LOOKING TOWARDS CLASSIC CAR CLASSIC CAR 2 THE FUTURE REVIEW 30 REVIEW Club President "Skovy" 11 Q&A with James Love 1964 Ford Galaxie 427 MEMBERS (Doc) from the 33 SWAP SHOP 3 BIRTHDAY Street Outlaws 35 Upcoming Events CLASSIC CAR Kick off to Summer 3 ACTIVE MEMBERS 38 RUMBLER HUMOR REVIEW Event 4 14 Do you feel old yet? Old Gas Stations! WOW! JVSM & Don Wilhelm Inc. 38 CLASSIC CAR And Old Cars Car Show for Huntington's REVIEW RUMBLER HUMOR 17 39 2017 Devils Run 5 PROJECT 69'r Drunk Irishman 40 Running of the Pink The long road to the CLASSIC CAR 41 Classic Car Auction most wanted muscle car REVIEW 42 2017 Black Top Tour NEW CAR REVIEW 14 This 1970 Dodge Kick off to Summer Challenger and 3 Friends 43 Dodge Demon Debuts Event 6 Saved a Life with 840 hp, Already 44 CLUB APPLICATION Banned by NHRA CLASSIC CAR REVIEW RUMBLER MINISTRY 20 7 1967 Hurst Hairy Scott Block Oldsmobile CLASSIC CAR NEWS CLASSIC CAR 9 Car Restoration Heaven 21 REVIEW is for Sale in Canada The "Blue Max" Funny AROUND MILL HILL Car 10 CLASSIC CAR Movie - Going in Style 24 REVIEW AROUND MILL HILL 1963 Studebaker Avanti Dinner - CLASSIC CAR 11 Sabir's - Valley City 27 REVIEW A Short History of Hot Rods

P a g e | 2 LOOKING TOWARDS performing many Glenn Miller, Well, hope you all enjoy your THE FUTURE Count Basie, and many more summer. Get involved. Have fun! 40’s hit. Of course, this will be a themed party so get on your Zoot Happy 2017 to everybody. Get Suits and get over to the Elks. Of involved in one of the fastest course, it free and you must be growing organizations in the 21 to attend. $200 to the winner area. of the dance contest and $100 to the best theme dressed Thank you everybody for reading individual. and enjoying the “RUMBLER” magazine. Our e-mail readers have passed 23,116 issues with even some of our issues being sent overseas.

Don’t be bashful. We are a very active organization and want Story & Photos by Skovy members. It’s only $25.00 for a regular membership & $50.00 if you want the “RUMBLER” mailed I was looking out my living room to you. window last night and seen there were buds on my trees starting to It was also decided that our [email protected] show up. organization will host the “Take Back Main Street” here in With that I knew that it was time Jamestown. As in other to HAVE FUN! And get the cars communities in North Dakota this ready. I went to my Toy Box and will be a cruise through and was saddened at what I saw. around Jamestown. Starts at Winter full of dust has settled on 6:00. This event will be held on all my classic cars and an the 1st Wednesday of every accumulation of items that I month (weather permitting). Get bought over the winter has those cruisers shined up and stacked up all around the show them off! perimeter. The Black Top Tour (July 28th, st It was 70 degrees for the 1 time 29th and 30th) is almost upon us. I here in Jamestown and sunny, so will be emailing the itinerary out I figured what the heck. I’ll put a multiple times between now and couple of cases of cold adult when we leave. If you are going beverages in my fridge and dig make sure you make your in. You know what happened reservations. next? Well, the cars are still dusty and there’s still a bunch of stuff around the perimeter. Ha Ha.

Springtime is here. The James Valley Street Machines is stacking up a bunch of activities over the summertime starting out on April 28 at the Elks Club here is Jamestown is our “Spring into Summer” event where we will be having Rock’n Ronnie and Crazy The itinerary will be attached to Cal from R&C School of Rock the email that has this Rumbler.

P a g e | 3 Gray, JeriLynn & Andy Greenlund, Ron & Darlene Gumke, Matt Gumke, Don & JoAnn Gums, Robert & Candace Guthmiller, Neil & Linda Hallwachs, Loren & Renee Hansen, Michael & Angie Heinle, Larry & Audrey Hoggarth, Tim & Tiffanie MEMBERS BIRTHDAYS Holzkamm, Al & Cindy January & February Houge, Jason & Ann Marie ACTIVE MEMBERS McIlonie, Darlene 04/01 Huber, Al & Sue Wagner, Marla 04/06 Huber, Bruce Huber, Bruce 04/02 Allmer, Michael Huber, Steve & Betty Breise, Lee 04/09 Andersen, Jeff(Andy) & Shelly Huber, Robert Readel, Larry 04/11 Anderson, Roger & Meleia Jangula, Duane Briese, Penny 04/12 Anderson, Scott & Kim Jaskoviak, Steven (Skovy) Bensch, Janis 04/15 Anderson, Bruce & Kathy Jensen, Paul & Sue Lynn, Pauline 04/15 Bachmeier, Donovan & Karla Johnson, Brandon & Sonia Johnson, Spencer 04/16 Baker, Neil & Judi Lynn, Randy 04/24 Johnson, Rod W. Balvitsch, Wayne Westerhausen, Leon 04/29 Johnson, Irving & Marilyn Behm, Earl & Connie Johnson, Spencer & Amee Bennefeld, Greg & Judy Kamlitz, Brian Bensch, Paul & Janis Kapp, Dan & Jennifer Berg, Wayne & Tami Karn, Dale & Sue Beyer, James Keim, Lyman & Darlene Block, Scott & Pat Kessler, Michael & Mary Bowen, Jason & Renee Kiefer, Randy & Linda Brandenburger, Max & Laura Kleinknecht, Delno & Phyllis Briese, Lee & Penny Krein, Larry & Kelly Calheim, Clifford & Marla Kuss, Alex Carow, Billy & Candace Lang, John (JR) Carpenter, Kent & Colleen Larson, Don & Bonnie Corell, John Loose, Larry & Bonita Curtis, Floyd & Carrie Lubenow, Owen & Kyla Dewald, Joel & Della Lulay, Bob & Alma Elhard, Dale Lynn, Randy & Monica Engquist, Merrill (Sparky) & Lynn, Tyler & Pauline Marcia Martin, Randy & Patti Eslick, Larry Masters, George & Eileen Forsman, Larry Mathias, Roger & Bonnie Frueh, Darin McCreedy, Terrance Fuchs, Justin & Nichole McCullough, Gary & Billie Gaier, Craig & Johnston, Ruth McDermid, Tim Geisler, David McIlonie, Bernie & Darlene Gibson, Teddy & Diane Meidinger, Jamie Gilbertson, Mike & Murray, Kim Meikle, Jack & Gloria Gilge, Larry & Cindy

P a g e | 4 Miller, Randy RUMBLER HUMOR Miller, Jerry Story & Pictures sent by Dave Olson 1966: Parents begging you to get Miller, Aaron (James Valley Street Machines) your hair cut

Mischka, Kenneth & Judy 2017: Children begging you to get their heads shaved Mitzel, LeRoy

Moser, Jeff 1966: Passing the drivers' test Moser, LeRoy & Gloria 2017: Passing the vision test Nelson, Troy & Lois Nenow, Roger & Lois 1966: Whatever Nogosek, Aaron & Amy 2017: Depends Noot, Jay & Bryant Olson, David & Adele Just in case you weren't feeling Olson, Ryan too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the Orness, Stan & Sharon staff at Beloit College in Patzner, Elroy DO YOU FEEL OLD YET? Wisconsin puts together a list to Ravely, Thomas & Rhonda try to give the faculty a sense of Readel, Larry & Nadine 1966: Long hair the mindset of this year's Redinger, Dale 2017: Longing for hair incoming freshmen. Here’s this Rixen, Dennis year's list: Sabir, Nam 1966: KEG Schauer, Ronald & Cindy 2017: EKG The people who are starting Schoepp, Robert & Alva college this fall across the nation were born in 1998. Seckerson, Kelly & Tricia 1966: Acid rock

Seher, Jeff 2017: Acid reflux They are too young to remember Specht, Gary & Margaret 1966: Moving to California the space shuttle blowing up. Speckman, Dale & Pamela because it's cool Thoele, Kevin & Kim 2017: Moving to Arizona because Their lifetime has always Thomas, Troy & Tricia it's warm included AIDS. Timm, Curt Titman, Nick 1966: Trying to look like Marlon Bottle caps have always been Tracy, Dean & Martha Brando or Liz Taylor screw off and plastic. VanFleet, Jake 2017: Trying NOT to look like The CD was introduced Wegenast, Colin & Toni Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor 7 years before they were born. Wegner, Donald & Marla 1966: Seeds and stems Wehling, Tim 2017: Roughage They have always had an Westerhausen, Leon & Mary answering machine. Jane Widmer, Dan 1966: Hoping for a BMW 2017: Hoping for a BM They have always had cable. Wiest, J.P. & Judy

Wilhelm, Jeff 1966: Going to a new, hip joint They cannot fathom not having a Wilhelm, Jordan 2017: Receiving a new hip joint remote control. Wilhelm, Rod & Sandy Willman, Casey & Jessica 1966: Rolling Stones Popcorn has always been Wolf, Cameron 2017: Kidney Stones cooked in the microwave. Wonnenberg, Douglas & Robyn They never took a swim and Zaun, Larry & Penny 1966: Screw the system thought about Jaws. 2017: Upgrade the system

1966: Disco They can't imagine what hard 2017: Costco contact lenses are.

P a g e | 5 PROJECT 69’r Before, I was going to put a 396 They don't know who Mork was in it with a M22 4 Speed. or where he was from. THE LONG ROAD TO THE Because this is a true X11 RS/SS MOST WANTED MUSCLE (small block) with Air, I reviewed They never heard: "Where's the the cost of converting it and Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a CAR found it WAY more cost effective Camel", or "de plane, Boss, de Story & Photos by Skovy (James Valley Street to keep it a 350 and leave the Machine) plane..." automatic transmission in it.

They do not care who shot J. R. I had a discussion with Jim Beyer and have no idea who J. R. even of Dakota Engine Builders and he is. told me he could do plenty to the 350 to make it a hoot to drive. McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers. Well, ok. Put me in coach. They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter. My biggest decision to leave it a

small block is when it came to the So, have a nice day!!!!! It is good Air Conditioning suit case that is Not much to report this month on to have friends who know about on the firewall. I didn’t realize the “Project 69’r”. The frame is these things and are still alive small block cars and big block now straight and back from the and kicking!!!! cars had a different set up. Powder Coating people. Project 69’r will have a fully functional Air so that helped make my decision.

While looking for parts for the car I stumbled across this picture and OMG!

As you can tell by the change of the cover picture from this story, I’ve turned a different way completely on this project.

P a g e | 6 NEW CAR REVIEW Highest-horsepower V-8 production engine, 840 hp DODGE DEMON DEBUTS Highest g-force acceleration of WITH 840 HP, ALREADY any production car, 1.8 g BANNED BY NHRA Story & Photos by Joe DeMatio First-ever production car to lift its (hemmings.com) front wheels at launch, setting a world record wheelie at 2.92 feet, as certified by Guinness World So, at this point of the restoration Records I’ve decided to paint Project 69’r Summit White with a black vinyl top.

