengthen the unibody! received by RJ Thank you to John at CARS customers. US Car Tool for getting The site offers these to us at the Car- viewers easier navigation and the lisle show this year. opportunity to see Matt is currently tearing down his 71 Dart Swinger parts a lot more photos of our current and complete restora- car and will be utilizing much of the necessary sheet tions. Web site designers Mary Anne Shew and Barry metal for his Alt designed the site to utilize new photo gallery soft- restoration. ware that allows visitors easier access to photos and You can enables Cindy, RJ CARS Office Manger, to easily check out upload more photos as the cars progress. the progress Also, be sure to check out the Restorations page for a of Matt’s nearly complete list of all the cars Russell and his Dart project team have completed over the last 20 plus years. If there were photos taken during those restorations you in the Photo can also view those photos in the Photo Gallery. Be Gallery at sure to check out the entire web site- our web site, Matt’s new work bay! www.rjcars.com www.rjcars.com. Look closely, Matt’s parts car is safely supported by a chain to the jib crane! Visit soon and often!

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1971 Dodge Charger R/T Clone RJ CARS painter, CJ Tremper, just completed a BASF 1971 Dodge Charger Super Bee paint training course in White House, Ohio. The training 1970 Dodge Challenger was focused on color matching and blending small areas. CJ has been working on color matching original Mopar 1970 Swinger 340 finishes on a 2- 1970 Plymouth Superbird couple of our 1969 Camaro SS current pro- 1969 Charger R/T jects to create 1967 Cadillac “blendable” 1968 Hemi Dart matches. This 1964 Chevy Nova SS can be a tedi- 1949 Cadillac ous task, but the results will Rev It Up! Now available on the Web or via Email really pay off Missed some issues of Rev It Up!? 1971 Dodge Hemi Challenger Wheels for our clients! Visit www.rjcars.com for previous issues.

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