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Title: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: VCODE on July 30, 2019, 01:08:50 PM
Hemming Muscle Machines did a great Cover and 7 page article on my Hemi Challenger and my life then and now.
Hemi Heritage Then & Now. from Track Package to Redeye
Check it out, the September issue out now. See attachment
Bob
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: JH27N0B on July 30, 2019, 04:23:33 PM
Great article!  :bradsthumb:
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: 71-440 on July 31, 2019, 06:14:39 PM
Downloaded it but only cover shows up. :notsure:
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: nsmall on July 31, 2019, 10:26:27 PM
Same problem, cant access the actual article.  Either way, congratulations.   :bradsthumb:
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: Cuda_mark on August 01, 2019, 05:46:27 AM
I'd love to read the article. I'll have to pick up a copy of it.
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: ec_co on August 01, 2019, 05:58:46 AM
great article. congrats!
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: VCODE on August 01, 2019, 01:11:50 PM
Quote from: 71-440 on July 31, 2019, 06:14:39 PM
Downloaded it but only cover shows up. :notsure:

Sorry I could not download the whole article.
Bob
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: Slotts on August 03, 2019, 08:40:51 AM
Hey Bob,

I am really happy for you! That's awesome!  :ohyeah: :congrats:

I will get my hands on a copy of the magazine.

Jim
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: 7E-Bodies on August 03, 2019, 09:49:44 AM
This is a dream and a goal for my current project. Congrats.
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: DeathProofCuda on August 07, 2019, 12:26:12 AM
Congratulations Bob!  I got my issue of HMM a day or so after you originally posted this.  Would have posted earlier, but I just finally got around to registering on the site.   I recognize your username from the Moparts site and have long been curious about how you managed to buy a 440 Six-Pack Super Trac Pack car at 17.  Great story!  My dad was a rep for Chrysler-Plymouth in the NY Metro area back around that time and part of his duty was helping out with the trouble shooting contests.  Sounds like it was a great opportunity for you! -Russ
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: VCODE on August 07, 2019, 05:24:43 AM
Quote from: DeathProofCuda on August 07, 2019, 12:26:12 AM
Congratulations Bob!  I got my issue of HMM a day or so after you originally posted this.  Would have posted earlier, but I just finally got around to registering on the site.   I recognize your username from the Moparts site and have long been curious about how you managed to buy a 440 Six-Pack Super Trac Pack car at 17.  Great story!  My dad was a rep for Chrysler-Plymouth in the NY Metro area back around that time and part of his duty was helping out with the trouble shooting contests.  Sounds like it was a great opportunity for you! -Russ

Guys Thanks for the Kind words.

Hi Russ,
My Mom & Dad always supported me and my older brother in what we did, but we both always worked hard after school. Saving all the money we could to buy cars. I was 13 and my brother had purchased a 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 426 Street Wedge - 4 speed, Black w/White interior, what a car. When he got married he then gave me the car to race by that time,wish I still had it. My Dad had Dodges also, Mopars where in my blood.When I was 17 years old in 1970 I saw the Challenger and feel in love with it. I went to the dealer and ordered this Challenger, I put $900 of my own money down on it and every month paid the loan for 3 years, my Mom & Dad did cosign for me. I ordered it with a Shaker Hood but in April when the car came it had no Shaker hood, boy was I mad. After I graduated high school, I turned 18 years old and then started working as a line mechanic at the Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge dealer. I worked as a line mechanic for 14 years and then moved on working for the NYC DOT.
I may have known you Dad, I was in the Chrysler-Plymouth trouble contest in 1969, Valley Stream NY. I worked at various C-P-D dealers in the Westchester & Bronx NY area.
Thanks for your interest Bob 
Title: Re: Hemming Muscle Machines & My 70 Challenger
Post by: Mopsquad on August 12, 2019, 06:03:40 PM
Congratulations! It's amazing to have your hard work and story recognized on such a stage.