Geez Louise! Dodge set the muscle-car world on its ear three years ago with the 707-hp Challenger and Charger Hellcat. But those cars The Demon is officially banned are tame kittens compared with by the National Hot Rod the new Challenger SRT Demon Association (NHRA) for being too (its official name), which debuted fast to run at a drag strip without with great fanfare last night at a a cage party on Manhattan’s west side. Clearly, Dodge set out to make “We have a duty to unleash not just headlines but history Demon,” boasted Dodge’s Tim here. And Hagerty makes some Kuniskis during the unveiling, history of its own: Dodge has when the angry red Demon broke appointed Hagerty as the official out of a crate and burned rubber insurer for the Demon, the first down the concrete floor of Pier time Hagerty has established 94 on the Hudson River. “To go such an association for a brand- all out, to literally leave our mark new production car. on the streets and strips of America in the most Dodge engineers essentially technologically advanced, street- transformed the Challenger legal, production drag car ever.” coupe into a street-legal and the most powerful muscle The Demon’s list of performance car ever made. Although the bragging points is like none Demon is street-legal, everything we’ve ever seen for a street- about it, from the weight savings driving car. Here are just a few achieved by jettisoning all but the highlights: driver’s seat (you can add passenger and rear seats back Fastest quarter-mile production for a dollar each); to the street- car in the world, with an elapsed legal 18-inch Nitto drag radials; to time of 9.65 seconds @ 140 mph the ability to run on 100+ World’s fastest 0-60-mph time for unleaded high-octane gasoline; a production car, 2.3 seconds to the TransBrake lock for the output shaft of the 8-speed automatic transmission; to Drag

P a g e | 7 Mode suspension tuning and after being cooled by ambient air RUMBLER MINISTRY launch assist; and numerous passing through a low- Story & Photos by Scott W. Block other engineering modifications is temperature radiator at the front designed for the dragstrip. Make of the vehicle, flows through the no mistake, this car was invented chiller unit, where it is further with one main mission in life: to cooled. The chilled coolant then smoke the quarter-mile. (And flows to the heat exchangers in rubber.) the supercharger. Drivers can monitor supercharger coolant The Demon’s new version of the temperature, plus various other Hemi 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 drag-specific performance produces 840 hp and 770 lb-ft of metrics, via “Performance Pages” torque. Compared with the in the Uconnect display screen Hellcat’s 707-hp Hemi, the on the dash. No word whether Demon Hemi gets 50 percent the Performance Pages include a new componentry and has a driver-talent measurement larger supercharger (2.7 liters vs. mechanism. 2.4 liters); increased boost pressure (14.5 psi vs. 11.6, all of Demon production begins this it available within six feet of the summer and is limited to the starting line); two dual-stage fuel 2018 model year and only 3000 pumps rather than one; a 6500- cars for the United States and rpm rev limit versus 6200 rpm; 300 for Canada. Buyers receive a and a larger induction box that full day of instruction at the Bob sucks in air from three sources: Bondurant School of High- The Air-Grabber hood; the driver- Performance Driving in Arizona. side Air-Catcher headlamp; and Pricing will be announced this an inlet near the wheel liner. summer. In continuing with the current Combined air-flow rate is 1150 theme about what we “love” cubic feet per minute, some 18 about our iron modes of percent more than in the Hellcat. transportation, this month we’ll Dodge boasts that the Air- discuss “odors”. So far, we have Grabber hood is the largest had some discussion on “Sunday functional hood scoop in the cruises” and “sounds”. It is fun industry, at 45.2 square inches. and interesting to ponder things about our motorcycles, custom classics, street rods, tricked-out- trucks, and the new daily driver that we simply appreciate.

So how about that “new car smell?”

The smell of a new car is kind of intoxicating. What’s the first thing you do when you slip into the SRT also developed a Power seat of a new car on the Chiller, another production-car showroom floor? You take a first, which diverts air- deep breath and a deep whiff! It conditioning refrigerant from the reminds us of money and we love SRT Demon’s interior to help get that brand new shiny object. It the SRT Demon ready for the evokes that awesome time of our next drag run as quickly as current ride before the coffee possible. Charge air coolant, stains, the lone moldy French fry,

P a g e | 8 and the trunk's transformation and manufacturer to reproduce the smell of a new car into a catch-all of one tennis manufacturer. Today, most of the in older vehicles. With cheaper shoe, a tattered blanket, the too interior of an automobile consists vinyl upholstery, there was an short ice-scraper, and an of plastics bonded together with a interest in perfuming with leather assortment of crumpled up number of different adhesives odors in order to regain the grocery bags, and perhaps a and sealers. In general, the "luxury" experience of that “new broken umbrella. various parts that produce the car smell.” new car smell comes from the That smell almost evokes a steering wheel, dashboard, Pavlov's dog-type reaction from armrests, and seats. These us. We like the smell because materials release volatile organic simply we like the car. Without compounds (VOC’s), through a the relationship to a brand-new process called outgassing or off car, the smell would just, well you gassing. (Yeah, it’s okay, go know, it would just smell. It's kind ahead and laugh, I did!) These of a weird smell though, right? It's fumes are generally mixtures of so different from chocolate chip many different chemicals off cookies or baking bread, or gassing. The good news here is whatever else we identify as that their vapor pressures are pleasant. very low and they are not considered volatile! (Yeah, go So, what is that smell? That new ahead and laugh again, I did!) car smell is the odor that comes from the combination of materials Okay, so here’s a fun fact about found in newly manufactured VOC’s. You know that weird automobiles. There can be over foggy and greasy film that builds 100 individual odors present, and up on the inside of your they all smell like something! This windshield? Well, you can blame aromatic bouquet is a legendary the “new car smell” for that. The design feature of automobiles. same VOC’s that we're sniffing When checking on Amazon I And nothing else in the world can be responsible for messing actually found some aerosol smells quite like it. Interestingly, up the windows! products for this idea. Here is a there is some question about the partial description from one possibility that these chemicals Some recommend keeping new product: “Premium air freshener pose a health risk. cars well ventilated while driving, formulated with unique especially during the summer. fragrances engineered to smell To test how a car will smell when One report I found (1995) said just like a new car.” “Can be it’s mass manufactured, one that one particular new vehicle diluted with up to 2 gallons of manufacturer makes use of had over 50 VOC’s, which were distilled water.” “Superior mason jars and an oven. A small identified as coming from perfume quality provides strong chunk of what’s inside your car is cleaning and lubricating deodorizing capabilities; lasts for placed in the jar. The jars are compounds, paint, carpeting, weeks.” And finally, it said: “One placed in an oven, heated to leather and vinyl, latex glue, and spray is all you need for a full- three temperatures; one to room gasoline and exhaust fumes. size vehicle.” Must be some temperature, another to simulate However, after two months, by powerful stuff! humidity, and a third temperature keeping it well-ventilated, there to simulate dry heat of a car in was a significant reduction in the Some manufacturers are trying to the sun. Then a team of people chemicals. Sadly, with ventilation, cut out the “new car smell” and rate the smells, and subjectively, we say so long and goodbye to take away that experience from in their own opinion, they flag that “new car smell.” us! They are trying to get rid of anything that smells bad. the VOC’s in the cars by Don’t be too sad however. There swapping petroleum based Both the scent and what are "new-car sprays" are products to soy based ones produces it varies from car to car available that supposedly instead. Some are moving from

P a g e | 9 solvent based adhesives to water CLASSIC CAR NEWS “I started accumulating cars based in order to eliminate when I was 20,” Hall told Driving VOC’s. Perhaps eventually that CAR RESTORATION blogger Alyn Edwards. “First it new car smell may be a thing of HEAVEN IS FOR SALE IN was 50 cars. Then the collection the past, but for me, I’m going to grew to 100. I bought more and happily cling to it and refuse to CANADA more. It’s easy to buy them when give in. Story & Photos by Jeff Peek (hemmings.com) you’re working. It’s like an addiction. With 100 cars, 200 Just like clinging to the tradition seemed better, and now it’s well of a “new car smell”, I’m clinging past 300.” to God, and even with cultural pressure, I am refusing to give in. Hall, 60, has traveled often I want the fragrance of prayer during his long career as a rock rising up to God as good as that scaler (removing rock from cliffs new car smell. Furthermore, I above highways to protect the want to sniff God’s response to cars below). Nicknamed “Rasta me and inhale it deeply. For God, Blasta” — a nod to his prayer is a fragrance that smells The property listing calls it a dreadlocks and rock-blasting very good to him. He loves to “once in a lifetime opportunity.” career — he often tows cars hear from you and views what For the right auto home. But when Hall’s collection you have to say in high esteem mechanic/restorer however, it’s grew to 200 cars, his wife just like we hold high esteem of more like an opportunity that declared there was no more that new car smell. could last a lifetime … and then room on the farm. So, Hall some. bought the five-acre parcel that Blessings to you today as you he is now selling. The cars are sniff out God. May God fill your Canadian classic car enthusiast right at home there; the property nose with the scent of love for Mike Hall is selling his five-acre is next door to the White Post family and others. May God property in Tappen, B.C., for Auto Museum. remove the pollution from your $1.45 million (about $1 million in life so you see, hear, touch, and American dollars), and the sale smell only God’s gracious love, includes a lot more than a mercy, forgiveness, and grace for renovated home, beautiful you. May you enjoy the odor of scenery and slower pace. your car! Take care everyone. Located 430 miles northeast of Keep ’. Keep on keeping Seattle, the property is zoned for on. auto salvage and comes with approximately 340 vintage cars and trucks, a 900-square-foot “I see a rusty piece of sh** and I restoration shop, a 1,200-square- see what it could be,” Hall told foot steel building and enough Jalopnik. “That’s a dangerous materials to build an additional disease.” 8,000 square feet of covered space. According to Driving, Hall recently agreed to a new five- year rock-scaling contract, so he won’t be retiring anytime soon … meaning he’ll have even less time to tinker than he does now. “I’m 60 years old and won’t live long enough to restore these cars,” he said. Hall values the vehicles at $500 to $35,000 (Canadian) apiece. They range in age from a 1926 Chevrolet

P a g e | 10 roadster pickup to five 1991 AROUND MILL HILL by embarking on a daring bid to Chevrolet Firefly convertibles. Story & Photos by JVSM Evaluation Team knock off the very bank that There’s plenty of Mopar muscle absconded with their money. — Dodge Coronets and Super Bees are among the massive Evaluations from members were: inventory. Hall also has a 1966 Pontiac Beaumont SD with V-8 “Funny & Meaningful. Thought it engine and four-speed was too short.” transmission, one of only 45 built, and hundreds more vehicles ... “Great acting. Great Story.” some run, some don’t. Hall insists he won’t piece them out. “I “Showed true friendship.” don’t sell parts, only project cars.” Around Mill Hill is going to be a Funny old men. A fun show but it A year ago, Hall listed the monthly evaluation of area had a special message” property and vehicles for $1.19 businesses. If you are a paid million, but he has added 40 cars member of the JVSM and would “Love the actors playing their since. He admits there hasn’t like to take part in this program, parts. Kept me interested in what been as much interest as he please let me know was going to happen next.” expected, but Century 21 listing [email protected] and I will agent Hudson Purba remains add your name to the list. “Excellent story line. Loved the optimistic. “It’s not just humor at the ending when the purchasing the cars, land and (MOVIE) police interrogated the 3.” buildings,” Purba said. “It is about a lifetime opportunity to spend This month, Skovy along with “Liked the show. My only concern time doing what people like: members of the James Valley is that the movie glorified a restoring vintage cars and living Street Machines went to the wrong. I feel the 3 should’ve in one of the most beautiful parts Bison 6 Cinema in Jamestown been caught at the end. It is not of B.C. That value is more than ND and reviewed the movie correct that because the the asking price.” “Going in Style”. company where they worked for all their life was mishandling their retirement. It is illegal to rob a bank. Period.”

Hall certainly sees it. In fact, he told Driving he still has second thoughts and constantly fights the urge to keep buying — sometimes unsuccessfully. “I’m still buying cars. It’s like a sickness that I’m not getting over.”

Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all

P a g e | 11 (DINNER) 3. Was the staff properly attired? 1603 points 94.29% 77 Points 90.59%

SABIRS - VALLEY CITY SERVER: “Excellent eating place. Clean 1. Suggest a beverage or rest rooms, Nice facility”. specialty drink: 74 Points 87.06% 2. Appear to be knowledgeable “My food was absolutely about the menu items: delicious!” 49 Points 81.67% 3. Remain attentive throughout “I’ve done multiple evaluations the dining experience: 52 Points 86.67% with the James Valley Street 4. Mention/Offer Appetizer? Machines and it impressed the Options: heck out of me when Nam Sabir 57 Points 95.00% himself came out from the

APPETIZER: kitchen to talk to us. I don’t think 1. Serve the soup or salad within he expected us to ask so many a reasonable time: questions but he handled himself 53 Points 88.33% right and cooked up one heck of 2. Was the order correct, complete and properly a meal.” prepared? 4 STARS OUT OF 4! 50 Points 83.33%

This article is not written to slam ENTRÉE: any businesses, but it is written 1. Were appropriate condiments to make the public aware of served? 51 Points 85.00% services the Jamestown area 2. Check back to ensure that your residences are experiencing at meal was satisfactory: local eateries. 49 Points 81.67% 3. Offer refills on beverage/drinks: 54 Points 90.00% Evaluations are based on a 0 to 5 4. Was the order correct, rating. A number 5 is the best complete and properly rating and a 0 rating is area prepared? needing work. There is a total of 55 Points 91.67%

1700 points to be scored. 85 DESERT: points per line and there are 19 1. Mention/Offer Desert? Options? fields that are evaluated. Again, 56 Points 93.33% these evaluations are not for the 2. Was the order correct, intention for getting anybody fired complete and properly or to slam a business. It is a fact- prepared? finding mission. 54 Points 90.00%

Appetizers was the “Calamari”, GENERAL: “Beef Tips”, and “Slam” which 1. Did they appear to be busy and included a French bread. The efficient in their work? 52 Points 86.67% main Course was Ribeye Steak, 2. Were the tables properly Salmon, Walleye & New York bussed? Strip. The desert was an 53 Points 88.33% assortment of Pies & cakes 3. Did the overall dining including Key Lime Pie. experience meet or exceed your expectations? 52 Points 86.67% MEET & GREET: 4. Were there enough employees 1. Convey the feeling that you to take care of guests? were a valued customer: 53 Points 88.33% 80 Points 94.12% 2. Seat you and deliver menus in a courteous manner: TOTAL POINTS: 82 Points 96.47%

P a g e | 12 CLASSIC CAR REVIEW whatever. It was really easy to weekend we were out street fall into the sport, not like today, it racing. It hasn’t stopped since. Q&A WITH JAMES LOVE was a lot easier back then. (DOC) FROM THE When it started it was STREET OUTLAWS What was your first with the car you have Story & Photos by (rpmhd.com) racecar? now?

My first racecar would be this one Yeah it was a small-tire, had a (1970 Chevy Monte Carlo), we back seat, like an 850-mild steel bought it off eBay out of cage in it. I had put the big block Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drove it in it, a 565, she was running all the way back to Oklahoma about 10.50s and 10.40s on City, put it on the track, and went pump gas. It just wasn’t fast 12.27 right off the trailer and I enough for these guys. We put was hooked right there. Before some nitrous on it and found out that I dabbled, I had a 1969 SS quickly that big, heavy cars with 396 that I thought was fast. I had small tires and nitrous just don’t another first-generation Monte get along. I met Mickey from the Carlo that I thought was fast. I group and we back-halved it in was just terrorizing the streets as the winter of 2009. So, in March a teenager just having a good we debuted it on a show called time being a youth in America. Pinks All Out. We went down to the track in Ennis, Texas and Is in tried to make it on the show and Oklahoma basically a didn’t make it. I got all mad and pissed off and said ‘Screw all tradition you grew up that, we’ll just go back and have watching? fun on the streets.’ Won the first cash days I entered with the car No, it was a complete big-tired and that’s where my underground lifestyle. I had no street racing career began. We recently had the pleasure of idea about it. I sold the Chevelle catching up with Doc from the hit and raised two girls, started a How did Discovery get Discovery Channel series, Street business making a little money. Outlaws, while at the Team Bought the Monte Carlo and was ahold of you guys in Boddie Racing No Excuses king of test and tune every Friday Oklahoma to create the Round 4 in Sacramento, night I was out there. The car show? California. Doc talks to us about was too slow to bracket race in his time racing in the sport and this race, too fast to bracket race Believe it or not, we used to play how life has changed since he in that other one. And bracket on a discussion board called started on the show. racing wasn’t really my thing so I Midwest Streetcars. We all had met Monza and he was like, ‘Hey screen names and would cuss Where did you get your man! Come check us out this each other out, call each other start in ? weekend.’ So, I went out there out all on the computer. That’s all with him and seen what the it was and then we’d get together Midwest street car guys were Just my passion for cars and on the weekends and settle it. doing and just fell in love wanting to go fast; I was born Race for our list spots and race immediately. Like the next day I with need for speed. Muscle cars for fun. One day this guy got on told Monza, ‘Open the JEGS when I grew up in the late 70’s the website and said, ‘Hey, I’m so catalogue and tell me what I and 80’s and stuff, everybody and so from Pilgrim Studios. I’m need to buy.’ We bought our first had a muscle car. Everyone had interested in filming you guys. Do big shop plate out of a JEGS a Mustang or a Chevelle or you want to be on TV?’ Chief catalogue and put it on; the next

P a g e | 13 answered and said, ‘If you’re for With that being said, how show, the car, the family, the real, call me.’ That’s kinda where much fun is this? fans, the social media; that’s full it came from. Discovery Channel time plus. That’s sixty, seventy, through Pilgrim found us in the eighty hours a week right there. Middle of the United States, the It’s still a blast. Filming is a pain Plus, my day job. I don’t get armpit of America, and voila, the in the ass, it’s not as fun as it much sleep. This gray hair and TV show was built. used to be because there’s a lot big ol’ fat guy I got is earned. on the line now. Winning or losing there’s a lot on the line, so Since the genesis of the it’s taken some of the fun out of show, how much of the it. We’ve worked our asses off sport has changed since the get the fun back in the show you’ve been involved? and I believe season 7 and season 8 that we just filmed reflects that. We’re all having fun We’ve all changed, let’s just be again and we’ve reenergized. But honest. Some of the guys have we have to do that, that work the changed more than others. we put in affords us the We’ve all changed, it’s opportunity to come out to places impossible not to. The show has like [Sacramento] and do afforded us opportunities we Boddie’s race. I went to Australia never would’ve had in our in February and spent three lifetime. weeks. Without the show, I would have never gotten that How much different is it opportunity so it’s opened a now that you guys have a bunch of doors for us and has target on your back when allowed us to take our street cars, evolve them into what they you show up to the track? are today and come around the country, I don’t care whether it’s Everybody knows us, everybody Washington, Florida, California to wants to meet us, everybody New Jersey, we can go just wants to shake our hand, about anywhere right now and everybody wants to race us. race on the track and everybody That’s changed. Before the show, knows who we are. Before that we were kind of a bunch of we couldn’t do that. nobodies. We were the big fish in a small pond, so to speak. In the street scene between [Oklahoma] How much does the show and Texas, we were kings, we and racing take away were the big fish. Then the TV from your business and show came around and we’ve family life? been holding our own pretty good. I still consider ourselves as It’s very taxing on your work; a group a big fish but now we’re most of all your home life in the ocean. We moved from struggles. Most of the guys, that pond to the ocean as a practically all of them quit their group and I still feel like we’re day jobs and the show’s a full- unbeatable. I don’t think there’s time job. I’ve had my business for another five or six cars in any city fifteen years now. My grandpa across the country that can beat and me kinda started it so that’s us. special. I’m not shutting my daily job down, I’m keeping that going. So, I have two full time jobs. The

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P a g e | 17 "Oh, thank heavens," sighs the cruising in the car a deal was drunk, “For a minute there, I struck and John would pay thought I'd gone deaf." $1,200 for the 440-powered, four- speed machine as soon as he CLASSIC CAR REVIEW could get the money out of the bank the next morning. THIS 1970 DODGE CHALLENGER AND 3 The next morning did not bring a new car, however. The next FRIENDS – SAVED A LIFE Story by Brian Lohnes & Photos by John morning brought a phone call RUMBLER HUMOR Machaqueiro (hotrod.com) informing John that the car had Story & Pictures sent by Dave Olson been sold out from under him to (James Valley Street Machines) another guy. If that was not painful enough, John discovered that about two weeks after the new owner got hold of the car he completely disassembled it with the intention of rebuilding the Challenger from the ground up. As happens so often in the muscle car world the now- disassembled car sat, and sat, Whether we’re talking about an and sat. The mass of Challenger old girlfriend, a big fish, or a car, parts was kept in a garage for 30 everyone has the story of years! Over the course of those something that they thought was 30 years John attempted to buy DRUNK IRISHMAN in their grasp and then got away. the car multiple times but the Typically, these stories don’t owner refused and the project An Irishman who had a little too result in the thing that escaped went nowhere. much to drink is driving home later being possessed by the from the city one night and, of person that lost out on it. In the course, his car is weaving case of John Howard and this violently all over the road. 1970 Challenger, it does and boy is this one a doozy. The best part A cop pulls him over. is that both Howard and the Challenger have served to "So," says the cop to the driver, rescue each other at differing where have you been?" points in their respective lives. Better than any fish story, this is "Why, I've been to the pub of a big-block four-speed tale and course," slurs the drunk. instead of some tasty fillets on "Well," says the cop, "it looks like the grill there’s a machine with “I was thoroughly annoyed when you've had quite a few to drink looks for days and the ability to the guy sold the car after I this evening." fry tires for a fortnight. committed to it,” John said. “Back then we did not have an ATM "I did all right," the drunk says The story begins with a chance and I probably had $50 in my with a smile. encounter in 1976. While hanging pocket. It was even worse when I out and bench racing at a friend’s found out that the guy drove it for Did you know," says the cop, speed shop, a guy pulled in with about a month before he took the standing straight and folding his a 1970 Challenger he was whole thing apart. The one good arms across his chest, "that a few looking to sell. Always out for a thing is that if I had gotten the car intersections back, your wife fell good deal, John Howard and his in 1976 I would have turned it out of your car?" pal Tim Butler hopped in for a into a race car and it certainly test drive. After some spirited

P a g e | 18 would not be as nice as it is While at the body shop, the car Richter’s Transformation where it today.” had the little rust that was on it was no longer the leukemia but repaired and it was shot with now Large B-Cell Lymphoma—a Finally, in 2005, there was a color. The first shop was working cancer that is known to spread breakthrough. The Mopar with what they thought was a aggressively and is very hard to “collector” was informed by his pretty good surface, so they treat. then wife that he had two turned the job around reasonably choices: Sell all the Mopar stuff quick. After a few months, back or sign the divorce papers. After at John’s garage rust began to off-loading the entire collection to bubble through the paint and a friend of John’s, the coast was things quickly got worse from now clear for him to score the there. As it turns out, the first Challenger that had been eluding shop was a little too trusting of a him for two decades to that point. 30-year-old body and did not By the time all the stuff gets back prep the surface as well as they to John’s home, it is 2006 and it should have. is officially 30 years since the Challenger has been a whole, The result was the car heading to “I went from having a fairly running and driving car. another shop to be completely moderate type of cancer to stripped bare and painted again. having one of the most “I knew the guy who bought all John is nothing if not persistent, aggressive forms that can the stuff,” John said. “When he and while this car was fighting actually kill you pretty quickly,” called me and I went over there him hard in this part of the John said. “When that started we to look at everything, the guy process, he was in for a much all kind of knew what would be went into his sales pitch. I told larger fight shortly. After taking ahead and it was a tough road. I him just to show me the car and the car home from the paint shop did my best to do what I could but all the stuff that went with it. This the second time, John was gung- eventually I didn’t have the was probably the easiest sales ho to finish the job. He attacked strength to do the work.” job he ever had.” assembly immediately, installing the suspension, rear axle, and the engine/trans from below the car to avoid scratching his awesome new Top Banana paint job. In went the dash and the steering column along with the wiring to get the car fired up. Unfortunately, there was a problem. This is where John’s will to live took over. Despite the sickness No, not with the car. That was and the tough treatments, he was The first step in the process was going fine. With John. He had adamant that he would get the to take stock of what they had been diagnosed with Chronic car done by the time the Mopar and bag/document it all. From Lymphocytic Leukemia and was Nationals rolled around. He that point forward the plan was undergoing chemotherapy to dreamed about the day he would simple. Rebuild the car! The battle the cancer. With the chemo drive his car onto the grounds at stripped body, which had been came the fatigue and strain that Columbus and show it off. He well-kept in a garage for decades those rough treatments bring. dreamed about a day that he was sent to the body shop after Through all that he trooped on, knew might not ever come and John’s son Colby had the fine making slow progress until his he did that to keep himself duty of torching and scraping the body decided to fight him again. positive and motivated. Reality undercoating off of the car. This time the news was more set in very quickly for John. He ominous: his cancer had was not going to be physically undergone something called able to do this job himself. The aggressive treatments left him

