Small World

[Timbbuc2]

I like to check out Craigslist, ebay and other sites looking for stuff. Well yesterday I found a set of headers for a 440. Which I have no use for or desire to ever put on a car.
Strange thing is, I seen the location where this guy lives, in was in my home town. So just for the heck of it I sent him a text and ask him what he had, A 72 Duster Sassy grass green,440 4 speed. And turns out he lives one street over from me , I thought " Have you ever? " Can you believe that? Small world. So we are going to meet and check out the cars.
On another note,
I had a yarn vendor visit me yesterday. Turns out he was the President of a company I use to work for that he helped  Bankrupt. Can you imagine how that conversation went. Oh yeh, did I mention that I did not get my severance pay from that company. I could have bought a nice Mopar for what they owed me. Life is full of stories.

[blown motor]

I had my car stored for the winter in the shop of a friend. There was one other car there, a Nissan 370Z. I found out this spring that I am related to the Z owners wife. I've never met her, she's not a close relative, but I've been working on family history the past few years so it was cool to discover this. We'll ge together this summer. Small world indeed.

[anlauto]

Isn't everybody related in Mitchell

[blown motor]

Thanks buddy. Have you been taking lessons from Ian?

[Chryco Psycho]

Small world for sure
I met a lady here in Panama  that went to the same high school & lived very close to me but she is a few years younger .
Cool to meet the guy with the 440 Demon 1 block away , I think I have worked for 15 similar companies that stiffed me for wages & or severance owing over the years , I too am owed a lot of $$ that I will never collect .

[RusTy/SE]

 Yep. Small world alright. Earlier this year at work, I happen to be setting up a new employee, Steven B,  at a designated computer so I begin the process of logging him in to create his local (computer) domain profile.  I engage in some light talk which somehow includes mention of my Challenger and as soon as I do, he mentions his brother had a dark blue 68 Hemi GTX along with several other Hemi cars.   

I tell him that is way cool and as I'm doing so his last name starts to make a connection. . . I ask him if his brother's name is Rod and could it have been a 67 GTX - been about thirty years but I recall the car like yesterday - and he says "Yes, a 67 not a 68! - do you know him?" Turns out Rod is still in the same little small town shop and he suggested that I go see him.

And I will. After all, what could happen...

[RUNCHARGER]

I bought a 69 Hemi GTX project car once. Going through the old paperwork I found that a long term owner was a fellow by the name of Ron P-----. Anyway I tried to contact this fellow as I was looking for the original block but I couldn't find him. A year or so later I am showing the car and this fellow comes up to it, looks it over very carefully and said the usual "I used to own a car just like this". being used to this I asked him, was it a Satellite or Belvedere? He responded "no, a GTX just like this one". They only made 99 69 Hemi GTX's automatics so I said so was it a 440 car? He said calm as can be "no it was a Hemi, just like this one". It's like the guy figured they were common as heck and it didn't even dawn on him that this had to be his old car. So I said "you must be Ron P----" and he looked at me in shock, wondering how I would know his name.
I always got a chuckle out of that conversation.

[wldgtx]

Are those before and after pictures?  If so... well done! 

Great story by the way, I bet he damn near shit himself that you knew his name.

[Jay Bee]

I always got a chuckle out of that conversation.

I just did now too. Great story, what are the odds.

[RUNCHARGER]

Lol: Yes those are before and after shots. First time I ever welded or painted a car.
Before the internet was prevalent a lot of original owners had no idea just how rare some of their rides had been.
I asked the guy what happened to the engine and he said "it blew up". I said okay but where did it go, where is the block especially. He said "there was nothing left it was junk". I found it later though in a 70 383 Road Runner that had had it's VIN changed to an R. Someone had taken advantage of him over a spun rod bearing. Oh and the GTX was on Ebay last year with the matching #'s block as well now. So, there are two matching #'s blocks for that car that I know of.
This engine was the original out of the 4 speed, 71 GY3 Hemi Cuda (please ignore the temporary trans cooler). Circa 1990.