Third Quarter 2006 Volume 2, Issue 3 1 7 8 9 C o u n t y R o u t e 5 0 ( 6 0 7 ) 3 2 4 - 8 3 2 5 A r k p o r t , N e w Y o r k 1 4 8 0 7 W W W . R J C A R S . C O M G REETIN G S FRO M TH E PRESID EN T O F RJ C A RS IN C . Rev It Up! That’s what we’ve been chance to meet or speak to John before someone else decides to run doing here at RJ CARS, INC. Krause. John likes to help out with John off the road. Please read “One The Carlisle All Chrysler Nationals many of the tire smoking project cars Thing Leads To Another…” on was a really big event for us around the shop. You also may have page 3 to catch up on John’s latest in 2005 & 2006. We’ve activities with his old cars and his covered some of the details “’Bird”. on both events in this issue. I get a lot of people asking me “how The 2006 RJ CARS, INC> do you do it? Running RJ CARS Open House was bigger and and restoring all these awesome better than ever this year. I cars.” The answer is really that INSIDE THIS ISSUE: wanted to thank Jim Deme- there are a lot more people behind treu for bringing his big that “RJ” than just Russell Jacobs All Chrysler & 1 block powered 1970 Dodge these days. My staff, family, friends Open House Challenger T/A out of hid- and customers support what we do ing and putting on a show here and that’s what keeps me going ‘Cuda Corner 2 for us. That was surely a and striving to do my best. We get surprise along with all the an overwhelming amount of praise others who showed up with classics heard about John’s near fatal car for our newsletter and I want all of Bragging Rights 2 and traveled from far outside the accident in May 2005. Well, just to you to know how much your sup- area to come join the fun!!! let you know how he is doing, we’re port is appreciated, especially when Those of you who know us, or have all going to give him a push to get his Cindy & I get “writers block”! Into the Swing(er) 3 blue 1970 Plymouth Superbird pro- of Things read this newsletter over the past ENJOY FALL!!! Russell couple years, have probably had a ject car done so we can all enjoy it SU CCESS AT ALL CHRYSLER, CARLISLE, PA & OPEN H OU SE By: Cindy Gemmill line for ject list (see www.rjcars.com to view this and Carlisle, PA- Even though at- the car “Project Up- other issues!) Richard is the RJ tendance seemed low this year, after spot- dates”). CARS, INC. official Documen- RJ CARS, INC. had a very suc- ting it in The RJ CARS tary cameraman. He supplied a cessful show! Thanks to Ted our tent. crew had a DVD movie highlighting LaFrance and his 1966 Ply- We had 2 good time, too! RJCARS staff at work, and the mouth Belvedere II with its tables for With more neat little TV/DVD player. The original Hemi engine the display people to movie adds a great professional RJCARS tent was hoppin’! material “man” the touch to our display. However, Passers-by would make a bee- and had booth, the over 80 staff had people more time sign up to browse to receive our newsletter. Plus, and shop for their own we had several solid leads on projects. new restoration projects, not to We would also like to send mention the fact that we had the out a big “Thank You!” to pleasure of adding Mr. Fred Mr. Richard Young (Rev It Gossage and his 1970 Plymouth Up!, Volume 1, Issue 2, Superbird to our restoration pro- First Quarter 2005– visit 1 Page 2 Rev It Up! ‘Cuda Corner At the 2005 Carlisle All Chrysler Nationals we were approached by Chris Santomero and Tom Fitzgibbons about doing restoration work. Chris was after a ‘Cuda, but Tom wanted something call a “Nova” restored. Chris’s request was a no- brainer and after several minutes of good natured ribbing, we said yes to Tom’s request, too (besides how hard could the Nova be compared to a 70 ‘Cuda?!). Chris proceeded to buy a 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda project car and sent it home with us for restoration. The seller agreed to forward the remaining necessary parts to our shop so we could complete the restoration. Well, after several phone calls and a cou- ple months of waiting for parts to arrive, Chris asked me to move ahead, without the sellers help, even though we had received none of the parts promised. Unfortunately, what work had been started on the car had to be all redone and there has been a significant amount of effort put into locating all the missing parts as well. Chris and RJ CARS have persevered and this will be one fine example of “Fish” when complete. Yellow with a white interior ,as original, and a 440/ 727 Automatic Slap Stick console. A Shaker hood will be added and this will become one hot car. The paint is complete and RJ CARS body man, CJ Tremper, is to be commended for all his sanding efforts. Look for pix of this one to be plastered everywhere when assembly is complete! Special Thanks to Jim Tanner for all his help on this one! LICENSE PLATE UPDATE Thanks for the great response to our License Plate Collection! We are still looking for the following plates: * A r k a n s a s * C o l o r a d o * C o n n e c t i c u t * D e l a w a r e * G e o r g i a * I n d i a n a * L o u i s i a n a * M a r y l a n d * M a i n e * M i s s i s s i p p i * N o r t h D a k o t a * N e w H a m p - s h i r e * N e w J e r s e y * O k l a h o m a * R h o d e I s l a n d * S o u t h C a r o l i n a * T e n n e s s e e * U t a h * V i r g i n * W e s t V i r g i n i a * O t h e r s : D i s t r i c t o f C o l u m - b i a , P u e r t o R i c o A n d o t h e r f a r o u t p l a c e s ! By: Cindy Gemmill Bragging Rights Dave Swider, loyal RJ CARS, INC. customer and friend, has something more to brag about! Besides owning the 1970 Dodge Charger R/T that graces the RJ CARS bro- chure, he is the proud winner of the “Best Engine” Award at the 10th Annual How- ard Elmer Hose Co. Car Show in Sayre, Pa.. Dave said there were approximately 125 cars, of all makes and models there, and his was chosen for this great award. RJ CARS is also proud to have our work recognized as worthy of an award! Congratulations Dave! Before Restoration After– WOW! 2 Volume 2, Issue 3 Page 3 C A RLISLE & O PEN H O U SE the staff agrees that Richard It was a pleasure to see every- Mac Tools, Jim Van Der needs to work on the music for a one. The food was awesome, Meid, Wayland little more variety! The movie the music was great and we had also was playing at the Open House. We hope you all had a a lot of happy Door Prize W in- J&T Auto, Elmira, John chance to see it. ners! The Door Prizes were Blajic Thanks Richard! amazing this year, thanks to 3rd Annual Open our supplier partners and other local business’s. Please help us House Event in thanking them by stopping The crew here at RJ CARS, by and supporting our local INC. would like to send out a business’s: great big “THANK YOU!” To Carquest, Hornell all who attended our Open NAPA, Hornell House. We had a record crowd of approximately 300 Country Kitchen, Ted & friends, neighbors and family. Linda LaFrance, Hornell We even had a few “new Maple Hill Farm Land- Fred Roberts Auto, Hornell friends” who had read our ad scape, Mark Gemmill, in the paper and stopped by Eagle Distribution, Matt Wayland for a look-see. Harrington, Swain O N E TH IN G L EA D S TO A N O TH ER…. Into the Swing(er) of Things Matt has been tearing down his 70 Dodge Dart Swinger pick up Fred Gossage’ 1970 340 and his’71 parts car, and he’s making progress with the By: Russell Jacobs Plymouth Superbird at the front end sheet metal parts. He’s also learning a whole lot ...From Carlisle to the MOPAR Nationals! Those of you who Nat’s.