P a g e | 19 too weak and too preoccupied transplant and he could not ride “I really love driving the car,” with his health to continue on. down. Mustering his strength, he John said. “It has great power, it This is where things get flew down at the last minute, drives well, and the paint gets awesome. making the show in time to plenty of looks as you cruise experience the thrill of piloting down the road. We have done this Top Banana Challenger R/T well with it as shows, too.” in front of the assembled throngs of Mopar lovers. In many ways, the story of John and his Challenger are the The cherry on top of this ultimate in perseverance and awesomeness was the fact that love. Not just the love of the car after about an hour inside the but the love between buddies show, John was approached by who saw a friend in need and the people at Mopar and asked to stepped up to help him live a bring his car to their tent to dream when time was tight. It

display. If there is a higher honor may have taken John Howard 30 at the Mopar Nationals we’re not years to complete his dream John’s friends heard of his plight entirely sure what that is. Challenger, but we know that and jumped into action. Terry every step along the way was Moyer, Mike Salter, and Matt worth it. The one that didn’t get Roops were the three point men The feel-good part of the story is away won’t be leaving his hands and they took it upon themselves handled by John’s friends and any time soon. to finish the car for John when he how they took care of him in his was not physically able to do it. It time of need, but the look-good was a classic mad gearhead and drive-good portions of the thrash to get the Challenger done story come from the decisions in time, but they did, and John made when putting this car back was supposed to ride to the show together. One of the themes to with Terry. this car that we see is subtlety. The engine looks like a factory stocker, but it is 500ci. “I was not “I was really sick there for a while going to stroke the engine at first and when these guys jumped in I but we decided to go that route,” was really thankful,” John said. John said. “I was actually going “They did most of the interior Top Banana is an interesting color. It is to go more aggressive with the work, got the bumpers on, and not for the faint of heart, but it looks great. engine than we did but I am did the finish things that I could The black hood and tail stripe help to happy how it turned out. This is a balance out the yellow paint. You’ll never not do. My job was simply to get real V-code car but the original lose this one in a parking lot. them the parts. They are all great engine was blown up back in the friends.” early 1970s. It is not the original block in the car.”

The wheels look like factory Rallye examples but they are a 17-inch diameter. The paint looks OEM quality but it is relatively fresh and it is very beautiful. This is a car that takes a great thing in It is amazing to think about how this car was stripped and sat in a barn for 30 the form of the 1970 Challenger years as a pile of parts. It took some time, R/T and makes it just a little bit patience, and perseverance, but John has better in a lot of places, allowing one of the nicest E-Bodies we have seen There was another catch. John in some time. had to spend more time than he the overall package to frequently expected at the cancer center to stand out from the rest on the get stem cells harvested for a streets or in car shows.

P a g e | 20 freshened looks and combine them with approached by George Hurst and the big motor, you have a true street king! "Doc" Watson about piloting Hairy, Joe was a bit reluctant. Citing concerns about the inherent handling problems of such a four-wheel drive machine combined with the dual throttles, dual shifters and general safety, his mind was quickly changed Bucket seats, a pistol grip, and a woodgrain steering wheel are three things when he was told that Linda that every Mopar sees in their sweet Vaughn would be part of the dreams. This car is cool and the fact that program! John kept the interior largely stock means that drivers and passengers get the authentic 1970s experience.

CLASSIC CAR REVIEW 1967 HURST HAIRY

Just shy of 500ci, this stroker RB engine OLDSMOBILE has more than enough power to roast Story & Photos by (oldcars.site.com) those rear tires off for lengths you could measure from space. A wolf in stock- appearing clothing, this car is a rocket ship.

While some thing it is sacrilege to tweak Re-bodied for the 1967 season, iconic designs like the Mopar Rallye Hairy continued to impress the wheel, we think John’s Challenger looks crowds with speeds now even better with the 17-inch Year One versions. A touch of modern class is exceeding 185 mph! Remember, Joe Schubeck and Linda Vaughn. Note always cool. Hairy was achieving these Joe's custom "tuxedo" fire suit. speeds while spinning all four tires! An understatement would Most of the initial handling be to say that this thing must problems were worked out on the have been quite the handful to 1966 Hurst Hairy Old’s. Since the drive! Can you say torque steer? Toronado drive shafts were Brass ones? Obviously, it would connected to stock Toronado take an experienced and talented hubs and control arms, it was driver to handle this machine. discovered that with the Enter "Gentleman" Joe For any gearhead who grew up near the horsepower of the blown 425 and water, you know the sheer coolness of Schubeck. Joe had been the traction provided by the cruising the beach at night. This successfully campaigning Top slicks, the steering was bending Challenger was certainly a bruiser when it Fuel dragsters and was chosen under full acceleration. This was was new, but when you take the for the job. When first

P a g e | 21 causing a severe tow-in CLASSIC CAR REVIEW Gantt became the most condition. With a few well-placed recognizable crew in , braces in the steering, combined THE “BLUE MAX” if not in drag racing. Whether in with an alignment with a tow-out FUNNY CAR Diamond P sports TV coverage, setting to compensate when Story & Photos by (bluemaxracing.com) National Dragster, or the various accelerating, handling was more enthusiast magazines, the Blue predictable and thereby more Max seemed to be everywhere. controllable. However, as the picture below will attest, that The business-conscious Beadle even with all the refinements for was quick to take advantage of the 1967 version, Hairy was still that popularity. Blue Max wearing hairy! apparel became the L.A. Gear of

drag racing, and Blue Max bicycles, Moroso Blue Max It’s likely that the Blue Max car spark-plug wires, and Blue Max name is the most famous in car was appeared. Funny Car History. The only other car to enjoy the level of recognition was the famed Chi- Cognizant of the team’s Town Hustler of John Farkonas, popularity, corporate America wasted little time in hopping After an encounter with a guard rail. Austin Coil, Pat Minick. aboard the Dallas, Texas, bandwagon. Schlitz Breweries, The Blue Max moniker first The final pass for both Joe and Old Milwaukee Light beer, Mobil appeared at the 70’NHRA the Hurst Hairy Old’s came in Oil, English Leather cologne, Winternationals on a Ford Buffalo, NY. When the front Motorcraft, Napa Regal Ride Mustang Funny Car owned by engine died during a full throttle Shocks, Alegar, Kodiak tobacco, Harry Schmidt. The flashy blue pass, the steering went back to and a host of others annually paint scheme, the trick lettering, its unloaded toe-out setting, graced the sides of the Blue Max. causing the car to go out of and the famed painting of the control. Hairy went off the track WWI German commendation By mid-1990, Blue Max mania and was stopped by only a cable medal for combat flying had run its course, and Schmidt that acted as a fence between distinguished it from the others. and Beadle were pursuing other the track and spectators. After For the next 20 years, the Blue business interests. that, Hairy was returned to the Max was one of the most popular Hurst Corp. Joe went on to cars on the match race circuit devote his attention to his and the NHRA tour. company; Lakewood Industries. His hydro-formed bellhousings If Schmidt was responsible for have become the standard in the birth of the Blue Max, then clutch containment for driver was safety. Today Joe operates responsible for its upbringing. Schubeck Racing Engine Beadle bought out Schmidt in 75’ Components in Las Vegas, NV. and immediately set about revitalizing the race-car The Start: Harry Schmidt operation. Harry Schmidt, one the south- From 79’ through 81’, Beadle central United States’ original won three Winston Funny Car Funny Car competitors, first Championships and 13 National attracted attention in 66’. At that event titles aboard Blue Max time, the Dallas, TX, mechanic Fords, Plymouths, and Pontiacs. teamed with Mike Burkhart to Beadle, crew chief , race an injected, fuel-burning 66’ “Waterbed Fred” Miller, and D. Chevy II, under the banner of

P a g e | 22 Friendly Chevrolet. For the next “When Gordan and “I just got tired of racing. two years, Burkhart and Schmidt Higgenbotham drove,” Schmidt “Schmidt recalled. “I had burned ran a nitro-burning injected 67’ said, “the car just had Harry out. We made close to 100 dates Camaro before parting company. Schmidt racing on the side. It in 72’ and the traveling and was the same with Jake in 69’. running around wore me out. Burkhart then fielded a two-car We did a little touring at the end Some people are cut out for that team of blown, nitro Camaros of the year; the car was running nonstop thrashing, but I’m not with Mart Higgenbotham, in 68’, in the 7.40s and the 7.50s at one of them” and Schmidt took some time off. close to 200mph. At the end of the year, he As worn out as Schmidt was, he decided to return and “I guess it was that fall that I saw apparently wanted one more go- commissioned Don Hardy to a movie called the Blue Max round with drag racing. Fellow build him a 69’ Mustang. The starring George Peppard, and I Texan Raymond Beadle toured Taylor, Mich.-based thought that the name had a nice Don Schumacher’s Stardust Ramchargers Racing Engines ring to it. I loved that emblem, Vega in 74’, and Schmidt helped shop built him a blown nitro- and since I had a German last him for a month that summer. It burning 426-cid Hemi, which he name and my Mustang was blue, was then that Beadle broached raced in 69’. I decided that’s what we’d call the the subject of reviving the Blue car when we started the 70’s Max Funny Car name. season” Schmidt’s big concern was Schmidt and Johnston debuted money, but Beadle told him that the Blue Max Mustang at the 70’ could be handled. On November Winternationals. The car did well, 9 in Lakeland, FL, Beadle setting Top Speed at 203.61 mph debuted behind the wheel of the and lasting until the second Beadle and Schmidt Blue Max round. Ford Mustang II.

In November, Schmidt and Johnston enjoyed the kind of race on which reputations are built. They entered the Orange County Manufacturers Funny Car show in the land, and the Blue Max tore ‘em up.

Paul Gordan was first behind the During eliminations, Johnston ran wheel, but the only drove the car the lowest elapsed time in the three or four times according to history of the class, a 6.72. In the Schmidt. Higgenbotham drove final, Johnston left on Rich They remained a team until the the car once at Tulsa Siroonian’s and “Big John” second week on September, International Raceway but never Mazmanian’s Barracuda and when the grind again got to got down track because of a claimed the win, 6.89 to 6.88. Schmidt. He couldn’t have picked blown transmission. a better time to leave because a Richard Tharp replaced Johnston week earlier at the U. S. In the summer of 69’ Schmidt as driver at the ’70 Nationals, Beadle defeated Don hired former Gene Snow crew Supernationals. Tharp remained “The Snake” Prudhomme’s Army chief Jake Johnston to drive, and Schmidt’s driver until mid-73, Monza for the event title. he was the first driver of the Blue when Schmidt decided he’d had Max series of race cars. enough and parked the car.

P a g e | 23 THE FINISH: RAYMOND He was right. As Beadle recalled, Season Championship. At all BEADLE “We booked a lot of dates that times, with the Old Milwaukee’s, year. I think we had 110 dates Alugards, and Kodiaks of the In September 74’, Raymond confirmed, and if you count sponsor world, a bright Blue Max Beadle of Lubbock, TX, was things like rainouts, I figure that decal was on those race cars. completing his second year as a we made 90 to 95 of them.” Only touring drag-race professional. ‘Jungle Jim’ Liberman would Beadle’s Blue Max Funny Car He had driven Don book more. made its last appearance Aug 5, Schumacher’s number –two 1989, former Alcohol Funny Car Stardust Vega at the races “Right after we won Indy that racer Ronny Young drove the across the country for those two year, Harry had had enough, and Kodiak/Blue Max to runner-up seasons, but the idea of running I bought him out” honors against D.A. Santucci’s his own car appealed to him. It Black Magic Thunderbird. was something that he’d never When Beadle took control of the done. Blue Max, the whole operation If anyone had a right to say he took off. Though he didn’t win had no more worlds to conquer, it right away (his first victory came would be Beadle. He doesn’t feel at the “78 Winston Finals at that way, though. Ontario Motor Speedway), he had a knack for getting attention “It was time to move on to and sponsorship. As a result, the something else,” he said. “I was Blue Max was constantly in the interested in trying my hand at public eye. Before his stint with Schumacher, ranching. I have no regrets about Beadle had driven one of Mike drag racing. My high points were Burkhart’s Vegas in 72’. Before The 79’ Season began a three- the ’75 Indy win and that first that, he had wheeled the Stud year period of Winston Funny Winston title. It’s a satisfying Mustang and the Car domination and left little feeling to be able to say, once dragsters of Spanky Wright and doubt about who had the number upon a time, I was the best at the Prentiss Cunningham. one Funny Car in the World. what I did.”

He recalled, “Harry (Schmidt) had Beadle brought to drag racing a helped me with the Schumacher panoramic world view. In 83’, he car, and, on occasion, we talked did something that no full time about his old car, the Blue Max. I drag racer ever had done. He thought it would be good if we expanded his operation to could bring back the name and include a NASCAR Grand see what we could do with it. National stock car driven by the Basically, it was a 50-50 deal. I’d late and a World drive, Tony Casarez would build of Outlaws (WoO) sprint car the chassis, and we’d go with a driven by . So, Mustang II body. We got started able was Beadle at the business late in 74’ at what they call Rebel conference table that he Winter Series, then went on the negotiated Old Milwaukee beer full tour in 75’.” backing for both those cars and his ’83 Ford EXP Funny car. Schmidt told Beadle that he probably wouldn’t last more than This was no publicity stunt; a season or two; he figured that Beadle ran three cars in NHRA, the touring would wear on him WoO, and NASCAR competition again. until 1989, when he retired from auto racing. That year, Beadle’s NASCAR driver, , won the 1989 Winston Cup

P a g e | 24 CLASSIC CAR REVIEW Ben’s father Jim opened a found in slightly tired original service station in Aztec, N.M. condition and remade into a 1963 STUDEBAKER back in 1934 and began selling stellar show car and cool AVANTI Studebakers in 1939. Over the weekend driver. Dusenbery Story & Photos by Brian Earnest years, Jim wound up selling found the car back in 1995, and (oldcarsweekly.com) many things to pay the bills in the the chance to restore one of racy, following three decades — funky, futuristic sports coupes Maytag appliances, Philco was good to pass up. electronics, outdoor and hunting gear, fishing tackle … whatever it “I bought it in Chicago. I was took to keep the lights on. When looking for one to fix up, and I Studebaker ran out of gas as a found it on eBay,” Dusenbery company in the early 1960s, the recalled. “A Dodge dealer had it business switched over to selling in his showroom on display. It Datsun’s, but for Ben and his was in fair condition, I would say. brothers Bob and Bill, the bond with Studebakers was permanent. Studebaker enthusiasts have a reputation for being among the most brand-loyal car lovers around. Chances are, if you run into a “Studebaker guy,” he’s owned a bunch of them in his life, and odds are good he still has more than one at home.

Studebaker lovers always seem to have cars — and parts — in large quantities, and while they “My dad put us all to work as many own cars of other ilks, they soon as we were old enough. We generally make no secrets about were all involved with them all the where their devotion lies. time and we always thought the Studebaker was a superior vehicle when we were kids,” he says. “In the 1950s, Studebakers pretty well took off. They started selling pretty good for him and he “I was living in Florida at the time. made a pretty good living with I moved to Denver in 2005 and I them for a while. We worked on finally started working on it in them so much we could just 2011. I stripped it down and went Ben Dusenbery of Sedalia, Col., about tell you anything about through the entire car and did it is a quintessential “Studebaker them, at least to ’50s, late ’40s, like I like it to be. It’s in ‘10’ guy.” His dad was a Studebaker especially my older brother. He condition, maybe 9.9 condition dealer back in the 1950s and could tell you the part number on maybe. Very few things could early 1960s. He and his brothers just about every part on every car use any attention on it, I don’t grew up neck-deep in from those years. All along we think … A lot of things I worked Studebakers from as far back as were Studebaker nuts. We’d buy on were just design problems the remember, and they have up any old Studebakers that from the factory — getting the always seemed to have at least somebody wanted to get rid of doors to fit and the windows. A one in their garages. and kept all ours running.” lot of that stuff was never quite fit right from the factory.” These days, Dusenbery’s pride and joy is a 1963 Avanti that he

P a g e | 25 Rust had taken its toll on the “The fuel pumps in the old headlight design gave the Avanti undercarriage. The interior was Studes were probably one of the a facial expression all its own. complete, but the fabrics had weakest systems. And the hardened and began to crack. battery, they had an old utility Three engine alternatives were battery. It was a damn tractor offered: the base R1 power plant, Dusenbery stripped the Avanti battery!” Dusenbery laughs. “You the supercharged R2 and the down to the bare body, worked can’t buy that battery, never seldom-seen and expensive R3. on the undercarriage rust issues, could, with any kind of capacity. It The R1 was 280-cid/240-hp V-8. and reupholstered the interior in was very common to have the The R3, although garnering a leather. The body was painted battery go bad do on you in cold great deal of publicity, was an with a two-part part SW conditions. So, I put new system extremely rare commodity. The Dimension automotive paint in the trunk, like a lot of hot- R2 was readily available and (at system. The drivetrain — Rodders do. You don’t even $210) not terribly expensive. It Studebaker 289 V-8 with Carter know it’s there, but it sure helps. offered a different brand of AFB carburetion and three-speed performance from the 400-plus- Borg Warner automatic “The leather interior is because I cid V-8s generally available in the transmission — was rebuilt front wanted something I could really mid-1960s. to back and the twin traction rear be proud of, and it really turned axle gear ratio was updated to out nice. Hands down it’s an 3:07, lowering the engine RPM improvement.” for cruising. The factory A/C system was rebuilt and modified to R134A. The power steering, windows and power disc brake systems were similarly rebuilt. The dash was died red to match the red leather seats and carpeting, and all the gauges were reconditioned, along with the mirror/vanity tray in the glove While the R2 lacked the brute box. The original built-in roll bar force of other muscle cars, the cover was refinished to match the use of a supercharged and color scheme of the interior. An Studebaker’s time traveler relatively small V-8, along with updated retro-radio and electric clever and resourceful use of antenna was added, giving As a symbol of space age existing Studebaker components, AM/FM/M. Halogen sealed-beam forward thinking, the Studebaker resulted in an American car that headlights were also added, as Avanti was intended to be the needed no apologies or alibis for was a modern battery, neatly bolt of lightning that would help either its acceleration or hidden in the trunk — the original the company change its image handling. battery setup was left under the and prove to buyers it could hood. Among the final touches make fun, exciting, were rechromed bumpers and an technologically advanced cars. electric fuel pump for better Although the effort ended in starting and reliability. failure, the Avanti certainly didn’t fall short when it came to styling, originality and performance.

The Avanti was Studebaker’s first all-new body style since 1953. The unique, wedge-shaped body with sharp lines sat on a modified Lark Daytona convertible chassis. The under-the-bumper radiator air intake and round

P a g e | 26 Officially listed as a 1963 model, license from Dunlop. In their the Avanti received a tremendous basic design, they were similar to publicity boost through the those used by Jaguar. Finned successful assault upon existing drums were used at the rear. American records by an R3- engineered Avanti in August. Neither the Avanti’s standard Among the new marks three-speed manual transmission established was a two-way Flying nor its optional air conditioning Mile mark of 168.15 mph. Early in were available with the R2 1963, a four-speed-equipped R2 engine. Instead, customers Avanti that was almost selected either a four-speed On the road, again completely stock, except for its Warner Gear T-10 all- exhaust system, averaged synchromesh gearbox or a three- Dusenbery didn’t learn much 158.15 mph through the speed “power-shift” automatic about the history of his Avanti measured mile. produced by Borg-Warner, which from the Dodge dealership that permitted manual shifting if sold it to him. The odometer read The R2 Avanti engine was based desired. Overall length of the 80,000-plus miles, “but I don’t on Studebaker’s V-8, which had Avanti was 192.4 inches and even know if that was the original entered production in 1951 with a curb weight was approximately speedometer.” Judging by the displacement of 232 cid and 120 3,400 lbs. brittle hoses and other rubber hp. By 1963, this V-8 had pieces on the car, Dusenbery evolved through several guessed that it had been least a displacement changes and for few years since the car had seen the R2 had reached 289 cid. A a road. “Obviously, it hadn’t been sealed Carter AFB four-barrel driven much. Most of the rubber carburetor was used in lines in the brake system were conjunction with a Paxton SN-60 leaking. I just wasn’t in in great centrifugal supercharger. Due to driving condition,” he recalls. the supercharger, the compression ratio of the R2 was It took quite a while for at 9.0:1 — lower than the R1’s Dusenbery to get the sporty 10.25:1. Output of the R2 was Studebaker back to fighting impressive: 289 hp at 5200 rpm condition, and he has been and 330 lbs.-ft. of torque at 3600 careful to keep it that way the rpm. The performance and top-speed capability of the R2 was superb. past five years. He admits it Road and Track, October 1962, doesn’t get driven as often as reported a 0-to-60 time for the he’d like, but with so few nice four-speed model of 7.3 seconds. examples remaining — indeed so Motor Trend, July 1962, noted few built to begin with — that a power-shift model needed Dusenbery figures it’s more 8 seconds for the same run. important to keep the car in good condition than it is to pile on the With a total 1963 model year run miles. of just 3,834 units, the Avanti was “It was just something I wanted to truly a limited-edition vehicle. The subsequent output of an drive a little bit and mostly Aside from having an engine that additional 809 units in 1964 — as preserve. I don’t want to take the developed 1 hp per cubic inch, well as the regeneration of the chance of somebody plowing into the Avanti was the first full-size Avanti in its various Avanti II it or anything,” he says. “And with American car to be endowed with permutations — has not diluted the undercarriage and front caliper disc brakes. These the appeal of the 1963 Avanti. everything, it’s just in like-new 11.5-inch units were supplied by condition and I don’t want to foul Bendix and were produced under that up.

P a g e | 27 “It just aggravates my wife. It sits corners as good as any car. They as the birthplace of hot rods. in the garage covered up 9 are neat little cars. They are There a cult of backyard months a year. During summer, I sports cars for sure.” mechanics, working with junkyard get it out and take it to a couple parts, created streamlined, no- shows. This summer there is a CLASSIC CAR REVIEW nonsense racing cars for Studebaker meet in Colorado competition against each other Springs, and I’m going to take it A SHORT HISTORY OF over straight-line courses laid out to that.” HOT RODS on the nearby desert salt flats. In Story by Michael Dobrin (hotrod.com) those days, nothing but open Dusenbery had one other 1963 country lay between the flats and Studebaker that he sold a while such small towns as Pasadena, back. He is restoring a 1960 Glendale and Burbank where hot Hawk and has a 1948 pickup with rodding began; and since few a 1953 coupe waiting in the Rodders had more than one wings. His brother Bob also has vehicle, it was essential that the two Avanti’s as part of the cars used for racing could also extended family fleet. Dusenbery be driven to the sites, as well as estimates that the brothers still back and forth from home to work have about 40 Studebakers during the week. between the three of them. “It was just the way we grew up. They are just like family to us, the The term hot rod became popular old Studebakers,” he says. in the 1940s. But the first examples—called gow jobs or Ben had one other 1963 Avanti soup-ups—were built during the that he sold a while back, “but Depression by young that wasn’t as nice as this one.” enthusiasts, usually with little or He parted with his first one, but no money, who were eager to he’s had his current Avanti for tinker with what then was still a about 22 years and he isn’t novel piece of machinery. planning to let this one go. Most early hot rods were Ford Many of those early hot Rodders Model T or Model A roadsters— “More than anything, I like them also wanted to show-up their cheap, plentiful, and lightweight, because they are so unique,” he wealthier cohorts; to prove to having no top and only a single says. “And this one has probably them that money wasn ‘t the only seat. Standard procedure was to appreciated quite a bit in the last way to gain automotive status. strip off all nonessential parts— 6, 8 years. Studebakers for some So, despite its emphasis on fenders, running boards, reason are starting to take off. power and performance, a hot ornaments, even the You used to be able to buy these rod has also always been a windshield—to achieve maximum for $10,000 or $12,000. Now to social statement, having to do weight reduction and find a nice Avanti is upwards of with self-reliance, ingenuity and aerodynamics. Eventually coupes $25,000. ultimately independence. It is this and sedans joined the ranks. added emotional resonance that Typically, these heavier models “You won’t see a car that looks separates hot rods from mere underwent drastic surgery to anything like an Avanti, with the homebuilt racers, and gives them chop their tops lower and slope, front end and aerodynamic a deeper definition not addressed or rake, their windshields design and the way it tails off in by dictionaries. backward. the back end. When you’re driving the thing, it’s a head How it all began Large rear tires were installed on turner. You just don’t see them all hot rods to raise the gear ratio on the road, and in addition California, especially the dry for high speed, while standard- they’re a fun car to drive. They’re lakes region in the southern part size or smaller tires left on the a quick-turning, very stable car — of the state, generally is regarded front helped lower the car and like a little go-cart. It takes rake it forward to decrease wind

P a g e | 28 resistance. Rows of slots, called cars, hundreds of hot Rodders louvers, were cut into the hood, and fans now flocked to the dry body, and rear deck lid for engine lakes races in southern cooling and to release trapped California. Elsewhere in the state air. Sometimes flat aluminum and across the country discs were fitted over the wheel dangerous—often fatal—street hubs for further streamlining. racing caught on, and with it the practice by many youthful hot Ford flathead V8 engines were Rodders of gathering at local the power plants of choice after hangouts and cruising up and their introduction in 1932. Mass- down avenues at night, showing produced in the millions, they too off their cars—and themselves. Of course, the result was soaring were cheap and plentiful, and Hot-rod activities became an popularity for these phenomena, their design permitted relatively easy target for public attention at least among young people. In easy—and nearly limitless— that focused increasingly on what an effort to reverse hot rodding ‘s performance enhancements. were perceived as frightening negative connotations, the first Developing 85 horsepower in new national problems: juvenile Hot Rod Exhibition was held in stock configuration, the earliest delinquency and teenage gangs. January, 1948, at the National modifications usually consisted of Along with rock and roll, hot rods Guard Armory in Los Angeles. removing the muffler, and hot rodding became symbols Emphasizing positive qualities straightening the exhaust pipes for the darker side of American like craftsmanship, engineering and adding multiple carburetors. youth. and safety, the show was The results more than doubled attended by some 10,000 the original punch, producing an spectators. Two years later, engine that often could propel a Robert E. Petersen ‘s newly- soup-up at better than 100 miles formed Hot Rod magazine, an hour over a lakebed course. whose first issues were sold on the steps of the Exhibition, Hot rodding ‘s golden era boasted a circulation of 300,000.

World War II put an end to early Enthusiast magazines like Hot hot rodding but not to the hot-rod Rod and organizations like the craze. Indeed, California Southern California Timing servicemen leaving their dry Association (SCTA), founded in lakes roadsters and chopped 1938, and the National Hot Rod coupes behind on blocks or in the Association (NHRA), founded in dubious care of younger brothers 1951, led in defusing the image took pictures of their cars with of hot rodding as a national them and spread tales of their menace by fostering civic- exploits wherever they went to mindedness and cooperation whoever would listen—mostly between hot Rodders and police, young, male servicemen like and by creating organized themselves from every area of straight-line courses—called drag the country. When the war strips—to replace clandestine ended, in 1945, hot rodding street racing. Many enthusiasts exploded into the public turned to building cars consciousness, becoming one of exclusively for drag racing. the strongest fads of new Others continued to build so- postwar America. called street rods—hopped up cars that could be raced (illegally) With money in their pockets, at traffic lights but that usually mechanical and metalworking served chiefly as stylish transportation—and still others skills gained in the military and burning desire to build dream broke new ground by modifying

P a g e | 29 cars primarily for looks rather among average car buffs. Once one charmed by nostalgia for the than performance. again, these enthusiasts found past and the other charged with themselves financially the rebellious creativity of youth The new appearance-oriented disadvantaged; and junkyard and the independent spirit of the cars were called customs. Like parts could no longer fill the bill. disenfranchised—kept the spark early hot rods, they evolved from alive. Thanks to them, hot lower-priced production rodding and customizing (albeit in automobiles—Fords, Chevrolets, a 90s guise) survives today and Mercury’s—but unlike the soup- even flourishes. ups they were relatively late- model cars, and seldom came from junkyards.

Customizing did for bodywork what hot rodding did for engine performance. Favorite techniques involved severe top-chopping, lowering, or channeling, the entire frame to within inches of the ground (raking the front-end forward was out for early customizers; if a car was tilted at California, naturally enough, was all, the direction of slope was The 1960s saw the advent of the site of the resurgence. In the toward the rear), seams were muscle cars, Detroit's bid at nostalgia camp were two small filled, or frenched, to smooth performance hot rodding in the car clubs, the Los Angeles them, and streamlined fender form of plain-looking automobiles Roadsters and the Bay Area panels called skirts were added stuffed with huge-displacement Roadsters, who began a tradition to cover the rear wheel openings. engines like the Chevy 396, 409 of long-distance cruising en Chromed parts were much in and 427; the Ford 390 and 427; masse along the state ‘s abundance, from spare wheel and the Chrysler 440 and 426 highways in their otherwise covers—called continental kits— hemi, so-nicknamed for its languishing chromed show cars, to side-mounted exhaust pipes, racing-engineered hemispherical mostly stylized reworkings of 20s, called Lakers or simply lakes, combustion chambers. Later in 30s, and 40s open-top single- and no expense was spared on the decade came smaller pony seaters. These cruises, which fancy paintwork. As the era cars—Mustangs and Camaros— began in the 1970s, were progressed, details like pin which arrived only to face the popularized in car magazines as striping, scallops and flames challenges of the early 70s gas rod runs and as the trend were brought to the level of high shortages when the doubling of continued they spread to other art, and custom cars became prices at the pump opened the states and took on trappings of striking—and still to some people door to a wave of upstart large-scale family picnics disturbing—expressions of econoboxes (and Volkswagen complete with concession stands, individuality. bugs) from Japan and Europe. portable toilets and sometimes The primacy of the V8 ended carnival rides augmenting the But by the end of the middle then, and the golden era of show-car competitions and swap 1950s, competition both in hot traditional hot rodding and meets that were the heart of the rodding and customizing had customizing was over. But was events. grown so fierce that top cars the pastime really dead? seldom saw daylight except at In the other camp were young the drag strip or in the exhibition Hot rodding, part two men from southern California ‘s hall. Despite its icon status Chicano culture, whose bent was among youth (which would last By the 1980s the fire that had refining the craft of customizing about another five years) hot- been amateur hot rodding had to produce probably the most rodding activities around this time indeed died, but the flame had singular of its iterations, the began to wane in popularity not gone out. Two core groups— lowrider. Initially limited chiefly to

P a g e | 30 1963 and 1964 Chevrolet Impala which are often held over three- outlaw charm, not just for the models, lowriders reflected an day weekends at regional young but for the young at heart. epitome of ritualized—even fairgrounds, campgrounds, and And they probably always will, symbolic—showiness that other public arenas. thanks to those deeper elements included meticulous candy paint of their definition, the ones the jobs, delicately air-brushed Speed and custom parts dictionary leaves out. murals, crushed velvet industries thrive, producing every upholstery, and tiny, thin kind of hot-rodding and CLASSIC CAR REVIEW whitewall tires mounted on deep- customizing component dish chrome or gold-plated wire conceivable, with new products 1964 FORD GALAXIE 427 wheel rims. Their name derived arriving regularly. These days, it Story by John Gunnell & Photos by Jerry from their unique component: is possible to build complete Heasley (oldcarsweekley.com) hydraulic suspensions that could automobiles using newly-made lift and lower the car or rake it reproduction parts, including forward and back instantly—even frames, body panels and engine make it appear to hop—at the blocks. If you are wealthy touch of a control by the driver. enough, you can even commission a designer-built, Creating lowriders still is virtually one-of-a-kind hot rod or custom the exclusive province of Latino ready to capture first honors at customizers operating within any show or take you joyriding strict, trend-dictated design down your very own boulevard of parameters. There is no doubt dreams. With “performance” as them by that the existence of these cars word in 1964, the ’64 Fords had a has brought increased ready-to-go-fast look. A restyled recognition and added new body with a strong, lavish use of creative spirit to customizing in sculptured sheet metal from stem general, and especially to the to stern helped the gorgeous more extreme examples of ultra- Galaxie achieve a racy customizing that appear at appearance. contemporary exhibitions.

A full-width horizontal-bar grille What now? with triple vertical ridges and

wide-spaced, side-by-side Today hot rodding in all its faces headlamps gave the Galaxie a is both popular and big business. “customized” image. The rear What began as a way to achieve deck lid latch panel was deeply results without money has scooped to surround Ford’s become a way to spend it, and a trademark large, round taillamps. way for marketers of every stripe On the plush Galaxie 500/XL it to accumulate it, sometimes in housed a horizontal silver vast amounts. The National Hot anodized beauty panel. This top- Rod Association has turned drag of-the-line model came only in racing into a nationwide spectator two-door and four-door hardtop sport generating millions of Clearly, one might argue that hot and convertible models dollars annually from events, rodding is making a bid for with standard bucket seats and television coverage, and mainstream acceptance, center console. They were advertising. Robert E. Petersen especially with the arrival of the sometimes converted into muscle spun off Hot Rod (which still Plymouth Prowler, Panoz AVI cars with the optional 427-cid V- exists) to form Petersen and hot-selling Chrysler PT 8s. Publications, an automotive Cruiser. However, from all magazine empire. Rod runs appearances hot rods seem to be The highly successful 427 was frequently attract thousands of retaining at least some of their available in three versions, which participants to single events,

P a g e | 31 were reviewed in great detail in carb. The block was custom a low-riser manifold). These cars the March 1964 issue of Car Life milled and fitted with special came in white with red interiors. magazine. All three engines were cylinder heads, a high-rise intake, Body sealer, sound deadening fairly costly. The Q-code 427-cid a NASCAR camshaft, special insulation and heaters were 425-hp engine cost $461.60, plus high-strength-alloy bearing caps deleted. Added were lightweight $109 for a dual-carb setup. It was and other unique features. seats and a fiberglass “power the volume-production version of Stronger push rods, a special air bubble” hood. The grilles were the 427 that most showroom intake chamber and a baffled, modified with fiberglass air make 10,000 to 15,000 of these. high-capacity oil pan were used. induction vents. These packages This 427 “street” engine had a Car Life estimated output at 520 didn’t make sense for heavier 10.7:1 compression ratio and hp at 6500 rpm. convertibles. used premium gas, although super-premium was A four-speed manual Motor Trend described the ’64 recommended. It had cross- transmission was standard in Fords as big, solid cars that do bolted mains, a cast crankshaft Fords with a 427. A special what they’re supposed to and and slightly looser-than-normal heavy-duty automatic very well indeed. “From the fitting pistons. transmission was developed as accessory-loaded family sedan to an option for use with high-output the fierce drag-strip contender, all 427 such as the R-code version. show the results of Ford’s Total It actually consisted of a Lincoln Performance package,” said gearbox behind a Ford Cruise-O- assistant technical editor Bob Matic torque converter with a McVay. “And on some Fords, the special aluminum housing. A Total is more total than on small number of special parts others.” A 427-powered stock- were added to the transmission bodied Ford was basically good to help handle the extra torque. for a 0-to-60 time of just over 6 Actual in-the-car performance for seconds and a quarter-mile time this tranny was about equal to of just under 15 seconds. Carrying the same advertised that of a good four-speed manual horsepower rating as the first gearbox, but more consistent. engine, the 427-R developed more torque. It carried two four- barrel carburetors on a special intake manifold and had revised- port heads and a cam with slightly more overlap than normal. Although this V-8 could be dealer ordered, it was not a street motor.

The 427-powered full-sized Fords were the hot ticket for stock car racing and to get them sanctioned for NASCAR, Ford kept making big muscle cars. A high-rise manifold and “high-rev” package was certified as production options and were also legal for racing. A Galaxie Designed for racing, the last 427 A/Stock dragster package was was a not-for-public-sale offered for two-door 427-powered NASCAR version. To meet racing models, as was a B/Stock rules, it had a single four-barrel Dragster package (which added

P a g e | 32 CLASSIC CAR REVIEW The Cherokee was used to generate positive ink. One 1967 1967 ‘CHEROKEE’ magazine article featured photos CAMARO of it along with two other Story & Photos by John Gunnell Chevrolet showpieces. “Believing (oldcarsweekly.com) in putting its best foot forward, Chevrolet outdoes itself with restyled show versions of an experimental coupe, the popular The hand-formed “ducktail” rear spoiler Camaro and a pickup . . . all of was among the special features Bill Mitchell’s stylists added to the Cherokee. which may be a preview of future design trends,” said the headline Chevrolet high performance guru on that page. Vince Piggins hot rodded the Cherokee’s motor with a Moon Elkhart Lake, Wis.’s Road intake manifold and four Weber America racecourse was a The car in 2013. Note the black and white downdraft carburetors. Power favorite place for Chevrolet Motor stripe seats and the hide-away was transmitted to a hefty 12-bolt Division to showcase dream cars headlamps. Hood treatment is very ‘60s like the Camaro Cherokee in the hot rod style. rear axle. Originally, Koni front shock absorbers were installed ‘60s. The concept car was used The Cherokee show car is the and the car also had GM air as the attention-getting pace car perfect vehicle to spotlight for the shocks. for the first Can-Am race of 1967 Camaro’s 50th anniversary this held there. Stirling Moss drove year. Ford invented the “pony Bill Mitchell’s styling studio then the car. Beer baron and racing car” with the 1965 Mustang. GM added a hand-formed custom driver Augie Pabst was one of was playing catch-up. One idea hood with a clear hood scoop the people watching the parade was to make potential buyers that showcased the engine, a lap. think of the Camaro as a “cousin” custom hand-formed deck lid, to the Corvette. But, another way Corvette-inspired “blade” Pabst contacted Bill Mitchell and to promote it was to create bumpers that had been cast in bought the car. He was not the factory custom versions of the brass, a hood-mounted type to keep a cool car in a vault, Camaro with goodies that young tachometer, accessory lighting, a though it wasn’t used much, enthusiasts liked. Road-Race style gas cap, special either. Pabst eventually traded 15 × 6-in. Corvette-style turbine the car in to Vilter Chevrolet in The Cherokee started as a wheels, a black interior and a Milwaukee. In 1971, Vilter Camaro SS convertible with VIN Corvette steering wheel. The Chevrolet sold the car to Custom number 124677N233228 that Cherokee received Candy Apple Top Co., which traded in a 988 was built at GM’s Norwood, Ohio Metal Flake Red over Aztec Gold Buick GS convertible on it. Vilter assembly plant. It was originally Metallic paint. was asking $3,600 for the equipped with a 396-cid 375-hp Cherokee and allowed $750 for (RPO L78) big-block V-8 and the Buick GS. Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 transmission. It was also factory equipped with a fold-down rear seat, a tilt steering column, power windows, an AM/FM stereo system, a center console with gauges, a custom steering wheel and optional front disc brakes. Clear Lexan plastic “window” on the hood allowed spectators to peek at the eight shiny stacks on the Weber carburetors. The interior features a center console with gauges, an AM/FM stereo system and a custom steering wheel with Corvette style crossed flags emblem.

P a g e | 33 Over the years, it was sold to a The car was featured in one of SWAP SHOP number of people. For example, the show’s “reveals,” during paperwork that came with the car which the car is first displayed showed that Edward R. Maurer of covered up, before the cover is Brookfield, Wis., had it titled in withdrawn to show the fresh 1987. The car’s engine and restoration. As the story went, special features were changed a even though the Cherokee was in bit. Eventually, muscle car fan basically good, low-miles Terry Lietzau bought the 21,000- condition to start with, it was mile car and installed a correct extremely difficult to reproduce 396 and some original type the original Candy Apple finish features, although he had trouble using modern materials. Charley finding the special turbine wheels Hutton was relied upon for the that were actually from a special paintwork, since he had Chaparral racing car. been the painter in the late Boyd Codington’s shop. Hutton “nailed” By 2011, the car had changed the special factory finish from an “interesting old car” to a perfectly. genuine collector car that was considered an interesting piece Another difficult part of the job Swap Shop ads are taken from James Valley of Camaro history. It was taken to was coming up with the turbine Street Machine members, NDSRA “Street a Russo and Steele Auction in wheels, but as you can see from Talking” magazine, “Cars for Sale in Scottsdale, Ariz., where it was some of the accompanying Jamestown” on Facebook. sold for $357,500. It then became photos, this proved to be hard, part of the Brothers Collection. but not impossible. From what WANTED: ‘57 Cadillac body and They had the car redone by we’ve heard, The Brothers interior parts. Mainly seats and Charley Hutton’s Color Studio in Collection that owns the bumpers. Dallas 701-436-6399 Nampa, Idaho. Cherokee today is a very private WANTED: ‘53 Old’s left fender 88 collection of muscle cars owned or 98 will work, complete. Green The car was displayed at the by two brothers. Fortunately, they would be a bonus! Dallas 701- Muscle Car and Corvette were willing to bring the restored 436-6399 Nationals (www.MCACN.com) in car back to MCACN. Rosemont, Ill., both before and WANTED: 1955-59 step-side after this restoration. During its pickup. Must be all complete, 2010 appearance, when it was ready to drive. Prefer: Chevy showcased at the rear of the Apache, 350 CU or less, no 6 cyl, Donald E. Stephens Center, it color of red, white, and blue, auto was fitted with GM Rally Wheels. trans, hwy gears. Call or text It returned in 2013 after the Duane 701-425-5358 restoration, with correct Corvette WANTED: Cruise control vacuum style turbine blade wheels. servo (350 engine) for a 1974 Monte Carlo. Bill 701-720-7183 WANTED: 1959 Impala steering wheel. (Good Condition) Horn ring also if possible. Myron 701- 367-9070 WANTED: Running/good 392 Hemi and a 1957/58 Chrysler parts car. Mark #767, 701-799-

A hood-mounted tachometer is among 5090 the factory-installed options on the well- WANTED: 4.3 Chevy V-6 equipped Camaro. carbureted w/ fuel pump on

P a g e | 34 block. Dave 701-274-8975 FOR SALE: 1964 Chevy II Nova, FOR SALE: 1955 Chevy Belair 2 four door, survivor, 95% original, door sedan project or parts car. WANTED: ‘68 Chevy C10 Short 6-cylinder, 3-speed, marlin blue Also, 301 Chevy motor pair of wheel base pickup. Would prefer with blue interior, 69,000 miles, 327 heads. 701-680-1517 a project, but will consider body - very good, interior - anything? Nate 701-471-3350 FOR SALE: 49-52 Chevy Heater excellent. Runs and drives good. box, $15.00. 49-52 Chevy Hood, WANTED: ‘51 Cadillac 2 door $4,500. Kye 701-367-0157 $100.00 Both very good shape. project car. Any condition will be FOR SALE: 1951 Kaiser deluxe Myron 701-367-9070 considered. Nate 701-471-3350 4dr, motor: 302; trans:C4; FoxII FOR SALE: 1953 Chevrolet 2 Dr WANTED: 1966 or 1967 Ford front suspension; 8” Ford rear Post - Well-built unfinished rod Fairlane 2 door hard top in really end LOTS of extra parts; parts project. Chassis done with rebuilt good condition. E-mail car also available for extra. Camaro clip and fresh 4 link rear; [email protected] Phone 218- $5000 obo set up for SBC. Body completely 207-8150 Ask for Dennis. Call Jerome at 701-400-8381 or done and in primer. Most parts to WANTED: Left-rear fender for [email protected] reassemble except windshield. 1955-59 Chevy 3100 step-side Clear title $3500. 1940 Packard 2 FOR SALE: 1937 Chevy 2dr pickup. Am looking for one that Dr sedan, complete but rusty sedan builder ‘35 Ford straight does not have the spare tire $1600. 51/52 F1, complete axle; 9” rear end; body all there; mounting indentation in it. If you except tailgate. Nice cab and no title, $1000 obo. Call Jerome have one, please Jim @ 605- box, complete original drive train, at 701-400-8381 or 200-0366 or 701-455-2288. front fenders and running boards [email protected] rusty $750. No title. Larry 218- FOR SALE: 7 x 12-foot new gm FOR SALE: 1961 Ford 463-2259 or carpet, it was for a 65 old’s, color Econoline; straight six; 3 on tree; [email protected] is #512 sky blue. I didn’t like the NOS carb; $1200 obo. Call color, so I am selling it for $50.00 FOR SALE: 1957 Chevy 2 Door Jerome at 701-400-8381 or firm. If interested, please give me Hardtop ZZ4 350, 700R, Posi- [email protected] a call 701-720-9227 Rod K. Minot Rear, Dropped spindles, power FOR SALE: 49-51 Merc. parts. 3 disc brakes, power steering. FOR SALE: 1966 Chevy Nova 2 - 49/50 bumper cores, $100 ea. Maroon paint w/ white leather Dr HT. 327 4spd, 4:11 Posi. Hood hinges (great condition), interior. Dakota Digital, A/C, Power disc brakes, new 16” $150.00. Pair NOS trunk hinges, cruise. $36,000 Dave 701-274- rubber, new America torque $125.00/pair. Keyed 50/51 8975 thrust wheels. Blue in color, black ignition switch, $35.00+. interior. Way too much to list. Call FOR SALE: 1 set (4) of 1956 Sterling 701-349-3913 605-578-9769. Chevy hub caps. Very good FOR SALE: 1940 Packard 110, shape. Any reasonable offer FOR SALE: Set of 4 GR-60-15 rare 2 door sedans. Complete but accepted. Arlen 701-741-5267 Remington XT-120 Radials, rusty; challenging but buildable. Raised White Letters, bought FOR SALE: Discounts on Griffin Have original title in previous new in ‘79. Only 4000 miles on Radiators; Vintage Air Systems; owner’s name. $1500. Larry 218- them. Good for car shows - not Dakota Digital Instruments; 463-4510 or every day driving. $500 OBO. Budnik Wheels Call 218 238 [email protected] 701-208-0957 after 5:00. Tim 5581 or e-mail FOR SALE: 200-4R auto tranny [email protected] FOR SALE: Vintage Ford all- $300.00. Bill 701-720-7183 purpose traveling light in original FOR SALE: Over 1,500 Barbie’s box. $25.00. New 1965 Mercury FOR SALE: Ford 2dr Sedan and 3,000 collector dolls & Comet Speedometer in box project with title $6,500.00 Kevin accessories (50 years of C5MY-17255. $75.00 Two 1957 701-367-7762 collecting). $10,000 OBO Chris Ford small hubcaps. $5.00 each. 701-290-2763 FOR SALE: NASCAR tire, Early Pontiac hood scoop. certificate of authenticity, May FOR SALE: 1935-36 Ford Patch $100.00. 701-220-6771 Eldon 2014, Charlotte $90.00 Kevin Panels. Cowl, Rear Quarter and 701-367-7762 Door Bottoms. Left and Right

P a g e | 35 sides. If you were to purchase 05/09 James Valley Street Machines 06/03 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM them from Mac’s Ford parts, the MOVIE NIGHT! 06/04 Summer Get-Together price would $246.79 I’m asking Bison 6 Cinema Pleasanton, California $200.00. Tom 701-258-4805 Jamestown, North Dakota 06/03 DRAG RACE 05/10 JVSM MEETING Top End Dragways James Valley Street Machines Tint Masters Street Legal FOR SALE: SBC 400 ci long- block that comes out of a ’74 El Monthly Meeting Days Camino w/ 79K miles on it. Runs Jamestown, North Dakota MN/ND King of the Streets good, however the engine needs 05/11 CRUISE Sabin, Minnesota complete gasket kit. $600 obo. Valley Vintage 06/03 SHOW Barnesville Cruise Night Mighty Mo Call Jim @ 605-200-0366 or 701- Barnesville, Minnesota Chamberlain, South Dakota 455-2288. 05/13 SHOW 06/03 AUCTION INSPECTIONS: Vehicle 41st Annual Band Day SHOW inspections done at Dallas Williston, North Dakota 06/04 Deadwood Car Show Deadwood, South Dakota Kustoms in Hillsboro, ND. Call 05/13 DRAG RACE 05/14 Top End Dragways 06/04 James Valley Street Machines 701-436-6399 Bracket Weekend & "CHASING" around Dakota Super Series Fort Totten Fort Tour Sabin, Minnesota Jamestown, North Dakota 05/19 CRUISE 06/06 CRUISE 4th Annual Black Hills Cruise on Main Street Custer, South Dakota Bismarck, North Dakota 05/19 SHOW JVSM EVENT 05/20 SDSRA Street Rod Show James Valley Street Machines 06/07 Chamberlain, South Dakota Taking Back Main Street Cruise 05/19 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM Jamestown, North Dakota 05/20 Nashville Nationals 06/09 CRUISE 05/21 Nashville, Tennessee 06/10 37th Annual Classtiques 05/20 AUCTION Bismarck/Mandan, North

Classic Car Auction Dakota Central City Auto Auction 06/09 CRUISE Carrington, North Dakota 06/10 Center of the Nation 05/20 DRAG RACE Belle Fouche, South Dakota JVSM EVENT Top End Dragways 06/09 SHOW James Valley Street Machines Tint Masters Street Legal 04/28 06/10 Beresford Wheel & Squeals Kick Off to Summer Days Beresford, South Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota Sabin, Minnesota 06/09 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM 04/28 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM 05/21 SWAP MEET 06/10 East Coast Nationals 04/29 North Carolina Nationals Suede's Swap Meet 06/11 Rhinebeck, New York 04/30 Raleigh, North Carolina Open 7-Noon At 06/10 SHOW SHOW Top End Dragways 3rd Annual Rods & Hogs 04/29 Lake Area Techs Sabin, Minnesota Jamestown, North Dakota Watertown, South Dakota 05/27 SHOW 06/10 SHOW 04/29 SHOW 05/28 Brookings Car Festival 06/11 Buggies-N-Blues Valley Vintage Brookings, South Dakota Mandan, North Dakota to Indoor Car Show 06/02 5K RUN/WALK 06/11 SHOW 04/30 Moorhead, Minnesota 06/03 RM STOUDT Brookings Pioneer Park JVSM EVENT Running of the Pink Brookings, South Dakota James Valley Street Machines Jamestown, North Dakota 05/03 06/11 SHOW Taking Back Main Street Cruise 06/02 AUCTION Annual Angels with a Dream Jamestown, North Dakota 06/03 SHOW Sioux Falls, South Dakota DRAG RACE 25th Annual Devils Run 06/11 SHOW Top End Dragways Devils Lake, North Dakota All Ford Car Show Test & Tune 06/02 SHOW Sioux Falls, South Dakota Wheel Jam Car, Semi, 05/07 Sabin, Minnesota 06/03 06/13 James Valley Street Machines Motorcycle MOVIE NIGHT! Huron, South Dakota 06/04 Bison 6 Cinema Jamestown, North Dakota

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Lincoln, Nebraska Days 07/23 SHOW 06/20 JVSM EVENT Sabin, Minnesota Royal River Casino Show James Valley Street Machines to Black Hills Corvette Classic Flandreau, South Dakota 60-foot Experience 07/15 Spearfish, South Dakota 07/27 CRUISE Jamestown, North Dakota 07/08 SHOW 15th Annual Swanks 06/23 CRUISE/SHOW to Black Hills Corvette Classic Cruise to Casselton to Back to the Fifties 07/15 Spearfish, South Dakota Casselton, North Dakota 06/25 St Paul, Minnesota 07/11 James Valley Street Machines 07/28 James Valley Street Machines 06/23 AUCTION MOVIE NIGHT! 07/29 Blacktop Tour 06/24 31st Annual Twin Cities Bison 6 Cinema 07/30 On our way to Warroad MN St Paul, Minnesota Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota 06/23 AUCTION 07/12 JVSM MEETING 07/28 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM 06/24 31st Annual Twin Cities James Valley Street Machines 07/29 Pacific Northwest Nationals St Paul, Minnesota Monthly Meeting 07/30 Puyallup, Washington 06/24 SHOW Jamestown, North Dakota 07/29 DRAG RACE 06/25 40th Annual Medora 07/14 SHOW Top End Dragways Medora, North Dakota 07/15 Prairie Cruisers Rod Run Hot Rod Drags 06/24 DRAG RACE Dickinson, North Dakota Sabin, Minnesota 06/25 Top End Dragways 07/14 SHOW 07/29 SHOW Bracket Weekend & 07/15 O'Reilly Auto Parts Street Annual Foothills Classic Jr Dragster Challenge 07/16 Machine Nationals Wessington, South Dakota & Super Series Saint Paul, Minnesota 07/29 SHOW Sabin, Minnesota 07/15 DRAG RACE SD Air & Space Museum 06/24 SHOW 07/16 Top End Dragways Box Elder, South Dakota Dakota Kruzer Summer Run Bracket Weekend & 07/29 SHOW Gettysburg, South Dakota National Dragster Challenge Annual Street Masters 06/24 SHOW & Super Series Fort Pierre, South Dakota Automania Sabin, Minnesota 07/30 SHOW Brandon, South Dakota 07/15 SHOW Madison Car Show 06/30 SHOW Dakota Territory Car Club Madison, South Dakota 07/01 Sizzling Summer Days Bowman, North Dakota JVSM EVENT 07/02 Ashley, North Dakota 07/15 DRAG RACE James Valley Street Machines 08/02 06/30 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM Jamestown Airport Drag Taking Back Main Street Cruise 07/16 07/01 Heartland Nationals Racing Jamestown, North Dakota 07/02 Des Moines, Iowa Jamestown, North Dakota 08/04 RALLY 07/04 CRUISE 07/17 CONVENTION to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Cruise on Main Street to 37th Annual National Impalas 08/13 Sturgis, South Dakota Bismarck, North Dakota 07/21 Spearfish, South Dakota 08/05 CRUISE 07/04 SHOW 07/20 CRUISE Motor to McClusky Kingsbury Klassic Kruisers Toppers Cruise Night McClusky, North Dakota Lake Preston, South Dakota West Fargo, North Dakota 08/05 SHOW 07/04 CRUISE 07/21 CRUISE Clark Classics Car Club 49th Annual Black Hills 07/22 Yankton Rock-N-Rumble Clark, South Dakota

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Brookings, South Dakota Car Bison 6 Cinema 08/05 DRAG RACE Newell, South Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota 08/06 Top End Dragways 08/24 SHOW 09/13 JVSM MEETING Bracket Weekend to Kool Deadwood Nights James Valley Street Machines & Super Series 08/27 Deadwood, South Dakota Monthly Meeting Sabin, Minnesota 08/25 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM Jamestown, North Dakota 08/06 James Valley Street Machines 08/26 West Coast Nationals 09/15 SHOW "CHASING" around Dakota 08/27 Pleasanton, California 09/16 23rd Dakota Cruisers Scenic Highway Tour 08/26 DRAG RACE Season Finale Jamestown, North Dakota 08/27 Top End Dragways Minot, North Dakota 08/08 CRUISE Bracket Weekend 09/17 SHOW Cruise on Main Street Sabin, Minnesota Rydell Benefit Car Show Bismarck, North Dakota 08/26 SHOW Grand Forks, North Dakota 08/08 James Valley Street Machines Minno Volunteer Fire Dept. 09/21 CRUISE MOVIE NIGHT! Menno, South Dakota Toppers Cruise Night Bison 6 Cinema 09/01 AUCTION West Fargo, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota 09/02 SHOW 09/21 IMCA RACE 08/09 JVSM MEETING 09/03 DRAG RACE 09/22 Annual Stock Car Stampede James Valley Street Machines 09/04 Motor Magic 09/23 Jamestown, North Dakota Monthly Meeting Minot, North Dakota 09/22 SHOW Jamestown, North Dakota 09/02 SHOW 09/23 Old Skool 13th Annual 08/11 CRUISE Prairie Cruisers Show 09/24 Mitchell, South Dakota 08/12 Dacotah Rodders 35th Winner, South Dakota 09/23 CAR SHOW 08/13 Annual Granny Run 09/03 SHOW James Valley Street Machines Grand Rapids, North Dakota Studebaker & Packard Huntington's Car Show 08/12 DRAG RACE Custer, South Dakota at Don Wilhelm Inc. Top End Dragways 09/04 CRUISE Jamestown, North Dakota Tint Masters Street Legal 09/23 Cruise on Main Street DRAG RACE Days Bismarck, North Dakota 09/24 Top End Dragways Sabin, Minnesota JVSM EVENT Bracket Weekend 08/12 SHOW James Valley Street Machines Sabin, Minnesota 09/06 Cars with a Cause Taking Back Main Street Cruise 09/29 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM Hebron, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota 09/30 Lone Star National 08/12 SHOW 09/08 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM 10/01 Fort Worth, Texas Wing & Brew Festival 09/09 Colorado Nationals 10/07 DRAG RACE Brookings, South Dakota 09/10 Loveland, Colorado 10/08 Top End Dragways 08/12 SHOW 09/08 SHOW Bracket Weekend Chaser Show & Shine 09/09 Ribs, Rods & Roc-N-Roll Season Points Championship Sioux Falls, South Dakota Vermillion, South Dakota Sabin, Minnesota 08/17 CRUISE 09/09 DRAG RACE 10/10 James Valley Street Machines Toppers Cruise Night 09/10 Top End Dragways MOVIE NIGHT! West Fargo, North Dakota Bracket Weekend Bison 6 Cinema JVSM EVENT King of the Track Jamestown, North Dakota 08/17 James Valley Street Machines & Super Series 10/11 JVSM MEETING 08/18 Super Chevy Drag & Show Sabin, Minnesota James Valley Street Machines 08/19 JVSM SUPER CRUISE 09/09 SHOW Monthly Meeting 08/20 to Denver Colorado Aw Shucks! Corn Fest Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota Garrison, North Dakota 10/13 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM 08/18 GOODGUYS ROD-CUSTOM 09/09 CRUISE 10/14 Nostalgia Nationals 08/19 Great Northwest Nationals Rush-No-More 10/15 Bowling Green, Kentucky 08/20 Spokane, Washington Dakota Rods & Classics 10/14 DRAG RACE 08/19 SHOW Sturgis, South Dakota 10/15 Top End Dragways Rods & Rock 09/09 SHOW Bracket Weekend Carson, North Dakota Vintiques Show & Shine Final Race & 08/26 SHOW Watertown, South Dakota "BIG" money Weekend Sabin, Minnesota Sizzling Summer Night Aberdeen, South Dakota

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